WTF.
Mitt Romney’s prep school classmates recall pranks, but also troubling incidents By Jason Horowitz, Updated: Thursday, May 10, 8:02 AM BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. — Mitt Romney returned from a three-week spring break in 1965 to resume his studies as a high school senior at the prestigious Cranbrook School. Back on the handsome campus, studded with Tudor brick buildings and manicured fields, he spotted something he thought did not belong at a school where the boys wore ties and carried briefcases. John Lauber, a soft-spoken new student one year behind Romney, was perpetually teased for his nonconformity and presumed homosexuality. Now he was walking around the all-boys school with bleached-blond hair that draped over one eye, and Romney wasn’t having it. “He can’t look like that. That’s wrong. Just look at him!” an incensed Romney told Matthew Friedemann, his close friend in the Stevens Hall dorm, according to Friedemann’s recollection. Mitt, the teenaged son of Michigan Gov. George Romney, kept complaining about Lauber’s look, Friedemann recalled. A few days later, Friedemann entered Stevens Hall off the school’s collegiate quad to find Romney marching out of his own room ahead of a prep school posse shouting about their plan to cut Lauber’s hair. Friedemann followed them to a nearby room where they came upon Lauber, tackled him and pinned him to the ground. As Lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help, Romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors. The incident was recalled similarly by five students, who gave their accounts independently of one another. Four of them — Friedemann, now a dentist; Phillip Maxwell, a lawyer; Thomas Buford, a retired prosecutor; and David Seed, a retired principal — spoke on the record. Another former student who witnessed the incident asked not to be named. The men have differing political affiliations, although they mostly lean Democratic. Buford volunteered for Barack Obama’s campaign in 2008. Seed, a registered independent, has served as a Republican county chairman in Michigan. All of them said that politics in no way colored their recollections. “It happened very quickly, and to this day it troubles me,” said Buford, the school’s wrestling champion, who said he joined Romney in restraining Lauber. Buford subsequently apologized to Lauber, who was “terrified,” he said. “What a senseless, stupid, idiotic thing to do.” “It was a hack job,” recalled Maxwell, a childhood friend of Romney who was in the dorm room when the incident occurred. “It was vicious.” “He was just easy pickins,” said Friedemann, then the student prefect, or student authority leader of Stevens Hall, expressing remorse about his failure to stop it. The incident transpired in a flash, and Friedemann said Romney then led his cheering schoolmates back to his bay-windowed room in Stevens Hall. Friedemann, guilt ridden, made a point of not talking about it with his friend and waited to see what form of discipline would befall Romney at the famously strict institution. Nothing happened. [more at link]
Check out this tremendous archive of photos mostly taken along the trendy King's Road, between 1967 and 1973. I'm rather taken with this guy. What do you think? I've been ploughing through them and I think they're very interesting.
Outlaws of Love, from his new album, Trespassing, out next week. The album is getting great reviews so far. Four stars from Rolling Stone. So happy for him.
Renee Simonsen, Talisa Soto, Rosemary McGrotha, Roberta Chirko, Ashley Richardson, Suzanne Lanza, Fanny Ardant, Tatjana Patitz, Karen Mulder... I loved Linda, Cindy, Naomi and Christy.. But I loved these girls too.
People, places, things, stories, events, whatever.
Anyone else here a fan? I like some of them. I watched La Peau Douce (starring Catherine Deneuve's late sister Francoise Dorleac) last night and thought how good it was. Also, Paris looked so good in black & white, in 1964.
Does it really work? Or is it just stupid? Or somewhere in between? Any personal experiences with it?
so%20many%20questions....
"If you thought Colin Firth and Tom Ford made a gayer-than-gay movie together with "A Single Man," just wait until you see what comes of the actor's collaboration with Rupert Everett for "The Happy Prince." Everett wrote the screenplay for the Oscar Wilde biopic, which he will also direct and star in alongside Firth, Tom Wilkinson, and Emily Watson. The film, which tells the story of the Irish playwright's final days, is set to begin production next summer." Have at him, bitches, and while you're sharpening your claws please tell me what the fuck Emily Watson is doing there.
Anyone know what country they are in?
For no known or valid reason known to man, the "Let's post pics of guys with amazing asses" thread was closed... So here's a new thread, and here's an amazing ass in a swimsuit to start it off!
A new book claims that the infamous Zodiac killer is still alive and living in Northern California. "The Zodiac Killer Cover Up" was written by a former California Highway Patrol officer, Lyndon Lafferty, and adds another theory to the much-discussed serial killer case in Northern California. The Zodiac killer is blamed for at least five slayings in 1968 and 1969. There was never an arrest in the case. Three killings occurred in Vallejo. Teenagers David Farraday and Betty Lou Jensen were shot to death in December 1968. Darlene Ferrin, 22, was shot and killed seven months later at Blue Rock Springs Golf Club. Her companion, Michael Mageau, 19, survived. In "The Zodiac Killer Cover Up," Lafferty claims the killer is now a 91-year-old man living in Solano County. The book uses aliases and does not identify the alleged killer by name. Lafferty claims he and other lawmen investigated the suspect in the early 1970s but were stymied by "power brokers" in Solano County. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the book has stirred new debate among those who have followed the famous killings. The San Francisco police formally closed the case in 2004. The Zodiac killer got his name by taunting newspapers and the police with letters and puzzles. "The police shall never catch me, because I have been too clever for them," he wrote in a letter sent to the San Francisco Chronicle. "I enjoy needling the blue pigs," he wrote. Detectives thought they might have had a break two years ago, when a partial DNA profile was taken from envelopes containing the letters. The genetic evidence seemed to clear the only suspect ever named by police -- Arthur Leigh Allen of Vallejo. Allen, who was never charged, died of a heart attack in 1992.
Previously on the Matt Bomer thread... *Simon got a sexy makeover. *The happy couple posed for their first photos together since Matt came out. *We continued to post and admire pictures of Matt's face. Other than that, just your standard fangurling and nitpicking.
He''s got to be at least a little bit gay, right?
I dug out my old DVDs and I''m quite enjoying it.%0D\ %0D\ Wow, Felicity was such a psycho nut. I love when they ''by accident'' play one of her psycho tapes at a dorm party, talking about how she''s ready to have sex for the first time.%0D\ %0D\ Scott Speedman was adorable. Smiles his great smile all the time.%0D\ %0D\ But, I can only handle watching one episode at a time or I get a headache from the teenage triteness.
Who will be the final 2? What is the final task? Is it a fundraiser? Who has the better Rolodex? Who do you want to win? Find out the F2 in the first 10 minutes.
