It has been confirmed. From serving time to serving subpoenas, Orange is the New Black star Laverne Cox is set to play the lead role is the new legal drama pilot, Doubt.

According to E! News, Cox will play Cameron Wirth, a transgendered Ivy League-educated defense attorney who is “fierce, funny, and the fact that she’s experienced injustice first hand make her fight all the harder for her clients.” I couldn’t imagine anyone better matched to play the role beside someone so passionate about the transgender movement as Laverne.

The question is, does she plan to hang up her orange jumpsuit? Does this mean her time on Netflix’s hit show Orange is the New Black  has come to an end?

If this pilot does make it to series, Laverne Cox will be the first transgender lead in network TV history. (!!!)

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Wow. Wow. Wow. It’s Superman and the Lone Ranger TOGETHER AT LAST in the superstylish reboot of the 1960s spy show, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

In the early 1960s, CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB operative Illya Kuryakin participate in a joint mission against a mysterious criminal organization, which is working to proliferate nuclear weapons.

Blah blah blah. Two hot leads. Really fab retro-’60s outfits. Guy Ritchie. What’s not to love? Also: Hugh Grant and David Beckham co-star. I am SO THERE. Watch the trailer below. NO REALLY. WATCH THE TRAILER BELOW.

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On this episode of Really Queen? Bianca Del Rio reads her oldest “sister” Lady Bunny! New episodes of Really Queen? air every Thursday, only on WOWPresents.

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It’s EXACTLY what the Republicans have been worrying about! Gay marriage leading to… THIS! Dolphin Lover is the new documentary about Malcolm J. Brenner – a man who claims to have had an emotional and sexual relationship with a dolphin named Dolly at a theme park in Florida back in the 1970s. Since its premiere at the Slamdance film festival, it’s been making headlines due to its squeamish subject matter, i.e. sex with a dolphin.

In the clip below, Malcolm details meeting Dolly the dolphin for the first time and how she seduced him when he “rubbed her genital slit.” Well, alrighty then. Watch below.

Also: The teaser trailer for the movie (which kind of buries the lede, if you know what I mean)

Also also: Check out Jezebel’s interview with Malcolm Brenner in which he claims his zoophilia is a result of being molested as a child by his psychotherapist. Fascinating stuff.

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Dear Delta, a new WOWPresents special premieres on our Youtube Channel today. A show where fans can Tweet in and have Delta give you some great advise. Do you want to see more.Please let us know in the comments below.

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I know you probably want to stab your ear holes with a sharp stick every time you hear “Take Me to Church” – is it me or do songs just get played WAY MORE than they used to? – but trust me, this is really something to behold. David LaChapelle filmed humpy Ukrainian ballet superstar Sergei Polunin as he goes through “a torturous flurry of writhing arches and spins” courtesy of choreographer Jade Hale-Christofi. It’s pretty powerful stuff, even WITHOUT the massive, thrusting bulge. But, man oh man, that bulge sure adds another level of enticement to the video. Watch it below. (via Bored Panda)

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While shopping at an Asian supermarket in LA, Christina Dow came across a freezer full of frozen raccoons. Like: FULL-ON RACCOONS, FROZEN IN THEIR FURRY LITTLE DEATH THROES. The meat, which employees informed her is a delicacy in China, was selling for $9.99 a pound. “The way it’s packaged in the store, it’s so real, and it’s so fresh, and you don’t see chickens with their feathers and blood all over them, and their expression, with their tongue hanging out,” said Dow. Yeah, it’s kind of yucky. But, then, you can’t freak out over Asian delicasies if you’re at an Asian market, right? Says one commenter on YouTube: “If you go into an ethnic market you should expect to see foods from another culture.”

“This woman is what is wrong with this country when it comes to animals and how food is made,” writes another. “She obviously thinks that chicken and steak just magically appears. I would love to take her deer hunting or turkey hunting.”

