Played "Del", Lea Thompson's boyfriend in the first season. He also played Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen's dad in their sitcom "So Little Time". He's still hot.

Remember Eric Lutes from "Caroline In The City"?

Will be a 10-episode television miniseries from the creator of "Martha Marcy May Marlene"

This will get DL's head spinning: Hollywood remaking "The Exorcist!

More than 65 years after it was suppressed by the Army, a powerful and controversial John Huston documentary about soldiers suffering from the psychological wounds of war has been restored by the National Archives and debuts Thursday on the Web. “Let There Be Light” portrays GIs just back from the battlefields of Europe and the Pacific — trembling, stuttering, hollow-eyed and crying. Using a noir style, Huston filmed dozens of soldiers in unscripted scenes from their arrival at an Army psychiatric hospital on Long Island through weeks of often successful treatment, culminating in their release to go home. The restoration “reveals the film’s full force,” said Scott Simmon, a film historian and English department chairman at the University of California, Davis. Even after the Army approved its release in 1980, the poor quality of the prints and, in particular, the garbled soundtrack made it almost impossible to understand the whispers and mumbles of soldiers in some scenes. The restored soundtrack “makes the film speak in a way it never could before,” Simmon said in an interview. The film is striking for its potential relevance for a new generation of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, showing soldiers struggling to cope with what was then commonly called shell shock, and more formally labeled psychoneurosis, but is now known as post-traumatic stress disorder. “We hope that by making ‘Let There Be Light’ freely available — and by drawing attention to it — that the courageous documentary will find the audience it was intended to serve,” said Annette Melville, director of the National Film Preservation Foundation, which funded the restoration. The film, commissioned by the Army near the end of the war, was intended to prepare Americans for the realities of what combat had done to those sent to war but also to show that their psychological wounds could often be treated with therapy. But when it came time to release the film, the Army balked, claiming it violated the privacy of the soldiers involved. Huston never bought that explanation. “I think it boils down to the fact that they wanted to maintain the ‘warrior’ myth, which said that our Americans went to war and came back all the stronger for the experience, standing tall and proud for having served their country well,” Huston wrote years later in his autobiography. Sympathetic portrayals of wartime post traumatic stress “were swept under the rug” until after the Vietnam era, Simmon said in an essay he wrote about the film’s restoration for the preservation foundation. “Let There Be Light” is considered groundbreaking in documentary film history for its almost unprecedented use of unscripted interviews, according to Simmon. The film is also striking for showing the free and casual interaction of African American and white soldiers being treated at the integrated Army hospital. After the film was pulled, the Army commissioned a remake using actors to reenact the scenes filmed by Huston, giving all the speaking roles to whites.

John Huston film about WW II soldiers that Army suppressed is restored

New signs of a global slowdown are darkening the economic outlook. On Thursday, the U.S. reported that businesses were slowing their orders of computers, aircraft, machinery and other long-lasting goods. Measures of business sentiment in Europe slipped, and reports from purchasing managers at manufacturers around the globe turned down. Among them, China, the world's second-largest economy, registered its seventh straight drop in an important manufacturing index. With the latest reports, a new economic threat is emerging: That activity is slowing in sync around the globe and not just in a few markets with their own isolated problems. Europe, struggling with the risk of a Greek pullout from the euro area and broader fiscal problems, is the epicenter of global economic concerns right now. But reports of economic trouble are turning up in China, India, South Africa, Brazil and elsewhere. When the global economy is performing well, synchronized growth reinforces itself and spreads prosperity wide and far. But slowdowns can become interconnected and self-reinforcing, and the global economy has been plagued by them since the financial crisis of 2008. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development earlier this week cut its 2012 forecast for growth in developed economies. The International Monetary Fund sees the global economy growing more slowly than 2011's 3.9% rate. Economic weakening, in turn, means investors are taking it on the chin. The MSCI World Index for stocks, which tracks markets around the globe, is down more than 9% since mid-March. Crude oil prices, another proxy for global demand, are down 15% so far this month.

New Signs of Global Slowdown

What's the fucking point? Why do you need a strap going up your ass?

68 years old, bitches! And still tearing that. SHIT. UP.

Happy Birthday Miss Patti LaBelle!

