Good morning!
It’s been a little bit of back and forth, but Emma Stone is definitely playing Billie Jean King in Battle of the Sexes. She was attached, then unattached, then Brie Larson was set to play the lesbian tennis icon, but now, Emma is back in and ready to rock that signature BJK look.
Lena Waithe talked about her love of Sarah Jessica Parker with The Hollywood Reporter.
Gotta love the idea of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West sexting each other.
PinkNews writes about our own Anna Pulley‘s forthcoming lesbian haiku book.
A lesbian couple in Costa Rica were able to be married because of a “clerical error” that listed one of them as male. Now they are fighting annulment.
At AlterNet: The Five Dumbest Questions People Ask Bisexuals. And Teen Vogue debunks myths about bisexual girls.
All kinds of heroes were asked for their favorite lesbian artifacts by New York Magazine. A must-read!
Related: The dumbest questions Cate Blanchett has been asked about her role in Carol.
SheKnows lists seven lesbian stereotypes Carol avoids.
Rooney Mara loved working with Cate and Sarah Paulson on Carol, telling Harper’s Bazaar:
“It’s been years since I’ve worked with women in any real way, so to get to do so many scenes with Cate [Blanchett] and Sarah [Paulson] was really different for me and it was really fun,. Cate’s on a different level to most people — I’ve looked up to her since I was 13 or something. I was probably nervous to work with her the whole time, but she’s such a generous actor — she’s so low key and funny — I don’t think people know that about her. She’s got that great Australian wit.”
Cynthia Nixon is directing an LGBT-themed play in New York called Steve.
Sassy Black has a new video for her track “Thriller (Game Healer).”
Kate McKinnon is friendly with this week’s SNL host Matthew McConaghey in promos for the show.
Anna Paquin is part of The Good Dinosaur, opening Thanksgiving weekend.
Today in Lesbianish TV:
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Good Morning America (ABC 7 a.m.)
The View (ABC 11 a.m.)
Ellen (Laff 11 a.m./11:30 a.m., 4 p.m./4:30 p.m.) (rerun)
Tammy (Cinemax 11:30 a.m., 10 p.m.)
FriendZone (MTV 12:10 p.m./12:45 p.m.) (rerun)
Archer marathon (Comedy Central 12:35 p.m.)
Grey’s Anatomy marathon (Lifetime 1 p.m.)
Don’t Be Tardy… marathon (Oxygen 1:30 p.m.)
The Talk (CBS 2 p.m.) – Guest: Susan Feniger
Challenge: Battle of the Bloodlines “Meet the New Blood” (MTV 5:25 p.m.)
Cruel Intentions (Starz Edge 5:25 p.m.)
The Best Thing I Ever Ate “Meat-Fest” (Cooking Channel 6:30 p.m.) (rerun)
Grey’s Anatomy “Things We Lost in the Fire” (ABC 8 p.m.)
The Vampire Diaries “Mommie Dearest” (CW 8 p.m.)
The Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC 9 p.m.)How to Get Away With Murder “What Did We Do?” (ABC 10 p.m.)
Friday Night Lights “It Ain’t Easy Being J.D. McCoy” (ESPN Classic 10 p.m.) (rerun)
Modern Family “Schooled” (USA 12 a.m.) (rerun)
Buffy “Beauty and the Beasts” (Pivot 6 a.m.) (rerun)
Born Again Virgin “Off to See the Wizard” (TV One 6 a.m.) (rerun)
Ellen DeGeneres: The Beginning (HBO Comedy 6:50 a.m.)
(Thanks Roni!)
