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Anderson Cooper, CNN anchor and alleged dater of many fellows, has one great regret in his New York life. He has never seen a Kiki & Herb show. Kiki and Herb being, of course, singer/actor Justin Bond in drag as old showbiz wash-up Kiki and Kenny Mellman as her devoted accompanist Herb. They tell wonderful showbiz stories and sing delightful covers of some really random songs. And the Coop has never been! He tells TONY of his drag cabaret shame:
If you could have a drink with another Top 40 person—Jay-Z, David Cross, Liev Schreiber, Kiki and Herb, or Patti LuPone—what do you do? And what do you talk about?
Anderson Cooper: I’ve yet to see Kiki and Herb perform. I consider it my single greatest failure as a New Yorker. I’ve had tickets, and something has always come up. So I’d opt for drinks with them. Time, place and attire of their choosing.
Well, Andy. I saw them in Boston and let me tell you, sister. It's worth it. Just a nice night out with the boys, you know? Do it!
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Posted: May 7th, 2008, 3:25am CDT by Ryan Tate
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Posted: May 5th, 2008, 3:57am CDT by Ryan Tate
Anderson Cooper continues to let it be known, in every possible medium and format, that he is willing to entertain America's brave, well-toned troops in troubled hotspots should his services as a tough-but-emotionally-nurturing (and sometimes giggling) CNN anchor be required. You'll recall Cooper's message of support in Outside magazine's May issue: "I don't understand why more artists don't go and entertain the troops... I saw this documentary on Marlene Dietrich, and during World War II she was going out, right to the front lines. I think she was having sex with a lot of the troops, too." Cooper must have gotten to thinking about Dietrich's personal sacrifices, because a Rush & Molloy tipster just spotted him "looking patriotic in a USO tee on an early flight from New Orleans to JFK last week." Your salute to the troops, like those before it, will surely not go unnoticed, Anderson. [Daily News]
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When I saw a tall, dark-haired, model-esque woman sliding through the pre-awards crowd at the National Magazine Awards in the Rose Ballroom on 60th St. last night, my canny journalistic sixth sense kicked in. "She sure doesn't look like a magazine writer," I thought. Later, she strode out on stage during the awards ceremony. It was Padma Lakshmi, supermodel. "Fiction. It can...raise fire in the loins," she purred. Half of the audience shifted in their seats. "The sharpest weapon an editor has at her disposal is her pen. (Pause). Or her tongue." It really drove home the primary question in everyone's minds: Isn't this supposed to be, like, a magazine thing? What the fuck are all these famous people doing here? And Julia Allison? An attempted explanation, and some terrible, terrible cell phone pictures to sum up the night, after the jump.
I guess if you want to get technical about it, Julia Allison is employed by a magazine. But her main occupation is fameball. So when I saw her, in a white dress, dramatically posing for photos as if she was getting married, it made me question whether these magazine awards were supposed to be some sort of society event. Apparently so! The following people showed up to present awards, for no discernible reason whatsoever:
- Anderson Cooper. Who did not say anything gay.
- Former New Yorker editor and current Clinton family stalker Tina Brown. "She looks like Hillary," someone whispered loudly when she appeared.
- The aforementioned Padma Lakshmi. She said some stuff about her food show, too.
- Former baseball star turned investor turned magazine publisher Lenny Dykstra. Though he can't be 50 years old yet, he shuffled, mumbled, and spoke with his mouth an inch from the mike in a disquieting impression of Muhammad Ali in the throes of Parkinson's disease. Or maybe it wasn't an impression.
- Obama girl.
- New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. Who, after the ceremony, was deep in conversation with New Yorker editor David Remnick. A conversation I imagine going like this:
KELLY: Congratulations on the award.
REMNICK: Thanks. Coincidentally, we're going to be doing an investigative piece on the NYPD soon.
KELLY: You are under arrest.
- Judah Friedlander and two other people from 30 Rock. They also made awkward, jokey attempts to somehow tie their show to the magazine industry. Not their fault, though. My guess is they were just as mystified that they were there as anyone else.
- Charlie Rose
The "Nick Denton Could Make This A Metaphor" moment of the night: Portfolio editor Joanne Lipman, after receiving an award, tried to walk off stage the wrong way, and had to turn around and double back.
