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Scott D. Pierce: Is it brave for Matt Damon to play gay?

Fri, 24 May 2013 07:31:57 MDT

Scott D. Pierce: Is it brave for Matt Damon to play gay?

by Scott D. Pierce The Salt Lake Tribune

Published May 24, 2013 07:31AM MDT

HBO’s “Behind the Candelabra” tells the tale of Liberace and his much-younger boyfriend, Scott Thorson. And, like Liberace, it’s over the top. It’s not just flamboyant, it’s flamboyantly gay. The actors who play Liberace (Michael Douglas) and Thorson (Matt Damon) are not gay. They’re actors playing gay. Which Douglas believes required a certain amount of courage. “I just want to commend Matt,” he said, “because I don’t think I would have had the courage at that point in my career to take this o...

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Scott D. Pierce: Aussie host joins KTVX

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:27:33 MDT

Scott D. Pierce: Aussie host joins KTVX

by Scott D. Pierce The Salt Lake Tribune

Published May 20, 2013 09:27AM MDT

Troy Thompson came to Utah to ski. He’s staying to join the on-air team at KTVX-Channel 4. The Australian hairdresser, author and on-air host spent this past Christmas holiday on Utah’s slopes and fell in love with state. “I said, ‘I have to live here. I have no choice.’ I just loved everything about Salt Lake and Park City.” A lot of us vacation places we’d like to live. Not many of us make the move. Fewer still do it this effortlessly. While in Park City, Thompson met Stanton Jones, the owne...

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Scott D. Pierce: Leave Dawn alone! ‘Survivor’ is a game

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:35:28 MDT

Scott D. Pierce: Leave Dawn alone! ‘Survivor’ is a game

by Scott D. Pierce The Salt Lake Tribune

Published May 18, 2013 04:35PM MDT

Haters got to hate. But the haters who went after Utah “Survivor” contestant Dawn Meehan were displaying ignorance. Meehan, of South Jordan, became the object of insults because of the way she played the game of “Survivor.” Which is what you need to remember — she was playing a game. Clearly, the Brigham Young University English professor didn’t play it perfectly. She made it to the final three of “Survivor: Caramoan — Fans vs. Favorites,” but she didn’t get a single vote from jury members, wh...

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Scott D. Pierce: We’ve got to meet the ‘Mother’ pretty soon

Tue, 14 May 2013 08:54:52 MDT

Scott D. Pierce: We’ve got to meet the ‘Mother’ pretty soon

by Scott D. Pierce The Salt Lake Tribune

Published May 14, 2013 08:54AM MDT

Nobody has ever strung TV viewers along the way the executive producers of “How I Met Your Mother” have. Monday (7 p.m., CBS/Channel 2) is Episode 184 and Carter Bays and Craig Thomas STILL haven’t told us who the mother is. Hey, it only took 120 episodes to do in the one-armed man on “The Fugitive.” We found out who shot J.R. just four episodes after he was shot. (Well, there was a summer hiatus and a writers’ strike, which dragged the mystery out for eight months.) It took 121 episodes to ge...

Scott D. Pierce: Why Utahn will not win ‘Survivor’

Fri, 10 May 2013 08:41:19 MDT

Scott D. Pierce: Why Utahn will not win ‘Survivor’

by Scott D. Pierce The Salt Lake Tribune

Published May 10, 2013 08:41AM MDT

Utahn Dawn Meehan has a one-in-five chance of winning $1 million in the season finale of “Survivor” (Sunday, 7 p.m., CBS/Ch. 2) — because she’s one of five remaining contestants. But the odds are longer than that. The Brigham Young University English professor who lives in South Jordan is an underdog, and she faces an uphill climb to be the sole survivor. Of course “Survivor” is full of surprises. But here are reasons Meehan will — or will not — win: Dawn won’t win • Because she won’t make it ...