OUTscene: (INTER-view) MK Follows up with EW's Dave Karger about last night's Oscars!

by MK Scott
OUTscene Editor

Now that the Oscars are over, I spoke to Entertainment Weekly's Dave Karger about his take on Last night's Telecast.

BEEFCAKE: What is Sashsa Knezevic hiding?

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Model: Sashsa Knezevic by Brian Jankic
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FUNNY: Year of the Beard?

James Franco Skips His Own Oscar After-Party, Jets Out of Town!

James Franco left L.A. immediately after the Oscars, tweeting photos from the airport and enjoying a Bloody Mary instead of attending his own after-party at The Supper Club. US Magazine:

While a few stars -- Seth Rogen, Kevin Spacey and stars of the CW's 90210 showed up -- Franco, 32, was a no-show, a source confirms to UsMagazine.com.

The Supper Club bash, the insider adds, was a "bust."

Franco seemed over it before it even began.

Gatecrasher noted, of the early exit: "We hear that he's heading back East immediately afterwards to finish a paper on Byron that's due for a class at Yale."

CULTURE: Professional English Cricketer Steven Davies Comes Out!

English cricketer Steven Davies has come out of the closet, becoming the first professional athlete in that sport to do so, in an interview with The Telegraph:

In a frank and moving interview with Monday’s Daily Telegraph, Davies, who started his professional cricketing career with Worcestershire when he was 18, said he could no longer bear to lie about his sexuality. Davies, who told his family he was gay five years ago and has enjoyed their complete support, said it was a huge relief to finally come clean and be honest with the wider public.

And he said he hoped his decision would help other young gay people to have the confidence to follow in his footsteps. He explained: “This is the right time for me…I feel it is right to be out in the open about my sexuality. If more people do it, the more acceptable it will become. That must be a good thing.”

Davies said he has received much support from his teammates, and cited Welsh rugby icon Gareth Thomas as inspiration for his coming out.

Oscars Red Carpet: The Wonderful, The Wacky, The Whoa!

Natilie and her gorgeous Baby daddy!

Oscar Night is finally here, and over at New York magazine, the Fug Girls only have one question: How crazy does Helena Bonham Carter look? To find out, click through some of their thoughts on the best and worst looks in the gallery, or view their complete live blog. For many, many more red carpet photos, visit PopEater.

The King's Speech Takes Top Honors!

And they're off! After an opening montage involving all of the best picture nominees—and, uh, Back to the Future—the Oscars are in full swing. The montage was "enjoyably silly," writes David Edelstein in New York, featuring a trip inside the mind of Alec Baldwin, Inception-style. As for the material for hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway? Lame—but at least, Edelstein notes, "Lame material is better done by people you want to sleep with."

“Sex and the City 2″ dominates Razzies!

The Razzies must be handed out each year, I suppose, and SATC 2 took home three “awards” for worst actress, worst ensemble and worst sequel. Greg in Hollywood Reports.

At least Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte were spared the worst picture prize. That went to The Last Airbender.

Other “winners” included: Ashton Kutcher for worst actor (for Killers AND Valentine’s Day), Jessica Alba for worst supporting actress for The Killer Inside Me & Little Fockers & Valentine’s Day; Jackson Rathbone for worst supporting actor for The Last Airbender & Twilight Saga: Eclipse and M. Night Shyamalan for worst director for The Last Airbender.

POLITICS: Chris Lee Was Also Trolling for Trans Women!

For a guy who only dabbled unsuccessfully in Craigslist dating, Chris Lee resigned post-haste, and Gawker thinks it now knows why: Two more women, both transgender and one a prostitute, have come forward to say that they corresponded with the ex-congressman after seeing an ad in which he sought "a sexy ts/cd that i can spoil."

"Yes, that's right," writes Remy Stern on Gawker: "a member of Congress posted a personal ad seeking transsexuals and crossdressers and even included a picture of himself, all without thinking twice, apparently." One woman had a near-identical shirtless photo of a man she alleges is Lee, but Gawker reports that ultimately both women stopped talking to the website.

FUNNY: E.T., the Sequel?

Endless Oscar Predictions Ruining the Show?

As the film critic for the Los Angeles Times, Kenneth Turan loves the Oscars. But he hates the nonstop barrage of predictions that bombard us ahead of the show. His beef "is not that the pundits are often wrong but, frankly, that they are often right," he says. "The more academy votes and voters are studied, the more patterns emerge, the more identifiable signs and meanings become apparent, and the more the awards can be unceremoniously pinned to a board like a captured butterfly."

