'L Word' Actress Leisha Hailey Tweets She Was Kicked Off Southwest Airlines Flight After Kissing Girlfriend

The L Word actress Leisha Hailey says she was kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight after kissing her girlfriend. In a series of tweets Monday, Hailey wrote that she and fashion designer Nina Garduno, who have been together since 2006, "were escorted off the plane for getting upset about the issue." "I have been discriminated against by @SouthwestAir," she tweeted. "Flt. attendant said that it was a 'family' airline and kissing was not ok." PHOTOS: 12 Hollywood Airline Controversies "This is an outrage," she added. "I demand a public apology by @SouthwestAir and a refund. Hate is not a family value. I will never fly this airline." She continued: "We were escorted off the plane for getting upset about the issue. @SouthwestAir endorses homophobic employees. No one made her accountable." STORY:Kevin Smith Drops 65 Lbs After Airline Incident The Uh Huh Her twitter feed -- of which Hailey, also a musician, is a member -- also posted a series of tweets about the incident. One noted that the couple "joined the ranks" of Kevin Smith and Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong, both of whom were previously kicked off SWA flights. In February 2010, Smith claimed he was kicked off for being too large to fit in a single seat, while Armstrong earlier this month tweeted that he was escorted off the aircraft for wearing sagging pants. "We didn't know intolerance and discrimination for slouchy pants, being overweight or being gay was part of your family values," an Uh Huh Her tweet read. Meanwhile, a SWA rep did reach out to Hailey via Uh Huh Her's Twitter account. PHOTOS: Kevin Smith's Wildest Rants "I'm so sorry!" read a tweet from SWA's account. "Can you please follow/DM [direct message] me more details so we can get to the bottom of this? Thanks!" SWA later tweeted this statement, which did not mention Hailey by name: "Initial reports indicate that we received several passenger complaints characterizing the behavior as excessive. Our crew, responsible for the comfort of all Customers on board, approached the passengers based solely on behavior and not gender. The conversation escalated to a level that was better resolved on the ground, as opposed to in flight. We regret any circumstance where a passenger does not have a positive experience on Southwest and we are ready to work directly with the passengers involved to offer our heartfelt apologies for falling short of their expectations." Related Topics Leisha Hailey The L Word

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Dustin Lance Black Debuts Prop. 8 Play in New You'll be able to

NEW You'll be able to -- With Morgan Freeman needling witnesses and John Lithgow socking within the impassioned concluding arguments, there's sure to be some dramatic warmth. Nevertheless the most emotional moment of Monday's starry one-evening-only Broadway presentation of Dustin Lance Black's play, 8, came when litigants and prosecutors grew to become an associate from the stars representing them onstage for your curtain call.our editor recommendsStar-Studded Cast Debuts Dustin Lance Black's Prop. 8 Play 'J. Edgar' Start Searching: Leonardo DiCaprio as Legendary FBI Director, Naomi W as His Secretary (Photos)Clint Eastwoods 'J. Edgar' Trailer Premieres (Video)Neil Patrick Harris, Ellen DeGeneres Cheer Passage of NY Gay Marriage BillSesame Street's Bert and Ernie Will not Marry in NY City The play was composed from transcripts, complaintant interviews and court room findings within the 2010 Proposition 8 trial in San Francisco Bay Area, within the finish which Chief Judge Vaughn Master ruled that California's stop on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. That decision presently is inching using the appeals process. A 2009 Oscar champion for his original script of Milk, Black will be a vocal opponent of Prop. 8 through the 2008 election which is a board part of American Foundation for Equal Rights, the advocacy organization that profits within the Broadway staged reading through through and many types of future presentations of 8 are destined. STORY: Star-Studded Cast Debuts Dustin Lance Black's Prop. 8 Play Black written the play throughout research excursions for his scripts on Warners' approaching Clint Eastwood feature, J. Edgar, and subsequently project, Barefoot Bandit, that's joining together at Fox, with David Gordon Eco-friendly vulnerable to direct. "I moved around these huge binders with trial transcripts and spent time brushing through them trying to find the choice bits which will tell the story from the products ongoing within that court room,Inch Black mentioned. While Black doesn't eliminate the potential for developing the material in to a feature, for the moment, the play is headed to drama-program courses at Carnegie Mellon and Northwestern schools. "You need to personalize the play and deepen it to the level where it's prepared to appear with the world," he mentioned. "In my opinion, it becomes an educational outreach tool," added Black. "It's necessary that people be familiar with arguments on sides as this situation makes its method up Court." STORY: Dustin Lance Black Writing Barefoot Bandit Movie Black mentioned he was concerned about showing the play the first time in NY, thinking about the truth that the identical-sex marriage bill was passed condition legislature in June, potentially gradually wrecking the issue of some emergency. But rousing support from stars signing on for your event, plus sponsors including Steve Bing, Roland Emmerich and David Geffen, who funded the expansion which is splashy after party within the Gotham Club, established that strong sentiment remains behind the push for equal rights around the federal level. "NYers just first first got it," mentioned Black. "We didn't have to explain almost anything to people that gave their time and expense with this endeavor. They mentioned, yes, you need to lead the easiest method to full national equality." Furthermore to Freeman and Lithgow since the crack litigating team of David Boies and Theodore B. Olson, the premiere of 8 featured Ellen Barkin, Christine Lahti, Matt Bomer and Cheyenne Jackson since the two couples that prosecuted against Prop. 8 in Federal District Court, all whom were attending in case. STORY: 'Milk' Scribe Joins GLAAD Against Newsweek Directed by Joe Mantello (Wicked), the reading through through was staged within the Eugene O'Neill Theater, where Tony champion It of Mormon is playing to promote-out crowds. (That relate does not have Monday performance.) Due to the financial support for your Prop. 8 campaign within the Chapel of Jesus of Latter Day Saints, there's a specific irony in 8 being completed beneath set designer Scott Pask's playful Mormon Tabernacle proscenium. Also among the cast were Bradley Whitford as lead defense attorney Charles Cooper, Bob Balaban just like a systematic Judge Master and Yeardley Cruz, obtaining the voice of Lisa Simpson to have an expert witness round the psychology of marriage. Make the most of Reiner came the finest laughs as defense witness David Blankenhorn, evading "yes" or "no" solutions while inadvertently sabotaging their very own shaky arguments. Spotted inside the audience were Bruce Cohen, Chace Crawford, Anna Deavere Cruz, Thomas Roberts, Barbara Walters and John Williams. STORY: Prop. 8 Rivals Know War Isn't Over "I've been an advocate for girls's rights my existence, and gay Us citizens are In my opinion the ultimate minority not granted equal rights beneath the law," mentioned Lahti, summing within the reason lots of stars given their support. "In my opinion theater gets the energy to produce people consider their prejudices, together with a play like it can help affect change. 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Four Emmy Symbols Sophistication New Hollywood Reporter Cover

