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Professor/Pundit
Raising President Obama's ''evolving'' view on marriage equality with Melissa Harris-Perry makes her laugh. ''Yeah, it's evolving,'' she says with an incredulous chuckle. ''I know....
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Five Dos and Five Don'ts for Mastering Valentine's Day
Not much is known of antiquity's Saint -- or Saints -- Valentine. Yet here we are, with Starbucks pushing hearts on paper cups, aisles of...
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Do These Five Things for Valentine's
1. Give as Good as You Get It can be bought, it can be made. Regardless, a gift at Valentine's Day is like tipping --...
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Don't Do These Five Things for Valentine's
1. Don't Procrastinate We'll tell you right up front: If you're reading this during the mid-afternoon of Feb. 14, you might as well skip on...
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Love, Actually
As a result of the play Next Fall, Chris Dinolfo came out to his dad. ''I actually came out to my dad and my stepmom...
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Close Up
In the intimate, delicately wrought period drama Albert Nobbs, Glenn Close transforms herself into a 19th century Irishman who is concealing the fact that he...
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Albert's Champion
(continued from ''Close Up'') METRO WEEKLY: What a remarkable motion picture. I was engaged and moved by it on every possible level. Let's talk a...
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The Opposite of Albert
METRO WEEKLY: Though they share a similar circumstance, Hubert is the polar opposite of Albert. What was your approach to the character? JANET McTEER: Apart...
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Scruffy Songster
''It sounds like I talk about it all the time: I'm Twitter obsessed! Like a Kardashian!'' For the record, Aiden James only brought up Twitter...
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Swimming in Style
This may come as a shock to some of you, but Simon Doonan is no longer the Creative Director at Barney's. He's now officially the...
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Family Ties
George Hamilton is in the midst of a storytelling frenzy. ''I was back on the Concorde from London,'' recalls the Hollywood icon, ''and Kirk Douglas...
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Cruz Control
''I won't be specific,'' Wilson Cruz says, ''but there's a show on television right now, a fairly new show, that wanted me to come in...
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Creating a Conference
It's not quite a quarter century, but the 24th year of Creating Change comes so very close. And Sue Hyde, the current director of the...
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Folking Around
For the record, Cheryl Wheeler is not an ''angry dyke.'' No matter what the Westboro Baptist Church says. ''Well,'' she says, ''I do get angry...
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Top Gear
If you've picked up the scent of leather, it's not coming from the reins of a horse-drawn carriage – at least not till D.C. gets...