Where's the fun in that? Tomorrow night, for instance, you can safely wager that The King's Speech, Colin Firth, Natalie Portman, and Christian Bale will triumph. (Those aren't so much Turan's predictions as his begrudging acknowledgment that the forecasters have things figured out.) "I know that genie is never, ever going back into the bottle," he writes, "but part of me ... wishes that it could.

Lady Gaga to be Godmother to Elton John and David Furnish's Son!

David Furnish gave an interview to Macleans magazine late this week in which he was asked about reports that Lady Gaga was to be named Godmother to his and Elton John's son Zachary.

Said Furnish: "We haven’t publicly confirmed that yet but your sources are very good! I prefer not to comment on it because we are going to make a statement about godparents later on."

He added, "She’s all about inclusiveness and tolerance. She believes that you can be whoever you want to be and that we don’t have to live in a world of conformity and that we can all [benefit] from individuality. That’s the best message in the world. The freedom to be who you are, do what you want and love who you want to love."

John Galliano Files Defamation Lawsuit Against Couple!

Dior designer John Galliano has filed a defamation lawsuit against a couple he was accused of attacking in Paris earlier this week. Following the attack, which media reported was anti-Semitic, Dior suspended the designer.

WSJ: According to Paris police, Mr. Galliano was taken in for questioning on Thursday after a fracas erupted outside La Perle, in Paris’s hip third arrondissement.

The British designer, who had consumed alcohol, was questioned for alleged violent behavior and making alleged anti-Semitic remarks to two people during an argument, an official said. Mr. Galliano was released after the questioning; the names of the two people weren’t disclosed.

French newspaper “Le Figaro” reported today that Mr. Galliano provided three written statements from witnesses who denied that the designer made any anti-Semitic insults.

Dior’s fashion show is scheduled for Friday. It is unclear whether Mr. Galliano will take his catwalk bow

'Black Swan' Leads Independent Spirit Awards!

Black Swan was the big winner at today's Independent Spirit Awards taking four prizes — Best Feature, Best Female Lead, Best Director, and Best Cinematography. The Kids are All Right's writers Stuart Blumberg and Lisa Cholodenko.


The awards honor independent (mostly) American film made for under $20 million.

Full list of winners,
BEST FEATURE 

Black Swan

BEST DIRECTOR 

Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan

BEST SCREENPLAY 

Stuart Blumberg, Lisa Cholodenko- The Kids Are All Right

BEST FIRST FEATURE (Award given to the director and producer)

Get Low
Director: Aaron Schneider
Producers: David Gundlach, Dean Zanuck

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY 

Lena Dunham, Tiny Furniture

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD - Given to the best feature made for under $500,000.
Daddy Longlegs
Writer/Directors: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie

Producers: Casey Neistat, Tom Scott

BEST FEMALE LEAD 

Natalie Portman- Black Swan

BEST MALE LEAD

James Franco, 127 Hours

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE

Dale Dickey- Winter's Bone

BEST SUPPORTING MALE

John Hawkes- Winter's Bone

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Matthew Libatique- Black Swan

BEST DOCUMENTARY (Award given to the director) 

Exit Through the Gift Shop
Director: Banksy

BEST FOREIGN FILM (Award given to the director) 

The King's Speech (United Kingdom)
Director: Tom Hooper

LIST: 10 Shocking Oscar-less Actors!

You'd think legendary actor Cary Grant would have won at least one Oscar, right? Wrong: Though he was nominated twice, Grant never took home the prize. Gear up for Oscar night with The Stir's list of 10 actors who, surprisingly, never won an Oscar:

Bette Midler: She has, however, "won plenty of Golden Globes," writes Lindsay Mannering, who notes Midler was nominated for her roles in The Rose and For the Boys.

Peter O'Toole: Not a single statue, even though he's been nominated eight times. (Does the Lifetime achievement award count?)

Glenn Close: Another non-winner with a lot of nominations—five—but none since the 1980s.

Johnny Depp: He hasn't won so far though he's been nominated three times (for Pirates of the Caribbean, Sweeney Todd, and Finding Neverland), and "If he keeps making movies like The Tourist," his future prospects aren't looking so bright either, quips Mannering.

