QueerTube

Welcome to the new-weekly TV/Entertainment section of QC called QueerTube. Weekly we shall high-light, hunt down, stalk, analyze and report on GLBT TV and celebrities.
Jakes Tattoo

It is reported that Jake is now sporting a brand new tattoo on his inner-right arm…Let the Tattoo stalking begin!!!
Matthew‘s Missing Shirt

Matthew still has not found his shirt. He is looking for it in his truck…No luck? Darn…Let’s hope he never finds it.
Prison Break Is Back!!

MONDAY, AUG. 21: Now that they’re on the lam, see what happens as Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) and his fellow jailbirds on Prison Break make their way into the world. As they try to stay under the radar and avoid being caught, they’re also on the hunt for $5 million that’s supposedly hidden in Utah. The action heats up on FOX at 8 p.m. ET.
Big Brother Gets Nuts!! (Janie Survives)

CHILLTOWN IN DA HOHOUSE!
Jedi Goes Bye-Bye, 3-2.
George’s short lived HoH backfires for his Jedi Master Howie, who is evicted in a 3-2 double-cross by Chilltown. Boogie pulls out all the stops to win the HoH, which effectively nullifies his Coup d’Etat power.
APPRENTICE GRADUATES TO HOH MASTER
Marcellas’ eviction signals to Janelle that she is being deceived. “I feel like a fricken fool,” she bitches in the Diary Room. “From now on, I’m going to do what I want, what’s good for me.” George’s win in the HoH Competition has not only the HouseGuests scratching their heads, but also George. “I won something, Howie,” he celebrates with his Jedi Master after the game. “Did I just lose to Chicken George?” Danielle sighs, disbelieving the outcome. George’s surprises don’t stop there though, as host Julie Chen asks George for two immediate nominations for eviction. George taps James and Erika, sending shockwaves through the house. Erika is tired of being on the block, while James launches into a vengeful new rant in his bedroom, “It’s on, fat man, it’s on. He’s got two days of power, and then his ass is mine.” Boogie feels stymied by George’s immediate nominations as he assembles with his Legion pals in the gym, growling, “That was the worst person to do live, because he didn’t know. We didn’t have time to get to him.” Danielle hopes that George might backdoor Janelle, as “that’s one less person I have to worry about in this game.”
According to Boogie, George’s HoH Room is a “really cool throwback 70s thing.” For George, he likes the space for its Austin Powers feel. Letters from home bring a smile to George’s face and heart as he is reminded “of the way things should be in life.” His peaceful reminiscence is short-lived, though, as his housemates start some intense lobbying efforts. Janelle and Howie are the first to state their case. At ease with the last remaining members of S-6, George reassures them, “If I was going to go after you guys, I would have already done it. Why would I go after you guys?”
CARDS ON THE TABLE
George calls everyone to the living room to pick players for the Veto Competition. George draws Howie’s name, Erika draws Danielle and James pulls out Will’s name. James is psyched that he will be playing the PoV with three of his Legion allies, and Boogie is eyeing an opportunity to backdoor “queen bee” Janelle.
Boogie heads upstairs to talk with George. Asking the chicken man to see the “big picture” of what the house wants, he tells George that James is the wrong target. The house really wants Janelle out, and George goes along, he will get “a pass to the back of the line for another couple weeks.” George listens, but does not appear too enthused by Boogie’s suggestion.

GNOME NIGHTMARE
The PoV Competition sees the return of the BIG BROTHER Gnomes in “Gnome is Where the Veto Is.” Will is not impressed, moaning, “There’s three things I hate in life: robot clowns, baby corn and freaky little gnomes.” Janelle runs over the rules. The HouseGuests have to carry their Veto symbol from one stump across to a winning spike on a distant stump. The problem is that they are locked into ankle restraints tethering them where they are. To unlock the restraint, they have to reach a key hanging out of reach. To reach their key, they are only able to use tape and the leftover items from past PoV Competitions. From pink flamingos to hula-hoop, the HouseGuests do their inventive best to construct a tool to reach their keys. James is a veritable Einstein and reaches his bag after a few aborted efforts, freeing himself first to win the PoV. “Go to hell, bitches,” he snarls, slamming his Veto symbol onto the winning spike.
James’ win starts a whole new round of lobbying for George to endure. First, James drops in, asking who George is going to replace him with on the block. George stays mum on the subject. Next, Erika visits, striking a deal for a new alliance. Then it is Boogie’s turn to manipulate the chicken man. In a subtly intimidating way, Boogie points out the numbers and asks what side George wants to be after the vote is cast. Will follows Boogie, but his offer is a more “unconventional” suggestion to put Will on the block. This way, Will explains, “it will keep peace in the house this week, (and) allow Janelle and Danielle to continue to war with each other, while Mike Boogie and I, and you sit back and watch.” George buries his head in his hands as all the suggestions seem to become too much for him…
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Timberlake‘s Granny Dishes