LAist calls the woman “dumb” and even offers some suggestions about other stores where you can purchase raccoon. What do YOU think? (via The Daily What)

From Youtube: “Whatever, people in the south eat raccoon, possums, even roadkill regularly! Just cause you haven’t actually seen an animal other than a cow, pig, chicken in the grocery store, doesn’t mean that’s all there is. Go back to the white grocery store, no raccoons there. Sterile prepackaged meat that doesn’t look like the animal for your mental frailty. What other people wanna eat does not bother me at all. You know what is disgusting? Ignorance. Btw, it’s not even ILLEGAL to sell it. The only thing really wrong is that you went to an asian market and started bitching about what other people can sell or buy. It’s like gay marriage, who gives a fuck what other people choose to do if it doesn’t affect me, live and let live. Fuckin’ americans.”

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Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles star and top LA broker, Josh Altman and his brother Matt Altman joins Million Dollar Listing New Yorker and top NY broker, Fredrik Eklund at New York City’s (and now LA’s) largest residential brokerage, Douglas Elliman! You think there will be a LA/NY Elliman crossover on the upcoming seasons?

“Josh and Matt have built one of the most impressive global networks of high-end clients in the industry,” Douglas Elliman CEO Dottie Herman said in a statement. They “will be key drivers of our mission to develop California’s premier real estate brokerage brand.”  (via The Real Deal)

Fredrik Eklund took to social media to welcome his new Elliman brothers:

Last night I welcomed these two great brokers (and friends of mine for years) to Douglas Elliman. We are now at the same company, announced today, which means even more deals together between the East and West Coast, and – of course – more of our deals on television.

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It’s an all-new episode of Big Dipper’s World!  Big Dipper teaches us a handful of life lessons including how to do the “Drag Queen Step Touch,” you can absolutely wear a crop top polo (as long as there’s no nip slips,) check for hidden cameras on your hookups, and no matter what DONUTS ARE THE BEST FOOD EVER! New episodes of Big Dipper’s World every Tuesday only on WOWPresents!

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There’s a yummy new British star in the firmament to ogle! His name is Taron Egerton and he stars in Kingsman: The Secret Service which opens today (also starring Colin Firth and Michael Caine).

It’s about a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined-but-promising street kid into its training program at the moment it faces a major threat from a tech genius.

I’m so there.

Says Towleroad: “Egerton was named one of GQ’s 50 best dressed British men this year but he may also be crowned one of the best undressed as well.” YES!

Check out the glory that is Taron below. I have a feeling that’s a face that will only get better looking as it gets older.

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The Dowager Queen of Pop speaks to the Hollywood Reporter on everything from 50 Shades of Grey (“I’m sorry but no one eats p*ssy as much as the guy in that book) to Miley Cyrus (“People are always telling her she’s dirty or crazy or trashy, and she doesn’t care’) to still being sexual in her 50s (“I get a lot of shit for it”). Read excerpts from the interview after the jump.

Have you read Fifty Shades of Grey?

Yes, I have. It’s pulp fiction. It’s not very sexy, maybe for someone who has never had sex before. I kept waiting for something exciting and crazy to happen in that red room thing, and I was like, “Hmm, a lot of spanking.” I also thought, “This is so unrealistic because no guy goes down on a girl that much.” I’m sorry, but no one eats p*ssy as much as the guy in that book.

Do you think your views on sex have changed during the last, say, 25 years?

Absolutely not. Nope. Sex is a wonderful, necessary part of life.

You invented this idea of revealing yourself fully to the audience at a time when critics sniffed, “Real artists don’t reveal themselves in that way.” Now it’s mandatory for artists to overshare.

You must have a reality show.

Right. If you were 22, would you be addicted to Instagram?

I am addicted to Instagram. I don’t know what I would do if I was 22.

But do you think social media is a viable means of self-expression, or is it just marketing?

It’s both. You can take 1,000 selfies every time you have something to sell and use it as shameless self-promotion, or you can use it as an art form to express and share things that inspire you. I find it very revealing about people, what they choose to show about themselves.

What do you binge watch?

I watch Game of Thrones with my kids. That’s a good family bonding experience. My own personal obsession is True Detective, because Matthew McConaughey is so brilliant and the writing is genius. And an Irish series, The Fall. I mostly watch old movies, over and over again. All of Godard’s, and Visconti, Fellini, Pasolini. I love Alain Resnais.