Click for the complete list, including one actor who must be "too pretty to win."

Gadhafi Ditched by Beloved Ukrainian Nurse!

Moammar Gadhafi's circle is getting smaller—and less blond. The Libyan dictator will likely be abandoned by yet another confidant: his Ukrainian nurse. Halyna Kolotnytska, 38, says she will flee the violence in Libya and return home, adding to the list of senior government officials, diplomats, and pilots who have ditched Gadhafi, reports the AP. Kolotnytska is one of four Ukrainian nurses who cares for him, according to a WikiLeaks cable, which also spills some other tidbits: It calls her a "voluptuous blonde" who always travels with Gadhafi as only she "knows his routine" and even suggested the two may be romantically involved.

OUTscene: (INTER-view) For the 3rd straight year EW's Dave Karger Predicts the Oscar Winners for our OUT-Viewers!

by MK Scott

OUTscene Editor

Due to his busy schedule (He has switched coasts) Entertainment Weekly's Dave Karger was unavailable for a phone interview. He did send us his predictions to win the Oscar for the 3rd year in a row. For last 2 years he has been 99% accurate, no wonder Karger is known as Mr. Oscar!

MK: Best Animated Film?
DK: Toy Story 3; Anyone who bets otherwise is insane, pure and simple.

MK: Best Original Screenplay?  
DK: With more overall support, Speech will take this prize over Writers Guild winner Inception. But Kids deserves props for taking a familiar film genre — the intimate family drama — and turning it on its ear.

MK: Best Adapted Screenplay?
DK: Aaron Sorkin's masterful screenplay isn't just talky, it's nothing short of brilliant. And he's one of the biggest locks of the night.

BEEFCAKE: Matthew McConaughey's Men’s Fitness COVER!

FUNNY: Princeton Swim Team Speedo Shower “Teenage Dream”!

Boy George talks about Gay Pioneers!

There is a terrific new interview that Boy George has done with The Hollywood Reporter.

The one-time Culture Club frontman has seen plenty of troubles in recent years but is on an upswing with the new hit song Somebody to Love Me.

He talks about that and plenty more. Click Here for the FULL interview.

Writer Sues for Libel Over Bad Book Review!

No author likes a bad review, but one academic decided to do something about it—she sued. Even more unusual, the Israel-based writer of an English-language book by a Dutch publisher that was reviewed in 2007 by a German professor for an American journal decided to sue in a French court. So what horrific things did the reviewer say about Karin N. Calvo-Goller's The Trial Proceedings of the International Criminal Court?

Thomas Weigend wrote it has "analytical nuggets" and “meticulously covers all relevant topics,” but observed that it rehashes "the existing legal set-up" and found the author's “conceptual grasp” of some matters to be questionable. Quips Adam Liptak in the New York Times, "Indeed, it would not be hard to find a more caustic review on any given Sunday in this newspaper." But Calvo-Goller insisted the review be deleted, and when the editor refused, she filed a criminal complaint against both Weigend and the editor that published it. “The author has obviously done more damage to her reputation by making this criminal complaint than would have been possible by any book review," wrote a law professor on his blog. The verdict is expected on March 3.

Cafe to TSA Agents: No Food for You!

In a cafe near the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, a small piece of retribution is being dealt back to the TSA. "We have posted signs on our doors basically saying that they aren't allowed to come into our business," an employee tells travel journalist Christopher Elliott, adding that her boss travels a lot and often recognizes TSA agents. If he sees one in the café, located near the airport, "we turn our backs and completely ignore them, and tell them to leave,” she says. “Their kind aren't welcomed in our establishment."

She claims most customers agree with the stance, reports the Consumerist, and the cops even escort TSA agents from the premises. "Until TSA agents start treating us with the respect and dignity that we deserve, then things will change for them in the private sector," she says.

LIST: World's Most Liveable City Is...

Looking for a new place to hang your hat? Consider Vancouver, which tops the list of the world’s most liveable cities for the fifth year running, Reuters reports. The annual survey from the Economist Intelligence Unit ranks cities on stability, health care, culture and environment, education, and infrastructure, and Vancouver scored 98%.




Other leaders:
Melbourne, Australia

Vienna, Austria

Toronto, Canada

Calgary, Canada

Do Canada and Australia continue to dominate? What's the top US city (which holds a sort-of dismal 29th place)? Find out here.

White House Picks First Gay Social Secretary!

