Friday Video: Title I Cannot Pronounce With Letters My Keyboard Doesn't Even Have

This video was sent to me twice this week by friends on Facebook - both saying that they saw it and instantly thought of me. I made the comment that this proves he is my eternal companion which caused one of said friends to declare that he must be my Starship Building Lover. The conclusion was then drawn that he is, indeed, to be mine for time and all eternity.

My only hope now is that he, too, hates vaginas.

Edward Hates Vaginas

Huh.

Referring to the above photo shoot that accompanied This Very Entertaining Article Robert Pattinson said, "I really hate vaginas. I'm allergic to vagina. But I can't say I had no idea, because it was a 12-hour shoot, so you kind of get the picture that these women are going to stay naked after, like, five or six hours. But I wasn't exactly prepared. I had no idea what to say to these girls. Thank God I was hungover."

So, now the Internet is all abuzz with wondering if Edward Cullen is, in fact, gay. Will this affect the Twilight film trilogy? Will it cut short the expected long life of the franchise? And my favorite question - if he really is gay, will females stop screaming and creaming over him because he is suddenly "even more unattainable?"

Seriously? Because he was totally attainable before? If not for the gay thing he would taking little Kylie to her prom and rubbing Judy's feet while she and her friends are having happygasms at their Twilight book club? Oh my God.

Robert Pattinson is an actor. He had a lucky break with a Harry Potter film and an even luckier (WAY luckier) break landing the role of Edward the sexy, brooding, peeping Tom of a romantic, protective, sparkly, suicidal vampire. Is he gay? Who the hell knows? He hasn't done the wild thing with any guys I know. So, he hates vaginas. Queen Elizabeth does too but no one's calling her a gay man. Besides, I've dated straight guys with the same problem. Yay me.

And even if he is gay, we women have been falling for gay guys our whole lives - whether we know it or not. Rock Hudson was the sexy pin up dude for decades before anyone knew he was gay. In high school I fell in love with Richard Chamberlain in The Thornbirds and literally sat down in the BYU parking lot and shed betrayed-by-the-one-straight-man-left-in-my-life tears when told that, given a choice, Father Ralph de Bricassart would rather ravage my father, and not me, on Matlock Island.

Truth is, a very large number of the men and women that we watch in movies and on TV are secretly gay or bisexual. Welcome to it. It's all an illusion anyway.

Maybe Edward is straight and just doesn't like being surrounded by strange vaginas for 12 hours when he is hungover. Can't say as I blame him. Or maybe he is gay. Will that change how some females watch the Twilight movies? Probably. It is all about illusion but that illusion is all about fantasy. And no one wants their favorite fantasies ruined.

I guess I understand. If any of you guys out there have played Kiss Kiss Bang Bang with Gerard Butler, I am begging you to keep it to yourself.

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Bringing Out The Big Guns

I have so many things I am really trying to wean myself off of: a ridiculous sugar addiction, the mocking of those considerably smaller than me, always marching at the head of the big, gay rights parade...

I know I am far too often Nellie The One Note Fairy Princess but I look around me and I just don't get it. Mormons and Catholics are now officially banning together in their fight to "Defend Religious Freedom."

How is this about religious freedom??? I really want to know.

In his talk to 12,000 BYU students on Tuesday, Cardinal Francis George, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, said “In recent years, Catholics and members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints have stood more frequently side by side in the public square to defend human life and dignity." But whose human life and dignity are they defending? Their own. They are only interested in defending those that are like them - those that believe and live as they do. Really??? That's what Jesus Christ - the radical and unbelievably loving and accepting and compassionate being that you proclaim you follow - taught??? Really???

Gay Marriage and Religious Freedom are two completely separate issues but the more that religious leaders lump them together and rally and frighten their mobs, the less likely they are to actually think it through for themselves.

Gay marriage DOES NOT pose anymore of a threat to the world than freeing the slaves, allowing women to vote, allowing blacks the same rights as whites or interracial marriage did. All of those things were going to bring about the end of civilization and they did not. Nor will this.

I know that there are readers of this blog that do not support gay marriage -religious individuals that absolutely believe that their religious freedom is being threatened. PROVE IT. I mean that sincerely. I have yet to find one person who can give me a good argument besides "God says so." I am absolutely baffled by the religious freedom argument. If you believe that gay marriage threatens your religious freedom, I am sincerely begging you to explain to me how. Post anonymously so you won't be personally attacked. And, I don't want to hear "Because God says..." or "Gays are evil therefore..." I really want to know how your religious freedom is threatened by two men or two women getting married.

