Over the years, she’s certainly spoken with quite a lot of celebrities, and although she uses hard tactics, I’d say she gets the job done…
However, sometimes I wonder if Barbara finds herself alone at night in her palatial townhouse, in a large satin-covered bed, clutching a photo of Henry Kissinger and a bottle of vodka, wishing there were interviews that she could do-over.
According to Babs, the one interview she regrets is the infamous “Ricky Martin outing party” in 2000…
“In 2000, I pushed Ricky Martin very hard to admit if he was gay or not, and the way he refused to do it made everyone decide that he was,” she says now.
“A lot of people say that destroyed his career, and when I think back on it now I feel it was an inappropriate question.”
Hm… here’s the interview, just in case you felt like seeing it in all its grainy glory:
Aw, I wouldn’t feel wholly responsible, Babs…
Although I’m not sure I needed to hear Ricky say he’s a homosexual, per se… I think he’s dropped a few hints…
For instance, in the Livin’ La Vida Loca video when that smoking hot girl kept shaking her ass in his face and he looked like he was petrified that she’d let out a squeaker or that he’d break a tooth… I thought that was pretty telling…
Oh, also maybe it was when those photos came out of him playing paddle ball and doing yoga on the beach with his ridiculously en-fuego boyfriend… It could have been then…
Yeah, that might have been the moment when the pink lightbulb went off for me…
On the other hand, I can tell that Michael Bastian is really onto something special with his collection for GANT…
And when I say “something special”, I mean that I had to type this hanging upside down from a chin-up bar because my computer kept bouncing off my lap…
Sean Hayes who played “Jack McFarland” on Will & Grace, decided to come out of the closet as a homosexual today in an interview with The Advocate…
Said Sean:
“When I play a gay character I want to be as believable as possible. And when I’m playing a straight character I also want to be as believable as possible. So the less that people know about my personal life, the more believable I can be as a character.”
“I am who I am. I was never in, as they say. Never… Why would you go down that path with somebody who’s done so much to contribute to the gay community? That was my beef about it. What more do you want me to do? Do you want me to stand on a float? And then what? It’s never enough.”
Yeah, I can totally understand where Sean is coming from because obviously, playing a gay stereotype on television, then refusing to associate your actual person with your own gay lifestyle was a huge help to the gay community.
Seriously. Enormous.
In other news, in the vein of revelatory self-identification…
“She got cosy with DJ Geno until it was his turn to hit the decks. Then, after requesting Cyprus Hill’s Insane in the Membrane, she was overheard telling him, “See you in a bit, baby” before heading off to Bungalow 8. When Gareth joined her there later, she practically leapt on the poor bloke.
“I have to move to London,” Lindsay said. “He’s so cute.””
Sounds pretty exciting, right?
Shortly after waking up the next morning, Gareth was also quoted as saying:
The Vatican has been thrown into chaos by reports that one of the Pope’s ceremonial ushers, as well as a member of the elite Vatican choir, were involved in a homosexual prostitution ring.
Wait, you’re telling me that a dude who hangs around in a caftan all day, and a soprano in an all-male chorus are into dudes? Noway…
The allegations have come to light after Italian newspapers published transcripts of phone calls recorded by police, who had been conducting an unrelated corruption investigation and ended up finding negotiations for hiring male prostitutes…
The tapes recorded Angelo Balducci, a Gentleman of His Holiness, negotiating with Thomas Chinedu Ehiem, a 29-year-old Nigerian Vatican chorister, about men he wanted brought to him for sexual purposes. Balducci was allegedly paying 2,000 euros ($2,714) for each man he “laid with”…
Balducci is recorded describing precise physical details of the men he wanted. The transcripts record that during five months in 2008, Ehiem procured for Balducci at least 10 contacts with, among others, “two black Cuban lads,” a former male model from Naples, and a rugby player…
You nasty, girl… You nasty… But, I like your style…
And, girl… Miss Larry kept it real and immersed himself in the fierce fierce-ocity that is Johnny Weir…
Shortly after using Weir-lingo, Larry was so inspired that he took his commercial break as an opportunity to wax his eyebrows, get a blowout, and move the fuck out his wife’s house because ain’t nobody payin’ his bills but him… Ok!?
“I wanted to sleep with as many rock ‘n’ roll guys as I could – and I’ve certainly had my fun.” And when she does commit to a relationship, the New Yorker admits she comes with a warning. “I tell any new boyfriend to hang on, because it’s going to be a bumpy ride.”
That being said:
Dear Lady Gaga,
Do me a favor and don’t use the word “bumpy” when talking about anything that has anything to do with me… at all.
“A state senator from Southern California was arrested for allegedly driving drunk after leaving Faces, a gay nightclub in midtown Sacramento, early Wednesday morning.
The California Highway Patrol pulled over Senator Roy Ashburn at 2:00 a.m. Wednesday after an officer noticed a black Chevy Tahoe swerving at 13th and L Streets.
Ashburn, a father of four, is a Republican Senator representing parts of Kern, Tulare and San Bernardino Counties with a history of opposing gay rights.
When the officer stopped the state-issued vehicle, the driver identified himself as Senator Ashburn. He was arrested without incident and charged with two misdemeanors: driving under the influence and driving with a blood alcohol level higher than .08% or higher.”
Wow, this must have been a pretty trying night for the cop who pulled Senator Ashburn over… I’d imaging their interaction probably sounded something like this:
Cop: “Senator Ashburn, did you know you just swerved off the road and directly into a gay pornography store?”
Sen. Ashburn: “Well, that’s odd… And how did this gay adult video get in here? My oh my…”
Sen. Ashburn: “I had a few cosmopolitans at “Faces“… But, just for research…”
Cop: “Ok. Can you give me your license and registration and turn off the stereo, please?”
Sen. Ashburn: “Not until the finale… Haven’t you ever heard Ms. Patti Lupone’s live recording of “I Dreamed A Dream” from Les Miz? Huh-neyyy… Uh-uh… Girrrrrl…”