TV symbols Mary Tyler Moore, Michael J. Fox, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Bryan Cranston -- together those who win of 16 Emmys -- are featured on four separate covers from the Hollywood Reporter's new Emmy problem. Each one of the four THR cover stars was selected for dominance of the decade of TV, with Moore representing the seventies, Fox meaning the 80s, Louis-Dreyfus for that 90s and Cranston the 'aughts. PHOTOS: Behind the curtain of THR's Emmy Icon Shoots Each cover star discloses intimate ideas about their career, and just how an Emmy win transformed them. Fox, that has received five Emmys (and elevated millions for his Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research), recalls winning in 1986 for his role as Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties when his career was on the hot streak. "It had been annually in which you were awaiting anyone to bang about the door and say, 'Just kidding, provide all back,'" he confesses. Falco -- who thought she was "done" when Sopranos ended its operate on Cinemax in 2007 -- states she doesn't believe she's funny. "After I think about comedy I think about Lucille Ball, or Tina Fey -- or Mary," she states, mentioning to Moore, with whom she poses. On her part, Moore states, "For any very long time, people thought women couldn't get laughs, so each time I visit a lady acquire one, I'm personally tickled." Cranston (who apparently won from nowhere in 2008: Breaking Bad wasn't nominated, AMC was barely on anybody's radar, the actor was mostly recognized to TV audiences because the wacky father on Fox's Malcolm in the centre and smarmy dental professional Tim Whatley on Seinfeld), states of his Emmy, "I understood it would change my existence, and contains.Inch Just to illustrate: he's always aspired to use Steven Soderbergh and "it works out he was keen on Breaking Bad," the actor -- who arrived the role of military official Lyle Haggerty within the director's Contagion -- informs THR. The edition, which hits stands on Sept. 15, also takes visitors via a gorgeous 16-page photo portfolio spanning five decades of TV entertainment excellence featuring the kind of The Simpsons' creator Matt Groening, Mad Males author/creator Matthew Weiner, star and creator from the Dick Van Dyke Show, Dick Van Dyke and Carl Reiner, Laugh-In's Lily Tomlin and George Schlatter, Nurse Jackie's Edie Falco, The Sopranos creator David Chase, CBS chief L'ensemble des Moonves, Modern Family's Steve Levitan and Eric Stonestreet, and Forex Network mind John Landgraf using the Shield champion Michael Chiklis. The brand new problem includes Emmys coverage, including interviews with host Jane Lynch and producer Mark Burnett by what the show, set to air on Sept. 18 on Fox, includes, along with an insider's list of all of the parties, Emmy beauty and elegance secrets, and just how the feminine stars get individuals honours show arms. Click the link to determine who made their email list and browse THR's complete Emmy Icon package. Related Subjects Emmys 2011

