When Hilary Duff’s ‘That’s So Gay’ PSA End Homophobia

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• BARBIE’S WEIRDO DOLLS: ALL ABOUT MIDGE, EARRG MAGIC KEN, AND MOREGRETA GERWIG’S MOVIE CLUS WKY MEOS OM SOME OF MATTEL’S MOST FAMO DISNTUED PRODUCTS—AND AT LEAST ONE THAT’S STILL AVAILABLE STOR.BY HILLARY BISJULY 21, 2023COURTY OF MATTEL INC.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEALAS, YOU NNOT BUY A WEIRD BARBIE DOLL WHO LOOKS LIKE KATE MCKNON—YOU’LL JT HAVE TO CHOP OFF A REGULAR DOLL’S HAIR AND SCRIBBLE ON HER FACE YOURSELF. BUT YOU N BUY A VERSN OF THE POOPG BARBIE DOG THAT WEIRD BARBIE LIV WH GRETA GERWIG’S BARBIE. THE PLASTIC PET PACKAGED WH A BARBIE WEARG A STRIPED SWEATER AND SPORTY SNEAKERS; S OFFICIALLY SANCTNED NAME IS THE BARBIE WALK AND POTTY PUP. “WHEN ’S TIME FOR A POTTY BREAK, PH ON THE PUPPY’S TAIL,” THE AD PY READS. “BARBIE DOLL N CLEAN UP G THE BROOM AND SOPER.” CONGRATULATNS, KID. HERE’S A PILE OF CRAP!BARBIE IS A MERCHANDISER’S DREAM, A GENERALLY WELL-RECEIVED, ENARGLY SUBVERSIVE PRODUCT THAT’S STILL, AT HEART, A GLORIFIED TWO-HOUR TOY MERCIAL. BUT TO THE FILM’S CRED, DON’T SHY AWAY OM REFERENCG SOME OF MATTEL’S ODR OFFERGS. ACRDG TO A NEW YORKER ARTICLE, THE FETG DOG IS ACTUALLY BASED ON TANNER, A BARBIE ACCSORY OM THE GHTS THAT ATE S OWN POOP—Y!—AND WAS EVENTUALLY RELLED NOT FOR BEG DISGTG, BUT BEE THE MAG SI BARBIE’S POOPER SOPER ULD E LOOSE AND BE SWALLOWED BY A CHILD. (THE WALK AND POTTY PUP APPEARS TO BE SENTIALLY THE SAME TOY, M MAGS.) BELOW, WE TAKE STOCK OF MORE TOYS LIKE TANNER: THE REAL-LIFE WEIRD BARBI THAT DREW PLATS, RISN, AND CELEBRATN AS ACCINTAL GAY INS. PROT BARBIE IS NOT AMONG THEM—AT LEAST, NOT YET.COURTY OF MATTEL, INC.MIDGEEMERALD FENNELL HAS A GLORIFIED MEO BARBIE AS MIDGE, A REDHEAD DOLL WH A BUN THE OVEN. Y, THAT’S RIGHT: MIDGE IS PREGNANT. THAT DIFFERENTIAT THE MOVIE’S VERSN OF THE DOLL OM HER ORIGAL RNATN, LNCHED 1963 AS BARBIE’S MORE APPROACHABLE BT PAL. SHE WAS DISNTUED 1967, THEN RETRODUCED 1987, AGA THE ’90S, AND, MOST FAMOLY, ONE MORE TIME THE GHTS, AS PART OF THE “HAPPY FAY” SET—WHICH GAVE MIDGE A TY DOLL BABY THAT ULD BE PLACED EHER A BULGG STOMACH (WHICH GIRLS ULD MAGILLY ATTACH AND TACH OM MIDGE’S MIDDLE) OR “BORN” OUT OF THAT SAME PLASTIC DOME. HER HBAND AND THREE-YEAR-OLD SON WERE SOLD SEPARATELY.GGER GAETZ, WIFE OF MATT, ANNOUNCED TUDAY THAT SHE HAD SEEN THE BARBIE MOVIE, AND WAS DISAPPOTED BY PART DUE TO THE FILM’S “UNFAIR TREATMENT OF PREGNANT BARBIE MIDGE.” IRONIC, SCE NSERVATIVE IRE WAS STMENTAL GETTG HAPPY FAY MIDGE NCELED. “IT’S A BAD IA. IT PROMOT TEENAGE PREGNANCY. WHAT WOULD AN 8-YEAR-OLD OR 12-YEAR-OLD GET OUT OF THAT DOLL BABY?” ONE MOTHER ASKED THE ASSOCIATED PRS 2002. THE DOLL WAS PULLED OM WAL-MART DUE TO PLATS; JT AS NARRATOR HELEN MIRREN TELLS BARBIE, SHE WAS EVENTUALLY AXED OM THE MATTEL LP ALTOGETHER FOR BEG “TOO WEIRD.” BUT PERHAPS MIDGE GETS THE LAST LGH: ACRDG TO AT LEAST ONE LLECTOR, SHE’S NOW WORTH UP TO $400 MT NDN.COURTY OF MATTEL, INC.ALLANREMEMBER HOW MIDGE HAD A HBAND? THAT WOULD BE ALLAN, PLAYED THE MOVIE BY A VERY GAME MICHAEL CERA. ORIGALLY TRODUCED 1964, HE WAS CREATED TO BE KEN’S BT BUDDY. (BARBIE WAS NAMED FOR CREATOR RUTH HANDLER’S DGHTER, AND KEN FOR HER SON; ALLAN WAS NAMED FOR HER THEN-SON--LAW, ALLEN SEGAL.) KEN AND ALLAN ARE VERY CLOSE; AS CERA TELLS THE MOVIE, “ALL HIS CLOTH F ME” (A LE STRAIGHT OUT OF THE MERCIALS). LIKE MIDGE, ALLAN’S BEEN AND OUT OF THE BARBIE UNIVERSE FOR NEARLY 60 YEARS—MOSTLY OUT. MATTEL HASN’T YET RELEASED AN ALLAN BARBIE TIE- DOLL, BUT GIVEN HOW FUNNY CERA IS THE FILM, THEY REALLY SHOULD.MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHBILL MAHER BEEFS WH “PREACHY, MAN-HATG” BARBIE MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSHJAMIE LEE CURTIS DIGS HERSELF OUT OF COMMENTS ABOUT SAG-AFTRA STRIKEBY EVE BATEYCOURTY OF MATTEL, INC.VIO GIRL BARBIEDEEP WH WEIRD BARBIE’S GONZO DREAMHOE LURKS VIO GIRL BARBIE (METTE NARRATIVE), WHO LOOKS LIKE AN ODDY OM THE 90S BUT WAS ACTUALLY TRODUCED JT 13 YEARS AGO. AS THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WROTE AT THE TIME, VIO GIRL “HAS A GAPG HOLE HER CHT, DISGUISED AS A FASHN PENDANT, THAT