Robalini's Note: Finally, someone who is not afraid to say they're gonna put their bitch in her place...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,407121,00.html
Ellen DeGeneres: Portia de Rossi Will 'Cook and Clean' for Me
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Now that they're married, Ellen DeGeneres says Portia de Rossi will "cook and clean" for her.
"What can I say? I'm the luckiest girl in the world," DeGeneres, who wed the former "Ally McBeal" actress on Saturday, told People magazine. "She's officially off the market. No one else gets her. And now she'll cook and clean for me."
DeGeneres also wrote about the nuptials on the Web site of her syndicated TV show.
"I had a big weekend," writes the "Ellen DeGeneres Show" host. "I got married to Portia de Rossi! Sorry, John Stamos ... this one's taken."
DeGeneres, 50, and de Rossi, 35, tied the knot on Saturday in the biggest celebrity union since California legalized same-sex marriage.
"It feels different," DeGeneres told People of being married. "I was already planning on spending the rest of my life with her. But until you're married, you just don't know. It fees wonderful."
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Friday, August 29, 2008
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Ellen Degeneres and Portia di Rossi's Marry
http://www.gaywired.com/Article.cfm?ID=20001Ellen Degeneres and Portia di Rossi's Marry in an Intimate Affair
By Maggie Taylor Article Date: 8/17/2008
It was the royal wedding of Hollywood lesbian marriages when Ellen Degeneres and Portia di Rossi said “I do,” Saturday in a small ceremony at their Beverly Hills home, surrounded by their closest friends and family, according to reports by Us and People magazines.
Degeneres, 50, and di Ross, 35, became the highest profile same-sex couple to marry since California legalized gay marriage this June.
During an emotional announcement on her talk show last May, Degeneres announced that she and her partner di Rossi would marry, after the California Supreme Court’s May ruling that overturned the state’s ban on gay marriage.
There were 19 people in attendance for the wedding, including Degeneres’ mother Betty Degeneres and di Rossi’s mother, Margaret Rogers, who flew in from Australia to attend the event, People.com reported Saturday.
For the ceremony, di Rossi wore a backless light pink dress with a train while Degeneres sported an all white ensemble of pants, shirt and a vest, according to Us.
"Ellen and Portia came out and posed for pictures with Ellen's mom and their two dogs. They were hugging and kissing, and looked ecstatic. Ellen was helping Portia with the train of her dress, which looked like a Cinderella tutu,” a witness told Us.
Following her fourth consecutive Emmy win in June, Degeneres announced that a date for the wedding had not been set but that once the pair tied the knot that she would show “a tiny bit” of the nuptials on her show.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Lowest Rated Oscars. Ever.
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Lowest Rated Oscars. Ever.
By Joal Ryan
The Oscars made history Sunday night. But not the good kind.
The three-hour-plus ABC telecast averaged 32 million viewers, the smallest crowd on record—ever, per Nielsen Media Research estimates.
The show "topped" the 2003 ceremony, which, with 33 million viewers, was Oscar's previous low.
Even worse, if possible, the show was a shadow of its 2007 self, shedding more than 8 million viewers, or one-fifth of its audience, from last year to this. Even in an age where everything is the lowest rated something ever, that's a significant blood loss.
Oscar's main trouble seemed to be female trouble: Based on ratings of the show's prime-time hours, it struck out with the chicks.
Last year, with host Ellen DeGeneres at the helm, the Oscars was up across the board with women viewers.
This year, with male Jon Stewart dealing, the show looked to be down, a lot, in all the major female demographics.
The show's disconnect with its target audience might have stemmed not so much from Stewart, who generally won good reviews, but from the top nominees, a pack of films with nary a female touch, led by Best Picture winner No Country for Old Men, that Stewart himself jokingly described as "psychopathic killer movies."
Another ratings challenge cropped up when Hollywood's biggest night turned into another continent's crowning glory.
For the first time since the 1965 Oscar ceremony, all four acting awards went to residents of Europe. Perhaps not surprisingly, the '65 show, honoring the international likes of Zorba the Greek, suffered the ceremony's third smallest audience share of the 1960s.
For whatever reason, this year's Oscars repelled viewers as it went on. What began as a show that averaged 32.3 million viewers in its first half-hour, devolved into a show that averaged 25.4 million in its final half-hour of prime time.
Stewart, who previously presided over the 2006 Oscars, now goes down as the host of two of the three lowest rated Academy Awards in TV history. And in defense of Steve Martin, who hosted the 2003 misfire, that ceremony competed for attention with the start of the Iraq War. Stewart, thusly, stands alone as the lowest-rated host of relatively peaceful Oscar nights.