Toronto 2011: Day 6 Recap

Today was largely dedicated to writing, instead of galavanting. Used to do, however, escape for that early mid-day press screening of Moneyball, which certainly resided as much as the hype which i've been hearing out and about all week, and also the star which -- namely, Kaira Pitt -- I authored about later within the day. Today, I embarked to the roof from the Spoke Club for Vital's party honoring its Sundance acquisition/TIFF film Constantly (pictured). I talked for a little with Jonathan Schwartz, the lawyer-switched-producer who assisted to steer this film to fruition, and it is male lead, Anton Yelchin his co-star Felicity Johnson, meanwhile, huddled with a few buddies with a warmth light on the other hand from the windy deck. Studio folks couldn't be more happy using the response that they like Crazy has produced in Toronto, and also have also loved seeing the lately launched poster for Youthful Adult (which we opened about this blog), their other large honours contender, hanging inside a primary hallway from the packed TIFF Bell Lightbox for those festivalgoers and journalists to determine. Finally, I made my way to Roy Thomson Hall for that gala screening of Butter, a movie that opened at Telluride two days ago after i was there, but which i was not able to trap at that time. The film is very funny, sometimes, and warrants to appear -- but in no way could it be just a little Miss Sunshine (2006) kind of honours contender, as some had insinuated it may be when it was initially seen. (To tell the truth, easily the funniest area of the evening was the statement released by distributor Harvey Weinstein and browse towards the audience by actress Olivia Wilde before the lights went lower.) Talking about Wilde, I'll be seated using the actress tomorrow morning to have an interview, and so i better run now and prepare! 'Til the next time... Toronto Worldwide Film Festival Kaira Pitt Harvey Weinstein Olivia Wilde Moneyball Butter

Dancing With the Stars' Mark Ballas Defends Chaz Bono

Mark Ballas, Chaz Bono As the new season of Dancing With the Stars gets underway, pro Mark Ballas says he's watching the feet of partner Kristin Cavallari - and watching the back of contestant Chaz Bono."I've found some of the rough spots and I'm smoothing them out right now," Ballas told TV Guide Magazine at the September 10 Creative Arts Emmys of the potential he sees in Cavallari. "But she's good. I only have to tell her a couple of times before she starts getting the hang of it."Ballas said he clicked with the notoriously pot-stirring The Hills star right away. "We get along, we have a lot in common, we have similar personalities, we find the same stuff funny, and I think it's going to be really great. We make a good team," he said. "She doesn't say 'I'm tired.' She just keeps going and that's what you need as a choreographer, someone who's willing and just up for it. She's up for it."Ballas added that along with turning Cavallari into a full-fledged dancer, he hopes the show will reveal a new side of Chaz Bono - the transgender offspring of pop icon Cher and dance partner of Lacey Schwimmer - and defuse the negative backlash the activist has received from some quarters."The thing about the show is that we take people on journeys. He's a good person," said Ballas. "It's so wrong of people to accuse and to poke fun and then to be rude about someone that they've never met, that they don't know. I've met Chaz. I've spent hours with Chaz, and he is a lovely guy. I wish him the best of luck - and good for him, getting out there and just doing it. Stick it to the man, my brother. It's all good."Ballas explained that when controversy arises on DWTS, the cast's first instinct is always to rally around the star at the center of the flack. "We'll defend our own to the death," said Ballas. "It was the same thing when I was with Bristol Palin: I would've stood in front of a bus for that girl. I'm the one in the studio with her for 12 hours. I'm the one who knows what she's really like and she's a wonderful person. And Chaz is a wonderful person. I'm really rooting for him!"

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Actor Andy Whitfield dies at 39

WhitfieldAndy Whitfield, the 39-year-old star of the cable series "Spartacus: Blood and Sand," has died.Manager Sam Maydew says Whitfield died Sunday of non-Hodgkin Lymphoma in Sydney, Australia.In a statement, Whitfield's wife Vashti called her husband a "beautiful young warrior" who died on a "sunny Sydney morning" in the "arms of his loving wife."Whitfield -- who was born in Wales and lived in Australia -- was a virtual unknown when he was cast as the title hero in "Spartacus," a hit original series for the Starz network that made waves with its graphic violence and sexuality.Whitfield was preparing for the second season when he was diagnosed 18 months ago.In a statement, Starz prexy Chris Albrecht called Whitfield "an inspiration to all of us.""We were fortunate to have worked with Andy in 'Spartacus' and came to know that the man who played a champion on-screen was also a champion in his own life," Albrecht said, praising the "courage, strength and grace" that the actor brought to his public battle the disease.In January the network announced that another Australian actor, Liam McIntyre, would take over the role. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

