The green sofa in the entry-library is a rare Monterey of California daybed with its original paint, an almost identical twin to the one former owner Diane Keaton had in the same spot. Murphy admits he begged her to sell him all the furniture in the house, but she declined. His next request was accepted: to give him a day “where I can photograph everything because I want to copy you,” he told her. In the end, he also persuaded her to sell him a Spanish chest in a guest room and the kitchen’s rectory table.
Douglas FriedmanThe Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation really likes Ryan Murphy.
All three of Murphy’s shows — Fox’s Glee, FX’s American Horror Story and NBC’s freshman The New Normal — picked up nominations in the watchdog group’s 24th annual GLAAD Media Awards.
Both Glee and The New Normal — which revolves around a gay couple (Andrew Rannells and Justin Bartha) — were nominated for outstanding comedy series alongside NBC’s rookie comedy Go On (which features a lesbian character) and ABC’s perennial nominees Happy Endings and Modern Family, which won in the category last year.
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Anthology American Horror Story, starring Sarah Paulson and Jessica Lange, was nominated in the outstanding TV movie or miniseries, where it will face Chloe Sevigny‘s DirecTV transgender drama Hit and Miss and USA Network’s Greg Berlanti drama Political Animals.
This year’s drama series category features last year’s winner, ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy, HBO’s True Blood, Teen Nick’s Degrassi and newcomers The L.A. Complex (the CW) and Smash (NBC).
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In the reality field, nominees include TLC’s water-cooler docuseries Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, The Amazing Race, Showtime’s The Real L Word, AMC’s Small Town Security and Bravo’s Pregnant in Heels.
On the film side, outstanding feature (wide release) nominees include Fox Searchlight’s The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Warner Bros.’ Cloud Atlas, Focus Features’ ParaNorman, Summit Entertainment’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower and IFC Films’ Your Sister’s Sister. The limited release nominees are Any Day Now (Music Box Films), Keep the Lights On (Music Box), Mosquita y Mari (Wolfe Releasing), Musical Chairs (Paladin) and North Sea Texas (Strand Releasing).
In the music category, outstanding artist nominees include Gossip, Adam Lambert, Frank Ocean, Scissor Sisters and Rufus Wainwright.
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“Images and stories from the LGBT community continue to push support for equality to historic levels,” GLAAD president Herndon Graddick said in a statement announcing the nominees. “This year’s nominees enlighten and entertain, but also reflect a new American landscape where a growing majority accept and value their LGBT family, colleagues and friends. Now more than ever, viewers not only accept gay and transgender characters and plot lines, they expect them — just as they both accept and expect LGBT people to be a valuable part of their everyday lives.”
The GLAAD Media Awards fund the organization’s efforts to bring stories of LGBT people and issues to Americans. Each year, the events raise nearly $3.5 million for the group.
Other categories announced early Wednesday include outstanding individual episode, documentary, daily drama, talk show episode, theater and a batch of journalism fields. A complete list follows.
OUTSTANDING FILM – WIDE RELEASE
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel(Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Cloud Atlas(Warner Bros. Pictures)
ParaNorman (Focus Features)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Summit Entertainment)
Your Sister’s Sister(IFC Films)
OUTSTANDING FILM – LIMITED RELEASE
Any Day Now (Music Box Films)
Keep the Lights On(Music Box Films)
Mosquita y Mari(Wolfe Releasing)
Musical Chairs (Paladin)
North Sea Texas(Strand Releasing)
OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES
Degrassi(TeenNick)
Grey’s Anatomy (ABC)
The L.A. Complex(The CW)
Smash(NBC)
True Blood(HBO)
OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES
Glee(Fox)
Go On(NBC)
Happy Endings(ABC)
Modern Family (ABC)
The New Normal(NBC)
OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL EPISODE
(in a series without a regular LGBT character)
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Me What to Do” Raising Hope (Fox)
“Family Matters” Drop Dead Diva (Lifetime)
“L’Affaire Du Coeur” Franklin & Bash (TNT)
“Lost and Found” Touch (Fox)
“Ruby Slippers” The Mentalist (CBS)
OUTSTANDING TV MOVIE OR MINI-SERIES
American Horror Story: Asylum(FX)
Hit and Miss(DirecTV)
Political Animals(USA)
OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY
Chely Wright: Wish Me Away(First Run Features)
Codebreaker (TODpix)
Hit So Hard(Variance Films)
How to Survive a Plague (Sundance Selects)
Vito(HBO)
OUTSTANDING REALITY PROGRAM
The Amazing Race(CBS)
“It Is What It Is” Here Comes Honey Boo Boo (TLC)
The Real L Word(Showtime)
Small Town Security(AMC)
“Welcome to Hollywood” Pregnant in Heels (Bravo)
OUTSTANDING TALK SHOW EPISODE
“At Home with Neil Patrick Harris, His Fiancé David Burtka, & Their Twins” Oprah’s Next Chapter (OWN)
“Autoshop Restores Bullied Gay Student’s Car for Free”
The Ellen DeGeneres Show (syndicated)
“Bishop Gene Robinson” The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
(Comedy Central)
“The Husband Who is Now a Woman and the Daughter
Who is Now a Son” The Jeff Probst Show (syndicated)
“Marriage Equality” The Suze Orman Show (CNBC)
OUTSTANDING DAILY DRAMA
The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS)
Days of Our Lives(NBC)
OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM – NEWSMAGAZINE
“Almost Equal” Chronicle (WCVB TV-5 [Boston, Mass.])