Cardinal George also said "But when Prop. 8 opponents respond by thuggery, by quasi-fascist tactics, then the common good, our whole society, stands in great jeopardy." Forget counting to ten. I could count to one million and still be furious about this statement. Gay individuals were going about their business of loving one another and picking out china patterns, without giving the second thought of a rats ass about the Mormon Church, when it swooped in and took away one of their basic human rights. What about taking away the separation of church and state and allowing religions to dictate who gets what rights? What does that do to the common good and safety of society? If a religion can rally and strip rights from a group of people once, what's to stop them from doing it again? Who will be next?

The Mormons crying victim, yet again, is outrageous to me. A bully has been beating up kids on the playground for years. Making the smaller ones feel sad, lonely and unworthy. It has been kicking them, throwing sand in their eyes, pulling their hair, calling them names, getting groups of other bullies to follow them. At long last, those that were being bullied stood up, kicked the bully back and said NO MORE. Now that bully is sitting in the Principal's office blubbering with snot running down it's shirt crying about the "thugs and fascists" that were mean to it?

Are you fucking kidding me???

[Deep breath. Happy thoughts. Count to infinity...]


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WTF: Tony Orlando Kabobs

One of the weirdest damn things I have ever seen. And we all know that the weirdest damn things are a few of my favorite damn things.

Looking at these photos makes me feel high.

Honest To God Review: Seward Park

Another honest to God, real live, review that was sent to me from Seattle. This is a review of Seward Park that was posted by someone who calls themselves "Hotncray Z" on YELP. (Moment of silent tribute to the beauty of that word. I am going to create my own cocktail, made of Tequila, Jager, Bubblegum Vodka and Pomegranate Juice and call it a Yelp. Thinking I'll have to drink it in Whoville for the full effect.)

Seward Park
5902 Lake Washington Boulevard S., Seattle, WA 98118
Reviewed by Hotncray Z.

My sanity is manufactured here in the form of endogenous opioid polypeptide compounds.

I have to run around the peninsula a couple of times in order to collect it - but I don't mind. I drag my big jelly ass around the trail and smile at the puppies, search the west shore of Mercer Island for Paul Allen's compound, pretend for a minute that I'm running through the woods and enjoy the shade or shelter afforded me by the Evergreen cover, and conjure things like the word "Badassica" in my endorphin addled little pea-brain.

After I've wanted to quit three or four times and sprinted up the trail past the playground, just when I think my heart may explode in my chest, there's the big old lake and all it's prettiness, and aren't we all so lucky this shit is free? I mean, JESUS GOD IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL!!! I LOVE YOU LAKE!! I LOVE YOU RHODENDENDRON BUSH!!! HELLO MR. CHERRY BLOSSOM AND MISS TULIP!!! I LOVE YOU ALL SO FUCKING MUCH!!

I can't believe I actually used to pay for drugs.

Words of the day: Yelp and Badassica. I triple dog dare you to use them both in the same sentence.

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Friday Video: Cougar Barbie

Cougar Barbie - These bloopers are hilarious

Ordinary Mary Strikes Again

WZZM in Grand Rapids did a great story on Knapp Forest Elementary, a school that has implemented it's own Extraordinary Deeds / Pay It Forward program based on Ordinary Mary.

Third grader Adam Sands says, "When I was done reading it I thought this would be a nice thing for the world to have." Aww... makes me feel all squishy inside.

READ THE ARTICLE

WATCH THE NEWS STORY

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First Pictures Of The Payson Utah Temple

How totally kick-you-in-the-crotch, spit-on-yer-neck fantastic is this??? It was just sent to me in an email with the following message:

Before you view this pic… please absolve me of any punitive issues associated with it … I don’t endorse it… just doing my citizen’s duty of informing my leader… simply an informative pass-on from a nutty cousin who makes fun of us country folk …I can provide his name, soc. sec. #, membership #, and his blood sample if you would like to send plagues his way…

If that is your decision… I’d recommend the fly & frog plague to start with…

g.

The "g" stands for George Pearson. No idea who the hell George Pearson is. Over the years several people have, in fact, asked me if I'm related to him. No idea. Never crossed paths at a family reunion. But he does refer to me as his leader - which totally earns him brownie points. And us Pearson's do have nutty cousins. Half of them are married to dudes in jail and one even married her step father. And, while I do violently reject being included in the "us" country folk reference and have no freaking desire to have a sample of Nutty Cousin's blood sent my way, I am thrilled to have received this giggle 'til I fall down picture.