NTAS A MERA LENS.” IT’S NNECTED TO THE VIO SCREEN EMBEDD TO HER BACK. THE IA WAS THAT GIRLS ULD E THE DOLLS TO RERD AND PLAY THEIR OWN HOME MOVI. (THIS WAS 2010, REMEMBER, YEARS BEFORE WAS POSSIBLE TO SHOOT A WELL-RECEIVED DIE MOVIE ENTIRELY ON AN IPHONE.) WH THE PACY TO PTURE ABOUT 25 MUT OF FOOTAGE, USB PATIBILY, AND EE EDG SOFTWARE, YOU N IMAGE THE DOLL BEG A H WH FUTURE GRETA GERWIGS. INSTEAD, VIO GIRL WAS CENSURED BY—AND THIS IS TE—THE FBI, WHICH ISSUED AN ADVISORY SAYG THAT THE DOLL ULD POTENTIALLY BE ED TO RERD CHILD PORNOGRAPHY. PERHAPS NEEDLS TO SAY, MATTEL NO LONGER SELLS VIO GIRL BARBIE.COURTY OF MATTEL, INC.GROWG UP SKIPPERANOTHER ONE OM THE BAD IA FIL, THIS DOLL—ALSO BANISHED TO WEIRD BARBIE’S HOE OF NIGHTMAR THE FILM, WHERE SHE’S PLAYED BY HANNAH KHALIQUE-BROWN—IS THE VERSN OF BARBIE’S LTLE SISTER RELEASED 1975 THAT “GROWS AS HER FIGURE MATUR.” MEANG WHEN YOU TURN HER ARM, SHE GETS TALLER…AND HER BOOBS SWELL. NOPE!MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHBILL MAHER BEEFS WH “PREACHY, MAN-HATG” BARBIE MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSHJAMIE LEE CURTIS DIGS HERSELF OUT OF COMMENTS ABOUT SAG-AFTRA STRIKEBY EVE BATEYCOURTY OF MATTEL, INC.TEEN TALK BARBIERELEASED 1992 (AND PLAYED ONSCREEN BY MARISA ABELA), TEEN TALK BARBIE HAD A VOICE BOX THAT SHE ED TO SAY THGS LIKE “LET’S PLAN OUR DREAM WEDDG!” AND “MATH CLASS IS TOUGH!” FEMISTS RAILED AT THE DOLL, SPIRG A CLASSIC EPISO OF THE SIMPSONS THAT READS SORT OF LIKE A FIRST DRAFT FOR GERWIG’S BARBIE MOVIE.COURTY OF MATTEL, INC.EARRG MAGIC KENWHEN BARBIE (MARGOT ROBBIE) AND KEN (RYAN GOSLG) ROLLERBLA TO VENICE BEACH, KEN MOMENTARILY FDS HIMSELF RECEIVG APPRECIATIVE GLANC OM TWO QUEER-D BYSTANRS. THOSE GUYS MAY HAVE BEEN EVEN MORE EXCED TO MEET ANOTHER WEIRD BARBIE PAL: EARRG MAGIC KEN (TOM STOURTON THE MOVIE), RELEASED 1993. HE WAS CLAD PURPLE LEATHER AND MH; HE HAD, OF URSE, A SGLE GLEAMG HOOP EARRG. MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHBILL MAHER BEEFS WH “PREACHY, MAN-HATG” BARBIE MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSHJAMIE LEE CURTIS DIGS HERSELF OUT OF COMMENTS ABOUT SAG-AFTRA STRIKEBY EVE BATEYHE WAS PART OF THE PANY’S NEW EARRG MAGIC LE, BUT IMMEDIATELY STOOD APART AFTER BEG UNOFFICIALLY ADOPTED BY THE GAY MUNY—NOT LEAST BEE OF THE STUNNG SILVER PENDANT HE WORE AROUND HIS NECK. (FANS LIKE SEX ADVICE LUMNIST DAN SAVAGE TERPRETED THE JEWELRY UH, DIFFERENTLY THAN MATTEL DID. “IT’S A NECKLACE. IT HOLDS CHARMS HE N SHARE WH BARBIE,” A SPOKWOMAN TOLD HIM AT THE TIME. “C’MON, THIS IS A DOLL SIGNED FOR LTLE GIRLS.”) HE WAS MEANT TO MAKE GIRLS THK KEN WAS OL. INSTEAD, HE GOT A BUNCH OF OL MEN TO THK KEN WAS OL, WHICH IS HONTLY A MORE IMPRSIVE ACHIEVEMENT.COURTY OF MATTEL, INC.SUGAR’S DADDY (OR IS IT SUGAR DADDY?) KENBY 2009—11 YEARS AFTER WILL & GRACE BUTED!—ONE MIGHT EXPECT MATTEL TO HAVE GROWN WISER TO THE WAYS S PRODUCTS WOULD BE TERPRETED BY ADULTS. THAT WAS THE YEAR THE PANY RELEASED SUGAR’S DADDY KEN (NOTE THE POSSSIVE NOUN!), PART OF S PALM BEACH LE OF TOYS AIMED AT GROWN-UP LLECTORS. SUGAR’S DADDY (PLAYED BY ROB BRYDON THE FILM) ME WH A WELL-TAILORED PAISLEY BLAZER, A SMART PAIR OF WHE LOAFERS, AND A TEENY WHE TERRIER ON A PK LEASH. THAT WOULD BE SUGAR. “THE LTLE DOG’S NAME IS ACTUALLY SUGAR,” A MATTEL SPOKWOMAN TOLD THE NEW YORK POST AT THE TIME. “THAT’S WHERE THE NAME OM. HE’S SUGAR’S DADDY, AS A REFERENCE TO THE DOG.” UH HUH. SPEAKG TO ABC NEWS, THE PANY SEEMED SLIGHTLY MORE SELF-AWARE. “AT THE END OF THE DAY, THIS LLECTN IS TARGETED TOWARD ADULTS,” A SPOKWOMAN TOLD THE OUTLET. “WHILE THE NAME OF THE DOLL DO REFER BACK TO THE DOG, I THK PEOPLE ARE GOG TO TERPRET AS THEY WANT TO TERPRET .” SO THIS SE, AT LEAST, THE JOKE MAY HAVE BEEN ON THE RT OF .MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORECAN YOU NAME THE FILM THAT LNCHED BRIE LARSON, RAMI MALEK, AND MORE?THE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWTHE ABSOLUTELY WILST DETAILS OF THE GOVERNMENT’S LATT INDICTMENT AGAST DONALD TMPIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI ETON COLLEGE, HARRY AND WILLIAM’S POSH ALMA MATERHAS THE HAMPTONS FALLY FOUND ITS GREAT EQUALIZER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)HILLARY BIS
