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Portia, Prince Harry and John Mayer
Entertainment news: Special to the Online Edition of Windy City Times
2010-02-17

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Gay TV/film actor Wilson Cruz—best known for his role on TV's My So-called Life—will be honored with Outfest's Fusion Achievement Award at the Fusion: The Los Angeles LGBT People of Color Film Festival, according to Advocate.com . The festival will be held March 11-13 in Hollywood, Calif.; among scheduled events is a screening of the 1999 film But I'm a Cheerleader! to kick off the fifth-anniversary celebration of the Outfest Legacy Project for LGBT Film Preservation.

Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet is starring in the remake of the Joan Crawford classic Mildred Pierce, according to Entertainment Weekly. Out director Todd Haynes ( Far From Heaven ) will helm the five-hour HBO production, an adaptation of the novel by James M. Cain. Set in 1930s Los Angeles, Mildred Pierce is about a middle-class housewife's attempt to maintain her family's social position during the Great Depression.

Singer John Mayer said that he regrets kissing gay Internet gossip maven Perez Hilton because the smooch lasted too long, according to ContactMusic.com . Mayer—who has gotten into trouble lately because, among other things, he said the N-word during an interview—dropped the F-bomb when he told Playboy that he decided to have fun with Hilton even though Mayer was dating Jessica Simpson at the time. Mayer said, "I remember seeing Perez Hilton flitting about this club and acting as though he had just invented homosexuality. All of a sudden I thought, 'I can outgay this guy right now'. I grabbed him and gave him the dirtiest, tongue-iest kiss I have ever put on anybody—almost as if I hated fags."

Actress Portia De Rossi, who is married to Ellen DeGeneres, has told The Advocate magazine that she plans to write a tell-all autobiography, according to Pink News. Among other things, she will discuss her battle with an eating disorder. She said, "I'm writing a book. It'll be published in the fall, so … I have to be done with it before then. It will deal with all the secrets that nearly killed me. Nobody can really get inside the anorexic's mind like the anorexic."

Actress Anne Hathaway revealed in British GQ that she left the Catholic Church after her brother came out of the closet. The Devil Wears Prada and Brokeback Mountain star told the magazine, "The whole family converted to Episcopalianism after my elder brother came out. Why should I support an organisation that has a limited view of my beloved brother?" She added that she was not sure about her own religion, saying, "So I'm… nothing [ no denomination ] . F**k it, I'm forming. I'm a work in progress."

England's Prince Harry, 25, has been named a top gay icon, according to an Examiner.com item. Harry, who's 6'3", has been admired for everything from his washboard abs to his red hair, which a gay-magazine columnist described as becoming "very, very trendy in the gay scene." In addition, Harry kissed a male fan ( on the cheek ) in exchange for a beer last November, earning even more gay fans.

Kathy Najimy is making history as the orthodontist who removes the title character's braces on the TV series Ugly Betty as the show runs its last few episodes, according to EW.com . Najimy succeeds Jesse Tyler Ferguson, who played Betty's original orthodontist and is now on the ABC show Modern Family. Najimy will be on the show's March 24 episode, less than a month before the series finale.

In Texas, openly gay Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black has called the battle for gay rights "the civil rights fight of our generation, of the 21st [ c ] entury," according to MySanAntonio.com . He told a crowd at Trinity University, "It will not come to us who wait... I must articulate and share my vision and I must agitate when necessary and I must lead." Black—who won an Academy Award for his work on the film Milk—cited a 1978 speech made by Harvey Milk in San Antonio for "giving me hope, saving my life."

Rufus Wainwright's mother has passed away. According to Rolling Stone Magazine, Kate McGarrigle—who was one half of the French-Canadian folk act Kate and Anna McGarrigle—died in January at age 63 after battling clear-cell sarcoma for three years. Kate, who divorced Loudon Wainwright III in 1976, is survived by Rufus and her daughter, Martha Wainwright.

Shock jock Howard Stern feels that Ellen DeGeneres will ruin the TV show American Idol, according to an Advocate.com item. During his radio show, Stern—who has been rumored to be on the short list of Simon Cowell's replacements—said, "Everyone goes, 'If Howard Stern takes over American Idol, Ellen DeGeneres might leave.' Well, yeah, that's the whole [ expletive ] idea. I'm not going to sit there with her—that dummy."

Gay-friendly hunk Ryan Reynolds has a new gig—as the face of Hugo Boss cologne, according to US Magazine. The actor, 33, is praised the fragrance BOSS and said he was "honored" to be asked to front the scent. Reynolds, who wed actress Scarlett Johansson in 2008, is the star of the upcoming comic-book films Green Lantern and Deadpool.


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