There are still so many silly notions about what goes on in Mormon temples - just the other day I was seriously asked if it was true that I was, umm, intimately probed during the washing and anointing. Umm... eeeeewwwww. And... umm...NO. Although, in the early days I am told that said washing and anointing were performed a bit less carefully than they are now causing my very own grandmother to yell, "Get your goddamn hands off my tits!" to the poor little temple worker. Grandma never went back. My little sister went once and never returned again either - but not because someone accidentally boobed her. As a woman she said she felt, "Like a puppy left out in the rain." For many years I have wished I could have looked out for myself like my sister and grandmother. Things would have been very different for me. But it's all good - I look out for myself now and that's what matters.

While I no longer hold any silent allegiance to the magical inner workings of the temple, I do still love my family and friends that do and therefore stay silent. Publicly anyway. But I will say this: as a Mormon, my favorite joke when asked about the temple was, "If you have no problem with goat's blood and public nudity, you'll be fine." Of course there's no sacrificing of either animals or modesty - anyone looking for that scene would be bitterly disappointed and bored out of their minds. However, I cannot speak for this new Payson Temple. It scares the shit out of me.

So, George Pearson - whoever you are, thank you for the belly laugh. And the allegiance to your leader. And the acknowledgement of her mighty power. But Honey, when sending plagues, I never start with flies and frogs.

I always start with flying m...onkeys.

The World Is Flat And The Moon Is Made Of Cheese

I received an email from a man, former LDS bishop of a family friend, a few weeks ago that stunned me. I am honestly still too flabbergasted to respond to him.

...I'm afraid others might misconstrue my question as being other than a sincere question... I understand your concern with what you believe to be the Mormon Church's anti-gay stance. But what I don't understand, is if Proposition 8 had gone favorably toward gay marriage, how would that help gays not contract aids? Is this a dumb, rude or ignorant question? If it is I'm sorry.

Honestly, how does one respond to that question? Is it a dumb, rude and ignorant question? Umm... horrifyingly so. So much so that I cannot possibly respond to him with anything but - are you fucking kidding me? But I can't say that because, admittedly, I now feel held hostage by his niceness and sincerity. Or maybe I just feel sorry for him. Or maybe the anger the question triggers in me is so huge that I have to dismiss it before I allow it to burn the poor guy alive. Or maybe all the above.

But now I have my own questions. Is it okay to mask bigotry and ignorance in niceness? Does that suddenly make it okay? Ignorance is just a cry for education, right? There are plenty of things about which I am embarrassingly ignorant - so many things I don't know that I absolutely should. It should be easy to just reply with a friendly, "Sweetie, AIDS stopped being a gay disease about 20+ years ago. Condoms and responsibility are what help ALL sexually active people not contract AIDS - not just the gays. Thanks for asking." But I can't. This is far too much of an emotional trigger for me. It was that level of ignorance in making and passing laws about basic human rights that made so many of us so angry about Prop 8.

Is it really that hard to think something through and come to an obvious and logical answer? Sadly, for many - including myself, sometimes the answer is yes. I didn't really even know how to truly think for myself, on most topics, until 7-ish years ago. I either looked to what my church taught about it or I just dismissed it. Too much in my life didn't make sense - thinking about it all just made me feel crazier than I already did. But the ability to think is a gift. The ability to stretch and challenge one's mind is something too many of us leave sitting on the dashboard alongside our hula dolls, roach clips and Garfield toys.

Like I said, there are many facts about politics, math, science, geography, history and the workings of the world I live in that I absolutely should know but don't. I have given cause for others to look at me many a time and ask, "Are you fucking kidding me?" I'm doing the best I can, shouldn't I allow others the same? Of course.

But, when it comes to gay marriage causing AIDS or a black president causing an increase in basketball and watermelon consumption - shouldn't we be doing better?

February Funny: The Perfect Getaway

Because I got my winter-blues melt down over early this year, I have been good to go - totally neglecting our annual February Funnies and forgetting that there are many, many still struggling. So for those who are napping with their heads in the oven I hereby commit to giving you as many giggles as I can. Ready? Go.

Four friends spend weeks planning the perfect girl’s getaway trip - shopping, massages, and facials.

Two days before the group is to leave Mary's husband puts his foot down and tells her she isn't going.

