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Ora, François Rousseau's Tahitian Journey

François Rousseau's new book, Ora, is to be published on April 9. "After numerous voyages to Tahiti and its isles, the idea came to me for a 'Polynesian' album," says the French photographer. "As with all my photographic series, texts are at the origin of my images. In January 2006, Temehameharii Coeroli showed me his poems inspired by and impregnated with Tahitian oral culture. These chants have come to form the structure of our joint book. Ora is life, the source of life. Long before leaving for Tahiti, when I was preparing this voyage, this Tahitian word already figured in my notes as a possible title. Of all the words taken from Temehameharii’s poems, this one, as much for its sense as for its musicality, evoked all that I had loved in Tahiti during my earlier voyages and which I hoped to capture and reunite in this album." A special website with unpublished photos, video, music & making-of of the shooting has been launched for the occasion. Visit Ora's website here...

Ora is already available for pre-order on Amazon.fr, and soon on Amazon.com. Previous books by François Rousseau are available: Princes of the Sea, Amor Causa, Male Nudes, Locker Room Nudes/Dieux du Stade, Habibi NYC

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McKellen on playing Gandalf & Gay rumors

Sir Ian McKellen looks set to reprise his role as Gandalf in the long-awaited adaptation of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit. When asked, in an email exchange with fans on his official website, if he will wear the wizard's robes again he said: "Yes I will, if Peter Jackson and I have anything to do with it, he being the producer and me being, on the whole a very lucky actor... Encouragingly, Peter and Fran Walsh have told me they couldn't imagine The Hobbit without their original Gandalf. Their confidence hasn't yet been confirmed by the director Guillermo del Toro but I am keeping my diary free for 2009!" A formal deal with McKellen has yet to be signed, but filming is set to begin next year. In the email exchange, a fan asks the 68-year-old actor about rumors of closeted homosexuality concerning his male co-stars, he answered: "This gossip is all news to me. Elijah, Dominic and Orlando introduced me to their girlfriends during shooting. I didn't ever meet Viggo's partner although his son visited a few times. It would seem that none of my friends can be accused of hypocrisy. Probably the fevered imagination of slashers is to blame. Hiding homosexuality is a long-tested shame in Hollywood and no doubt continues even in these days of gay marriage and gay civil partnerships. I agree that audiences are much less perturbed than producers allow, by a performer's sexuality. How else to explain the continuing popularity of George Michael, Elton John, Rupert Everett, Ellen de Generes and, excuse me, also the gay actor who played Gandalf?"

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20th Annual Lambda Literary Awards

Finalists are announced for the upcoming 20th Annual Lambda Literary Awards to be held Thursday, May 29, in West Hollywood, CA. The Lambda Literary Awards seek to recognize excellence in the field of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender literature. Each year, over 80 judges - writers, booksellers, librarians, journalists - assess the entries in more than 20 categories. The two equally important criteria for judging a submission are the LGBT content and the quality of writing. See the full list of finalists. Winners will be announced at a gala ceremony in the Silver Screen Theatre at the Pacific Design Center, on May 29, at 7:30 pm. Tickets are now on sale.

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Rowling on Dumbledore & fundamentalism

J.K. Rowling on Dumbledore and fundamentalism

The Leaky Cauldron reports that J.K. Rowling has given an interview with the Edinburgh Student newspaper. In a wide ranging conversation, the Harry Potter author gives her thoughts on such things as the repeated attempts of Christian missionary Laura Mallory to have the Harry Potter books banned in Georgia without having read them. Rowling says: "I'm not lying, I'm not even making fun, this is the truth of what she said-quite recently she was asked [why] and she said 'Well I prayed whether or not I should read them, and God told me no.'" Rowling added: "You see, that is where I absolutely part company with people on that side of the fence, because that is fundamentalism. Fundamentalism is, 'I will not open my mind to look on your side of the argument at all. I won't read it, I won't look at it, I'm too frightened.' That's what's dangerous about it, whether it be politically extreme, religiously extreme...In fact, fundamentalists across all the major religions, if you put them in a room, they'd have bags in common!" she laughs loudly before sobering. "They hate all the same things, it's such an ironic thing." On the matter of Dumbledore being gay, she candidly states: "I had always seen Dumbledore as gay, but in a sense that's not a big deal. The book wasn't about Dumbledore being gay... Is it the most important thing about him? No, it's Dumbledore for God's sake. There are 20 things that are relavant to the story before his sexuality."

Source The Leaky Cauldron

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The Mysteries of Pittsburgh on Film

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh is a film adaptation of Michael Chabon's best-selling novel of the same name, which was published in 1988. The film tells the story of Art Bechstein (Jon Foster), a recent college graduate who falls into a love triangle when he encounters a beautiful debutante (Sienna Miller) and her lusty, no good hoodlum of a boyfriend Cleveland (Peter Sarsgaard). Together they reveal a side of Art and Pittsburgh that he has never known... Watch Rawson Marshall Thurber presenting the film...

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, starring Jon Foster (Art Bechstein), Sienna Miller (Jane Bellwether), Peter Sarsgaard (Cleveland Arning), Mena Suvari (Phlox Lombardi), Nick Nolte (Art's Father), directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber is to be screened today January 20, 5:30 pm at Sundance Film Festival.

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Why are men gay?

