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Ellen tops list of best-loved stars
Talk show host and lesbian icon Ellen
DeGeneres has dethroned daytime TV queen
Oprah Winfrey as the television personality
Americans love the most, according to a poll
released this week.
Ellen made the big leap to No. 1 after spend-
ing five years in the bottom five, according to
a statement released by Harris.
Winfrey dropped into second place after five
years at the top.
Jessica Biel takes it 'Easy'
Jessica Biel is going to England for her next
role, but she won't be required to fake a British
accent.
In "Easy Virtue," she'll play an American
woman who travels to France, meets an
Englishman, marries him, and then has to
return with him to the U.K. to meet his parents.
Ben Barnes will play the husband, and Colin
Firth and Kristin Scott Thomas star as mom
and dad.
And as hetero as it all sounds, it has queer
roots: The film is based on the play by Noel
Coward (brought to the screen by Alfred
Hitchcock in 1928), and Stephan Elliott, gay
director of "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen
of the Desert," will helm the project.
Shooting is underway in London for a late
2008 release.
Big 'Hugs' for Penelope Cruz
Having already worked
together on three acclaimed
films — "Live Mesh," "All
About My Mother" and
"Volver" — gay director Pedro
Almodovar and his muse,
Penelope Cruz, seem to be the
peanut butter and jelly of Spanish
cinema.
And though they'd planned on a
fourth venture, a revenge drama
called "The Skin I'm In," it's now
been back-bumered in favor Of a
noir called "Broken Hugs."
Weird name for a noir, perhaps,
but it sounds great as "Abrazos
Rotos," the Spanish title.
Plot details are still in the
hushed-up stage, yet the drama is,
according to Almodovar, the longest
script he's ever written. No matter the
eventual running time, there's no rea-
son to expect that the fourth collaboration
— due out sometime in 2009 — won't be as
charmed as the first three.
Here wants more 'Lesbian Sex'
There's more to lesbians than what you
see on "The L Word," the show that seems
to spend its entire clothing budget on
Marc Jacobs tops.
How about a dose of lesbian reality?
That's where Here TV's documentary
series, the plainly titled "Lesbian Sex
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and Sexuality," steps in.
The show spent its first season hanging out
with lesbian academics in sex-toy shops, but
for the recently green-lighted second season,
the party is on, as the filmmakers travel to the
Dinah Shore Weekend (or "The Dinah," as it's
known), the hugely popular annual lesbian
event in Palm Springs.
What better way, outside of actually attend-
ing, to see how real-life queer girls hook up?
The answers will unfold this summer.
The buzz on Queen Latifah
and Jennifer Hudson
Blame her truly convincing portrayal of a
butch bank robber in "Set It Off" or the les-
bian prison matron in "Chicago," or blame
the tabloids for running endless photos of
her in the compa-
ny of her
female
trainer,
then print-
ing stories
of an
impend-
ing lesbian
union, but
Queen
Latifah has
definitely
entered the
isn't she" phase of her career,
No matter what the truth is, the talented
actor remains a subject of fascination for gay
audiences.
And now she's teaming up with Jennifer
Hudson, a recent addition to the gay diva wor-
ship camp, for the film "The Secret Life of
Bees."
Along with Sophie Okonedo, they'll star as
three siblings who adopt a little girl (played by
Dakota Fanning).
The period drama (and
potential weepie) is
shooting now for
a 2009 release,
so fans have
plenty of
time to
stock up
on trav-
el-size
pack-
ets of
tis-
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By David Webb
On what do you blame the Dallas
Cowboys' devastating loss to the New
York Giants in the divisional playoffs
on Jan. 14?
"Jessica [Simpson]
wasn't there this
week."
"I think probably
their strategy wasn't
very good. The
defense didn't play
the way they should
have."
'I think there is too
much newness all at
once. There's too
many new players."
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Mark Miley
Photographer
"I would have to be a
football fan in order
to be able to answer
that question. I'm
not."
Randy Wilson
Software developer
"Too many penalties.
They were going
backward. My mother
was cussing. She
was so mad."
Cherie Paro
Manufacturer
Daniel Rodriguez
Salon owner
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Phillip Thomas
Salon owner
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