Mary's friends are very upset that she can't go, but what can they do.

Two days later the three get to the hotel only to find Mary sitting in the bar drinking a glass of wine.

"Wow, how long have you been here and how did you talk your husband into letting you go?"

"Well, I've been here since last night............ Yesterday evening I was sitting on the couch and my husband came up behind me and put his hands over my eyes and said 'Guess who'?"

I pulled his hands off to find all he was wearing was his birthday suit. He took my hand and led me to our bedroom. The room was scented with perfume, had two dozen candles and rose petals all over.............On the bed, he had handcuffs and ropes! He told me to tie and cuff him to the bed, so I did. And then he said, "Now, you can do whatever you want."

So here I am.

Bloody Hell

So, I was all set to write a brilliant post on the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow (both African AND European) but, alas, I sliced halfway through my finger with a freaking tin can lid. It sucked! I ran around the kitchen dripping blood everywhere - hoping to attract a sexy, brooding vampire or two - but there were none to be found. Dammit. Hoping to avoid stitches I tightly wrapped and taped. Surprised at how much it hurts. And how much it sucks to type.

Time for chocolate and recorded American Idol - this day needs to end.

Friday Video: The Man Your Man Could Smell Like

Forget Urkel. I love THIS man. He is on a horse.

What's Up With: Urkel Being Hot?

Okay, so remember that damn Urkel creature? He has always been on the list of my most hated things - right up there with Smurfs and Alf. I had seen pictures of him all grown up and I don't know why it didn't dawn on me before now... But, damn. The man is hot. He's no Blair Underwood, but still...

Urkel is now hot. What the hell am I supposed to DO with that? It's like finding out that Gerard Butler is really Snuggles the Demon Fabric Softener Bear.

I may now have to eat my own head.

8: The Mormon Proposition Inks Distribution Deal With Hollywood Heavy Hitters

Red Flag Releasing a new company started by former Warner Execs Paul Federbush and Laura Kim, acquired North America rights for theatrical and VoD release of 8: TMP. Set to hit theaters this spring.

Hot Damn.

Proposition Healing

Bless My Sweet Mother.

Building Bridges

Many of you saw This Great Article in the Salt Lake Tribune about the LDS stake in Northern California that had Gay Day (my term, not theirs - although, how great would that be?) Guess who's stake that is? Yep, Carol Lynn Pearson (my mom), no big surprise, was one of the enlightened ones behind this event. I knew that they had done this quite a while ago but was sworn to secrecy lest the Big Brother ax begin a fallin' (again, my term not theirs.) Now the Trib knows. Now everyone knows. Now I can blog.

If you didn't read the article - please do so. What they did was amazing and something I hope daring stakes and wards will do all over the country. During the Q & A's at each of our 6 Sundance screenings there were several faithful Latter Day Saints that bravely stood and said variations of the same thing - "I am a believing Mormon, I support the brethren and I support gay rights. What can I do to help all this change?" I, personally, think that it is time for the members who feel that way to get really vocal, really scrappy and really courageous in showing their leaders the kind of loving and Christlike church they want theirs to be. (I know, it doesn't work that way - but it absolutely should)

NO ONE can tell me the LDS church isn't capable of love and compassion - I was a Mormon for 30-ish years and I saw loads of it. Besides no longer believing, I was unwilling to wait around for it to change as much as my own survival needed it to but I am thrilled that there are those like my mother that stick with it and fight the fight. It is imperative to remember that this is NOT about forcing the Mormon Church to marry gays in the temples. That ain't gonna happen. It's about (a) making the LDS church a safe place for gay members and their families - ie: a place that doesn't continue making countless individuals want to blow their brains out and (b) getting ALL churches to stay the hell out of politics.

I asked Mom to share some of the more personal stories and reactions from the
event(s):

From our dear friend, Trevor Southey: “I’m blown away. I can’t believe I heard the things I heard here this morning. If I’d heard this as a young man it would have changed my life, that homosexuality is not a choice, that gay people, no matter their choices, are to be treated with respect and love.”

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From Mom's diary the Sunday after the presentation in her ward: As the men in high priests’ meeting discussed the presentation, one of our very conservative members said, “Brethren, I need to apologize to everyone in this room for some of the things I’ve said in the past. Last week I went home from church feeling sort of troubled. I had to do some studying, and I had to do some praying, and I found out that I’d been wrong on some things. And so today I am apologizing to you for things that I have said in this room. I am sorry.”