And here, the night in poor pictures. I'm having some trouble aligning them correctly, so I will put the captions here, and the pictures below. 1. The view from the ballroom, and also what this crowd of media honchos controls: the world. 2. Here, Anderson Cooper, live on stage! It's really him, I promise! 3. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly walks away from me in fear after I challenge him to a debate on media consolidation laws. 4. Fameball Julia Allison and New York Magazine writer Vanessa Grigoriadis, whose article about this site was nominated for an award last night. They're both very personable!
That's about it.
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Posted: May 1st, 2008, 10:19pm CDT by Ryan Tate
Gawker's Hamilton Nolan is at the National Magazine Awards, and notifies us via his Sidekick that Anderson Cooper is there! Someone else emailed us a photo of the adorable silver-haired CNN anchor (left) earlier tonight, looking pretty casual. Oh, also, on a less important note, some awards were given out to various magazines. Hamilton said something about New York's Gawker story, "Everybody Sucks," losing to Atlanta magazine's "You Have Thousands of Angels Around You." Outrage! Everybody sucks!! Anyway, it looks like the full list of winners is up and the only multiple-award winners were National Geographic (three awards) and Vanity Fair (two). Nominated for 12 awards, the New Yorker took home just one, though it was for general excellence, so that's nice. I mean, err, it sucks! Everybody sucks! [National Magazine Awards]
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Posted: May 1st, 2008, 4:00pm CDT
So cute! Some nice video trickery!
Thanks Ryan!
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Anderson Cooper has staked out a position on media personalities having sex with vast numbers of overseas soldiers: Staunchly in favor! On air, the CNN anchor always seems to be saying or asking a little more than good sense would dictate, and then getting all blushy about it, and the same thing seems to have happened in Cooper's interview with Outside magazine. Here's how Cooper answered the innocent question "Do Americans have an exaggerated sense of danger about the Third World?":
Oh, yeah. But Americans have an exaggerated sense of danger about New York City.
I'm also not a good person to ask, because my sense of what's dangerous is completely warped. People have stopped asking me for advice, because I encourage people to go anywhere. It really pissed me off, two summers ago, during the war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, when Depeche Mode canceled their concert in Tel Aviv. For security reasons!
I don't understand why more artists don't go and entertain the troops. I mean, hasn't Jessica Simpson been over there? I saw this documentary on Marlene Dietrich, and during World War II she was going out, right to the front lines. I think she was having sex with a lot of the troops, too. I'm not saying artists should do that. But she took supporting the troops to a level that few have since.
[Soup Cans]
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Posted: April 7th, 2008, 2:50pm CDT
Anderson Cooper gets embarrassed and eventually does some thrusts. Nice guns.
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Posted: March 6th, 2008, 4:23pm CST by Pareene
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Posted: March 6th, 2008, 10:24am CST by Pareene
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The internet: at least it's good for investigating things. Like that crazy kid who shot up Northern Illinois University, for example. What did he say on Myspace? What did he say in school papers? These bits and pieces of online information are the new currency of citizen-level investigative reporting. They allowed bloggers to correctly name the shooter before his name had been released [Chicago Tribune]. But the vast and heretofore useless collection of random, unrelated facts on the web also has another, far more important use: providing us the answer to all Blind Item gossip.
Long staples of the gossip industry, it now appears that blind items will soon become relics due to the increasing power of the Google. Let's take an example from today's Page Six: "WHICH local reporter got sick to his stomach after he found out the Penthouse Pet with whom he'd been making out had just had sex with another man?"
In the old days, such an item would inspire a bunch of you to sit around your office's water cooler, a popular destination for gossip, and speculate back and forth about who the subject might be. In the modern age, though, we just enter the key terms into the Google—"New York reporter sick Penthouse Pet"—and bingo, up pops our answer, right after the original Post item:
It was Anderson Cooper all along. Do you now understand how the internet combines the accuracy of whispered office rumors with the quick reaction time of a wild, unrestrained mob, thirsty for blood (answers) no matter what the cost? Let's try another blind item, this one from Michael Musto: "Which top anchor is a bottom?" We have a theory, so we'll check it with the Google's robotic memory of wisdom:
The very first answer. It's not necessary to add much to that. Here we see that Google, the smartest technology in the universe, tells us that Anderson Cooper is the answer to all blind items. Not much point to continuing the practice from now on. Let's all turn our attention to loftier pursuits.
