Michael Kors poses with his mother, Joan, at his Bryant Park runway show
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• Yesterday Ellen shared wedding photos and video with her audience and it was just as delightful and funny and touching as you would expect. Check out the clip here.

• Janice Dickinson launches a Real Men of Reality TV 2009 Calendar. Does this mean that she's guaranteed to be around another full year? Sigh.

• Howl, the biopic of gay poet Allen Ginsberg starring James Franco, has added a handful of knock-em-dead thesps to the cast, including Alan Alda, Mary-Louise Parker, and Paul Rudd.

• Above, from our news sib 365Gay: A look at Governor Sarah Palin's positions on LGBT issues.

• The Kardashian Curse spreads: Brody Jenner is baby-oiled and packed into low-rise jeans as a part of his upcoming Bromance reality show.

• This piece on The Saddest Male Models in the World is the first time I've ever regretted not being pretty enough to stumble down a runway. (Tutus?! Really?)

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