(I grew up in that ward and I know the man she wrote this about. He is the last person on the planet I would ever have thought would say anything remotely like that. Trust me - a miracle of miracles!)

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Again, from Mom: There had been some language in the presentation about “bearing each other’s burdens” and the extraordinary burden that is placed on homosexual people. Brett Bradshaw said to me afterwards, “What they have to understand is that to me being gay is no more a burden than being six feet tall is a burden.” Brett is the son of Bill Bradshaw, BYU professor, who is with his husband raising a beautiful daughter.

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Connell, another dear friend of ours, gay and Ex-Mo LDS historian, came on the second Sunday and said, “This is miraculous!” In a letter to Mom, Connell said: “For daring to do right, I honor the Oakland Stake Presidency for their courage, hope, strength, compassion, love, respect, integrity, and openness. May this program spread throughout the church, to aid members in being more loving, more compassionate, and less judgmental of LGBT folks….These were indeed miraculous events with far-ranging power to affect a mighty change in the hearts of many - spreading LOVE, which should be the primary aim and action of every religion and spiritual path....”

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Mom: Last week I spoke to a young woman in my ward who told me a very moving story about the presentations. I asked if she would write it up and send it to me. She decided instead to put it on her blog BarnacleButt.

Excerpts:

When we got home from church I was making dinner with Maddie and Katie, my two teenage daughters, and I started telling them about what a great lesson we'd had in church. We were all chop, chop, chopping and I was talk, talk, talking and I was super surprised when I looked over at Maddie and she was crying.

"Hey!" I said. "What's wrong?"

And that's when she told me how completely relieved she was to hear this message at church, albeit second hand, since I was telling her what I'd heard.

Really?

I totally thought Marc and I had been giving our kids this message their whole lives. We are all about the love here at our house, right? We've told them to love and accept their gay friends. We've loved the gay people in our lives, and, you know, been part of their lives and they're part of ours. I thought our kids were pretty clear on the main-Jesus-message "love everyone."

I thought we'd explained that loving everyone doesn't mean you have to agree with them or think that everything they do is right, but it does mean you treat everyone with respect and kindness.

But it turns out my girls weren't sure. In fact, while she was crying, Maddie told me about spending a week at church camp and making friends with a young man there who was gay. Some of the other young men in her group confronted her and asked her why she was talking to him. "Why wouldn't I?" she asked confused. "Because he's gay," they said.

Ouch.

And by then Katie was crying too because she has had all too similar experiences.

I guess I'm really telling this story because of all the messy thoughts it brought up for me, like YIKES I really don't always know what my kids are going through. And how I hope The Church as a whole helps our youth understand homosexuality better. And how grateful I am for my Savior and his love.

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Part of an email sent to Mom and to the stake presidency from the daughter of a member of the stake:

I felt teary-eyed reading the Tribune article and hearing the stories my mom shared with me of your experiences. I am so grateful to you for taking this courageous step to address a very difficult and painful issue for many LDS members. Those of us who are gay or have gay children (I have two gay sons) know that God made each of us perfect, and that includes our sexual orientation. We want the gay population of the LDS church to know they belong and are perfect, are respected, and that we all have our place in heaven. It is currently so difficult for gay Mormons to feel unashamed and loved. I chose to leave the church several years ago because I could not reconcile in my mind how I could raise my gay sons Mormon and also have them know that they are perfect in my eyes, in God's eyes, and do not need to change any part of who they are in order to be accepted. I did not want them to pretend to be people they aren't just so they could fit in. Upon reading the front page of the Salt Lake Tribune that was forwarded, I feel excited to think that this issue is being brought into the light and will no longer be swept under the carpet. We want our gay sons and daughters to lead happy, fulfilling lives, be who they are, be able to be sexual beings, and practice the religion of their beliefs. Thank you for being instrumental in helping our gay population.

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Part of a thank you email Mom sent to Peggy Fletcher Stack, who wrote the article:

I'm thrilled, but not at all surprised, that you are getting such huge response from all this. For years and years I have received letters and emails that break my heart. We are in such an important historical intersection. It is much larger than the challenge of blacks and the priesthood because it affects SO many and more deeply. I do not believe that one black man ever took his life because of being denied priesthood in our church. But hundreds of beautiful young LDS gay men have taken their lives because we have made them feel so hopeless and so worthless.

This is blessed work we are doing.

