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Check out this anti-prop 8 video. The ending line is the best, haha!  ”If you disagree with the homosexual lifestyle, support overturning prop 8, and make them get married, like the rest of us.”

Looks like I’ll be skipping yet another movie!

Although Mr. T rejected a cameo in the upcoming A-Team movie, he wasn’t against the film as a whole – until he saw it! The original BA Baracus was shocked to see how graphic the remake turned out.

“People die in the film and there’s plenty of sex but when we did it, no one got hurt and it was all played for fun and family entertainment. These seem to be elements nobody is interested in anymore.

It was too graphic for me. I’ve no doubt it will do big business at the box office but it’s nothing like the show we turned out every week.”

While Lady Gaga turns into the artsy Madonna / Christina Aguilera, little Hannah Montana, Miley Cyrus, is turning into a trashy Britney Spears. This photo taken from TMZ shows a dancer getting very touchy-feely with 17-year-old Miley during a concert in Madrid this weekend.

All this after the “I didn’t really kiss a girl” excuse, she is definitely out for attention, and sadly we’re giving it to her. Perez Hilton made a video today stating something similar; we’re only fanning the flames, folks.

I don’t believe he had committed a “serious criminal offense”, but I also don’t make the rules across the Atlantic.

Chris Brown‘s violent past just caught up with him in the UK … where he was just denied entry into the country. Officials in Great Britain revealed they wouldn’t let the singer cross the border because of his criminal record … specifically the attack on Rihanna.

The move seriously screws up Brown’s tour — which had at least 3 scheduled stops in the UK. Soon after the decision, Brown tweeted, “SORRY to all the fans in Europe!!! my tour is cancelled. Im pretty sure yall know. my entry was denied in your country. I love you. SORRY!!” The tweet was later removed — and his publicist later claimed the rejection was based on “issues surrounding his work visa.”

Britain’s Home Office also released a statement, saying, “We reserve the right to refuse entry to the UK to anyone guilty of a serious criminal offense.”

Sandra Bullock stole the show at Sunday night’s MTV Movie Awards by sharing a stage smooch with Scarlett Johansson — and Gatecrasher hears the lip-lock was all Sandy’s idea.

“Scarlett was originally supposed to present a different award with Zac Efron, but when Sandy heard Scarlett would be there, she reached out to her,” says an
insider. “It was a preplanned, scripted kiss the producers knew about – and it was Sandra’s camp’s idea.”

Bullock was no doubt encouraged by the attention she got when she planted a wet one on Meryl Streep at the Critics Choice Movie Awards, which aired on VH1 in January. But the latest smooch seen ’round the world may never have happened if Scarlett wasn’t such a brave soul.

A source close to Johansson says the Broadway babe was “obviously more than fine with it” but got a preshow pep talk from Bullock to ensure it. We hear the pair talked about their presenting tactic the night before at the Spike TV Guys Choice Awards.

After the smooch, Bullock addressed the attention now placed on her personal life, saying “Can we please go back to normal because therapy is really expensive. Go back to making fun of me, I don’t care, it’s time to get back to normal.”

A nearly 25-year study concluded that children raised in lesbian households were psychologically well-adjusted and had fewer behavioral problems than their peers. The study, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, followed 78 lesbian couples who conceived through sperm donations and assessed their children’s well-being through a series of questionnaires and interviews.

Gay parenting remains a controversial issue, with debates about topics including the children’s psychological adjustment, their parents’ sexual orientation and adoption restrictions.

The mothers were interviewed during pregnancy or the insemination process, and additionally when the children were 2, 5, 10 and 17 years old. Those children are now 18 to 23 years old. They were interviewed four times as they matured and also completed an online questionnaire at age 17, focusing on their psychological adjustment, peer and family relationships and academic progress. To assess their well-being, Gartrell used the Child Behavior Checklist, a commonly used standard to measure children’s behavioral and social problems, such as anxiety, depression, aggressive behavior and social competence. The answers were coded into a computer and then analyzed. This data was compared with data from children of nonlesbian families.

“I would have anticipated the kids would be doing as well as the normative sample,” she said. “I didn’t expect better.” Children from lesbian families rated higher in social, academic and total competence. They also showed lower rates in social, rule-breaking, aggressive problem behavior. The involvement of mothers may be a contributing factor, in addition to the fact that the pregnancies were planned, Gartrell said. The children “didn’t arrive by accident,” she said. “The mothers were older… they were waiting for an opportunity to have children and age brings maturity and better parenting.”

