Tuesday, 12 January 2010 08:00
It's 9am on the Paramount Studios set of US TV series Glee, and actor Jane Lynch has just been nominated for her first Golden Globe. "What-eva," she grumbles, throwing her arms up and wobbling her head as if it's no big deal. That kind of nonchalance would exasperate her character, the tyrannical cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester, for whom winning is the chief aim of humankind. But after two decades as a working actor, and with more than 100 film and television credits to her name, including The West Wing, Two And A Half Men, The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Julie & Julia, Lynch has trained herself not to get too excited.
Monday, 21 December 2009 08:00

As the gay marriage debate continues to rage in the United States, two gay dads played by Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet on ABC’s hit comedy Modern Family could be doing a lot to change hearts and minds.




The fashion world may be the last bastion of prejudice, a field that overtly discriminates against people because of their looks. So there is something both bold and troubling about