Times online releases an article about Desmond Morris' book The Naked Man: A Study of the Male Body, to be published next month. In his book, the 79-year-old ethologist try to explain why a certain, small percentage of adult human males, with or without the approval of society at large, find members of their own gender attractive as sexual partners. Evolution has gone to a great deal of trouble to ensure that it is the opposite sex that is erotically appealing, so how can it be that so many men have somehow switched off these basic responses? Morris argues that homosexual men fail to make a crucial break with the ‘boys together’ stage of childhood. Read the full article here...

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David Yates on Gay Dumbledore

Author JK Rowling announced that Dumbledore was gay to a packed house in New York's Carnegie Hall as part of her Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows US book tour in October (see previous posts here and here). David Yates (right side on picture), who directed the fifth Harry Potter film, Order of the Phoenix, said he was told in September by JK Rowling during a read-through for the next film on the set of the Great Hall at Hogwarts. "Jo leaned over to me and said: 'You know Dumbledore's gay don't you, David?' And I thought 'Wow that's pretty cool'." Yates, who was speaking at the press launch of the Phoenix DVD, added: "He's a wonderful character, Dumbledore - graceful, wise, powerful, quirky, terrific sense of humour, loves knitting. There's a jumble of things in there and his sexuality is just another thing." Filming on the sixth film in the franchise, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, began in September, with Yates again at the helm. But he said not to expect any changes to the way Dumbledore is portrayed on film. "Michael Gambon (leftt side on picture) hasn't changed his approach. A person's sexuality is just one part of who they are, and so it hasn't really shifted where we're taking him."
Harry Potter Years 1-5 Limited Edition Gift Set will be released on December 11, 2007, starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Michael Gambon, Gary Oldman, Ralph Fiennes...

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Daniel Radcliffe on Gay Dumbledore

While promoting his latest film, My Boy Jack, on British Parkinson Show, Daniel Radcliffe has revealed that Michael Gambon is "camping it up" for the latest Harry Potter film after author JK Rowling revealed Albus Dumbledore is gay. The 18-year-old actor told Parkinson on ITV1: "Well, he's been camping it up around the set like nobody's business. Not in the film, though we did actually film a scene the other day, and I would like emphasise at this point that the script was written before this revelation and I don't think Steve Kloves (screenplay writer) had any prior knowledge, but there was a scene the other day when Michael had to come in and tell another character how much he loved knitting patterns! Which he just adored saying that." Watch a Parkinson video (left) and a My Boy Jack trailer (right)...

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Albus Dumbledore outed by JK Rowling

Harry Potter's fans were this week-end learning that one of the main characters in the Harry Potter novels, Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts is gay. The revelation came from author JK Rowling on Friday during a question-and-answer session at New York's Carnegie Hall while promoting her final book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The author was asked if Dumbledore, played by Sir Michael Gambon, ever fall in love himself? Rowling replied: "I always thought of Dumbledore as gay." The audience reportedly fell silent, then erupted into prolonged applause. "If I had know this would have made you so happy, I would have told you years ago," Rowling said. She continued: "Dumbledore fell in love with Grindelwald (a bad wizard he defeated long ago), and that added to his horror when Grindelwald showed himself to be what he was. To an extent, do we say it excused Dumbledore a little more because falling in love can blind us to an extent, but he met someone as brilliant as he was and, rather like Bellatrix, he was very drawn to this brilliant person and horribly, terribly let down by him... Yeah, that's how I always saw Dumbledore. In fact, recently I was in a script read-through for the sixth film, and they had Dumbledore saying a line to Harry early in the script saying, 'I knew a girl once, whose hair...' I had to write a little note in the margin and slide it along to the scriptwriter, 'Dumbledore's gay!'" Watch a video of Dumbledore in Harry Potter's last film...

Harry Potter Years 1-5 Limited Edition Gift Set will be released on December 11, 2007, starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Michael Gambon, Gary Oldman, Ralph Fiennes...

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Le Saux: Beckham called me a poof

Graeme Le Saux, former England footballer, reveals in a book to be published later this week, how gay slurs almost wrecked his career. Poof. Faggot. Queer. Le Saux is an expert on the colourful excesses of homophobic degradation. Looking back, he says that he endured the spirit-crushing experience of being the first “out” gay man in football, minus the sex. He is not gay; he never was. Le Saux's extracts from his autobiography reveal that even David Beckham called him a poof. David Beckham: gay icon. David Beckham: smiling sarong-wearer. David Beckham: friend of Sir Elton John. David Beckham: talking proudly of his pink fan club on his first day in Los Angeles. “I could produce endless lists of players who threw a line at me about being gay, or entered into whatever level of homophobic abuse, but with him it made me stop and think, ‘Wow’, even somebody with his understanding doesn’t get it. I’m not pointing the finger at David – I don’t dislike him and I don’t think he has homophobic issues – but what he did says everything about the general culture of acceptance that exists towards homophobia in football," writes Le Saux.
A spokesman for David Beckham said: “This allegation is completely untrue. David would never say such a thing. It’s been seven years since this match that Graeme refers to and he has never mentioned this to David personally or publicly. Given that they have known each other for many years after the event, it’s highly surprising to discover that this matter has now been raised but never before. While we appreciate Graeme has a book to sell, we refute these assertions completely.” Graeme Le Saux's book is to be published in September...

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