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Book Review - Furious Love - Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century - By Sam Kashner and ...

A joint biography of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton and their traveling circus of money, booze and mutual obsession.

Book Review - The Quickening - By Michelle Hoover

This novel, narrated by two Midwestern farm wives, was inspired by a real journal.

Book Review - The Sisters From Hardscrabble Bay - By Beverly Jensen

In Beverly Jensen’s posthumous novel-in-stories, two sisters escape rural poverty and make their way in the world.

Movie keeps Whistle Stop Café cooking

Movie keeps Whistle Stop Café cooking

Book Review - Long for This World - The Strange Science of Immortality - By Jonathan Weiner

A Pulitzer Prize-winning writer examines the scientific battle against aging through the bizzare career of the English gerontologist Aubrey de Grey.

'Empowered Patient' the book, on sale Aug. 10

In her new book, "The Empowered Patient: How to Get the Right Diagnosis, Buy the Cheapest Drugs, Beat Your Insurance Company, and Get the Best Medical Care Every Time" (Ballantine Trade Paperback Original / On-sale August 10, 2010), Elizabeth Cohen, CNN senior medical correspondent, shows readers how to ensure they get the best medical care for themselves and their families every time they set ...

Book Review - Memory Wall - By Anthony Doerr

These strange, beautiful tales all ask: What, if anything, will be preserved from time’s depredations?

Book Review - Cocaine Nation - By Tom Feiling

How America’s insatiable craving for cocaine has spread misery and violence across the globe.

Book Review - Brilliant - The Evolution of Artificial Light - By Jane Brox

A history of the ways people have lighted their homes and paths, and of the social changes that have resulted. -->

Surfing pals find much more than good waves in "Shelter"

Shelter is a film that follows the story of two Southern California gay guys who fall for each other while doing what they love most: surfing. Naturally, Jonah Markowitz, the film's director, knows what's going to happen next.

"Dante's Cove" Where gothic meets gay

Caution to all 19th-century warlocks seeking vengeance on a coven of rogue witches: When executing a plot to marry one of said witches, thus gaining access to the coven's most guarded secrets, be very, very sure that the bride-to-be doesn't catch you sleeping with the butler.

Gay Sex in the 70s

Former ABC producer/director Joseph Lovett attempts to direct and document the New York gay scene in the aftermath of the 1969 Stonewall riots to the first cases of AIDS in 1981.

Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds

Eating Out is a soft-core sex comedy that keeps throwing out comic variations on the idea of the line between gay and straight sexuality. In this cheerful but one-note low-budget farce, gay men pretend to be straight, straight or bisexual men pretend to be gay, lesbians pretend to be bigoted heterosexuals, and a homophobic ex-gay support group proves to be full of backsliders and hypocrites who keep getting caught out of the closet. This sequel revolves around the further exploits of Kyle, a gay character from Eating Out masquerading as a heterosexual.

The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green

The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green quickly brings anyone not familiar with the gay comic strip of the same name up to speed: “Ethan is a man unlucky in love,” states the intro. “Don’t feel sorry for him. It’s his own damn fault. Really.”

Book Explores Being Gay & Turning Thirty

While developing ideas for the sequel to his critically acclaimed debut novel, A Time Before Me, author Michael Holloway Perronne went through what is often a traumatic experience for many gay men living in a youth obsessed culture. He turned thirty. The turning of thirty, which many in the gay community consider "middle-aged", led not only to the author's self reexamination of his life but to the plot of his follow-up book, Falling Into Me.

"This Film is Not Yet Rated" Explores Anti-Gay Bias of MPAA Ratings System

The film is an unprecedented investigation into the Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system and its profound influence on American culture — including its impact on representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in film.

"Poster Boy"

Away at college and reveling in his sexual liberty, the gay son of a conservative U.S. senator becomes potential fodder for a gay activist.

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