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• WHEN HILARY DUFF’S ‘THAT’S SO GAY’ PSA END HOMOPHOBIATHE DAILY BEAST’S OBSESSEDEVERYTHG WE N’T STOP LOVG, HATG, AND THKG ABOUT THIS WEEK POP CULTURE.KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED JUN. 05, 2021 3:55AM EDT / PUBLISHED JUN. 04, 2021 11:39PM EDT YOUTUBETHIS IS A PREVIEW OF OUR POP CULTURE NEWSLETTER THE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSED, WRTEN BY SENR ENTERTAMENT REPORTER KEV FALLON. TO RECEIVE THE FULL NEWSLETTER YOUR BOX EACH WEEK, SIGN UP FOR HERE. THIS WEEK: HOPEFULLY THE LAST PANMIC NTENT WE’LL EVER REVIEW.REMEMBER WHEN HILARY DUFF SOLVED HOMOPHOBIA?YOU NEED TO BE WATCHG HACKS.BEHOLD THE FRENCH UNTHORIZED CéLE DN BPIC. (REALLY.)JSI CHASTA AS TAMMY FAYE BAKER IS GAY RIGHTS. HAPPY PRI TO HILARY DUFF! IT’S THE WONRFULLY AWFUL TIME OF THE YEAR, WHEN EVERYTHG OM MY TOOTHPASTE TO MY TOILET PAPER TO MY NIGHTLY BURRO—YOU TRY LIVG ABOVE A CHIPOTLE—ARE FTOONED WH RABOW PACKAGG AND MAXIMS ABOUT PRI, EQUALY, LOVE, AND ACCEPTANCE. THANK YOU, CHARM.TWTER ACUNTS FOR SNACK CRACKERS ARE SENTIENTLY PROCLAIMG THEIR ACTIVISM SUPPORT OF THE LGBT+ MUNY, AND MY BANK HAS SENT SEVERAL MASS EMAILS ABOUT HOW MUCH I MATTER, WHICH IS CERTALY A DIFFERENT TUNE THAN THEY WERE SGG LAST MONTH WHEN I MISSED A CRED RD PAYMENT.STREAMG SERVIC AND NTENT PLATFORMS HAVE CURATED FILM AND TV SERI SPOTLIGHTG LGBT NTENT, AS IF I DON’T KNOW WHERE TO FD AN EPISO OF GOLN GIRLS AT ALL TIM, A PCH. IT IS THE ONE MONTH THAT I GET TO CHECK OUT AT DUANE REA AND SEE A BONA FI, REAL-LIFE GAY PERSON ON A MAGAZE VER. REPRENTATN! LISTEN, I WOULD RATHER WEIGH ON THE ISRAELI-PALTIAN NFLICT THAN GET EMBROILED THE ANNUAL, SUFFERABLE DISURSE ABOUT THE CYNIL MERCIALIZATN OF PRI MONTH, THE BRIEF TOKENIZATN OF VISIBILY, AND WHO, WHAT, AND HOW MUCH LEATHER BONDAGE BELONGS AT MARCH AND PARAS. LET ME DRK MY ROADIE OF VODKA SODA, DANCE TO A PHONY OF LADY GAGA SONGS BOOMG OM VAR SPEAKERS, AND GET SUNBURNED WHILE SCROLLG THROUGH THIRST TRAPS PEACE, AS THE REVOLUTNISTS TEND.THAT IS ALL TO SAY THERE IS EXACTLY ONE PIECE OF SPIRG LGBT NTENT THAT MATTERS TO ME, AND, LIKE MANY QUEER LENNIALS, I REVIS FONDLY ONCE A YEAR. LET NEVER FET WHEN HILARY DUFF TOLD ’S NOT OL TO LL THGS “GAY” AS AN SULT.BACK 2008, THE MUNY’S ONE TE ALLY, LIZZIE MAGUIRE, FILMED A PSA FOR THE GAY, LBIAN, AND STRAIGHT EDUTN NETWORK’S (GLSEN) MPAIGN TO ERADITE THE PHRASE “THAT’S SO GAY” OM SUAL NVERSATN. (WATCH HERE.) THE SPOT FEATUR DUFF CLOTH SHOPPG AND OVERHEARG TWO GIRLS TRYG ON CLOTH. ONE SAYS THE OTHER’S TOP LOOKS “SO GAY.”“YOU KNOW, YOU REALLY SHOULDN’T SAY THAT,” DUFF, THE FIRST LGBT SUPERHERO, NO MATTER WHAT MARVEL SAYS, TERPTS. TO SAY SOMETHG IS GAY WHEN YOU MEAN ’S BAD “IS SULTG,” SHE SCHOOLS THEM. “WHAT IF EVERY TIME SOMETHG WAS BAD, EVERYBODY SAID, ‘THAT’S SO ‘GIRL WEARG A SKIRT AS A TOP?’”YOU SEE, NOT ONLY WAS THE GIRL SUALLY PROBLEMATIC, SHE WAS WEARG A SKIRT AS A TOP. ANYWAY, SHE QUICKLY DISTEGRATED TO A PILE OF HUIATED ASH, AND HILARY DUFF FEATED HOMOPHOBIA THEN AND THERE.THE THG IS, I’M ONLY WRG ALL THIS WH A HT OF SARSM. BACK 2008, A PSA LIKE THIS WAS HUGE. AND WHILE THERE HAVE BEEN NOBLE, EMOTNAL, AND CREDIBLY EFFECTIVE MPAIGNS OVER THE YEARS TACKLG THGS LIKE ANTI-GAY VLENCE, THE STARTLG LGBT SUICI RAT, AND TRANS RIGHTS, THE ATTEMPT TO RAISE AWARENS ABOUT AN ISSUE THAT SEEMED SO MUNDANE BUT WAS SO HARMFUL S MASTREAM EXISTENCE WAS PROFOUND.IT TURNS OUT THAT GROWG UP WH “THAT’S SO GAY” AS AN SULT SUCKS. WHO’D HAVE GUSED?THE PHRASE TEGRATED TO ACCEPTED NVERSATN TO THE POT THAT EVEN THE LEAST HOMOPHOBIC AMONG —EVEN THE GAYT AMONG , TO BE HONT—ED WH ABANDON, PLETELY UNAWARE THAT EACH TIME WAS SAID, FORTIFIED AN ENVIRONMENT FOR MORE EXTREME ANTI-LGBT HARASSMENT, BULLYG, AND VLENCE TO PERPETUATE.SO HAPPY PRI TO HILARY DUFF, AND HILARY DUFF ONLY. HACKS, SOMEHOW, KEEPS GETTG BETTER AS A LIFELONG DIGNG WOMEN ENTHIAST, ’S BEEN CREDIBLY GRATIFYG TO WATCH THE “JEAN SMARTAISSANCE” BRG SUCH ATTENTN TO THE REER-LONG BRILLIANCE OF JEAN SMART.I DON’T SUBSCRIBE TO THE NOTN THAT SOMETHG YOU WATCH OR SEE N “TURN YOU GAY,” EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT