Star Trek: To Boldly Bore

Hollywood Reporter.

God (who does not exist incidentally), you are so mind-boggling boring.

PS Can you see what he does there?

Don't Klingon! Hahaha! Comedy gold.

Leonard Nimoy: 1931-2015

Rational thought and a respect for difference makes you a-okay.

Marriage: Sereena and Patsy

Some merry mischief-making at The Sun.
"But the X-Men stars won’t be walking down the aisle together – Sir Ian is officiating as his friend weds jazz singer Sunny Ozell...."
Phew!
Funny, I always presumed Patrick was gay as... an episode of Star Trek?

Fagburn: Celebrity Gossip Special

The Sunday broadsheets are lightly sprinkled with the magical stardust of interviews with gayer celebs today.
The Sunday Times serves up Zachary Quinto; "Quietly impressive as Spock in Star Trek, Zachary Quinto on making a bang as the first openly gay American movie star".
Natch Mr Quinto talks about coming out - “I didn’t tell anybody I was going to do it. I didn’t tell my agent, I didn’t tell my business partners, I didn’t tell my publicists..." - and the Hollywood closet.
The Sunday Times' Tom Shone writes;

'Despite its public avowals of liberalism, Hollywood’s history with homosexuality has been frightful. One thinks of the blackmailing of Rock Hudson, the hounding of Tab Hunter, the alcoholic demise of Montgomery Clift. Straight actors such as Tom Hanks, Sean Penn and Colin Firth win praise and awards for the “bravery” needed to play gay, as long as the char­acter ends up in the dumpster — Vito Russo’s book The Celluloid Closet, published in 1981 and revised in 1987, features a “necrology” of gay characters’ on-screen deaths — but woe betide the gay actor within a mile radius of heart-throb status who decides to come out.
“The torment those people feel — and I know it because I’ve seen it, I know it in people — is so heavy, so painful,” Quinto says. “Things need to change. This is just bullshit at a certain point. I’m not going to live my life based on fear of other people’s judgments. If somebody doesn’t want to work with me because I’m gay, then I don’t want to work with them anyway.” Still, one can’t help wondering about mainstream audiences — the soda-sucking multiplexers and burping mall rats. I ask if his decision, or the factors that weighed into it, might have been different had he been playing Kirk, rather than Spock...'

Just between you, me and the bedbugs, Fagburn thinks Mr Shone's last two sentences there are snobbish and quite, quite daft.
Antony Sher was interviewed by The Observer; "I was gay. Jewish. A white South African," he says. "And for different reasons, I was ashamed of all those things." As a result, he suggests, the actors he most admired were those who best masked themselves on stage: "Olivier, Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness."
Mr Sher said something rather similar to The Guardian last year.
Incidentally, the actor he most admires these days is Judi Dench - go figure.
Edmund White told Observer readers This Much I Know.
Ed's turned into the gay Norman Mailer, really; the grand old man of letters, desperate to tell the world that old age has not withered his all-conquering libido.
And boy, girls, does Ed like to drop names; "Some of the best advice I've been given is from Truman Capote..."
Mr White's top - namedropping, self-mythologising, possibly made-up - showbiz anecdote; "Competition among writers is a strange thing. Years ago, Gore Vidal was with Johnathan Burnham from Chatto at the River Café and they used to have these big tall bottles of olive oil on the table. He mistook one for wine, poured himself a glass and drank it. He spluttered it all out and said to Jonathan: 'You saw that and you didn't stop me. You want me to die so your writer Edward White will be King Fag!'"
Gripping stuff all round, I'm sure you'll agree.

Zachary Quinto: Spock Iz Gay LOLZ!!!

when i found out that jamey rodemeyer killed himself - i felt deeply troubled. but when i found out that jamey rodemeyer had made an it gets better video only months before taking his own life - i felt indescribable despair. i also made an it gets better video last year - in the wake of the senseless and tragic gay teen suicides that were sweeping the nation at the time. but in light of jamey's death - it became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it - is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality. our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay lesbian bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country. gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying. parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance. we are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. we are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government. i believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. jamey rodemeyer's life changed mine. and while his death only makes me wish that i had done this sooner - i am eternally grateful to him for being the catalyst for change within me. now i can only hope to serve as the same catalyst for even one other person in this world. that - i believe - is all that we can ask of ourselves and of each other.

Zachary Quinto comes out on his blog today.
And in an interview with New York magazine.
Big deal?
Well, yes it is.
Can you name another big shot young American Hollywood star who has?