This also could have occurred because “growing up in households with less power assertion and more parental involvement has been shown to be associated with healthier psychological adjustment,” Gartrell wrote in the study. Some of the teenagers reported being stigmatized by peers because of their parents’ sexuality. Researchers compared the figures in terms of the psychological adjustment between children who had experienced stigma versus those who did not. ”We found no differences,” Gartrell said. “That leads us to asking why and how are young people managing discrimination? That will be the topic of future papers. We’ll look into what the ingredients are to allow them to cope despite adversity.”

Gartrell studied only lesbian families, because circumstances surrounding gay male families are different. Gay men becoming fathers is newer in comparison with lesbians, because their options have been limited to adoption or surrogacy. Lesbians often conceive through donor insemination.

I was impressed when they were up 4 to 2 very early on, and then later watched some NHL Stanley Cup finals instead; the Lakers just got outplayed.

With the next three contests of the best-of-seven series set for TD Garden, the Celtics could earn their record 18th NBA title without ever returning to Hollywood. However, Doc Rivers’ team has been uncharacteristically pedestrian as the host this season, compiling a 24-17 record during the regular season and a more solid 7-2 mark in the postseason. The Lakers, meanwhile, have won four times on the road this postseason.

The NBA Finals has been tied at a game apiece 32 different times and the winner of Game 3 has gone on to take 28 of those series.
The 2010 Finals marks the Lakers’ 31st trip to the championship series and Boston’s 21st appearance with 12 of those overlapping in clashes between the NBA’s two most storied franchises.

Their finals history dates all the way back to the 1958-59 season when the Lakers still called Minneapolis home. Boston and the game’s ultimate winner, Bill Russell, dominated the early years of the rivalry. The Red Auerbach-era Celtics took the Lakers all seven times they met in the finals, although the Jerry West, Elgin Baylor fueled LA clubs did manage to take Boston to seven games on three different occasions.

The rivalry lay dormant for 15 years until Larry Bird and Magic Johnson “saved” the NBA by bringing their own storied college rivalry to the pros. Bird avenged his loss at Indiana State to Magic’s Michigan State Spartans in the 1979 NCAA Finals when the Celtics got past the Lakers in seven games to win the 1983-84 NBA title. Johnson and his Lakers responded the next season as LA finally beat Boston in the finals for the first time. Magic also won the rubber match two years later before the rivalry went cold again, this time for 20 years as the Celtics struggled mightily in the post-Bird era.

The new iPhone seems incredible. Too bad Google has already taken the name.

“Now stop me if you’ve seen this.” And so Steve Jobs announced the iPhone 4 yesterday. Featuring stainless steel banding around the sides and a glass front, the iPhone 4’s “closest kin is a beautiful old camera.” It’s 24% thinner than the iPhone 3GS at 9.3mm thick, which Apple claims makes it the smallest smartphone on the planet or “a quarter thinner than something you didn’t think could get any thinner.”  The three stainless steel bands surrounding the device that look very un-Apple actually serve two purposes: they add to the structural integrity of the device and double as antenna boosters. Smart.

The iPhone 4 has a 3.5″ display that has 78% the pixels of the iPad. With a resolution of 960×640 — or 4x the resolution of the first three iPhones — the iPhone 4 has four pixels where the other devices only had space for one for a total of 326 pixels per inch. Apple calls this “Retina Display” technology and says it translates to images and text so incredibly sharp that you’ll feel like you’re looking at a “finely printed book” instead of a mobile display. The display technology also means that apps will not have to be rescaled, so everything currently in the App Store will The display also has a 800:1 contrast ratio.

On the Apple iPhone website, we have the new iPhone OS 4, newly named iOS 4, updates:

My takes? Multitasking, finally. So long as it runs with every app. As far as I know, the multitasking selection is limited. App folders are going to be nice, I have 12 pages of apps and they’re out of control. Unified mail boxes should have been around awhile ago. Digital zoom update and focus-video I am guessing will be a iPhone4 thing only, but who knows! I can’t wait to put my idle bluetooth keyboard to good use, assuming it functions as it should.

Enjoy. ;)