Justin’s granny says he is too immature to marry! Well, damn, who would have ever guessed that one? Timberlake has been dating Diaz for years now, recently attacked Taylor Hick’s for his awful singing voice (AMEN) and has no plans for marriage. Give the guy a break, I mean he just brought SexyBack.
Harry Potter Might Show His Hairy Pot…errr

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe is set to ditch his glasses as well as his clothes. The 17-year-old actor, who is now a multimillionaire thanks to the Harry Potter films, will make his West End debut in the controversial play Equus, The Times says.
Radcliffe, who is currently filming Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix, will play Alan Strang, a psychologically disturbed youth who is interviewed by a psychiatrist after he blinds six horses with a metal spike in Peter Shaffer’s controversial drama in London next year. But the role would require Radcliffe to simulate sexual ecstasy while riding naked. This is a departure for Radcliffe, whose career has been dominated by his part as JK Rowling’s teenage wizard. He recently finished filming December Boys, in which he plays one of four orphans hoping to be adopted.
“This is an extraordinary play and, yes, there is a scene of nudity in it, but that’s not what the play is about,” said Radcliffe’s publicist Vanessa Davies. “He finishes shooting ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’ in October or November and rehearsals are starting in January,” she added. The play is expected to open in March.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the fifth J.K. Rowling book to be turned into a film. There are doubts about whether Radcliffe can continue to play the boy wizard until the end of the series. Rowling is now writing the seventh and final book of the hugely successful series. The first four Harry Potter films have amassed around 1.8 billion pounds worldwide at the box office.
Rainbow Flag draws Phelps, MTV

VIA WIBW
The uproar surrounding a rainbow flag that was flown at a bed-and-breakfast in Meade is not going away. The trouble began when the 12-year-old son of JR and Robin Knight sent the flag to his parents from California. The Knights say they flew the flag because it was a gift and it was colorful. Then the local newspaper ran a picture and said the flag was a symbol of gay rights. Two brothers who stole the flag have apologized, saying they were trying to stop the fighting in town over the flag. After the fight received national publicity, Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church plan to protest the bed-and-breakfast later this month. And MTV says it is coming to Meade to do a story. The Knights say they plan to have a party when the Phelps protest is held on August 27th.
Life Is So Hard For The Thorpedo

He’s been accused of getting fat on hamburgers and the Hollywood high life while frittering away his gold medal chances at the Beijing Olympics. That sort of hype is exactly why super swimmer Ian Thorpe, one of Australia’s most decorated and high-profile athletes, says he left Sydney to train in Los Angeles. The public attention has become so intense, the 23-year-old Thorpe admits to thinking of retiring from competitive swimming almost daily. Thorpe denies his diet is anything but wholesome or that he parties all night with Aussie celebrities like actor like Heath Ledger; claims he is training 40 hours a week and – as for the persistent rumors that he is gay – they’re like water off a duck’s back.
“It sounds like a real glamorous life in Hollywood, but really it’s not,” Thorpe says in an Australian cable television interview to be aired Sunday night, adding that he wastes too much time having to avoid photographers who camp outside his house. “I kind of hoped that I could have some privacy,” he said in comments from the TV interview published by News Ltd. “There is really a line there that has been blatantly abused.”
“You just ask the question, why is this happening? I really don’t think I deserve it. It’s just really upsetting.” Thorpe was infuriated by a report in the Sydney Morning Herald earlier this month that read: “He munches on pizza and hamburgers and slurps cola. He hasn’t been training. And Ian Thorpe, the five-time Olympic champion, is getting fat.”
“I think my diet is about as perfect as one’s diet can be,” Thorpe countered. “I prepare everything myself. I go shopping for groceries. I buy organic … it’s a lot of work, a lot of effort. “But I refuse to take vitamins and refuse to take supplements.” He allows himself a hamburger once a week, and the occasional glass of red wine. “I have the same (burger) every time,” he says. “A double protein burger wrapped in lettuce leaves … It’s not the best thing to eat, but it’s one of the allowances I give myself.” He thinks he’s about 103-104 kilograms (227-229 pounds), but is confident of being back at racing weight of under 101 kilograms (223 pounds) within two months.
Thorpe says his lifestyle is not as exciting as people seem to think, although he does socialize with a cross-section of people. “I’m not going to apologize for who my friends are or what they do,” he said. “I know what I’m doing and I, kind of, at times wish my life was as exciting as people make it out to be.”
As for the subject of his sexuality, Thorpe is beyond worrying. “People will tell you black and blue that I am gay,” he says. “There is no basis for what they are saying. “It’s no big deal because that doesn’t affect any part of my life. I don’t care what people are saying in that regard … It’s not embarrassing.”
Thorpe is skipping the Pan Pacific championships in Victoria, Canada to concentrate on December’s Australian trials for the world championships in Melbourne next March. He has not raced internationally since the 2004 Athens Olympics. After a post-Athens sabbatical, he raced twice in Australia before illness and a broken bone in his hand postponed his return to peak competition.
In that time, constant speculation that he may never regain the form that helped him shatter a series of world records have plagued Thorpe. “Over the last couple of months, I toyed with the question of quitting virtually daily,” he says. “I love training, I love racing, but you know the things that come with it – the unwanted attention – it does affect you. “I can’t run from it. I just have to deal with it.” Thorpe said he would never recapture the dominance he had earlier in his career that made him a giant in the sport, but he wants to do the best he can with what he’s got left.
“I’m committed to swimming the best that I can. I think I have very limited time that I am still going to get to swim and to race at this absolute peak, ” he says. “I want to swim and blow myself away. “I don’t even know if Beijing is even going to be the end. I might continue. I thought before it would be, but I may go on a little bit longer.”
VIA Superswimmer
Fantasia’s LifeTime Movie (Was It Supposed To Be Horror?)

