Friday, December 11, 2015
Academy Award for Best Actress
2004
Hilary Swank
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Maggie Fitzgerald
Million Dollar Baby
Hilary Ann Swank (born July 30, 1974) is a US actress and producer. She has won two Academy Awards for Best Actress and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2007.
Swank made her film debut in a minor role for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, before she made her breakout lead role in the fourth installment of the The Karate Kid franchise, The Next Karate Kid in 1994. On television, she was cast as part of the main cast in the eighth season of the drama series Beverly Hills 90210 as single mother Carly Reynolds from 1997 to 1998. Swank garnered critical acclaim for her portrayal of Brandon Teena in the 1999 biographical independent film Boys Don't Cry, which earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. She starred in Clint Eastwood's 2004 sports drama film Million Dollar Baby as struggling-waitress-turned-boxer Maggie Fitzgerald, which won her a second Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Actress.
She starred in other films, such as The Gift (2000), Insomnia (2002), Iron Jawed Angels (2004), Red Dust (2004) The Reaping (2007), P.S. I Love You (2007), Freedom Writers (2007), Amelia (2009), New Year's Eve (2011), The Homesman (2014) and You're Not You (2014).
22nd Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
And The Nominees Are:
Note: First picture if the actor in the role nominated for, second photo a sexy photo of the actor.
Note: First picture if the actor in the role nominated for, second photo a sexy photo of the actor.
Bryan Cranston
Trumbo
as
Dalton Trumbo
Johnny Depp
Black Mass
as
James "Whitey" Bulger
Leonardo DiCaprio
The Revenant
as
Hugh Glass
Michael Fassbender
Steve Jobs
as
Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne
The Danish Girl
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Lili Elbe / Einar Wegener
December 12th is Rabi' al-awwal
Rabi' al-awwal (ربيع الأوّل) is the third month in the Islamic calendar. During this month, majority of the Muslims celebrate Mawlid - the birthday of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Sunni Muslims believe the exact date of birth of Muhammad to have been on the twelfth of this month, whereas Shi'a Muslims believe him to have been born on the dawn of the seventeenth day. The name Rabī‘ al-awwal means the first [month] or beginning of spring, referring to its position in the pre-Islamic Arabian calendar. Hence this is considered to be a very blessed month.
GIF Of The Day: Aspen's Hairy Ass, It's What's for Dinner
From: Fleshbot
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Just look at those amazing thighs, that tight, hairy belly, that beautiful face, and that junk hanging like fruit ripe for the pickin'. *SIGHHHHHHHH*
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Today in History..
December 11, 220 –
Cao Pi forces Emperor Xian of Han to abdicate the Han dynasty throne. The Cao Wei empire is established. The Three Kingdoms period begins.
Celebrating Today: December 11th
Evil Abby from Knots Landing, Donna Mills turns 75 today.
Grégori Baquet from Grande École turns 45.
The wonderful and talented Rita Moreno turns 84 today.
Boy Meets World co-star Rider Strong turns 36 today.
Journalist writes about using hook-up apps in Qatar, where gay sex is punishable by death
From: LGBTQ Nation
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| The gay dating scene in Qatar isn't quite as dangerous and repressive as you might think. |
A must-read article by Bert Archer was posted to Vice on Sunday, in which the journalist documents his experiences using hookup apps in the capital of Qatar, where gay sex is punishable by death.
With “bits of four days to spare” and “an empty hotel room with the promise of a constant supply of clean sheets and towels,” he decided to scan his apps — none of which he names — and see who was actively looking, if anyone.
“Having sex with the locals,” he explains, “is one of the things I like most about travel.”
In Qatar, the maximum penalty for gay sex (or extramarital sex) is death. That didn’t stop the apps from bleeping and pinging every few minutes after he logged in.
He writes:
I should point out that I was not subject to the death penalty. As far as Qatar is concerned, I’m lost anyway, soul-wise. I’d just get put in prison, maybe tortured, I’m guessing raped, and then deported. But if you’re Muslim, the law says death, or at least imprisonment and 100 lashes. And these guys popping up on my screen with their endearingly displayed body parts all looked pretty Muslim….***But, look at this glowing screen. Look at those hopeful, horny, possibly brave, mostly young men, erupting out of this tiny desert nation with Goldblumian inevitability. Life will find a way, at least if by life, you mean semen.
In-between his various meetings and lunches, the author managed to seal the deal and have sex several times, learning a great deal about “the religious Muslim world” in the process.
His discoveries suggest Qatar’s gay scene isn’t quite as repressed as you’d think. It’s clear while reading of his exploits that he didn’t have a particularly difficult time finding men who were willing to have a good time.
He writes, “I thought vaguely that these sites and apps would be a good way to track just these sorts of people, my sorts of people, were the government to want to do that sort of thing,” he writes.
After all, Saudi Arabia is suspected of using those techniques.
Archer asked one man — described as a bodybuilder who works for a large corporation — whether it’s hard to be gay in Doha, and the guy simply laughed:
“He laughed a laugh I’ve grown accustomed to on the road, the oh-you-stupid-callow-foreigner laugh. No, he said, it wasn’t tough,” Archer writes.
Instead, these men “went about with their lifestyle by knowing their enemy.”
Throughout his sexual adventures, the only time Archer felt he was in danger was when a stranger propositioned him on the street while he walked back to his hotel.
Once he was back inside, he did a bit of Google research.
“The first three results told me that police occasionally pick up foreign workers caught in compromising same-sex situations and, in exchange for not arresting and deporting them, turn them into bait,” he writes.
In short, he describes Quatar’s gay dating scene as “secret but not secretive” and “undramatic,” not altogether different from what it was like in Washington DC several decades ago when men would meet in the woods.
There would be the occasional search light, but no arrests.
According to Archer, the police just want their presence to be known and adhered to: “They’d let you do all those things you were doing as long as you didn’t step out of line and force them to do anything about it.”
“It’s not a happy and healthy gay-for-all, but it’s not being thrown off tall buildings either, and it’s not the way I’d gotten used to thinking about life in the religious Islamic world