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Anderson Cooper would like to have a very serious, very special talk with you. The silver-haired CNN anchor knows you, his obsessive fan, got a little huffy when he told Conan O'Brien that his "live blog was a chance for all my stalkers to be in one place at one time." Look, he didn't mean it like that. It's just, when you are as beautiful as he is, there some cooky, crazy people who come out of the woodwork. Or out of the steam room at Equinox. Whatever. The point is, take this quick test, written by Anderson himself, and decide if you are a stalker:
1. If you’ve been contacted by authorities and asked not to attempt to contact me further… but you still do, there’s a good chance you’ve crossed the line.
2. If you’ve attempted to gain entry to my apartment under false pretenses, and can’t imagine why that might be inappropriate, that’s another red flag.
3. If you believe I am secretly communicating to you online, or with the clothes I wear, or by telepathy through your radiator, that’s a problem as well.
4. If you have read the last three items and laughed, or said, “wow, that’s weird” you are not a stalker.
5. If you have read items 1-3 and notice they apply to you, but then tell yourself they actually don’t apply to you. Well, that’s not good.
See, not so bad! You're probably just crushing, not stalking.
Thankfully for Anderson Cooper Effects -- and for Gawker -- there's no last item like...
6. If you have blogged about me 19 times or more so far this year, get help. And maybe? A life.
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CNN's Anderson Cooper is auditioning celebrity announcers in a supposed effort to compete with NBC, which has movie star Michael Douglas introducing its nightly newscasts. The on-camera recruiting effort conveniently doubles as a smart bit of marketing for CNN, but it also has residual benefits for Cooper, who is known as the prettiest, baby- and football-hatingest and most testicle-curious anchor on CNN: He gets to toughen up his image by auditioning heavy metal rockers Ozzy Osbourne and Gene Simmons, two of the first three celebrity introducers. The third? Err, that would be gay icon Fran Drescher. Who Anderson said is his favorite, is "fantastic" and "you were my first choice all along to be the announcer." OK whatever Anderson, you know what? You're not even trying at this point. Franny love-fest after the jump.
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[CNN via Anderson Cooper Effects]
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CNN's Anderson Cooper is auditioning celebrity announcers in a supposed effort to compete with NBC, which has movie star Michael Douglas introducing its nightly newscasts. The on-camera recruiting effort conveniently doubles as a smart bit of marketing for CNN, but it also has residual benefits for Cooper, who gets to toughen up his image as the prettiest anchor on CNN by auditioning heavy metal rockers Ozzy Osbourne and Gene Simmons, two of the first three celebrity introducers. The third? Err, that would be gay icon Fran Drescher. Who Anderson said is his favorite, is "fantastic" and "you were my first choice all along to be the announcer." OK whatever Anderson, you know what? You're not even trying at this point. Franny love-fest after the jump.
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[CNN via Anderson Cooper Effects]
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Welcome to the Gawker Locker Room: where maturity goes to die! Here your host and toastmaster Furious George will present a topic of discussion for open commentary, vigorous debate, and potential masturbatory purposes. Our topics will be diverse, random, juvenile, and vitally important. Last week I stated my intention to make the Gawker Locker Room is a safe place for womyn and geighs. And to that end, I thought about asking a nice and cheeky question. Something along the lines of: "Which male Gawker personality is the most fuckable?" But then I realized that everyone would pick me, and furthermore, that they'd be correct. So that question was out the window. And then I got to skimmin' every damned comment in the previous Locker Room thread, hoping to stumble across some juicy subject matter. One topic came up more consistently than most: Anderson Cooper. But once again, I think he's far too easy a subject. "Would you fuck Anderson Cooper?" has only one correct answer, and even I'm not ashamed to admit it. Besides, ol' Andy gets too much attention these days. Surely there are dozens, if not baker's dozens, of up-and-coming hunks and hotties lurking in Anderson's shadow. Why do we never discuss them? Why do we leave them of our greeting cards, our love letters, our interpretive watercolors, our one-act plays, our slash fiction, our self-administered tattoos, and our court orders? Do not they - the slavishly hard-working, the impressively credentialed, the hopelessly credible - deserve to be objectified? And so I ask you all: Which cable news hottie (male or female) is the most underrated, and why? Update: Commenter fiveinchtaint's Allison Williams link is totally NSFW.
