Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi marry [video]
By JD Uy
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August 17, 2008
”Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi were married tonight in an intimate ceremony at their home in Los Angeles.”
A spokesperson for the newly married celebrity couple, Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi. (People)
Hugh Bonneville and I, at this moment in time, are waxing rhapsodic over the music of Downton Abbey. I've confided to the British actor that I am obsessed with the sumptuous, lush score to the point where I listen to little else for days on end.
"John Lunn," Bonneville smiles. "He's a lovely Scottish composer and a dear man. That music is just -- when you just hear those opening bars, it just gets you into a certain mood."
That certain mood will return in the fall as Julian Fellowes's extraordinary creation, in which Bonneville plays Lord Grantham, the head of the titular estate, will take its final bow with a third and final film, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale.
Bruce Vilanch, the famously bespectacled writer, actor, comedian, songwriter, and erstwhile Hollywood Square, has long been the sassy pen behind some of your favorite funny people's funniest jokes. But, on this late-winter afternoon, he and I settled in for a cozy video chat about the times the funny flopped.
In his insightful, hysterical new book, It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time: The Worst TV Shows in History and Other Things I Wrote, the two-time Emmy-winner pulls back the curtain on a litany of infamous misfires he had a hand in, like The Star Wars Holiday Special.
The Peter Tatchell Foundation is calling on celebrities scheduled to perform in Hungary to boycott the country in response to the passage of a ban on Pride marches and parades, and government surveillance, using facial recognition software, of people who attend such events.
Hungary's ruling conservative Fidesz party -- led by the virulently anti-gay Prime Minister Viktor Orbán -- recently passed the ban targeting Pride-themed celebrations.
Backers of the legislation claim the measure is needed to "protect children" from being exposed to homosexuality. Those found to have violated the law by attending Budapest Pride can be subjected to fines of up to 200,000 forints ($538).