Yesterday, Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker (D) attacked the Obama campaign for making an issue of Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital during an appearance on Meet the Press. While the progressive leader later backed off the criticisms, Republicans have been quick to highlight his comments as an attack against the idea that scrutiny of Mitt Romney’s record as a businessman is fair game. A ThinkProgress examination of New Jersey campaign finance records for Booker’s first run for Mayor — back in 2002 — suggests a possible reason for his unease with attacks on Bain Capital and venture capital. They were among his earliest and most generous backers. Contributions to his 2002 campaign from venture capitalists, investors, and big Wall Street bankers brought him more than $115,000 for his 2002 campaign. Among those contributing to his campaign were John Connaughton ($2,000), Steve Pagliuca ($2,200), Jonathan Lavine ($1,000) — all of Bain Capital. While the forms are not totally clear, it appears the campaign raised less than $800,000 total, making this a significant percentage. He and his slate also jointly raised funds for the “Booker Team for Newark” joint committee. They received more than $450,000 for the 2002 campaign from the sector — including a pair of $15,400 contributions from Bain Capital Managing Directors Joshua Bekenstein and Mark Nunnelly. It appears that for the initial campaign and runoff, the slate raised less than $4 million — again making this a sizable chunk. In all — just in his first Mayoral run — Booker’s committees received more than $565,000 from the people he was defending. At least $36,000 of that came from folks at Romney’s old firm.

Bain & Financial Industry Gave Over $565,000 To Newark Mayor Cory Booker For 2002 Campaign

OUT Exclusive: New Gay TV Drama, 'DTLA' 'L Word' alums tackle queer life in Downtown Los Angeles We’re not lacking for amazing TV shows to watch. But every so often something comes along that warrants deleting that subscription to Roseanne reruns we keep on our DVR. DTLA seems to be just such a program. The show, produced by L Word veteran Larry Kennar, will begin airing on Canada’s OUTtv (no relation) beginning late spring, and follows a group of friends in Downtown Los Angeles as they deal with the breakup of boyfriends Lenny (Darryl Stephens) and Bryan (Matthew Stephen Herrick). “OUTtv is committed to the development of new dramatic TV series that tell the stories of the LGBT community,” the network told us. The show, which is shot in what creators call a “European” style—meaning way more sexy scenes than you might be used to—features familiar faces including Stephens (Noah's Arc), Danny Roberts (The Real World), Erin Daniels (The L Word), Tiffany Pollard (I Love New York), Luenell (Borat),  Julie Goldman (Big Gay Sketch Show), Internet superstar B. Scott, William McNamara (Doing Time On Maple Drive) and Leslie Jordan (Will & Grace), and is mostly improvised, based on stories from the creators’ lives.

New Gay Drama Series - DTLA

The man is a mess.

What is going to become of Keanu Reeves?

Increasingly, researchers say yes, as young men become hooked on arousal, sacrificing their schoolwork and relationships in the pursuit of getting a tech-based buzz.

'The Demise of Guys': How video games and porn are ruining a generation

I don't get it. How is it possible to keep white underwear clean? Is there a secret I don't know about?

Has a nice laugh.

MAIDEN, NC (KTLA) -- A North Carolina pastor is being condemned after a recent sermon in which he called for the extermination of all gays and lesbians by locking them behind an electrified fence until they die off. A video of the sermon by Pastor Charles L. Worley from Providence Road Baptist Church was record on May 13, according to the church's website. It quickly found its way to YouTube where it has gone viral. On the video the pastor says, "I figured a way to get rid of all the lesbians and queers. Build a great, big, large fence -- 150- or 100-mile long -- put all the lesbians in there . . . do the same thing for the queers and the homosexuals, and have that fence electrified so they can't get out. "Feed 'em, and you know what?" Worley continues. "In a few years they'll die. Do you know why? They can't reproduce." Pastor Worley's sermon, in part, was a response to President Obama's support of gay marriage after Amendment One passed in North Carolina earlier this month. According to the Providence Road Baptist Church's website, Worley has served as pastor there since 1976. Catawba Valley Citizens Against Hate (CVCAH), the group that posted the clip to YouTube, plans to protest Worley and the church on Sunday, May 27. "to hear this kind of hate being preached, this kind of intolerance, it hurt me, and I'm not even part of the LGBT community," activist Laura Tipton, who organized the protest, told The NY Daily News.

Pastor: Put Gays Behind Electrified Fence Until They Die Out