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“The Vampire Diaries” Gets Its First Gay Character
The Vampire Diaries is one of the most homoerotic shows on basic television, but the supernatural series has never had an out gay character—until now. E! Online is reporting that when the show returns in 2014, the show’s cast include Luke, a gay teen of the handsome and sarcastic variety.
Oh great, another sassy gay character!
A new hottie is enrolling at Whitmore after winter break! And he’ll be spending time with Caroline! Except he’s so not into her in that way as Luke, handsome and sarcastic, is gay. And also happens to have a sister on campus, one that he will do [or sacrifice] anything to protect.
If Luke has to be the bitchy gay sidekick, we pray producers give him at least the hint of a sex life. I mean its bad enough we have to drool over Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder without any hope of a love connection
Lady Gaga, RuPaul Looking Good, Feeling Right With “Fashion” Performance:
Lady Gaga’s Thanksgiving special was… well, it was. There were moments of pure joy (Gaga kiking with the Muppets) and other moments that had us cringing (Gaga’s crotching-baring outfit during “Venus”).
But “Fashion,” Mother Monster’s duet with Mama Ru, was like an extra slice of pumpkin pie without the calories.
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Miss America crowns 1st winner of Indian descent
By CNN Staff
updated 11:31 AM EDT, Mon September 16, 2013
And the Miss America winner is ...
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Nina Davuluri is first Indian-American Miss America
Davuluri trained with famed Bollywood choreographer
The 24-year-old wants to be a physician
Some tweets focused on winner's heritage
(CNN) -- She's the second consecutive New York beauty queen to take the Miss America title, but she's the first Indian-American to wear the national crown -- er, tiara -- atop her perfectly coiffed head.
"I was the first Indian Miss New York, and I'm so proud to be the first Indian Miss America," Nina Davuluri said after she won.
Davuluri's resume goes considerably deeper than her heritage, however.
The 24-year-old Fayetteville, New York, native was on the dean's list and earned the Michigan Merit Award and National Honor Society nods while studying at the University of Michigan, where she graduated with a degree in brain behavior and cognitive science.
Her father, who emigrated from India 30 years ago, is a gynecologist, and Davuluri said she'd like to become a physician one day as well.
"During her year as Miss America she will serve as spokesperson for STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) this year as she travels to Washington, D.C., to work with the Department of Education," according to a Miss America statement.
She also is passionate about healthy lifestyles after battling obesity and bulimia when she was younger.
Davuluri's platform was "Celebrating Diversity Through Cultural Competency." For the talent portion of the competition, she performed classic Indian dances fused with Bollywood moves.
She has studied the Kuchipudi and Bharatanatyam styles of dance, and in preparation for the Miss America contest, she worked with famed Bollywood choreographer Nakul Dev Mahajan.
Miss California Crystal Lee was first runner-up, and Miss Oklahoma Kelsey Griswold was second runner-up, while Theresa Vail, the tattooed, bow-hunting, Chinese-speaking Miss Kansas, won the online viewers' poll.
Despite a night of firsts, a tired theme emerged following Davuluri's victory: Racists took to Twitter to lambaste the pageant for picking an Indian-American. They were none too kind to Davuluri herself, either, with one particularly uninformed tweeter calling her a Muslim.
Something similar happened when Rima Fakih was crowned Miss USA in 2010. Fakih is of Lebanese descent, and many were quick to try to link her to the militant group Hezbollah.
Wow!!!!! New photos have surfaced of Marilyn Monroe!!!! Taken in her final days in the last shoot she had! These will be a buy for sure!!! Check it out!! Let the bidding begin! XOxo Love her!
Rare Photos of Marilyn Monroe's Last Sitting for Sale
The photos will be on view to the public starting Sept. 6
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This 1962 photo provided by Freeman's auction house in Philadelphia shows one of a limited-edition portfolio of 10 photos of Marilyn Monroe that is scheduled to go on the block Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013. The photos were made from fashion photographer Bert Stern's original negatives from his June 1962 assignment for Vogue.
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A rare portfolio of photographs from Marilyn Monroe's last sitting is up for grabs to the highest bidder.
Freeman's auction house in Philadelphia estimates the limited-edition portfolio of 10 photos, made from fashion photographer Bert Stern's original negatives from his June 1962 assignment for Vogue, could fetch $10,000 to $15,000 when it goes on the block Sept. 10.
The photos will be on view to the public starting Sept. 6, said Aimee Pflieger, head of the century-old auction house's photography division.
Stern, who died in June at age 83, took more than 2,500 photos of the Hollywood icon over three days at the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles. The 20-by-20-inch portfolio photos are from the first day, when Stern and Monroe were alone before the arrival of a cadre of Vogue staffers, and project a feeling of spontaneity and playfulness that stands out from the others.
"He brought a turntable and speakers and three cases of champagne,'' Pflieger said. "The feeling you get from the photos is they're having a great time.''
Six weeks after her session with Stern, the 36-year-old screen siren was found dead in her home Aug. 5 of an apparent drug overdose. A half-century later, she remains one of the 20th-century's most enduring sex symbols.
Stern's photos were a sensation, partly because they were taken right before Monroe's death and partly because they included the first nude photos of Monroe since 1949. Many of the nudes show the star posing with diaphanous scarves, paper flowers and pearls in bright but diffuse natural light that gives the photos a dreamlike quality.
"She was beautiful and untouched,'' Stern said. "It was as though she were just beginning.''
Monroe is often described in the photos as projecting an aura of damage and desperation, but Pflieger disagrees.
"We project our own thoughts onto them when we look at them,'' she said. "To me, they're soft, beautiful, clutter-free images just filled with light ... they give you a real sense of her personality and playfulness.''
Other Monroe photos are being auctioned the same day, including more from the personal collection of the portfolio owner, who the auction house said wishes to remain anonymous.
Also going on the auction block are nearly 100 photographs from the corporate collection of cosmetics giant Avon's headquarters in New York City. The photographs are all by female artists from the 1910s to the 1990s _ from the little known to the prominent Cindy Sherman and Louise Dahl-Wolfe _ and focus on themes of beauty through the eyes of women.
Part of the proceeds from Avon's auction will benefit the Avon Foundation, which advances efforts related to breast cancer research and combating domestic violence.
