Rumor has it that MSNBC newsman Chris Matthews will run for senate once his contract runs out.

Seizing on those rumors, Philadelphia Gay News publisher Mark Segal asked Matthews about his stance on gay marriage. After eschewing the question - what would Matthews do about the defense of marriage act - Matthews went into a valid tirade about freedom, which could come across as support.

Segal, however, wanted specifics. What he received were expletives:

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Sean Connery's new autobiography, Being a Scot, was released today in the UK. The book finds the first and most famous Bond musing on "many aspects of Scottish culture and life, including sport, architecture, and of course the gothic tendency in Scots literature," while also offering enlightening anecdotes from his 78 years as a Scotsman. No word yet on whether Connery has used any part of Being a Scot to discuss under what circumstances a man can smack his lippy wife. In case he hasn't, we've got a brief video lesson after the jump.

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• Old school Britney loved Cheetos even back in the day. [DListed]

• Lindsay Lohan's side boob would be more exciting had we not already seen the entire thing. [HT]

• Gwen Stefani is about to give birth. Oh good, because we haven't heard any celebrity baby news lately. [ICYDK]

• Upon realizing that everyone in America hates her, Paris Hilton is taking her BFF search overseas. [PS]

• Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds decided to hold off on their wedding until after the presidential election. There's still time! [INO]

• Megan Fox will film a lesbian scene. Of course. [Yeeeah]

WEDDED BLISS Ellen DeGeneres on new bride Portia de Rossi: "She's officially off the market. No one else gets her. And now she'll cook and clean for me."

Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, America's junk food, told Extra in a new interview that, when they get married, it will be on live television. Presumably, this is so they can be continue to be just like their predecessors, Charles and Diana.

Asked if she would leave The Hills once a married woman, Montag replied oh so tellingly, "No, where would I go?"

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HERE COME THE BRIDES "Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi, 35, will wed this weekend in California. … The pair are planning a small, intimate ceremony with only a few close friends and family."

Someone needs to keep an eye on Jennifer Aniston, because rumor has it John Mayer dumped her and, if the media is to be believed, she is going to have a nervous breakdown due to the grief. Or something.

John took the decision to end things as he felt he just wasn't ready for the level of commitment that Jennifer deserved. Contrary to reports, Jen didn't want to have kids or marry this year, but she did want to set a timetable for their future together. She also wanted him to assure her he would cut down his tours in the future when they did eventually have children.

But don't feel too sorry for Jen: Reports are stating she has already moved on with a new boyfriend. Sounds like someone's been getting lessons from Kate Hudson.

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We love weddings! We're going to one this weekend and we are going to cry and cry (because we love to cry, too!). But y'know who hates marriage? TV. That heartless institution thinks married couples are boring prudes, a sentiment it expresses by making sex scenes between married couples as bland as hell, if even present at all.

Marital sex on TV is "nonexistent or burdensome."

Single and extramarital sex is "glamorous" and "exciting."

That's according to the Parents Television Council, which released a study Tuesday on how sex is portrayed in broadcast primetime.

It also says those portrayals are wrong, very wrong, if not downright inaccurate.

"Everybody is having sex on TV except for married couples," PTC president Tim Winter said.

According to the study titled "Happily Never After," scenes on the major networks depicting or implying sex between nonmarried partners outnumbered similar scenes between married couples by a ratio of nearly 4-to-1. References to adultery outnumbered references to marital sex 2-to-1.

Can you believe it? A stereotype on TV, broadcast as if it were true!

Lance Bass’ new boyfriend, Sebastian Leal, has a wife. Yep, you read that right. The personal trainer, who has been dating the former boy bander for a few weeks, married a woman nine years ago and failed to get a divorce.