The White House has picked a new social secretary who makes a little history on two fronts: Not only is Jeremy Bernard the first man to hold the post, he's the first openly gay person to do so, reports Lynn Sweet at AOL's Politics Daily. Bernard, a former fundraiser for President Obama in Los Angeles, currently serves as an adviser to the French ambassador in Paris. He replaces Julianna Smoot, who took over after Desiree Rogers left in the wake of the Tareq and Michaele Salahi party-crashing mess.

Oops: Huckabee Defends Gay Marriage!

In attacking gay marriage, Mike Huckabee inadvertently offered an excellent defense of it, writes Ruth Marcus. He went from criticizing President Obama’s decision not to defend the gay-marriage ban to pointing out the difficult “economic reality of out-of-wedlock children.” The fact is, “gays and lesbians are clamoring for the right to avoid the very societal ill that Huckabee decries,” writes Marcus in the Washington Post.

As for the legal debate over whether Obama should have adhered to tradition and defended the law: well, Chief Justice John Roberts actually set a precedent in the other direction. When he worked in the solicitor general’s office, he “not only declined to defend a congressionally mandated program to give minority applicants preferences in obtaining broadcast licenses”—he pushed for its removal. Obama’s move was “more restrained—and more justified,” since the law he's rejecting “has changed significantly” since it was passed.

Father stabs son's boyfriend!

A MAN who slit his gay son’s boyfriend’s throat has been jailed for six years.

Barrow DJ Alan James Culley was visiting his son Alan David Culley and his partner Richard Conaghan when a row broke out.

Culley Snr, who was drunk, then slashed Mr Conaghan’s throat and face twice and stabbed his son’s hand when he tried to intervene.

Recalling the ordeal, son Mr Culley told the Evening Mail: “He lunged at Richard, slit his face down one side then lunged again and slit his throat.

“I stuck my hand out to try and stop him and he stabbed my hand; but if I hadn’t done that, Richard wouldn’t be alive. The doctors said it was a matter of millimetres away from his jugular and if the knife had gone through that, he would have been a goner.”

The six-year sentence given to Culley Snr was welcomed by his son.

Click HERE for the Full Story!

OUTscene: (RE-view) Next to Normal Shines in Seattle!

by MK Scott
OUTscene Editor

The 2010 Pulitzer Prize winner now on tour at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre with The Tony winning star, Alice Ripley. What I love about 'Some' National Tours is when they bring out all the Star power. (Like a few years ago when I saw Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal in 'Rent' or Harvey Fierstein in 'Fiddler'.). You get the same Broadway experience except with Better seats.
Next to Normal focuses, sometimes humorously but with piercing candor, on a middle-class wife and mother whose bipolar disease and clinical depression are fracturing her family.

BEEFCAKE: Ryan Phillippe Takes it Off in InStyle!

Marcus Mam snapped “Man of Style” Ryan Phillippe for InStyle mag’s March issue. Styled by Ryan Hastings.

FUNNY: Shaving James Franco!

Franco getting ready for the Oscars!

ISSUES: Teacher Mocks Teen for Being Gay!

A Palm Coast, Fla., teen says one of his teachers ridiculed him in front of classmates for being gay, telling him he couldn’t keep his soda in the same fridge as other students or they’d turn out like him.

Flagler Palm Coast High School freshman Luke Herbert said he and his mother complained to school officials several times about the teacher, but no one has taken the complaints seriously.

Click HERE for the Full Story in The Advocate!

CULTURE: Gayle King Goes Gaga!

Lady Gaga looks understandably perplexed when she is greeted by the sight of Gayle King trying to "out-Gaga" her.

ENTERTAINMENT: Legendary Elizabeth Taylor is feeling better!

Elizabeth Taylor, who turns 79 this weekend, remains in the hospital after suffering symptoms of heart failure two weeks ago.

“Elizabeth Taylor’s doctors continue to be encouraged by her progress,” her spokesperson said in a statement obtained by OnTheRedCarpet.com. “She will stay in the hospital for now, so they can continue to observe her. She is in good spirits and continues to feel stronger every day.”

SOAP Q: My Big Gay Italian Wedding" Is Invaded By Soap Divas!