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And, lastly, from my mother: I am still stunned with the knowledge of what a Large Things Happened here. It will have ripples that will go a very long way.

So let it be written, so let it be done.

Gay Terrorist

Extraordinarily Cool

So, late last fall I got a phone call from Gibbs-Smith the publishers of my children's book Ordinary Mary's Extraordinary Deed. A company called Snacklogic decided to turn children's books into interactive iPhone applications and chose mine to kick things off.

They bustled me into a recording studio to narrate and voice some characters and next thing you know - BAM! - it was done and up on iTunes where it's getting rave reviews.

It's incredibly cool - each page is narrated and has targets points to click that make it come to life. Kids can create their own scenes and play with characters and objects from the book and then email them to friends. And, at one point, they included me singing in goofy voices from Pirates of Penzance - which I only did in the studio as a joke but is now forever on the list of embarrassing things I have done publicly. (Not nearly as bad as the How To Lambada Home Video but, nothing is that bad!) Speaking of which, we need to play 100 questions again - that was fun. But I digress...

Ordinary Mary is now an interactive iPhone application! Totally cool. And we have overhauled the Official Website. And there is now a Blog not only for parents and educators but a place where I can leave my smart ass self where she belongs - in the tub with her pie - and give voice to the part of me that loves stories of human kindness, good and selfless deeds, Mister Rogers and videos of heroic dogs and wild lions that make me weepy. A place where I can share things, not only about the book and school program it inspired, but report on people and their creatures that are making the world better than they found it.

So, there you have it. Ordinary Mary. Wow, that little chick is really getting around. If she makes out with Gerard Butler before I do I will kill her.

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CNN iReports Coverage Of 8: The Mormon Proposition

More great video coverage of 8:TMP. Fred Karger - reporting for CNN. He interviewed everyone but me and Reed. I was too busy making out with Robert Redford. Not sure who Reed was making out with.

The crew of 8 - The Mormon Proposition on AMC NEWS

Sundance In My Pants

A friend sent me a congratulatory email with "Sundance in your pants" as the subject heading - which totally made me laugh out loud. Thus the title of this post. And I am done napping and getting life back on track. Ready to get back to work, thus the ability to write this post...

Holy crap, what a week! Ran, non-stop, from screenings to events all week. Got to hob nob, rub elbows, scheme-n-dream, network, boogie-oogie-oogie til I just couldn't boogie no more, and, most importantly, show this amazing film to six sold out audiences and engage in heart and mind changing conversations on this vitally important topic.

But, I gotta say, the moment of all moments was the one I shared with Robert Redford. Our final screening was on Saturday night in the Sundance screening room. As the packed house was settling down and getting ready for the film to begin, in he walked - sitting a few feet from us. Steven Greenstreet, our co-director, and I turned to one another with saucer eyes and telepathically screamed, "Holy shit, do you see who just walked in???"

He laughed, groaned and vocally reacted with the rest of the audience. It was so cool. Then, just before the film ended, he slipped out - followed quickly by Steven. Not about to let the opportunity pass me by, I tore out on their heels. In the lobby I extended my hand saying, "Hi, I'm Emily Pearson - one of the producers..." He smiled THAT smile and pulled me into a bear hug. "Hey, you got some good screen time." "Yes, I did," I laughed - suddenly wondering how opposed he would be to me throwing him down, right there, in front of the fireplace. He loved the film - called it powerful and said what Reed and Steven had done was perfect. We needed cigarettes after he disappeared into the snowy night.


I posted this picture on Facebook and was amazed at some of the rude comments about him looking like a cadaver or me having taken the picture at a Wax Museum. WTF??? The dude is like, 70! Paul Newman is already dead, for God's sake. He is still in great shape, still has an amazing full head of blond hair and still has THAT smile that melted me in The Way We Were and The Natural. You just can't rip on Robert Redford - one of the world's seriously cool humans. Give me a break.



Me & Reed - couldn't love the man more if I tried.

Me & Lance. Have I already mentioned he is lovely? He is lovely.

Me & Bruce (Bastian) long time friend and the film's Executive Producer.

Me & Fred Karger. Founder of Californians Against Hate. Any of you aware of his work - please support him by clicking on the link and giving Five For Fred.

I wanted to gather as much media on this film for any and all of you that are interested as I could but there is just FAR too much and this post would be never ending. Google us and read away.

No matter what the handful of hecklers say, I am proud of my association with this film and had an amazing time last week.

In the name of Robert Redford, Amen.