What do you make of Miley Cyrus?

I like her. She seems like she doesn’t care what people think. People are always telling her she’s dirty or crazy or trashy, and she doesn’t care. I love that about her. In her peer group, she stands out.

When you look back on your career, what part do you think you played in changing taboos about growing up female in America?

I don’t think there was one part. I think it’s an ongoing activity in my life. I’m continuing to open doors for the women behind me. I don’t know many women who have had a successful career in pop music as long as I’ve had. And I waited until I was older to have children. I raised children and wasn’t married. And I continue to express myself — my sexuality — in my 50s, even though that’s also considered taboo, and I get a lot of shit for it. But in 20 years, Miley Cyrus probably won’t get shit for it. Then, it’ll be like, “Oh, yeah, that’s nothing new.”

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Hollywood’s most in-demand florist, Eric Buterbaugh (pronounced “Booter-bah,” darling), has gathered three longtime friends and clients — Gwyneth Paltrow! Demi Moore! and Nicole Richie! — for a photo shoot for Harper’s Bazaar, to celebrate his latest venture into the world of fragrance. Check out the ladies in their superfab chapeaux after the jump!

From Harper’s Bazaar:

Buterbaugh’s new perfume line, called Eric Buterbaugh Florals, will launch online this month with seven scents, each based on a different flower, which he hopes will appeal to women who are both deliberate and particular when it comes to their fragrances. “Scent is a very personal thing,” says Buterbaugh, who yearns for the kind of care and attention that went into making perfume during the heady days of the pre-Victorian era, when scents were painstakingly crafted in small batches for members of the noble classes and bottles were handmade and decorated with etchings.

The line, Buterbaugh says, will aim to return some of the romance to perfume. “These fragrances are sort of like going back to something more old-school and special, like opulent, luxurious flowers, which I do now in a modern way,” he says. “I’ve been working creatively with flowers for a decade and a half, and this is a new mode of floral expression for me that is exciting and feels very natural. I’ve always been fascinated by how flowers blend the visual and the olfactory. Unfortunately, very few flowers have real scent anymore because of the way they’re grown in hothouses, so creating a line of fragrances based on florals is a way for me to preserve that and share it with others.”

Condragulations, Eric!

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Impress your lover tomorrow night by telling them the tragic true story of St. Valentine, who lost his life to save couples from the tyranny of the king. Watch the video below, told in chibi animation, of course.

Valentine was a third-century Roman bishop who made it his mission to marry couples in love despite tyrannic laws banning marriage because the emperor felt it made his “soldiers weak.”

The ban on marriage was a great shock. The kind Bishop noticed the injustice of the decree. He held the law of the church and helped lovers who came to him,uniting them in a holy matrimony. B ut it was only a matter of time before the Emperor heard about this “friend of lovers” and had him arrested. … After a while, the emperor issued a verdict. Valentine was asked to agree with the Emperor about the ban on marriage thus giving up his religion. Valentine refused. Just before his execution Valentine asked for a pen and paper and signed a farewell message to his lover – “from your Valentine”. Valentine is believed to have been executed on February 14, 270 A.D.

(via The Presurfer)

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It’s Valentine’s Day, the time of year when single people are asked loads of uncomfortable questions about their so-called “love life” from parents and other nosy relatives. Here to help is a new app called the “Invisible Boyfriend” to get you through those awkward situations.

The app allows users to pay for “believable social proof” that they’re actually in a relationship. The app generates everything that would exist in a real-life relationship, like photos, text messages, and even voicemails – all fake, but realistic.  “It really helps people tell a better story about a relationship they’re not in,” said Matthew Homann, who created the app along with Kyle Tabor. 

While Matthew refuses to reveal the ‘secret’ behind the messages, he does say that they aren’t robotic or auto-generated and that there was always a real person at the other end.

The Invisible Boyfriend app is currently available in the U.S. and Canada, but Matthew and Kyle hope to raise more funds expand to other parts of the world. The inaugural service costs $24.99 and it includes 100 texts, 10 voicemails, and one handwritten note. The founders said that they would continue to learn what users need, and come with less and more expensive packages in the future.