Fantastic news for Soap Fans! Some of your favorite soap actresses of past and present join "My Big Gay Italian Wedding" from March 17-19, 2011! Ellen Dolan (ex-Margo, ATWT), Kristen Alderson (Starr, OLTL), Brittany Underwood (ex-Langston, OLTL), and Marnie Schulenberg (ex-Alison, ATWT) join Ilene Kristen (Roxy, OLTL) during her run for one weekend only! The ladies will be stepping in to fill all of the female roles in the show for an unforgettable set of performances!

Click for more from We Love Soaps!

And Now: Mark Zuckerberg, the Comic Book!

Mark Zuckerberg is the latest celebrity to have his story told in comic-book form, the Christian Science Monitor reports. Mark Zuckerberg: Creator of Facebook is a 48-page bio-comic that label Bluewater Productions promises to be more fair than last year's The Social Network. The $6.99 comic book debuted yesterday, just in time to take advantage of that movie's Oscar buzz.

“Rightly or wrongly, Mark dealt harshly with some people on his way to where he is today,” says author Jerome Maida. “As we see, he left many people feeling betrayed. I try my best to be fair here.” One other tidbit: A production company has optioned the rights to the comic for an animated movie.

Two and a Half Men Shut Down After Bizarre Sheen Rant!

CBS has had enough of Charlie Sheen's antics, at least for this season. The network says it has canceled production of Two and a Half Men for the rest of the season following bizarre rants from the actor against the sitcom's creator yesterday. Sheen—referring to Chuck Lorre by his birth name, Chaim Levine—called Lorre a "clown," a "turd," and a "contaminated little maggot," in a radio interview with Alex Jones and in a letter to TMZ, the New York Daily News reports.

Sheen slammed Lorre for putting the show on hiatus while he was in rehab. "I embarrassed him in front of his children and the world by healing at a pace that his un-evolved mind cannot process," he told Jones, saying Alcoholics Anonymous was for "sissies" and he had cured his addictions with the power of his mind. "I'm dealing with fools and trolls," Sheen said of people who criticize his lifestyle. "They lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and just look at their loser lives and then they look at me and say 'I can't process it."

Democrats Push to Repeal Law Against Gay Marriage!

With the Obama administration having declared the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional, Democratic lawmakers are launching new challenges of their own to the law, the Huffington Post reports. In the House, the "Respect for Marriage Act," which would explicitly repeal DOMA, is set to be introduced by Jerry Nadler with "quite a few co-sponsors," he says. "The president's move is another step in the increasing realization that there is no conceivable justification for DOMA," Nadler says.

How far it will get in the GOP-controlled House is a big uncertainty, however. In the Senate, Dianne Feinstein plans to introduce parallel legislation in her capacity as a member of the Judiciary Committee. "I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996," Feinstein said. "It was the wrong law then; it is the wrong law now; and it should be repealed."

Mike Huckabee Says He Doesn't Want Gays to Parent, Marry, or Serve in the Military

CNN's John King talks to presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee about his new book, A Simple Government, leading off with this excerpt:

"I believe that we're in denial about potential problems as we see more and more homosexual couples raising families. Essentially, these are experiments to see how well children will fare in such same-sex households. It will be years before we know whether or not our little guinea pigs turn out to be good at marriage and parenthood."

Huckabee goes on to say that the government should legislate "traditional" marriage and that gays should be kept out of the military

Wichita School District Defends Publication of High School Editorial Citing Verses from Leviticus!

The Wichita School District is defending the publication of a student editorial in the Wichita East High School paper that said same-sex relationships are not normal and cited verses from Leviticus that the author claimed suggested gays would be put to death.

An online petition calling on the school to retract the editorial has more than 1200 signers.

LGBT groups that were planning a press conference in response to the editorial canceled it yesterday following the school's statement about the issue, which read, in part:

"East High Principal Ken Thiessen met with members of his school’s student organization representing students with alternative lifestyles, explained the circumstances leading to publication of this student opinion, and invited students with a different viewpoint to respond with their own opinion piece."

Read the student editorial HERE.

ISSUES: Anonymous Hackers Take Down Westboro!

The Westboro Baptist Church told Anonymous to "bring it" and the hackers—apparently somewhat reluctantly—have duly brought it. The hackers, who said an earlier threat to hack the Kansas church was a hoax, hacked Westboro's website and posted an open letter to the church while an Anonymous member was engaged in a live radio debate with church spokeswoman Shirley Phelps-Roper, CBS reports. Said the Anonymous member on the air, "In the time Shirley was blabbing her religious preach I actually did some business ... We just put up a nice release. We had enough. We responded maturely."

