Out magazine’s 2nd annual Power Issue - Ellen, Barney Frank and Anderson Cooper!

Here, in reverse order, is OUT magazine's 2nd annual power 50 list:

50. Kelly Bush
49. Benny Medina
48. Brian Swardstrom
47. Susan Arnold
46. Martina Navratilova
45. Jonathan Burnham
44. Bob Greenblatt
43. Adam Rose
42. Bryan Lourd
41. Carolyn Strauss
40. Christine Vachon
39. Jon Stryker
38. Lorri L. Jean
37. Simon Halls & Stephen Huvane
36. Annie Leibovitz
35. Randy Lovely
34. Craig Zadan & Neil Meron
33. Jim Nelson
32. Jeremy Bernard & Rufus Gifford
31. Rosie O'Donnell
30. Sheila Kueh
29. Adam Moss


28. Tim Gunn
27. Jasper Johns
26. Fred Hochberg 25. Tom Ford
24. Suze Orman
23. Anthony Romero
22. Nick Denton
21. Nate Berkus
20. Andrew Sullivan
19. Greg Berlanti
18. Christine Quinn
17. Martha Nelson


16. Perez Hilton
15. Brian Graden
14. Rich Ross
13. Jodie Foster
12. The New York Times Gay Mafia
11. Scott Rudin
10. Peter Thiel
9. Marc Jacobs
8. Joe Solmonese
7. Jann Wenner
6. Andrew Tobias
5. Tim Gill
4. David Geffen

3. Anderson Cooper - He’s still cautiously neutral—and silent on his sex life—but his domination of the airwaves is undeniable.


2. Barney Frank - A Democratic president would only increase the political clout of this most powerful of gay elected public officials.

1. Ellen DeGeneres - Having weathered the “Puppy-gate” media storm and an ill-perceived crossing of the writers’ strike picket line, DeGeneres and her daytime show remain perennially popular. Her most recently reported salary of $15 million put her in 15th place on Forbes magazine’s 2007 list of the top 20 TV stars—above Barbara Walters and Matt Lauer.

One thing that surprised me was the comment about Perez Hilton: His mercilessly dishy gossip blog attracts 2.6 million visitors a month and demands up to $45,000 for its ad packages. Wait, they're saying he gets 2.6 million a month? I thought he was boasting that he got that many hits a day!

A gallery of Hitchcock's cool blondes from Vanity Fair's Hollywood Issue

That photo of Marion Cotillard that I used below remind me of that Hitchcock photoshoot that Vanity Fair used in their Hollywood Issue this March. Here's a selection of today's leading ladies doing their best to emulate the greats of Hitch's era; Renee Zellweger as Kim Novak in Vertigo; Cate Blanchett as Grace Kelly in Rear Window (with hot Javier Bardem); Naomi Watts with 'Tippi' Hedren super-crazy upswept hair in Marnie; Keira Knightly as Joan Fontaine in Rebecca with Jennifer Jason Leigh as dykey Judith Anderson; Jodie Foster as 'Tippi' Hedren stuck in the telephone box in The Birds; Charlize Theron about to get strangled as Grace Kelly in Dial M for Murder; Gwyneth Paltrow as Grace Kelly in To Catch a Thief with Robert Downey Jr as Cary Grant.

I saw a piece about this on the E Channel over the weekend and the woman from Vanity Fair came across as if she'd been on some herbal cigarettes. She was talking about working with Renee Zellweger and going (and I paraphrase here..): "Renee, like, was, really acting. She, like, saw the movie a hundred times and was watching it on the set so, like, when we went to shoot she was, like, really feeling it."

I don't care if Renee is feeling it or not, I just want her to open her damn eyes! If you look carefully, she actually does that in this photo. See, she doesn't have little slits, her eyes can actually open. Now all we have to do is get her to do that when she's making a film.