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Toronto honors 9/11 anniversary

On the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 -- the midpoint of the annual Toronto Film Festival -- projection booths were warming up to unspool dozens of films.But thousands of visiting filmmakers, critics and industry professionals, many from the U.S., never left their hotels. Instead, they gathered with friends and colleagues in front of the smallscreen to watch the unfolding horrors of four coordinated terror attacks against targets in New York and Washington.Every year since, the festival has programmed films that, in various ways, explore the meaning or aftermath of the tragic events, beginning in 2002 with the "11'09'01" omnibus of 11 films, each 11 minutes and 9 seconds long.Today, the 10th anniversary of 9/11 attacks, the festival will screen a specially commissioned four-minute short in front of every public screening. Sponsors all agreed to pull their trailers from all Sunday screenings to allow for a more reflective atmosphere."When we started thinking and talking about this project over a year ago, two things were very clear," said festival co-director Cameron Bailey, an active film journalist during the 2001 fest. "This is something people experienced here together in the middle of a celebration of an art form. But it's also something people experienced individually -- so we wanted to find the right balance to reflect that juxtaposition."The short is a straightforward piece weaving together first-person recollections from a number of industry people of their reactions and experiences that day.As some may recall, Piers Handling and Michele Maheux held a short press conference at noon that day announcing the festival was cancelling the rest of the day's screenings and providing details about a trauma response team was made available to assist festival guests coping with the tragedy."The festival decided to cancel all the red carpets, social events, parties -- and any other activities that would seem out of character with the sombre daze everyone was going through," Bailey recalls. The festival did resume public and press and industry screenings, he adds, "as a commitment to the art form and the work of the filmmakers, many of whom traveled long distances and, like hundreds of other people here, were also dealing with practical issues of how to get home."After today's screenings, the film will be available on the fest's website until the end of this year's event. "The intention is to allow viewers to reflect on their own memories of that day," Bailey says. "We don't want to impose out view, but simply say, 'Here's what we remember.'" Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

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Global Showbiz Briefs: Qatar, Europe

‘Black Gold’ Will Open Doha Tribeca Film Festival The premiere of Tarak Ben Ammar’s Black Gold will start the Doha Tribeca Film Festival, coordinators stated today. Backers from the film, charged because the greatest ever created in the centre East, also stated that James Horner (Titanic, Avatar) had lately completed the score at Londons Abbey Road Galleries. Warner Bros and Universal Pictures are going to release the film globally on November 23. The festival, which runs March. 26-30, lately introduced its jury and many of their slate. Study: Cable Revenues, Usage Increasing In Europe Men and women appear to become fighting off the cord-cutting trend, or possibly they simply haven’t become around into it. TheEuropean cable market ongoing to grow this year, with revenue through the E.U. rising by nearly 8% for that year on the effectiveness of double-digit development in digital TV, broadband and telephony customers, according to an alternative study on IHS.Guy Bisson, TV research director forIHS, stated the results show “that cord cutting doesn’t mean the finish around the globe. Strong increases in E.U. cable, Internet and telephony customers tend to be more than paying for growing competition within the cable tv business. The amount of individual customers rose over the 100 million level the very first time, reaching 101.a million this year. Film Movement Nabs FrenchThriller ’Free Males’ Film Movement has acquired United States privileges to Free Males by Ismal Ferroukhi (Le Grand Voyage). In France They thriller, presently screening in the Toronto Film Festival, is dependant on the real story of the Muslim Algerian immigrant residing in Vichy, who had been inspired to become listed on the resistance due to a friendship having a Jewish singer. It had been the 2nd pickup in as numerous days for Film Movement, which earlier bought the U.S. privileges to The spanish language filmmaker Fernando Leon P Aranoas Amador, a portrait of the youthful immigrant lady residing in The country. The organization plans limited theatrical runs anda day-and-date VOD release for films within the second quarter of 2012.

'When I Open My Mouth, What Comes Out is Country': Listen to Blake Shelton Cover 'Footloose'

“When I open my mouth, what comes out is country. It was going to sound country no matter what, but I didn’t want it to be too different,” explains singer Blake Shelton of his fresh-scrubbed country version of Kenny Loggin’s “Footloose,” recorded for Craig Brewer’s upcoming remake. “It’s music that was rock back then but is country now,” he adds, though Deniece Williams, Sammy Hagar, and Shalamar might disagree. Whatever. Give Shelton’s version a listen and see if it’s worth kicking off your Sunday shoes for. [The Boot via Vulture]