(Excerpts of Story by Ray Richmond) VIA Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – When Ann Jillian starred in her own overcoming-adversity autobiopic in 1988, it seemed to make sense. For one thing, the woman was a real actress. For another, she was 38 and had lived some real life before contracting breast cancer and undergoing a devastating double mastectomy.
Jillian’s role in “The Ann Jillian Story” earned her a Golden Globe win as well as an Emmy nomination. Contrast this with Lifetime’s “The Fantasia Barrino Story: Life Is Not a Fairy Tale,” based on a best-selling bio and starring Barrino as Barrino. Yes, she endured a string of jerky guys, a pregnancy (following an alleged rape), single motherhood at age 17, grinding poverty and the burden of going through life with a name taken from a Disney movie before winning on “American Idol.” Great stuff. But she’s also 22. To say that Barrino’s story is incomplete is the essence of understatement.
Oh, one other problem: Barrino can’t act. She’s very sweet and all, but she tends to gobble her words and expresses range by lowering her eyes, as if the answer to life lay somewhere at her feet. So while it’s an interesting idea to try to tell the tale of a life in progress through the woman living that life, the capacity to convey a certain depth of emotion on cue would seem to be a minimum prerequisite. And Barrino obviously tries hard but can’t pull it off, no matter how much director Debbie Allen tries to drill it into her. The result is an assortment of awkwardly delivered clichés in search of a greater purpose that it never quite finds.
Not to minimize Fantasia’s triumphant struggle, but as a film story line it tends to have all the compelling drama of watching wax drip from a burning candle. It’s only when she is performing that “Life Is Not a Fairy Tale” comes to life; it’s on a concert stage holding a microphone where Barrino clearly belongs, not a soundstage trying to hold her own. She’s a dynamic presence as a songstress and a dull washout as an actress. But this shouldn’t be news. The curiosity is why she was allowed to impersonate herself to begin with. Oh yeah, that’s right: If she didn’t, there would be no movie. As it is, there’s only the hint of one.
MY NOTE: I caught this nightmare of a movie this weekend on Lifetime. Dear lawd, it was like 2 hours in a dentists chair. I can’t believe they put this crap on TV. Lifetime, stick to depressing movies that actually have a finale. By the middle of this movie I wanted to dig my eyes out with a rusty spoon.
Snakes On A Plane (What Were They Thinking?)

All I am going to say is this movie IS ALL HYPE!!! What a load of CRAP!!! I was more afraid of the Janie from Big Brother being evicted than anything in this movie. Samuel L. Jackson, the shame you should feel!!!
Cloris Leachman & Beverley Leslie Win!!! (Rosie O Got Squat!)

The winners of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards were announced on Saturday, August 19. The popular Disney TV movie High School Musical won Emmys for Outstanding Children’s Programming and Outstanding Choreography, while famed Broadway conductor-musical director Paul Gemignani won an Emmy for Outstanding Music Direction for his work on the Carnegie Hall concert of South Pacific, which aired on PBS.
In the guest acting categories, the winners included Patricia Clarkson, who starred Off-Broadway in Three Days of Rain and Raised in Captivity, for her role on Six Feet Under; Leslie Jordan, who’s currently appearing on stage in Los Angeles in Like a Dog on Linoleum, for his recurring role of Beverley Leslie on Will & Grace; and character actor Christian Clemenson for Boston Legal.
Oscar winner Cloris Leachman, who has numerous Broadway credits, won an Outstanding Guest Actress Emmy for her performance as Ida in Malcolm in the Middle. This is her eighth Emmy, which makes Leachman the most honored woman in the history of the awards. She is also nominated this year as Outstanding Actress in a Movie or Miniseries for the HBO film Mrs. Harris; the winner of that award will be announced on August 27 at the Primetime Emmys ceremony.
The Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony will be broadcast on Saturday, August 26 on E! Entertainment Television.
I Admit It He Is Hot!!! (Channing Tatum; Step Up!)

So, once upon a time, there was a boy from the “Wrong Side of the Tracks” who had to do community service at the art school he vandalized because he’s misunderstood. He meets a Privileged Ballerina who needs a dance partner and…. Step Up is totally predictable and, oddly, completely engaging. Wisely, the director (first-timer Anne Fletcher) does a lot of what she does best: sexy, frenetic dance sequences that blend ballet and hiphop to electrifying effect. Sure, there’s some plot here (ambition, race/class stuff, the requisite romance), but the reason to see this movie is simple: it’s all in the dancing.