I FIRMLY SPECT WATCHG FOUR WOMEN SKIRT SUS WH SHOULR PADS THAT WOULD PROTECT THEM AGAST THE ATLANTA FALNS’ FENSIVE LE LIVERG FEMIST MONOLOGU BETWEEN TERR RATG GIGS AS AN IMPRSNABLE MIDDLE SCHOOLER DID, FACT, TURN ME GAY.TO NOW SEE THE ACTRS WHO PLAYED THE IMABLE CHARLENE FRAZIER STILLFIELD EARN THE BT REVIEWS OF HER REER FOR THE ONE-TWO PUNCH OF HER SCENE-STEALG WORK ON MARE OF EASTTOWN AND THEN THE MOST VIBRANT SHOWSE SHE’S EVER HAD HACKS? THAT’S PRI. THE HBO MAX SERI ABOUT A JOAN RIVERS-QUE EDIAN THE SUNSET OF HER REER—BUT WHO WILL N TO THE DAMN HORIZON HERSELF AND HEAVE THE SUN BACK TO THE AIR IF THAT’S WHAT TAK TO STAY WORKG—HAS MORPHED OM A FUNNY AND ENJOYABLE SERI BUOYED BY SMART’S ELECTRIFYG PERFORMANCE TO, GENUELY, THE BT EDY CURRENTLY AIRG ON TV.LAST WEEK’S STRANGE AND SURPRISGLY POIGNANT DUO OF EPISOS—-STAR HANNAH EBR AS AVA A THRILLG, ALMOST ELEGIAC WHIRLWD VEGAS ROMANCE, FOLLOWED BY HER DAM-BREAKG BONDG SSN WH SMART’S DEBORAH AT A NVALCENCE SPA—ELEVATED THE SHOW TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL. THEY JECTED UNEXPECTED HUMANY AND PATHOS TO WHAT HAD BEEN A EDILLY TIC ( A GOOD WAY!) SERI.THE TWO EPISOS THAT WERE RELEASED THIS THURSDAY NTUE THAT NIMBLE THREADG OF EMOTN TO THE SHOW’S DARK EDY. THERE’S NOTHG BETTER THAN BGEG A SHOW AS ’S JT HTG S STRI. YOU WANT TO BE AN ALLY? SUPPORT JEAN SMART FOR PRI. MY HEART WILL GO ON AND ON (FOR ALE DI) THE LP FOR THIS YEAR’S CANN FILM FTIVAL WAS ANNOUNCED THIS WEEK, AND, WOW, WHAT A JAW-DROPPG ASSEMBLAGE OF FILMMAKERS, CREATIVE TALENT, AND HOTLY ANTICIPATED PROJECTS. AND NONE OF THEM MATTER, BEE SCREENG OUT OF PETN IS THE FRENCH FILM ALE, THE VOICE OF LOVE, A BPIC OF CéLE DN THAT HER SONGS AND HER LIFE STORY, BUT NOT HER NAME, AND IS THE ONLY PIECE OF CEMA I N POSSIBLY IMAGE RG ABOUT THE NEXT YEAR, IF NOT . THE TRAILER FOR THIS IS SANE. (WATCH HERE.) I WAS SO NVCED I WAS SUFFERG A STROKE WHILE WATCHG THIS, I STARTED PSYCHOSOMATILLY SMELLG BURNT TOAST. A TE RETURN TO NORMALCY MEANS A RETURN TO MS, AND FOR THAT, I’M SO GRATEFUL TO MY SGG IDOL, WHO IS APPARENTLY NOW NOT CéLE DN, BUT ALE DI. THE OSR FOR BT PRS PROMO PHOTO GO TO... THIS IS A PHOTO OF JSI CHASTA AS TAMMY FAYE BAKER AN UPG BPIC, AND ’S TAKEN ALL THE WILLPOWER I N MTER TO NOT PRT OUT AND WALK THE STREETS OF NEW YORK CY SHOVG PEOPLE’S FAC AND SCREAMG, “HAVE YOU SEEN THIS?!?” ATTENTN MT BE PAID. WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEK: KENNEDY CENTER HONORS: THE BT TRIBUTE EVENT OF THE YEAR HONORS DEBBIE ALLEN, GARTH BROOKS, AND DICK VAN DYKE. (SUN. ON CBS)LOKI: YOU’D ALL WATCH THIS NEW MARVEL SERI EVEN IF I DIDN’T REMEND , BUT I AM ACTUALLY TRIGUED BY THIS ONE. (WED. ON DISNEY+) WHAT TO SKIP THIS WEEK: VANRPUMP DOGS: EVERY REALY-TV OBSSIVE HAS HIS LIMS. (WED. ON PEACK)THE CONJURG: THE DEVIL MA ME DO IT: AKA THE EXCE VERA FARMIGA AND PATRICK WILSON ED FOR DOG THIS SEND SEQUEL. (FRI. THEATERS AND ON HBO MAX)LISEY’S STORY: TURNS OUT THE ROCKY TRACK RERD OF STEPHEN KG ADAPTATNS STAYS ROCKY EVEN WHEN KG IS ADAPTG HIS WORK HIMSELF. (FRI. ON APPLE TV+) NEWSLETTERSTHE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSEDEVERYTHG WE N’T STOP LOVG, HATG, AND THKG ABOUT THIS WEEK POP CULTURE.SUBSCRIBEBY CLICKG "SUBSCRIBE" YOU AGREE TO HAVE READ THE TERMS OF USE AND PRIVACY POLICY KEV FALLON

BARBIE’S WEIRDO DOLLS: ALL ABOUT MIDGE, EARRG MAGIC KEN, AND MOREGRETA GERWIG’S MOVIE CLUS WKY MEOS OM SOME OF MATTEL’S MOST FAMO DISNTUED PRODUCTS—AND AT LEAST ONE THAT’S STILL AVAILABLE STOR.BY HILLARY BISJULY 21, 2023COURTY OF MATTEL INC.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEALAS, YOU NNOT BUY A WEIRD BARBIE DOLL WHO LOOKS LIKE KATE MCKNON—YOU’LL JT HAVE TO CHOP OFF A REGULAR DOLL’S HAIR AND SCRIBBLE ON HER FACE YOURSELF. BUT YOU N BUY A VERSN OF THE POOPG BARBIE DOG THAT WEIRD BARBIE LIV WH GRETA GERWIG’S BARBIE. THE PLASTIC PET PACKAGED WH A BARBIE WEARG A STRIPED SWEATER AND SPORTY SNEAKERS; S OFFICIALLY SANCTNED NAME IS THE BARBIE WALK AND POTTY PUP. “WHEN ’S TIME FOR A POTTY BREAK, PH ON THE PUPPY’S TAIL,” THE AD PY READS. “BARBIE DOLL N CLEAN UP G THE BROOM AND SOPER.” CONGRATULATNS, KID. HERE’S A PILE OF CRAP!BARBIE IS A MERCHANDISER’S DREAM, A GENERALLY WELL-RECEIVED, ENARGLY SUBVERSIVE PRODUCT THAT’S STILL, AT HEART, A GLORIFIED TWO-HOUR TOY MERCIAL. BUT TO THE FILM’S CRED, DON’T SHY AWAY OM REFERENCG SOME OF MATTEL’S ODR OFFERGS. ACRDG TO A NEW YORKER ARTICLE, THE FETG DOG IS ACTUALLY BASED ON TANNER, A BARBIE ACCSORY OM THE GHTS THAT ATE S OWN POOP—Y!