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Campus Pride Hot List 2011

Brett

http://www.campuspride.org/hotlist2011.asp

Campus Pride officially releases the 2011 HOT LIST! The list represents our”Top 25 LGBT Favorites” — lecturers, comedians, musicians. poets, artists, researchers, activists and more. Every year Campus Pride picks the most diverse, provocative, inspiring and enlightening artists/speakers as a resource for your LGBT student organization. The purpose is to provide a recommendation of the BEST OF THE BEST in planning your campus events and activities.

The artists/speakers listed are not only our SIZZLING HOT PICKS but they also rate highly among recommendations from LGBT young adults at colleges and universities across the country. If you want to create change — PICK FROM OUR TOP 25 LGBT FAVORITES!

Top 50 Power Showrunners 2011

Brett

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/top-50-power-showrunners-2011-246874/group/Comedy

Top 50 Power Showrunners 2011
12:49 PM PDT 10/12/2011 by THR Staff
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THR’s fourth annual list shines a spotlight on the 50 most influential — and valuable — creative chiefs writing, producing and redefining television.

For better or worse, 2011 will go down as the Year of the Showrunner. It all began with Chuck Lorre becoming a household name for all the wrong reasons. Then there was Mad Men’s Matthew Weiner making waves during the showrunner’s painful, prolonged negotiations with the network he put on the map. The summer saw film auteur Frank Darabont make a stormy exit from his AMC smash hit The Walking Dead and then be replaced by The Shield veteran Glen Mazzara. But the news wasn’t all negative. Emmy night awarded comedy kings Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd more gold for Modern Family, and that Mad Men guy earned a redemptive trophy for his collection. Plus, the fall saw the return of such established veterans as Howard Gordon (Homeland), Michael Patrick King (2 Broke Girls) and Neal Baer (A Gifted Man), proving that reinvention is a showrunner’s most powerful tool. Here, THR profiles the men and women who make TV’s toughest gig look damn good.

METHODOLOGY: Selections for The Hollywood Reporter’s fourth annual list of the top showrunners are based on the following criteria:

1. Direct responsibility for the day-to-day creative output of a scripted TV show that has aired for at least one full season (unless he or she also had another show on the air).
2. How prolific the showrunner is: Those with more shows on the air were more likely to be included.
3. Nielsen ratings, especially relative to other shows on the same network.
4. Emmy attention and critical praise.
5. Professionalism and reputation among studio and network executives.

Jersey Shore’s Vinny Guadagnino, Glee’s Naya Rivera and the cast of Pretty Little Liars are teaming up for GLAAD’s newest anti-bullying initiative.

Brett

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jersey-shore-vinny-glee-naya-rivera-chaz-bono-gay-bulling-glaad-psa-248167

“Dancing With the Stars'” Chaz Bono, “Modern Family” stars, Tori Spelling and Shaquille O’Neal also appear in GLAAD’s new PSAs.

Jersey Shore’s Vinny Guadagnino, Glee’s Naya Rivera and the cast of Pretty Little Liars are teaming up for GLAAD’s newest anti-bullying initiative.

In new PSAs, they all warn against gay bullying, which has claimed multiple young lives in the recent year.

The Black List Launching Web Site That Tracks Most Popular Scripts in Real Time

Brett

http://www.deadline.com/2011/10/blacklist-launching-web-site-that-tracks-most-popular-scripts-in-real-time/

Film executive Franklin Leonard has maintained The Black List for the past six years to champion hundreds of talented screenwriters and unproduced scripts. Well over 100 have gone on to win more than 20 Oscars and gross roughly $10 billion worldwide. Today Leonard expands The Black List by launching a website that tracks Hollywood’s most popular scripts in real time. Blcklst.com bases its info on polling hundreds of high level studio and production company executives who are directly involved in moviemaking. The subscriber-only web site ($20 a month) will expand the pool of movie professionals to include agents and directors who will identify the scripts they like best. Blcklst.com algorithms will sort them by a number of criteria: most popular, most popular comedies of the past week, month or whatever.

Ultra Light Startup Partners with New York Angels

Brett

http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2011/09/29/ultra-light-startups-partners-with-new-york-angels/

Today, Ultra Light Startups, an organization known for its lean startup tactics and The New York Angels have announced a partnership that gives young entrepreneurs access to one of the biggest groups of angels in the city.

Here’s how it works: The three winning teams of ULS’s monthly pitch contest will automatically be permitted to pitch to the NY Angels. Graham Lawlor, Founder of Ultra Light Startups said he’s “delighted the New York Angels will play a more significant role in the Ultra Light Startup community.”

Geekli.st-The Next Generation Resume for Developers and Geeks

Brett

http://thenextweb.com/2011/09/21/geekli-st-the-next-generation-resume-for-developers-and-geeks-invites/

Today, I had the chance to sit down with the founders of Geekli.st, a service where developers can come, share and interact on their past achievements in technology.

The site itself is simple, you set up your account (right now you can only reserve your username, but we have 300 exclusive invites for The Next Web readers to jump right in, just use the code TNWGEEKS), but once you have full access, you are given the ability add “cards” which list out achievements of yours at previous companies or side projects. Someone can come to your profile, click through to see your card, and then “high-five” you for the achievement.

Michelle Obama Wears Pricey (Borrowed) Diamonds on NYC Trip

Brett

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/22/michelle-obama-air-_n_975587.html#s368982&title=September_21_returning

It was a brief trip, but Michelle Obama made the most of her New York City stay.

The First Lady chose a bright, modern look on the way to NYC and a bold, sexy ensemble for her Tuesday events. But en route home, Obama exited Air Force One in a classically cut dress with a flouncy skirt paired with a basic black cardigan.

**Also includes photos of FLOTUS at the UN General Assembly

NBC Developing ‘Lesbo’ Comedy About Gay And Straight Female Best Friends

Brett

http://www.deadline.com/2011/09/nbc-developing-comedy-about-a-gay-and-straight-female-best-friends/

This is a title that will get attention: NBC has bought comedy pitch My Best Friend Is A Lesbo. The project, from Warner Bros TV and Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage’s studio-based Fake Empire, is about two best female friends — one straight, the other gay — who become roommates and help each other navigate life, love, and dating in Los Angeles.

In Suburb, Battle Goes Public on Bullying of Gay Students

Brett

ANOKA, Minn. — This sprawling suburban school system, much of it within Michele Bachmann’s Congressional district, is caught in the eye of one of the country’s hottest culture wars — how homosexuality should be discussed in the schools.

After years of harsh conflict between advocates for gay students and Christian conservatives, the issue was already highly charged here. Then in July, six students brought a lawsuit contending that school officials have failed to stop relentless antigay bullying and that a district policy requiring teachers to remain “neutral” on issues of sexual orientation has fostered oppressive silence and a corrosive stigma.