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The Week That Was

Usually this section will cover news events that we have covered on the blog. Since this is our first week we will list things that we have talked about if we had stepped up to the plate a week earlier. So, here's nothing:

• The Republican House leadership is further threatened by the political firestorm of the Mark Foley cybersex scandal. Makes me giggle. TPMmuckraker and Americablog are all over it.
• The Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center has a new provocative ad campaign which declares that AIDS is a 'Gay Disease'. Towleroad is the place for quality GLB news (and many other things to boot).
• Who is Anna Nicole's baby's daddy? There are surprisingly (not!) scores of men laying claim. TMZ is the place to be for juicy celeb happenings.
• Sienna Miller, Jude Law's on-again off-again, is a girl after my own heart: "I don't know, monogamy is a weird thing for me. It's an overrated virtue, because, let's face it, we're f-ing animals." Yowser! A Socialite's Life rocks.

Scorsese To Eastwood: Bring It On!

The gloves are off. The Martin Scoresese/Clint Eastwood Oscar battle is on. Martin is first out of the gates with The Departed and he is not messing around. He has a stellar cast of respected actors (including the legendary Jack Nicholson), excellent reviews, and his biggest box office opening of his career:

Variety:

Auteur Martin Scorsese scored his biggest opening weekend ever with the Warner Bros. release "The Departed" over the weekend: The cop drama reeled in just over $27 million on 3,017 screens.

Only one previous pic by the helmer has opened to more than $10 million, the 1991 remake "Cape Fear." "Departed" marked Scorsese's widest rollout to date, as well as the frame's widest release.

Pic - starring Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg and Leonardo DiCaprio-- played to a socko per screen average of $8,954.

Let the Oscar race begin. Eastwood is up next with the WW II drama Flags of Our Fathers. I haven't seen The Departed yet, but I'll probably check it out later this week. This is my favorite time of the year to see movies.

This above all

To thine ownself be true.  And it must follow, like the night the day.  Thou canst not then be false to any man.