—AND WAS EVENTUALLY RELLED NOT FOR BEG DISGTG, BUT BEE THE MAG SI BARBIE’S POOPER SOPER ULD E LOOSE AND BE SWALLOWED BY A CHILD. (THE WALK AND POTTY PUP APPEARS TO BE SENTIALLY THE SAME TOY, M MAGS.) BELOW, WE TAKE STOCK OF MORE TOYS LIKE TANNER: THE REAL-LIFE WEIRD BARBI THAT DREW PLATS, RISN, AND CELEBRATN AS ACCINTAL GAY INS. PROT BARBIE IS NOT AMONG THEM—AT LEAST, NOT YET.COURTY OF MATTEL, INC.MIDGEEMERALD FENNELL HAS A GLORIFIED MEO BARBIE AS MIDGE, A REDHEAD DOLL WH A BUN THE OVEN. Y, THAT’S RIGHT: MIDGE IS PREGNANT. THAT DIFFERENTIAT THE MOVIE’S VERSN OF THE DOLL OM HER ORIGAL RNATN, LNCHED 1963 AS BARBIE’S MORE APPROACHABLE BT PAL. SHE WAS DISNTUED 1967, THEN RETRODUCED 1987, AGA THE ’90S, AND, MOST FAMOLY, ONE MORE TIME THE GHTS, AS PART OF THE “HAPPY FAY” SET—WHICH GAVE MIDGE A TY DOLL BABY THAT ULD BE PLACED EHER A BULGG STOMACH (WHICH GIRLS ULD MAGILLY ATTACH AND TACH OM MIDGE’S MIDDLE) OR “BORN” OUT OF THAT SAME PLASTIC DOME. HER HBAND AND THREE-YEAR-OLD SON WERE SOLD SEPARATELY.GGER GAETZ, WIFE OF MATT, ANNOUNCED TUDAY THAT SHE HAD SEEN THE BARBIE MOVIE, AND WAS DISAPPOTED BY PART DUE TO THE FILM’S “UNFAIR TREATMENT OF PREGNANT BARBIE MIDGE.” IRONIC, SCE NSERVATIVE IRE WAS STMENTAL GETTG HAPPY FAY MIDGE NCELED. “IT’S A BAD IA. IT PROMOT TEENAGE PREGNANCY. WHAT WOULD AN 8-YEAR-OLD OR 12-YEAR-OLD GET OUT OF THAT DOLL BABY?” ONE MOTHER ASKED THE ASSOCIATED PRS 2002. THE DOLL WAS PULLED OM WAL-MART DUE TO PLATS; JT AS NARRATOR HELEN MIRREN TELLS BARBIE, SHE WAS EVENTUALLY AXED OM THE MATTEL LP ALTOGETHER FOR BEG “TOO WEIRD.” BUT PERHAPS MIDGE GETS THE LAST LGH: ACRDG TO AT LEAST ONE LLECTOR, SHE’S NOW WORTH UP TO $400 MT NDN.COURTY OF MATTEL, INC.ALLANREMEMBER HOW MIDGE HAD A HBAND? THAT WOULD BE ALLAN, PLAYED THE MOVIE BY A VERY GAME MICHAEL CERA. ORIGALLY TRODUCED 1964, HE WAS CREATED TO BE KEN’S BT BUDDY. (BARBIE WAS NAMED FOR CREATOR RUTH HANDLER’S DGHTER, AND KEN FOR HER SON; ALLAN WAS NAMED FOR HER THEN-SON--LAW, ALLEN SEGAL.) KEN AND ALLAN ARE VERY CLOSE; AS CERA TELLS THE MOVIE, “ALL HIS CLOTH F ME” (A LE STRAIGHT OUT OF THE MERCIALS). LIKE MIDGE, ALLAN’S BEEN AND OUT OF THE BARBIE UNIVERSE FOR NEARLY 60 YEARS—MOSTLY OUT. MATTEL HASN’T YET RELEASED AN ALLAN BARBIE TIE- DOLL, BUT GIVEN HOW FUNNY CERA IS THE FILM, THEY REALLY SHOULD.MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHBILL MAHER BEEFS WH “PREACHY, MAN-HATG” BARBIE MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSHJAMIE LEE CURTIS DIGS HERSELF OUT OF COMMENTS ABOUT SAG-AFTRA STRIKEBY EVE BATEYCOURTY OF MATTEL, INC.VIO GIRL BARBIEDEEP WH WEIRD BARBIE’S GONZO DREAMHOE LURKS VIO GIRL BARBIE (METTE NARRATIVE), WHO LOOKS LIKE AN ODDY OM THE 90S BUT WAS ACTUALLY TRODUCED JT 13 YEARS AGO. AS THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WROTE AT THE TIME, VIO GIRL “HAS A GAPG HOLE HER CHT, DISGUISED AS A FASHN PENDANT, THAT NTAS A MERA LENS.” IT’S NNECTED TO THE VIO SCREEN EMBEDD TO HER BACK. THE IA WAS THAT GIRLS ULD E THE DOLLS TO RERD AND PLAY THEIR OWN HOME MOVI. (THIS WAS 2010, REMEMBER, YEARS BEFORE WAS POSSIBLE TO SHOOT A WELL-RECEIVED DIE MOVIE ENTIRELY ON AN IPHONE.) WH THE PACY TO PTURE ABOUT 25 MUT OF FOOTAGE, USB PATIBILY, AND EE EDG SOFTWARE, YOU N IMAGE THE DOLL BEG A H WH FUTURE GRETA GERWIGS. INSTEAD, VIO GIRL WAS CENSURED BY—AND THIS IS TE—THE FBI, WHICH ISSUED AN ADVISORY SAYG THAT THE DOLL ULD POTENTIALLY BE ED TO RERD CHILD PORNOGRAPHY. PERHAPS NEEDLS TO SAY, MATTEL NO LONGER SELLS VIO GIRL BARBIE.COURTY OF MATTEL, INC.GROWG UP SKIPPERANOTHER ONE OM THE BAD IA FIL, THIS DOLL—ALSO BANISHED TO WEIRD BARBIE’S HOE OF NIGHTMAR THE FILM, WHERE SHE’S PLAYED BY HANNAH KHALIQUE-BROWN—IS THE VERSN OF BARBIE’S LTLE SISTER RELEASED 1975 THAT “GROWS AS HER FIGURE MATUR.” MEANG WHEN YOU TURN HER ARM, SHE GETS TALLER…AND HER BOOBS SWELL. NOPE!MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHBILL MAHER BEEFS WH “PREACHY, MAN-HATG” BARBIE MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSHJAMIE LEE CURTIS DIGS HERSELF OUT OF COMMENTS ABOUT SAG-AFTRA STRIKEBY EVE BATEYCOURTY OF MATTEL, INC.TEEN TALK BARBIERELEASED 1992 (AND PLAYED ONSCREEN BY MARISA ABELA), TEEN TALK BARBIE HAD A VOICE BOX THAT SHE ED TO SAY THGS LIKE “LET’S PLAN OUR DREAM WEDDG!” AND “MATH CLASS IS TOUGH!” FEMISTS RAILED AT THE DOLL, SPIRG A CLASSIC EPISO OF THE SIMPSONS THAT READS SORT OF LIKE A FIRST DRAFT FOR GERWIG’S BARBIE MOVIE.COURTY OF MATTEL, INC.EARRG MAGIC KENWHEN BARBIE (MARGOT ROBBIE) AND KEN (RYAN GOSLG) ROLLERBLA TO VENICE BEACH, KEN MOMENTARILY FDS HIMSELF RECEIVG APPRECIATIVE GLANC OM TWO QUEER-D BYSTANRS. THOSE GUYS MAY HAVE BEEN EVEN MORE EXCED TO MEET ANOTHER WEIRD BARBIE PAL: EARRG MAGIC KEN (TOM STOURTON THE MOVIE), RELEASED 1993. HE WAS CLAD PURPLE LEATHER AND MH; HE HAD, OF URSE, A SGLE GLEAMG HOOP EARRG. MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHBILL MAHER BEEFS WH “PREACHY, MAN-HATG” BARBIE MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSHJAMIE LEE CURTIS DIGS HERSELF OUT OF COMMENTS ABOUT SAG-AFTRA STRIKEBY EVE BATEYHE WAS PART OF THE PANY’S NEW EARRG MAGIC LE, BUT IMMEDIATELY STOOD APART AFTER BEG UNOFFICIALLY ADOPTED BY THE GAY MUNY—NOT LEAST BEE OF THE STUNNG SILVER PENDANT HE WORE AROUND HIS NECK. (FANS LIKE SEX ADVICE LUMNIST DAN SAVAGE TERPRETED THE JEWELRY UH, DIFFERENTLY THAN MATTEL DID. “IT’S A NECKLACE. IT HOLDS CHARMS HE N SHARE WH BARBIE,” A SPOKWOMAN TOLD HIM AT THE TIME. “C’MON, THIS IS A DOLL SIGNED FOR LTLE GIRLS.”) HE WAS MEANT TO MAKE GIRLS THK KEN WAS OL. INSTEAD, HE GOT A BUNCH OF OL MEN TO THK KEN WAS OL, WHICH IS HONTLY A MORE IMPRSIVE ACHIEVEMENT.COURTY OF MATTEL, INC.SUGAR’S DADDY (OR IS IT SUGAR DADDY?) KENBY 2009—11 YEARS AFTER WILL & GRACE BUTED!—ONE MIGHT EXPECT MATTEL TO HAVE GROWN WISER TO THE WAYS S PRODUCTS WOULD BE TERPRETED BY ADULTS. THAT WAS THE YEAR THE PANY RELEASED SUGAR’S DADDY KEN (NOTE THE POSSSIVE NOUN!), PART OF S PALM BEACH LE OF TOYS AIMED AT GROWN-UP LLECTORS. SUGAR’S DADDY (PLAYED BY ROB BRYDON THE FILM) ME WH A WELL-TAILORED PAISLEY BLAZER, A SMART PAIR OF WHE LOAFERS, AND A TEENY WHE TERRIER ON A PK LEASH. THAT WOULD BE SUGAR. “THE LTLE DOG’S NAME IS ACTUALLY SUGAR,” A MATTEL SPOKWOMAN TOLD THE NEW YORK POST AT THE TIME. “THAT’S WHERE THE NAME OM. HE’S SUGAR’S DADDY, AS A REFERENCE TO THE DOG.” UH HUH. SPEAKG TO ABC NEWS, THE PANY SEEMED SLIGHTLY MORE SELF-AWARE. “AT THE END OF THE DAY, THIS LLECTN IS TARGETED TOWARD ADULTS,” A SPOKWOMAN TOLD THE OUTLET. “WHILE THE NAME OF THE DOLL DO REFER BACK TO THE DOG, I THK PEOPLE ARE GOG TO TERPRET AS THEY WANT TO TERPRET .” SO THIS SE, AT LEAST, THE JOKE MAY HAVE BEEN ON THE RT OF .MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORECAN YOU NAME THE FILM THAT LNCHED BRIE LARSON, RAMI MALEK, AND MORE?THE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWTHE ABSOLUTELY WILST DETAILS OF THE GOVERNMENT’S LATT INDICTMENT AGAST DONALD TMPIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI ETON COLLEGE, HARRY AND WILLIAM’S POSH ALMA MATERHAS THE HAMPTONS FALLY FOUND ITS GREAT EQUALIZER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)HILLARY BIS

”HILLARY CLINTON FUELS 2020 SPECULATION TALKING TRUMP, PAST ROMANCES IN WILD HOWARD STERN INTERVIEWReporter Trish Bendix, who has won the 2015 Sarah Pett Memorial Award for excellence LGBT media and is a member of the Natnal Lbian and Gay Journalists Associatn, didn’t appreciate Clton’s rponse to the qutn. December 1999: Clton told a group of gay ntributors at a fundraiser that she was agast the "don't ask, don't tell" ary policy signed by her hband. But I also believe that people mted gay marriag, as they believe them to be, should be given rights unr the law that regnize and rpect their relatnship.

HILLARY CLTON'S GAY-MARRIAGE PROBLEM

"I have supported the kd of rights and rponsibili that are beg extend to gay upl Vermont, " she said. October 2006: Clton told a group of gay elected officials that she would support same-sex marriage New York if a future ernor and Legislature chose to enact such a law.