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New York magazine hints around at Shepherd Smith's gayness as best it can in a Q&A today with the Fox anchor. What's hanging above his couch? "Nothing, nobody," Smith answers. And the last Broadway show he saw? The magazine's 2005 profile of CNN anchor Anderson Cooper carried some heavy subtext as well. "Cooper couldn’t have looked more put-together in his impeccably modern black suit, crisp pink shirt, and perfectly knotted purple-and-blue tie," it read. A pink shirt! And crisp, no less! Whatever could they be implying? Enough, we say, it's 2008 for God's sakes, a news anchor can be whoever he wants to be. Test your gaydar against ours after the jump as we rate five top news hosts' homosexuality using five video clips and a terribly loose interpretation of the Kinsey Scale.
Ask the press to call a gay news host like they see one, and all of a sudden demureness is a virtue. For every stab taken at outing a closeted news man, a contradictory report pops up. ABC's Sam Champion made out with a chick! Bill Hemmer was seen loving a lady on the Empire State building! But let's be careful not to point out why both those things are newsworthy enough to be mentioned.
Gay? Not so much? Maybe? You tell us. Our bastardization of the Kinsey scale below uses a scale of 0-6. The higher the score, the gayer the news gay.
Hemmer's star rose at CNN, where his boyish looks endeared him to legions of grandmothers and gays. We hear the lady he showed off yesterday has been his girlfriend for several years. Whatever, we giggle when he says "lover" in this video.
Bill Hemmer—1.5
We and everyone we know have seen Anderson Cooper out and about at gay bars for years, so the charade seems a little beyond the point.
Anderson Cooper—6
ABC weatherman Sam Champion was spotted the other day sucking face with a woman, which might unnerve his ex-boyfriend Jose or his current flame Sean, if you believe our commenters.
Sam Champion—5
Fox News anchorman Shepherd Smith has lovely locks, a Southern twang and piles of rampant homosexuality rumors. Of course, he doesn't help matters much by saying "blowjob" by accident during his live newscast, like he does here. A Washington Blade columnist basically outed Smith two years ago when he wrote about running into the anchor at a New York piano bar. He declined Smith's invitation to go back to his place.
Shepherd Smith—5
Fox shoutman Sean Hannity's college radio show was canceled when the station accused him of discriminating against gays. Besides his pundit duties, Hannity puts his name behind a match-making feature on his website called, we kid you not, Hannidate, which is the creepiest thing ever. The site's options allow same sex couple searches. "Hannidate is open to everyone," he told a newspaper in 2006, including, the site says, those looking for life partners.
Sean Hannity—3
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Last night Anderson Cooper, CNN's prettiest anchor, investigated that infamous video of Tom Cruise on Tom Cruise, Scientologist. His correspondent talked to a former member of the church and took us deep into the world of strange symbols and acronyms and claims made by America's favorite tiny grinning superstar actor. Then Cooper replayed a contentious interview with Scientology's head Inquisitor into the crimes of Psychology. Cooper even called the religion a fraud based on pseudo-science (or at least pointed out that that is a "criticism leveled against Scientology"). What's Anderson's beef with LRH?
Rare among modern "legitimate" journalists, especially TV journalists, Cooper has taken on the Church of Scientology before. Cooper's last investigation into the CSI was in 2005, when he introduced viewers to a New Mexico vault marked with "mysterious symbols." According to a former Scientologist interviewed on the show, the vault was covered with symbols viewable best from "the heavens" designed "to show the location of one of the vaults which Scientology has prepared to safeguard the technology of L. Ron Hubbard." Inside the vault, a creepy survivalist compound filled with livestock, food, and the writings of LRH etched into "titanium plates."
Why investigate Scientology's apocalyptic desert bunker? More importantly, why bother debating a lunatic about the merits of psychology? Here's a hint:
Church founder L. Ron Hubbard's son Quentin was gay. Gay and not all that into Scientology. He killed himself in 1976, a victim of his father's tyrannical crusades against homosexuality and mental health. L. Ron Hubbard hated his dead gay son.
