Gay Golden Globes 14/12/2005 12:00:00 AM (BANG) - Hollywood's first gay cowboy movie 'Brokeback Mountain' is set to ride off with seven Golden Globes.
The controversial movie - which stars Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal - is being lined up for a succession of prizes including best picture.
George Clooney's 'Good Night, and Good Luck' and Woody Allen's 'Match Point' will also be battling it out for the best movie award - an indication of Oscar success.
Surprisingly, director Peter Jackson's much heralded 'King Kong' received just two nominations.
Meanwhile, hit show 'Desperate Housewives' dominated the Golden Globes television nominations - with four of its five lead female roles up for best comedy actress.
Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Eva Longoria and Marcia Cross have all been nominated for the award, with Felicity also submitted for her gender bending role in new movie 'Transamerica'.
Screen beauty Keira Knightley, up for best actress for 'Pride and Prejudice', said: "I'm sure I won't win but it's nice to be recognised - especially against all the other nominees." Other stars in the category include 70-year-old Dame Judi Dench, Sarah Jessica Parker and Reese Witherspoon.
Pierce Brosnan, Johnny Depp and Joaquin Phoenix will fight it out for best actor at the glitzy award ceremony on January 16.
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I always suspected Clooney of being one... but it does come to me as a shock that KING KONG himself is gay too. Sheesh. Cheetah will cry over this. Dame Judi does radiate a pretty strong gay aura about her... does she not? Sarah Jessica always had a gay vibe thing going on there... Keira and Reese should do the next gay cowGIRL film together - the Uma Thurman flick (Even Cowgirls Get The Blues) needs updating... right? I do not care to see the former James Bond 007, the Pirate Jack Sparrow and "Johnny Cash" (really Pierce, Johnny and Joaquin) go gay... but I have nothing against seeing these Desperate Housewives become truly desperate and "gayly go..." where plenty of housewives have gone before actually! BE HONEST AND ADMIT IT - "LADIES"...!
Seriously now - it is official; Hollywood has really gone to heck now. Just years ago, it would have been the most absurd joke a stand-up comedian could have made "to make a GAY COWBOY FILM"... And now, it is up for a bunch of Golden Globes... Oscars too with that?!? Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeesh...
Desperate marriage 15/12/2005 12:00:00 AM (BANG) - 'Desperate Housewife' Marcia Cross (the tall redhead on the pics) plans to marry her fiancé Tom Mahoney in an intimate white wedding next year.
The smitten actress also revealed she knew the businessman was "the one" as soon as they met.
The sexy 43-year-old, who plays neurotic Bree Van De Kamp in the hit show, revealed: "I'm getting married next year - it's going to be my only marriage.
"I met Tom last December, but we didn't go out until the beginning of January.
"I knew pretty quickly he was the man for me. It's one of those things - the old cliché, 'You'll know him when you meet him.'"
The couple's nuptials will be spread over a weekend with just close friends and family. The actress also plans to wear a beautiful, white wedding gown.
She added: "It's really important to me that our families and friends are together and comfortable at our wedding and that we just have a really nice weekend together.
"I will probably be wearing a traditional white dress. I'm pretty traditional."
The screen beauty also revealed she has realistic expectations of her marriage.
She confessed to America's Boston Common magazine: "I suspect nothing's perfect. So that's the first thing: to go in with realistic expectations."
Cruise slammed by 9/11 fire-fighters 15/12/2005 12:00:00 AM (BANG) - Tom Cruise has been slammed by fire-fighters injured in the 9/ll attacks - after he suggested they use Scientology to heal themselves.
The actor has reportedly urged people injured in the terrorist attacks to quit using their medication and inhalers and take natural remedies - including vitamins, saunas and cooking oil - instead.
The Hollywood heavyweight - a co-founder of the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project - has also supported a new Scientology clinic which espouses the "purification" programme.
However, doctors have reportedly dismissed the treatment as "quackery".
Deputy Fire Commissioner Frank Gribbon told America's PageSix.com: "If our doctors are prescribing medication, and Scientologists are saying 'don't take it', that's a problem for us."
He also claimed the department's deputy chief medical officer Dr David Prezant is against the treatment.
He said: "Prezant is not pleased when patients are advised to disobey doctors' orders. That's where he drew the line."
Scientology devotee Tom - who is engaged to actress Katie Holmes - has defended the purification process, claiming: "More than 500 individuals have recovered health and job fitness through this project."
The Canadian Press BANG Media International Are you kidding me, Tom? Did the aliens from War of the Worlds whack you in the head one too many times there...?!? Is Katie Holmes making you as dumb as she is? Did Penelope Cruz give you the evil eye?!? Oh - right... Scientology would have nullified THAT in no time at all... eh? *LOL* Then only one possibilty left here... you are still bewitched by the OTHER... Nicole Kidman! And it has dulled your logic beyond belief ever since... Once a Stepford Wife... always a Stepford Wife... hmm? Better that than a Desperate Housewife, if you ask me... but that is another story!
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