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Media watchdog GLAAD released its Studio Responsibility Index on Thursday, using its annual ranking of queer representation in mainstream films to stand with striking unions SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild of America.

Convening in-person at the Los Angeles LGBTQ Center’s Ed Gould Plaza in Hollywood, leadership from both show business unions, queer talent and GLAAD CEO Sarah Kate Ellis spoke of the dangers that work stoppages from the strikes pose to inclusive storytelling.

“The fight for worker empowerment and the fight for authentic LGBTQ plus representation in media is all part of the same struggle,” said Duncan Crabtree Ireland, chief negotiator for the actors union. Crabtree Ireland’s profile has risen significantly since he appeared alongside SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher at their fiery strike announcement press conference in July. He took the GLAAD event as a moment to make the personal political.

“I’m here on behalf of our...

Life In The Dreamhouse “A Smidge Of Midge” Screenshot: Arc Productions By all accounts, the new live-action Barbie film has a delightfully subversive edge to it, simultaneously poking fun at and paying homage to the iconic fashion doll and the toy line based around her. It’s a clever approach...

Barbie: Life In The Dreamhouse, Margot Robbie in BarbieImage: Arc Productions, Warner Bros.

By all accounts, the new live-action Barbie film has a delightfully subversive edge to it, simultaneously poking fun at and paying homage to the iconic fashion doll and the toy line based around her. It’s a...

"I decided to do what I do." What a terrible line. Saban Films / Paramount have released an official trailer for a very generic action thriller titled Crime Story, which is getting a theatrical + VOD release this August for anyone who might want to watch this. The pitch: an old man suffering from cancer seeks revenge on the thieves who have destroyed his life. Academy Award-winner Richard Dreyfuss stars as an infamous ex-mob boss who "must finally face the consequences of his dark past" when his family also gets caught up in his vengeance plot. The full cast includes Mira Sorvino, Cress Williams, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Derek Russo, Haviland Stillwell, and Andrea Frankle. Despite starring two Oscar winners, this is straight-to-the-bargain-bin, derivative "content" that everyone will just forget as soon as they finish watching. Oh well. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Adam Lipsius' Crime Story, direct from Paramount's YouTube:...

Network: Netflix

Episodes: Ongoing (half-hour)

Seasons: Ongoing

TV show dates: February 6, 2015 — present

Series status: Has not been cancelled

Performers include: Erin Fitzgerald, Kate Higgins, Evan Smith, Jonquil Goode, Karen Strassman, Rena Strober, Malcolm Danare, Marc Graue, Haviland Stillwell, Robbie Daymond, Grant George, Julie Maddalena, and Cindy Robinson.

TV show description:

This animated series features the children of famous fairy tale characters who attend Ever After High School. The Royals strive to follow the lead of their heroic parents. The Rebels want to author their own fates.

Apple White (Jonquil Goode) is Snow White's daughter. Hard-working and dedicated, Apple wants people to know that her beauty is not only skin deep. Boys and woodland creatures alike are at her beck and call.

Apple's independent yet compassionate roommate, Raven...

'Selma' movie review: Politically salient in the early 21st century and 'beautiful in all the ways of cinema' (photo: David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King Jr. in 'Selma') The title of director Ava DuVernay's historical drama Selma tells us what the film is about, while implying what it isn't about. In other words, Selma is not about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -- wonderfully played by British actor David Oyelowo -- even though the reverend is the film's gravitational center and its emotional weight accrues to him. Just like what took place in Selma, Alabama, back in 1965. In fact, Oyelowo's presence is as transfixing as that of the young Ben Kingsley in his transformative interpretation of Gandhi in Sir Richard Attenborough's 1982 titular classic about one of Dr. King's inspirational figures. Unlike Gandhi, however, Selma is a single canvas on which a few months in Dr.

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Good afternoon everyone!

Happy birthday to Mercedes Ruehl, Tasha Smith, Bernadette Peters and Ali Larter!

Actress Ali Larter in Los Angeles, CA

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And happy five year (dating) anniversary to my lovely wife Karman!

Today the U.S. House passed the Senate-approved version of the Violence Against Women Act that includes protections for the Lgbt community. Thank you to all who fought this battle for us!

Noomi Rapace (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) has confirmed that there is a sequel to Prometheus in the works. Although Rapace didn't officially commit to the film she did say, "I met Ridley in London a couple of weeks ago. I would love to work with him again and I know that he would like to do another one. It's just like we need to find the right story. I hope we will.

Forty-Seven Percent Records, a division of Happy Panda Productions, have released a music video entitled Black Romney Binders Full O Bitches in which Black Romney, a rapper version of Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, expresses his disinterest in a variety of human beings, such as the unemployed, homosexuals, single mothers, and many others. Created, written and directed by Asian-American actress and comedienne Deborah S. Craig CWs Hart of Dixie and starring Burl Moseley, this piece of political satire also features cameos by Broadway performers Jared Gertner currently starring in the national tour of The Book Of Mormon, Haviland Stillwell and Erin Quill. Watch it below...

Academy Award winner Stephen Schwartz was honored and presented with with Desert Ensemble Theatre Company's inaugural Melpomai Award at When You Believe A Conversation With and Tribute To Stephen Schwartz on May 19 in Palm Springs. The event was held in the Annenberg Theater at the Palm Springs Art Museum, and featured a conversation with Schwartz as well as performances of his stage and movie musical hits. Directed and moderated by Scott Logsdon Les Miserables, the evening included performances from Tony nominee Andrea McArdle Annie, Hunter Parrish Broadway's Godspell revival and Showtime's Weeds, Kate Flannery NBC's The Office, Pamla Vale Abramson, Melissa Batalles, Garrett Hoy, Ben Reece, Haviland Stillwell Les Miserables and Fiddler on the Roof and Laura L.Thomas. Joel Baker was the musical director and accompanist. See photos of the stars performing on stage below...

A party goes awry when the truck it's being held on crashes through a barrier and falls into the river. CSI:ny's version of Titanic (1997) on a truck. Mac (Gary Sinise) arrives on the scene and looks at the survivors. Jo (Sela Ward) watches the truck being lifted out of the river. Jo comments there were probably about 20 people inside. Mac notices they had a lucky escape through the escape hatch in the roof of the truck. There are two dead. A Db is revealed inside. Mac: "Make that 3." Flack (Eddie Cahill) calls it a truck party gone bad. Mac calls him Don and not Flack here. Trucks are being converted into nightclubs now, the new fad. Jo says the truck was meant to be stationary. Two cabbies saw it through the barrier. Thought it was the two workers who saw the truck, didn't think the two cabbies were that close to the river.

Check out an extended trailer as well as an extended scene from Lifetime's "The Client List." The Jaffe/Braunstein production airs on July 19th at 9:00 p.m and stars Jennifer Love Hewitt, Cybill Shepherd, Sonja Bennett, Heather Doerksen, Kevin James, Haviland Stillwell and Alberta Mayne. Eric Laneuville directs the drama from the writing by Suzanne Martin. Inspired by a true story, this Lifetime Original Movie is the story of Samantha Horton (Jennifer Love Hewitt), a former Texas homecoming queen and physical therapist. When both she and her husband, Rex (Teddy Sears), are laid off from their jobs, Samantha accepts an offer to work at a massage studio in a nearby town, not realizing that the other staff members are actually prostitutes who service a clientele of wealthy and powerful businessmen. Eventually realizing what goes on behind closed doors, but desperate to provide for her family, Samantha goes along for the ride.