“Being Transgender in America”Melissa Harris-Perry (MSNBC)
“End of an Error” The Rachel Maddow Show(MSNBC)
“Golden Star” Rock Center with Brian Williams (NBC)
“The Last Closet” Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (HBO)
OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM SEGMENT
“Civil Rights Icon Supports Gay Marriage” CNN Newsroom (CNN)
“Controversial Pastor Preaches Against Gays” Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
“Matthew Mitcham Olympics Profile” NBC Olympics (NBC)
“Obama Endorses Marriage Equality” Good Morning America (ABC)
“Scout Mom Dismissed” MSNBC Live (MSNBC)
OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
“Black Church Reaches Out to Gay, Transgender Teens”
by Meghan E. Irons (The Boston Globe)
“Game Changer” by Andy Mannix (City Pages [Minneapolis, Minn.])
“Generation Halsted” (series) (Windy City Times [Chicago, Ill.])
“Most Local School Districts Ignore State’s Anti-Gay Bullying Law” by Phillip Zonkel (Press-Telegram
[Long Beach, Calif.])
“Turned Away, He Turned to the Bible” by Douglas Quenqua (The New York Times)
OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER COLUMNIST
Frank Bruni (The New York Times)
Bill Nemitz (Portland Press Herald [Portland, Maine])
Leonard Pitts, Jr. (The Miami Herald)
Eugene Robinson (The Washington Post)
Dan Rodricks (The Baltimore Sun)
OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER OVERALL COVERAGE
The Baltimore Sun
The Boston Globe
Portland Press Herald [Portland, Maine]
Sioux City Journal
USA Today
OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE ARTICLE
“The First Gay President” by Andrew Sullivan (Newsweek)
“The Marriage Plot: Inside This Year’s Epic Campaign for Gay Equality” by Molly Ball (The Atlantic)
“Netherland” by Rachel Aviv (The New Yorker)
“School of Hate” by Sabrina Rubin Erdely (Rolling Stone)
“The Transgender Athlete” by Pablo S. Torre and David Epstein (Sports Illustrated)
OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE OVERALL COVERAGE
The Advocate/Out
New York
The New Yorker
People
Seventeen
OUTSTANDING DIGITAL JOURNALISM ARTICLE
“The Beautiful Daughter: How My Korean Mother Gave Me the Courage to Transition” by Andy Marra
HuffingtonPost.com)
“Boardroom Battle: Directors Clash Over Gay Rights” by Ryan Ruggiero (CNBC.com)
“Eight Months in Solitary” by Andrew Harmon (Advocate.com)
“Why Aren’t We Fighting for CeCe McDonald?” by Marc Lamont Hill (Ebony.com)
“Workplace Protections for LGBT Workers Remain Stalled” by Chris Geidner (BuzzFeed.com)
OUTSTANDING DIGITAL JOURNALISM – MULTIMEDIA
“The Advocate 45” (series) (Advocate.com)
“Athletes at Core of ‘Fearless’ Photo Project” by Patrick Dorsey and Jeff Sheng (ESPN.com)
“‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’: Transgender Officers on Secretly Serving in the U.S. Military” by Marc Lamont Hill (Live.HuffingtonPost.com)
“Edie Takes on DOMA” In the Life (ITLMedia.org)
“Gay Rights in the US, State by State” (GuardianNews.com)
OUTSTANDING BLOG
Autostraddle (http://www.autostraddle.com)
blac(k)ademic (http://blackademic.com)
The New Civil Rights Movement (http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com)
Rod 2.0 (http://rodonline.typepad.com)
Towleroad (http://www.towleroad.com)
OUTSTANDING MUSIC ARTIST
Gossip, A Joyful Noise (Columbia Records)
Adam Lambert, Trespassing (19 Recordings, RCA Records)
Frank Ocean, Channel Orange (Def Jam)
Scissor Sisters, Magic Hour (Casablanca Records)
Rufus Wainwright, Out of the Game (Decca/Polydor)
OUTSTANDING COMIC BOOK
Astonishing X-Menby Marjorie Liu (Marvel)
Batwomanby W. Haden Blackman, J.H. Williams III (DC Comics)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Andrew Chambliss, Scott Allie, Jane Espenson, Drew Z. Greenberg (Dark Horse)
Earth 2by James Robinson (DC Comics)
Kevin Kellerby Dan Parent (Archie Comics)
OUTSTANDING LOS ANGELES THEATER
The Childrenby Michael Elyanow
Edith Can Shoot Shoot Things and Hit Them by A. Rey Pamatmat
The Irish Curseby Martin Casella
Piecesby Chris Phillips
Silentby Pat Kinevane
OUTSTANDING NEW YORK THEATER: BROADWAY & OFF-BROADWAY
Bring It On: The Musicalbook by Jeff Whitty, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tom Kitt and Amanda Green
Cock by Mike Bartlett
The Columnist by David Auburn
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang
The Whale by Samuel D. Hunter
OUTSTANDING NEW YORK THEATER: OFF-OFF BROADWAY
Baby Daddyby Alec Mapa
From White Plains written by Michael Perlman in collaboration with Fault Line Theatre
A Map of Virtue by Erin Courtney
Sontag: Reborn adapted by Moe Angelos, based on the book by Susan Sontag
Tail! Spin!created by Mario Correa