And just who needs Invisible Boyfriend?

According to Mashable: The company says it’s not just for people who want to create the illusion of having a significant other. Sure, you can use it to trick your friends and family but it also “creates a safe space for you to practice texting with a real human if you’re out of practice,” the company writes on its blog.

They also note the app can even be of use to you even if you have an IRL significant other. Because what relationship doesn’t need a little manipulation? Says the company: “Sometimes it even inspires just enough jealousy to jolt that special person into committing.”

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Alexa Ray Joel backstage ( hair & photo by Jon Lieckfelt)

The Go Red For Women Red Dress Collection presented by Macy’s was back at the tents at Lincoln Center last night to raise awareness for heart disease nationwide. Rosie O’Donnell opened the show which breaks some fashion week barriers by showcasing lesser-known designers, who might not normally show at NYFW. Tamara Mellon made a dress just for Alexa Ray Joel (daughter of Christie Brinkley & Billy Joel) who lost her grandmother to heart disease. You also get Barbara “I Dream of Jeannie” Eden who looks amazing! You aren’t supposed to mention a woman’s age, I know, but when you look THIS GOOD at 83 it’s worth saying. You can find out more about Go red For Women here.

Alexa Ray Joel

Laverne Cox

Star Jones

Donna Mills

Barbara Eden, forver I Dream of Jeannie

Star Jones & Alexa Ray Joel backstage (photo by Jon Lieckfelt)

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Style.com‘s Tim Blanks didn’t mince words when it came time to review the Kanye West/Adidas fashion show. Check out his choice words for the rapper-turned-(ahem)”designer” after the jump.  

Kanye West is probably the most polarizing personality in popular culture at the moment. That Grammys ceremony said it all: the strongest musical performances of the night undermined by the assholery that would deny another artist his well-deserved moment in the spotlight. West’s collaboration with Adidas launched tonight in a similar storm of conflicted emotion. “I’m here to crack the pavement,” his fierce voice-over announced. “I want to create something better for you.” But a show that started this willfully late in a schedule as dense as New York’s spoke to a certain insensitivity. Was it perfectionism? Or was it simply the event-oriented consciousness of a musician who would scarcely stage a concert with the understanding that his audience has another performance to attend in an hour? That’s an ongoing situation with West. Ardent fans will always find a reason to cut him slack. Genius has its reasons.

PREACH, SISTER BLANKS! Fashion journalism as it should be: Engaging, honest, and more than a bit bitchy. Read the rest (and check out the collection) at Style.com

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The legendary Coco Peru and film director for Trick bestie Jim Fall compete for cash on this episode of Be$tie$ For Ca$h! How well do they know each other? Watch and find out after the jump!

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Liz Gateley
Alan Parker
Erin Torpey
Florence Henderson
Freddie Highmore
Hugh Downs
James Eckhouse
Jules Asner
Meg Tilly
Michael Bloomberg
Pat O’Brien
Phyllis McGuire
Renee Fleming
Rie Rasmussen
Rob Thomas
Simon Pegg
Teller

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Designer Luca Nichetto unveiled his new standalone Cubitat at Toronto’s Interior Design Show last month. The 10 x 10 x 10 cube is complete home with all you’ll need but a couch, table and chairs, once it’s hooked up to plumbing and electric. It’s still in prototype phase, but once on the market it’ll enable city-dwellers to turn a compact home with no need for renovations or additions. The developers say buyers can customize the cubes online, before having them shipped to their destination. One side features a kitchen with sink, oven, stove top, dishwasher, refrigerator and storage space. Around the corner is an entertaining area, with a flat screen TV, book shelves, storage and a pull-out double bed, which slides out from underneath the TV. Next is a hidden laundry, with a door to the bathroom inside the Cubitat. One major hurdle to overcome is getting the Cubitat inside your space. If you have a nice 30 x 30′ warehouse space with a garage door opening, you can plunk your Cubitat right in the middle and start decorating.

(via Daily Mail)

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