Michael Douglas: You're The Top

"This is a two-hander.
“And, Matt, you’re only as good as your other hand.
“You were magnificent, and the only reason I’m standing here is because of you - so you really deserve half of this.
“So, you want the bottom or the top?
 "The top? I figured that!"

From Michael Douglas's ever so risqué acceptance speech after winning the Best Actor gong at the Emmys last night.
Or, as the Mirror put it "peppering his speech with jokey ‘gay’ references."
Think they put 'gay' in inverted commas in case the jokes sued for libel.
Sir Elton of John paid tribute to Liberace and sang one of his lovely songs from his newly-released album, that had nothing to do with Lee but Elt said it reminds him of him.
Thanks Reg, means a lot.
Behind The Candleabra also won best (TV) movie.
Fagburn approves - you don't see nearly enough staight actors getting lauded for playing gay, do you?
So brave etc etc.

PS The Sun saw the story from a different angle; Michael Douglas thanks 'my wife Catherine' as he picks up Emmy. Good for him.
The Daily Mail zoomed in on "Matt Damon's beautiful wife, and devoted a whole two sentences to mentioning the bio-pic about the "flamboyant piano player©".
Luciana Damon's frock got a dedicated five paragraph box.

Update via The Bilerico Project...

"[Liberace's] program aired in England, and I was keenly aware of his enormous talent and its impact on the musical world. (And my dress sense, of course.) What I was not aware of until years later was his lifestyle -- yeah right, ummm... oh well! -- which, due to the tenor of the times, had to be concealed."

-- Sir Elton John, balking mid-sentence on live television last night in brief remarks before his performance at the Emmy Awards. Sir Elton had clearly not written the speech and had likely not even read it before the telecast. It's unclear whether John bristled at the suggestion that he was unaware of Liberace's sexual orientation, or at the Emmy writers' jarringly incorrect use of the word "lifestyle" to describe being gay -- a term that hasn't been socially acceptable since the days of Liberace himself.