"If you're reading this, it means Anonymous has lost its patience with you, likely because you've threatened us again after we denied you a war," the letter posted on a Westboro website read, explaining that Anonymous is too busy with operations in Libya, Bahrain, and Iran to waste much time on Westboro. "Take this defacement as a simple warning: go away. The world (including Anonymous) disagrees with your hateful messages but you have the right to voice them. This does not mean you can jump onto Anonymous for attention."

OUTscene: (Events) Dot429 'Storm' Seattle!

MK with Jason Dorn

MK was delighted to attend the Dot429 Winter Networking Party to Benefit the Gay City Health Project in Downtown Seattle this past Stormy Wednesday at the Super-Fine, Roche Bobois European Furniture store. it was also reunion of sorts with the Dot429 Event director, Jason Dorn, who MK knew in Portland and hadn't seen in years. It is remarkable that neither of us has aged. Also spotted were Sarah Toce of The Seattle Lesbian, Gay city's Peter Jabin, and Seattle Realitor, Eric Robison.

SL's Sarah Toce was all smiles!

MK Catchs up wth Jason and Meets Hottie,  Philip!

Gay City's Peter Jabin

Check Out more Photos by Stephanie Brusig at The Seattle Lesbian.

BEEFCAKE: Too Early for Swimwear?

Fernanda Calfat shoots Thiago Tricarico, Ricardo Magrino and Anderson Ferminio for RadarX in limited-edition (and limited-material!) swimwear from Marcelu Ferraz's Beachwear Collection:

Transphobia happens in queer spaces too, unfortunately!

Last weekend Portland trans-identified community member Nik Rapier attended one of our most popular queer nights, Gaycation. While there he had an unfortunate incident of transphobia which he initially recounted on the global web project to combat street harrassment Hollaback. He has also agreed to share his story with QPDX readers.

Franco and Hathaway do 'Grease'!

James Franco tweeted out a teaser clip for this weekend's Academy Awards — a 19-second dreamlike segment of himself and Anne Hathaway in the Grease carnival scene.

Gaga meets her idol, Liza!

Who is giving dvia advice to whom?

WikiLeaks' New Venture Is ... T-Shirts?

Julian Assange needs cash to pay legal bills, and WikiLeaks needs cash to keep WikiLeaking. Hence, this new website selling WikiLeaks merchandise, notes Mashable. Feast your eyes on duffle bags, umbrellas, and, of course, T-shirts with Assange pictured as Che Guevara.

Click HERE to order!

Christine O'Donnell's Next Gig: DWTS?

Sarah Palin lobbied for fellow Mama Grizzly Christine O’Donnell to go on Dancing With the Stars last year, and now it looks like it just might happen. The former Tea Party candidate told her Facebook fans Monday that she was invited onto the reality show, the New York Daily News reports. “Although I am utterly flattered, my initial thought was to decline, as 2 year old nephew has more rhythm than me, and my two left feet!!” she wrote.

To date, some 375 comments have followed, with one person advising O’Donnell not to do it “because of what the leftists in the entertainment industry will try to do,” while another worried she would be cheapening herself. She later wrote, "The facebook comments about Dancing w The Stars list great pros and cons. Thank you for your input. Still undecided. Book comes first."

POLITICS: Should Wu resign?

In the middle of last year’s campaign, Oregon Rep. David Wu sent a picture of himself wearing a tiger costume to his staff members. The Democrat ended up winning the election—handing him his seventh term—but the tiger picture and other strange revelations have led to calls for the Congressman to step down. Seven staff members resigned over concerns with Wu’s bizarre behavior, and now the GOP and one of the state’s largest newspapers have joined the call for his resignation. Wu has admitted to seeking medical treatment and counseling after a stressful campaign, but has no plans to leave office, the AP reports.

Oregon’s second-largest newspaper called yesterday for Wu to step down over his “lack of candor” and the fact that he was not “forthcoming about his medical treatment.” A newspaper from Wu’s district (Which includes MK's hometown of Beaverton)  will publish a similar editorial claiming that Wu “is becoming an embarrassment,” and the state Republican Party chairman says the people in his district “deserve to have a congressman who's completely focused on serving them.” In a statement, Wu said he regrets his “unprofessional and inappropriate” behavior, but his spokesperson says he will not resign and is still planning to seek reelection.