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Rehearsals have knocked off 5 pounds: dance partner

(NEWSER) - Chaz Bono is already wiggling his tush and shaking off the pounds in preparation for Dancing With the Stars. Only six days into rehearsals, his DWTS partner Lacey Schwimmer says Bono is "funny," "awesome," "so nice" and 5 pounds lighter than when he started. "It's so great," Schwimmer tells People . "He says he's not eating any differently, he's just dancing." More»

'Bradley felt he was female': counselor

(NEWSER) - Bradley Manning “felt he was female," and looked into changing his gender, his former counselor tells New York . Though the suspected WikiLeaker “really wanted to do surgery,” the counselor says, “he was mostly afraid of being alone, being ostracized or somehow weird.” Manning used the Internet as a release: Online he could be “gay, patriotic, and powerful, too,” writes Steve Fishman. But in real life, his gender struggles and wartime deeds made him "feel like a monster," he sometimes wrote. More»

He should 'set an example' for his children, cardinal says

(NEWSER) - Cardinal Luis Aponte Martinez of San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a fan of Ricky Martin's "artistic gifts," but he sure wishes the singer would stop promoting homosexuality. In an interview with Primera Hora published last week and picked up yesterday by On Top magazine and Perez Hilton , Martinez added, "Please, for the love of his children, for whom I imagine he wants the best, try to set an example to our youth of the great values we all share, besides sex.” More»

Victoria Jackson: Gays on a wedding cake is a 'comedy skit'

(NEWSER) - Former Saturday Night Live actress Victoria Jackson has unleashed an Internet tirade about the hit TV series Glee, calling a recent kiss between gay characters "sickening." Besides "shoving the gay thing down our throats, they made a mockery of Christians—again!" she writes on the conservative WorldNetDaily.com . She later adds: "Everyone knows that two men on a wedding cake is a comedy skit, not an 'alternate lifestyle.' There I said it! Ridiculous!" More»

Cher, Christina Aguilera can't save 'ridiculous' musical

(NEWSER) - Cher is back, starring in her first film in seven years, but critics aren't too wowed by the campy Burlesque, which also feature Christina Aguilera:

• "The choicest dialogue in Burlesque provokes the sort of laughter that other, intentionally funny films only dream of generating," writes Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune . "Most backstage musicals are ridiculous, but this is ridiculous."