Considering what we know of Anderson's biography (short version: gay, forever changed by brother's suicide), it is perhaps understandable that he might not approve of an organization that "cures" homosexuality and refuses to allow its members access to antidepressants, clinical psychology, or even simple talk therapy.
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Posted: January 8th, 2008, 3:09pm CST
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Posted: December 14th, 2007, 12:35pm CST
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Posted: November 5th, 2007, 2:35pm CST
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You cannot possibly have missed the relentless ads for CNN's October "Planet in Peril" documentary, a four-hour eco-soap starring Anderson Cooper, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, and (of course!) Animal Planet's Jeff Corwin, the impoverished man's Steve Irwin. The "CNN Worldwide Investigation" (oooh...heavy) took a year to complete, cost the network some serious change, and was hailed as its first high-definition documentary, following the fall launch of CNN-HD. Too bad that sister-company Time Warner neglected to get with the freaking program already—the largest cable provider in New York and LA still doesn't carry CNN in high-definition.
Tough to imagine how no one in the Columbus Circle building, where both Time Warner Inc. and the Anderson Coooper 360 studios are housed, managed to anticipate that one! It probably didn't help much that Time Warner bent over for Fox Business Channel, launching the barely two-week-old fledgling network in both standard and high-definition formats. 
Meanwhile, CNN's been filming in HD for just over two months without a leg-up from its parent company. DirecTV carries CNN-HD, though the provider apparently wasn't ready for the network's September launch.
But enough business talk—clearly the one good thing to come out of CNN-HD is the crystal-clear focus through which you can see Corwin's and Cooper's man-love emerge. (Also, Anderson's work with his trainer is paying off!) The trunk-caressing! The water-frolicking! The fervent snake-wrangling! The co-parenting and bottle-feeding! Phew. Cigarette, anyone?
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Posted: October 17th, 2007, 11:56am CDT
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Anderson Cooper's appearance on Sesame Street's news network GNN is the André Gide's Si le grain ne meurt of children's television: A text forcing the issue of—let's call it "identity"?—into the public discourse. Speaking from a trashcan (self-loather!), Cooper introduces the letter G. What words start with "g" that might be germane for Cooper? Giggle. Goo. Gastroenteritis? Keep going!
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Posted: October 16th, 2007, 11:25am CDT
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Last night on Conan O'Brien, beloved silver-haired hurricane foe Anderson Cooper told a charming story about a defining moment in every young boy's life: Getting cosmetic surgery with your legendary socialite mom. Don't worry, Anderson's still real. He kept the "fatty deposit" under his eye (it adds character!). The whole thing is alarming, though. Does America really want to see Anderson's every flaw? Will HD ruin the magic? Can't they smear a little Vaseline on the lens and film him like a 30s movie starlet until we're all ready to deal with his imperfections?
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Posted: October 9th, 2007, 1:20pm CDT
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America's boyfriend, CNN newsman Anderson Cooper, appeared on "The View" today. He discovered what so many of us have found—that you really just get caught up in the spirit of the place when you're hanging with the gals! Although? We're not yet ruling out that he's a master of sarcasm.
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Posted: September 13th, 2007, 3:24pm CDT
"CNN is permanently shifting to taped programming for the second hour of "Anderson Cooper 360," scaling back an ambitious programming block created in 2005 to showcase the studio and field-reporting talents of Cooper, who it viewed as an emerging star." Uh oh! [Variety] UPDATE: Meouch, CNN is calling Variety all kinds of wrong on this one.
When 
Not that the CNN anchor is gay or anything that might gross out midwestern TV viewers. But, if he were, this is what his hypothetical latino boyfriend might look like. The gossipmongers at L.A. Rag Mag 
"Also, as I was watching 
We could make the typical cutesy gay jokes about this clip of 
[Fashion guy 
A salivating Gawker Stalker spots Anderson looking yummy: " Saw The Coop himself with a posse of guys last night at the Kathy Griffin show in a tight t-shirt and baseball cap. He looked great - huge arms and a big smile. Silver-haired perfection."
This is either the strangest regional accent I've heard on cable news, or one of the best TV bloopers of the campaign. A CNN commentator, interviewed by Anderson Cooper, intended to predict that the nomination would be "hard-fought". It came out "a hard-fart nomination." The clip, after the jump. Wait till 00:31 into the video.