ABC did its best to turn its frown upside down, noting that Sunday's telecast was far bigger than the rest of this year's crop of low-rated award shows, including NBC's Golden Globes debacle.
The network said the show rated highest in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, West Palm Beach, Florida, and Oscar's hometown of Los Angeles.
Stewart's notices were another bright spot. From Britain (the BBC called him "sparkling") to Los Angeles (the L.A. Times found the comic "cool and loose"), and back to Missouri ("Second time's the charm for Stewart," headlined the Kansas City Star), Stewart won over critics.
Unlike the show.
The telecast, both a celebration of the ceremony's 80th anniversary and, as the Hollywood Reporter pointed out, a reminder that Stewart's writing staff was only recently back from the picket lines, was dinged for being clip-heavy.
"This wasn't an Oscars," wrote Deadline Hollywood's Nikki Finke. "This was a slightly longer version of the Golden Globes announcement."
The Washington Post's Tom Shales said the show went "clip-clip-clipping along." "This is not a good thing," he decided.
Shales chided the telecast for waiting to get to the acting categories, and for waiting to present presenter Miley Cyrus until the unfriendly kid hour of nearly 10 p.m. ET.
Riffing on Oscar's birthday, Time's Richard Corliss said the ceremony "had the tone and pace suitable to an octogenarian's temper."
(Originally published Feb. 25, 2008)
Lowest Rated Oscars. Ever.
By Joal Ryan
The Oscars made history Sunday night. But not the good kind.
The three-hour-plus ABC telecast averaged 32 million viewers, the smallest crowd on record—ever, per Nielsen Media Research estimates.
The show "topped" the 2003 ceremony, which, with 33 million viewers, was Oscar's previous low.
Even worse, if possible, the show was a shadow of its 2007 self, shedding more than 8 million viewers, or one-fifth of its audience, from last year to this. Even in an age where everything is the lowest rated something ever, that's a significant blood loss.
Oscar's main trouble seemed to be female trouble: Based on ratings of the show's prime-time hours, it struck out with the chicks.
Last year, with host Ellen DeGeneres at the helm, the Oscars was up across the board with women viewers.
This year, with male Jon Stewart dealing, the show looked to be down, a lot, in all the major female demographics.
The show's disconnect with its target audience might have stemmed not so much from Stewart, who generally won good reviews, but from the top nominees, a pack of films with nary a female touch, led by Best Picture winner No Country for Old Men, that Stewart himself jokingly described as "psychopathic killer movies."
Another ratings challenge cropped up when Hollywood's biggest night turned into another continent's crowning glory.
For the first time since the 1965 Oscar ceremony, all four acting awards went to residents of Europe. Perhaps not surprisingly, the '65 show, honoring the international likes of Zorba the Greek, suffered the ceremony's third smallest audience share of the 1960s.
For whatever reason, this year's Oscars repelled viewers as it went on. What began as a show that averaged 32.3 million viewers in its first half-hour, devolved into a show that averaged 25.4 million in its final half-hour of prime time.
Stewart, who previously presided over the 2006 Oscars, now goes down as the host of two of the three lowest rated Academy Awards in TV history. And in defense of Steve Martin, who hosted the 2003 misfire, that ceremony competed for attention with the start of the Iraq War. Stewart, thusly, stands alone as the lowest-rated host of relatively peaceful Oscar nights.
ABC did its best to turn its frown upside down, noting that Sunday's telecast was far bigger than the rest of this year's crop of low-rated award shows, including NBC's Golden Globes debacle.
The network said the show rated highest in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, West Palm Beach, Florida, and Oscar's hometown of Los Angeles.
Stewart's notices were another bright spot. From Britain (the BBC called him "sparkling") to Los Angeles (the L.A. Times found the comic "cool and loose"), and back to Missouri ("Second time's the charm for Stewart," headlined the Kansas City Star), Stewart won over critics.
Unlike the show.
The telecast, both a celebration of the ceremony's 80th anniversary and, as the Hollywood Reporter pointed out, a reminder that Stewart's writing staff was only recently back from the picket lines, was dinged for being clip-heavy.
"This wasn't an Oscars," wrote Deadline Hollywood's Nikki Finke. "This was a slightly longer version of the Golden Globes announcement."
The Washington Post's Tom Shales said the show went "clip-clip-clipping along." "This is not a good thing," he decided.
Shales chided the telecast for waiting to get to the acting categories, and for waiting to present presenter Miley Cyrus until the unfriendly kid hour of nearly 10 p.m. ET.
Riffing on Oscar's birthday, Time's Richard Corliss said the ceremony "had the tone and pace suitable to an octogenarian's temper."
(Originally published Feb. 25, 2008)
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