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Mariah Carey has fallen a bit out of the spotlight lately now that her marriage to Nick Cannon has become old news. So, naturally, she's just now sharing the details on how Nick proposed to her — twice — in hopes of milking this story for all it's worth. But, really, we could have imagined these shenanigans already (it is Mariah, after all) so it's nothing groundbreaking:

'He sort of kidnapped me and took me on a helicopter ride. Then he re-proposed.' Cannon's first proposal had taken place on Carey's roof in Manhattan a couple of evenings prior and involved the hiding of a 17-carat diamond ring inside a candy ring pop.

Only the best for "eternally 12-years-old" Mariah.

At 5:01 PM, clerks began issuing the state’s first same-sex marriage licenses. And, as a proper institution, the ladies went first. Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, who have been together 55 years, inaugurated the festivities in San Francisco, while Robin Tyler and Diane Olson did it up in Los Angeles county. The latter were the original plaintiffs in the case that led to California Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the ban on gay marriage.

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Gay Star Trek star George Takei is very close to boldly going where few men have gone before: into a loving marriage with another man.

With the California Supreme Court's legalization of gay marriage taking effect yesterday, Takei and his partner, Brad Altman, talked with The Early Show about being in the final stages of wedding planning, a process Takei calls "delicious anguish." Click through for the adorable video of the lovebirds.

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• Watching local news reporters lose their cool never gets old. [DListed]

• Another reason why we love New York: 53 percent of New Yorkers agree with Governor Paterson's support of same-sex marriages. [QT]

• Lindsay Lohan was spotted with a baby bump. Praise Xenu it's fake. [PS]

• More signs of the apocalypse: Britney Spears is being considered for an Emmy nomination. [INO]

• Randy Jackson thinks Clay Aiken is going to be a great father, but we all know Randy has questionable taste. (See: His obsession with David Archuleta) [ICYDK]

Tila Tequila, the STD-ridden reality show loser who does the GLBT community no favors, is clearly delusional. At last night's Hollywood premiere of The Love Guru, she announced that she played an integral part in California dropping the ban on gay marriage:

[The legalization of gay marriage] is because of me — I definitely think [my show] has helped the movement. Before it came out, everyone was still a little apprehensive about [same sex relationships]. Then they realized, 'Wow, everyone is really into this stuff, and it is fine.' The next thing you know, [gay marriage] is legal.

We're sure the Supreme Court took one look at Tila performing fellatio on a pickle and being passed around in a family hot tub orgy and thought, "You know what? This gay marriage stuff isn't so bad after all. Looks like good clean fun."

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HOLY MATRIMONY "Timbaland and his girlfriend, music exec Monique Idlett, have tied the knot, Usmagazine.com has confirmed exclusively. The two wed — in their sweats! — in Virginia on Tuesday by a family pastor."

Angelina Jolie, on her non-marriage to Brad Pitt:

People have made a lot out of it that we’re not, but we both have been married before, and it’s very easy to get married, but it’s not easy to build a family and be parents together. And maybe we’ve done it backwards, but we certainly feel married.

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• This is why we love New York: "Gov. David A. Paterson has directed all state agencies to begin to revise their policies and regulations to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions, like Massachusetts, California and Canada." [NYT]

• Britney Spears is being courted by Broadway. Nope, not joking. [DListed]

• The Guess Who's Eating Quiz. [PS]

• In all seriousness, someone needs to be keeping an eye on Owen Wilson in light of the Kate Hudson-Lance Armstrong romance. [ICYDK]

• "Xzibit’s newborn son, who was born prematurely on May 15th, died earlier this week when his lungs gave out." [SH]

Noted Hollywood star and heterosexual Will Smith appeared on Ellen DeGeneres’ television show on Monday to discuss – as Ellen is wont to do following some little California court ruling – marriage. Ellen, as you might have heard, plans to marry girlfriend Portia de Rossi, and so that is all she can think about, even if her writers might have put other talking points on her cue cards. So how has Smith, who is married to heavy metal singer Jada Pinkett, kept his marriage going strong for 10 years?

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