Augt 2007: In a Democratic primary bate sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign and LOGO Network (a gay-oriented TV statn) Clton was asked "What is at the heart of your opposn to same-sex marriage? That’s why I support marriage for lbian and gay upl. June 2014: NPR’s Terry Gross grilled Clton about her past posns’ on gay marriage what led to a tty exchange.

WHEN HILARY DUFF’S ‘THAT’S SO GAY’ PSA END HOMOPHOBIATHE DAILY BEAST’S OBSESSEDEVERYTHG WE N’T STOP LOVG, HATG, AND THKG ABOUT THIS WEEK POP CULTURE.KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED JUN. 05, 2021 3:55AM EDT / PUBLISHED JUN. 04, 2021 11:39PM EDT YOUTUBETHIS IS A PREVIEW OF OUR POP CULTURE NEWSLETTER THE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSED, WRTEN BY SENR ENTERTAMENT REPORTER KEV FALLON. TO RECEIVE THE FULL NEWSLETTER YOUR BOX EACH WEEK, SIGN UP FOR HERE. THIS WEEK: HOPEFULLY THE LAST PANMIC NTENT WE’LL EVER REVIEW.REMEMBER WHEN HILARY DUFF SOLVED HOMOPHOBIA?YOU NEED TO BE WATCHG HACKS.BEHOLD THE FRENCH UNTHORIZED CéLE DN BPIC. (REALLY.)JSI CHASTA AS TAMMY FAYE BAKER IS GAY RIGHTS. HAPPY PRI TO HILARY DUFF! IT’S THE WONRFULLY AWFUL TIME OF THE YEAR, WHEN EVERYTHG OM MY TOOTHPASTE TO MY TOILET PAPER TO MY NIGHTLY BURRO—YOU TRY LIVG ABOVE A CHIPOTLE—ARE FTOONED WH RABOW PACKAGG AND MAXIMS ABOUT PRI, EQUALY, LOVE, AND ACCEPTANCE. THANK YOU, CHARM.TWTER ACUNTS FOR SNACK CRACKERS ARE SENTIENTLY PROCLAIMG THEIR ACTIVISM SUPPORT OF THE LGBT+ MUNY, AND MY BANK HAS SENT SEVERAL MASS EMAILS ABOUT HOW MUCH I MATTER, WHICH IS CERTALY A DIFFERENT TUNE THAN THEY WERE SGG LAST MONTH WHEN I MISSED A CRED RD PAYMENT.STREAMG SERVIC AND NTENT PLATFORMS HAVE CURATED FILM AND TV SERI SPOTLIGHTG LGBT NTENT, AS IF I DON’T KNOW WHERE TO FD AN EPISO OF GOLN GIRLS AT ALL TIM, A PCH. IT IS THE ONE MONTH THAT I GET TO CHECK OUT AT DUANE REA AND SEE A BONA FI, REAL-LIFE GAY PERSON ON A MAGAZE VER. REPRENTATN! LISTEN, I WOULD RATHER WEIGH ON THE ISRAELI-PALTIAN NFLICT THAN GET EMBROILED THE ANNUAL, SUFFERABLE DISURSE ABOUT THE CYNIL MERCIALIZATN OF PRI MONTH, THE BRIEF TOKENIZATN OF VISIBILY, AND WHO, WHAT, AND HOW MUCH LEATHER BONDAGE BELONGS AT MARCH AND PARAS. LET ME DRK MY ROADIE OF VODKA SODA, DANCE TO A PHONY OF LADY GAGA SONGS BOOMG OM VAR SPEAKERS, AND GET SUNBURNED WHILE SCROLLG THROUGH THIRST TRAPS PEACE, AS THE REVOLUTNISTS TEND.THAT IS ALL TO SAY THERE IS EXACTLY ONE PIECE OF SPIRG LGBT NTENT THAT MATTERS TO ME, AND, LIKE MANY QUEER LENNIALS, I REVIS FONDLY ONCE A YEAR. LET NEVER FET WHEN HILARY DUFF TOLD ’S NOT OL TO LL THGS “GAY” AS AN SULT.BACK 2008, THE MUNY’S ONE TE ALLY, LIZZIE MAGUIRE, FILMED A PSA FOR THE GAY, LBIAN, AND STRAIGHT EDUTN NETWORK’S (GLSEN) MPAIGN TO ERADITE THE PHRASE “THAT’S SO GAY” OM SUAL NVERSATN. (WATCH HERE.) THE SPOT FEATUR DUFF CLOTH SHOPPG AND OVERHEARG TWO GIRLS TRYG ON CLOTH. ONE SAYS THE OTHER’S TOP LOOKS “SO GAY.”“YOU KNOW, YOU REALLY SHOULDN’T SAY THAT,” DUFF, THE FIRST LGBT SUPERHERO, NO MATTER WHAT MARVEL SAYS, TERPTS. TO SAY SOMETHG IS GAY WHEN YOU MEAN ’S BAD “IS SULTG,” SHE SCHOOLS THEM. “WHAT IF EVERY TIME SOMETHG WAS BAD, EVERYBODY SAID, ‘THAT’S SO ‘GIRL WEARG A SKIRT AS A TOP?’”YOU SEE, NOT ONLY WAS THE GIRL SUALLY PROBLEMATIC, SHE WAS WEARG A SKIRT AS A TOP. ANYWAY, SHE QUICKLY DISTEGRATED TO A PILE OF HUIATED ASH, AND HILARY DUFF FEATED HOMOPHOBIA THEN AND THERE.THE THG IS, I’M ONLY WRG ALL THIS WH A HT OF SARSM. BACK 2008, A PSA LIKE THIS WAS HUGE. AND WHILE THERE HAVE BEEN NOBLE, EMOTNAL, AND CREDIBLY EFFECTIVE MPAIGNS OVER THE YEARS TACKLG THGS LIKE ANTI-GAY VLENCE, THE STARTLG LGBT SUICI RAT, AND TRANS RIGHTS, THE ATTEMPT TO RAISE AWARENS ABOUT AN ISSUE THAT SEEMED SO MUNDANE BUT WAS SO HARMFUL S MASTREAM EXISTENCE WAS PROFOUND.IT TURNS OUT THAT GROWG UP WH “THAT’S SO GAY” AS AN SULT SUCKS. WHO’D HAVE GUSED?THE PHRASE TEGRATED TO ACCEPTED NVERSATN TO THE POT THAT EVEN THE LEAST HOMOPHOBIC AMONG —EVEN THE GAYT AMONG , TO BE HONT—ED WH ABANDON, PLETELY UNAWARE THAT EACH TIME WAS SAID, FORTIFIED AN ENVIRONMENT FOR MORE EXTREME ANTI-LGBT HARASSMENT, BULLYG, AND VLENCE TO PERPETUATE.SO