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‘Please Like Me’ lets its comic creator Josh Thomas be himself
NEW YORK — “I float around,” says Josh Thomas, “and I’ve just been very lucky.” The 27-year-old openly gay Australian comedian is trying to account for his success in what he’d argue is the absence of ambition or strategy. Still, look at him: a star Down Under and the leading man, writer and executive producer of his own half-hour comedy-drama, “Please Like Me” …
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Report: Parsons, ‘Big Bang’ co-stars to earn $1M per episode in new 3-year deal
Jim Parsons, one of the highest profile openly gay actors on television today, has signed a new three-year contract to continue on CBS’ “Big Bang Theory,” and the reported $1 million per episode paycheck makes him one of the highest paid performers on network television.
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Group backing marriage equality releases television ad in Ohio
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A group supporting same-sex marriage in Ohio is airing its first television ad as a federal appeals court prepares to hear oral arguments on the issue. The ad from the Why Marriage Matters Ohio campaign features a gay couple from the state who married last October in New York after 50 years together. The two men discuss their long-term relationship …
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Nathan Lane: Gay actors shouldn’t have a monopoly on gay roles
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Gay actors shouldn’t have a monopoly on gay roles, award-winning stage and screen actor Nathan Lane said. Lane, who is gay and has played both straight and gay characters, was asked the question at a TV critics’ meeting Tuesday. He was there to discuss PBS’ presentation of the Broadway play “The Nance,” in which he stars….
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ABC confirms: Rosie O’Donnell returning to ‘The View’
NEW YORK — Rosie O’Donnell is back on “The View” for a most unexpected second act. ABC said Thursday that O’Donnell will return to the daytime chatfest, whose couch is nearly empty with the on-air retirement of show creator Barbara Walters and impending departures of Jenny McCarthy and Sherri Shepherd.
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Laverne Cox becomes first transgender person nominated for an Emmy
Laverne Cox has became the first transgender person to be nominated for an Emmy Award in an acting category. Cox received a nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Sophia Burset in the Netflix series “Orange is the New Black.” “Orange is the New Black” was also nominated for Best Comedy series, along …
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Sean Hayes joins cast of CBS sitcom ‘The Millers’
LOS ANGELES — CBS says popular sitcom star Sean Hayes is joining the cast of its comedy “The Millers” as a series regular. Hayes will play the new best friend of the character played by Margo Martindale and a new source of friction for her son, played by Will Arnett, CBS said on Tuesday.
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Reality series features couples agreeing to get ‘married at first sight’
This is the “sanctity of marriage” that conservatives are fighting to protect: From the FYI Network comes a news series documenting the stories of six individuals, “yearning for romance and a loving partnership,” who agree to a provocative proposal: getting married at first sight?
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Is a gay ‘showmance’ blossoming in the Big Brother house?
Is a gay “showmance” finally blossoming in the Big Brother house? This year’s very “politically correct” season of CBS’ Big Brother is a far cry from last year’s edition, in which viewers were treated to a seemingly endless display of racist, ethnic, homophobic slurs that resulted in reports of at least two houseguests being fired from their jobs…
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Gay ‘Survivor’ contestant dies in Alabama railway accident
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Caleb Bankston, a former contestant on the “Survivor” reality show, has died in a railway accident in Alabama. He was 27. Jefferson County Deputy Coroner Bill Yates says Bankston, who was working at the Alabama Warrior Railway in Birmingham, was thrown from a train in a partial derailment on June 24.