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Zac Efron Makes a Funny With His Famous Friends
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Just call it Zac Efron & Friends.
Zac was in director-producer Adam Shankman's backyard the other day in Los Angeles, shooting a video for FunnyorDie.com.
Who did the guys enlist to help them out?
Lance Bass Is Looking for Love
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Lance Bass may be a successful matchmaker for his pals, but unfortunately he's having trouble working the same magic when it comes to his own love life.
"I'm never really good with matching myself, but I'm dead-on with matching my friends," Bass, 29, told us the other day at the John Varvatos 7th Annual Stuart House Benefit. "I'm always trying to play matchmaker."
Case in point?
DWTS' Lacey: Sarah Palin Needs to Shake Her Booty
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Forget hunting season! Sarah Palin may want to think about bumpin' and grindin' over to Dancing With the Stars.
At least that's what Lance Bass' professional dancing partner, Lacey Schwimmer, thinks. "I'd love to see Sarah Palin go out there and shake her thang," Schwimmer said last night at the Shaun White Snowboarding video game event in L.A. "She'd be great at it. Put on little cha-cha heels, and she'd be ready to go."
On a completely different note, we're happy to report that Schwimmer's dance with the DWTS curse is healing and she won't have to go under the knife.
Lance Bass' Drive for Gay Marriage Rights
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From Dancing With the Stars to getting mobbed by protestors marching through Hollywood for gay rights, Lance Bass had quite an evening last night.
After holding on to his spot on DWTS' elimination show (Susan Lucci got the boot), the openly gay former boy-bander happened to be driving along Sunset Boulevard in L.A.
It's unclear whether he knew what was going on, but he quickly found himself smack in the middle of about 5,000 people (yes, I was one of them) who were protesting the passage of Proposition 8, the California ballot initiative that has overturned the state Supreme Court ruling which legalized same-sex unions.
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Lance Bass: Looking for a Sitcom
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Don't look for Lance Bass to follow in Justin Timberlake's solo footsteps.
The Dancing With the Stars contestant has no plans of ever releasing his own CD.
"I would never do a solo album," he said at the One Sunset restaurant party in L.A. last Thursday. "It would be fun maybe to do a song here and there, but to put a whole album together would be so stressful and take so much time."
Besides, he added, "who knows if it would even be a success? The music industry is such a crapshoot these days."
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Lance Bass On Justin, Hairy Chests & the Jonas Bros
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Lance Bass is counting on most of 'N Sync to come watch him compete in Dancing With the Stars. The only one he's not too sure about is Justin Timberlake.
"If Justin ever calms down and doesn't not work, then he'll definitely be here," Bass says.
With or without friends in the audience, Bass is, surprisingly quite nervous about DWTS.
Why? Ya gotta keep reading for the second part of my one-on-one with Lance to find out...
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Lance Bass Talks Marriage, Kids and Same-Sex Dancing
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Lance Bass wouldn't mind dancing with a man on a reality competition show, but he doesn't think ABC's Dancing With the Stars is the right place for fancy same-sex footwork.
"I think it would be so silly that it would just overshadow everything else going on," Bass tells me. "It would just be like making fun of something. But if it was another show with all guys dancing and all girls dancing, that's a different story. I think that's sexy."
He adds with a laugh, "I should pitch that."
I caught up with Bass just before his practice earlier today at a West Hollywood dance studio with his DWTS partner Lacey Schwimmer.
What else did he have to say? Read on to find out...
Cheryl Burke: No Same-Sex Dancing for Lance Bass
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Will Lance Bass be a contestant on the next season of Dancing With the Stars? And if so, will he have a male dancing partner?
Veteran DWTS professional hoofer Cheryl Burke says she'd love to see the former boy-band singer on the show, but she predicts we won't be seeing same-sex footwork anytime soon.
"I don't think that would happen," Burke said at Maxim magazine's Extreme Sports party last night at the Stork in Hollywood. "I don't think America is ready to watch two men dancing."
However, gay media watchdog group GLAAD thinks ABC could decide to go there, because the network has a good history of pushing the man-on-man envelope. “ABC has shown an admirable commitment to representing gay people on many of their most popular shows," a GLAAD rep said in a statement, "and we hope they continue to build on that in the future.”
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T.R. Knight and Larry King Breaking the Silence
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Silence will be golden tomorrow for T.R. Knight.
The openly gay Grey’s Anatomy star has just signed on to participate in the National Day of Silence ceremony at the Miguel Contreras Learning Complex in Los Angeles.
Sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) to help combat bullying and harassment of gays in schools, the day is marked by students across the country taking vows of silence during the day.
This year’s 12th annual programming—most of which takes place on Friday—is dedicated to Lawrence "Larry" King, a 15-year-old California boy who was shot to death in February by a fellow student, allegedly because King was gay.
I can also exclusively tell you that talk-show host Larry King is getting involved, too.