HAPPY PRI TO HILARY DUFF, AND HILARY DUFF ONLY. HACKS, SOMEHOW, KEEPS GETTG BETTER AS A LIFELONG DIGNG WOMEN ENTHIAST, ’S BEEN CREDIBLY GRATIFYG TO WATCH THE “JEAN SMARTAISSANCE” BRG SUCH ATTENTN TO THE REER-LONG BRILLIANCE OF JEAN SMART.I DON’T SUBSCRIBE TO THE NOTN THAT SOMETHG YOU WATCH OR SEE N “TURN YOU GAY,” EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT I FIRMLY SPECT WATCHG FOUR WOMEN SKIRT SUS WH SHOULR PADS THAT WOULD PROTECT THEM AGAST THE ATLANTA FALNS’ FENSIVE LE LIVERG FEMIST MONOLOGU BETWEEN TERR RATG GIGS AS AN IMPRSNABLE MIDDLE SCHOOLER DID, FACT, TURN ME GAY.TO NOW SEE THE ACTRS WHO PLAYED THE IMABLE CHARLENE FRAZIER STILLFIELD EARN THE BT REVIEWS OF HER REER FOR THE ONE-TWO PUNCH OF HER SCENE-STEALG WORK ON MARE OF EASTTOWN AND THEN THE MOST VIBRANT SHOWSE SHE’S EVER HAD HACKS? THAT’S PRI. THE HBO MAX SERI ABOUT A JOAN RIVERS-QUE EDIAN THE SUNSET OF HER REER—BUT WHO WILL N TO THE DAMN HORIZON HERSELF AND HEAVE THE SUN BACK TO THE AIR IF THAT’S WHAT TAK TO STAY WORKG—HAS MORPHED OM A FUNNY AND ENJOYABLE SERI BUOYED BY SMART’S ELECTRIFYG PERFORMANCE TO, GENUELY, THE BT EDY CURRENTLY AIRG ON TV.LAST WEEK’S STRANGE AND SURPRISGLY POIGNANT DUO OF EPISOS—-STAR HANNAH EBR AS AVA A THRILLG, ALMOST ELEGIAC WHIRLWD VEGAS ROMANCE, FOLLOWED BY HER DAM-BREAKG BONDG SSN WH SMART’S DEBORAH AT A NVALCENCE SPA—ELEVATED THE SHOW TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL. THEY JECTED UNEXPECTED HUMANY AND PATHOS TO WHAT HAD BEEN A EDILLY TIC ( A GOOD WAY!) SERI.THE TWO EPISOS THAT WERE RELEASED THIS THURSDAY NTUE THAT NIMBLE THREADG OF EMOTN TO THE SHOW’S DARK EDY. THERE’S NOTHG BETTER THAN BGEG A SHOW AS ’S JT HTG S STRI. YOU WANT TO BE AN ALLY? SUPPORT JEAN SMART FOR PRI. MY HEART WILL GO ON AND ON (FOR ALE DI) THE LP FOR THIS YEAR’S CANN FILM FTIVAL WAS ANNOUNCED THIS WEEK, AND, WOW, WHAT A JAW-DROPPG ASSEMBLAGE OF FILMMAKERS, CREATIVE TALENT, AND HOTLY ANTICIPATED PROJECTS. AND NONE OF THEM MATTER, BEE SCREENG OUT OF PETN IS THE FRENCH FILM ALE, THE VOICE OF LOVE, A BPIC OF CéLE DN THAT HER SONGS AND HER LIFE STORY, BUT NOT HER NAME, AND IS THE ONLY PIECE OF CEMA I N POSSIBLY IMAGE RG ABOUT THE NEXT YEAR, IF NOT . THE TRAILER FOR THIS IS SANE. (WATCH HERE.) I WAS SO NVCED I WAS SUFFERG A STROKE WHILE WATCHG THIS, I STARTED PSYCHOSOMATILLY SMELLG BURNT TOAST. A TE RETURN TO NORMALCY MEANS A RETURN TO MS, AND FOR THAT, I’M SO GRATEFUL TO MY SGG IDOL, WHO IS APPARENTLY NOW NOT CéLE DN, BUT ALE DI. THE OSR FOR BT PRS PROMO PHOTO GO TO... THIS IS A PHOTO OF JSI CHASTA AS TAMMY FAYE BAKER AN UPG BPIC, AND ’S TAKEN ALL THE WILLPOWER I N MTER TO NOT PRT OUT AND WALK THE STREETS OF NEW YORK CY SHOVG PEOPLE’S FAC AND SCREAMG, “HAVE YOU SEEN THIS?!?” ATTENTN MT BE PAID. WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEK: KENNEDY CENTER HONORS: THE BT TRIBUTE EVENT OF THE YEAR HONORS DEBBIE ALLEN, GARTH BROOKS, AND DICK VAN DYKE. (SUN. ON CBS)LOKI: YOU’D ALL WATCH THIS NEW MARVEL SERI EVEN IF I DIDN’T REMEND , BUT I AM ACTUALLY TRIGUED BY THIS ONE. (WED. ON DISNEY+) WHAT TO SKIP THIS WEEK: VANRPUMP DOGS: EVERY REALY-TV OBSSIVE HAS HIS LIMS. (WED. ON PEACK)THE CONJURG: THE DEVIL MA ME DO IT: AKA THE EXCE VERA FARMIGA AND PATRICK WILSON ED FOR DOG THIS SEND SEQUEL. (FRI. THEATERS AND ON HBO MAX)LISEY’S STORY: TURNS OUT THE ROCKY TRACK RERD OF STEPHEN KG ADAPTATNS STAYS ROCKY EVEN WHEN KG IS ADAPTG HIS WORK HIMSELF. (FRI. ON APPLE TV+) NEWSLETTERSTHE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSEDEVERYTHG WE N’T STOP LOVG, HATG, AND THKG ABOUT THIS WEEK POP CULTURE.SUBSCRIBEBY CLICKG "SUBSCRIBE" YOU AGREE TO HAVE READ THE TERMS OF USE AND PRIVACY POLICY KEV FALLON

New York Post, "Dems do a tiptoe around gay marriage, " July 3, 2003.

C-SPAN, "Hillary Clton on gay marriage 2004, " July 13, 2004. New York Tim, "Clton wouldn’t block law if Albany backs gay marriage, " Oct. New York Daily News, "Clton, Obama scramble to fix waffle on gays, " March 16, 2007.

Associated Prs, "Dems face sharp qutns on gay rights, " Aug. New York Tim, "Cold feet on gay marriage, " (Accsed Nexis) June 29, 2011.