Dish's head aches trying to keep track of who’s in and who’s out of the
closet these days. Who is that behind that door over there? JODIE
FOSTER. Oh, hi there, dear. Ever since you kind of came out a couple of
months ago — what's that? Oh, right. Dish forgot. Forgive her. For the
lovely Ms. Foster, with the sort of intelligence and self-respect that
would make her such a wonderful role model for lesbians if she were
one, has tugged that glass closet door back shut again in an interview
with journalism's august Parade "magazine."
That lady had the audacity to claim that she has never fallen in love.
The interviewer says that Foster gets "irritated" at the question about
that remark and responds, "Oh, my life is basically from the head up.
I'm definitely not proud of that. I'm very analytical."
Dish sees. So Cydney Bernard, whom she publicly called "my beautiful
Cydney, who sticks with me through all the rotten and the bliss," at a
December Women In Entertainment breakfast is just her "friend," as the
article puts it. And the fact that her sons' "middle names" are Bernard
is simply a coincidence. Middle names. Everyone's got them, even Dish,
but hers isn't "denial."
On the other side of the fence is MICHAEL STIPE front man for R.E.M.,
who "came out" in Spin magazine this month. Didn't everyone know this
already? Nonetheless, congratulations to him for recognizing the
positive impact that leading an open life can have, whether one intends
it or not. (Ahem.)
"It was super complicated for me in the '80s," he told Spin. "I was
totally open with the band and my family and my friends and certainly
the people I was sleeping with. I thought it was pretty obvious."
Oh, it was, dear. Nonetheless, this is a good thing, for the very reasons Stipe puts out there.
"Now I recognize that to have public figures be very open about their sexuality helps some kid somewhere out there," he said.
Is he preparing for a PSA? If so, Dish knows just the person who needs to hear it.
Which leads her to her next point. MARC JACOBS. The New York Post's
Page Six says he and his occasional and yet forever partner/ boyfriend
/fiancé/hooker mess JASON PRESTON are experiencing troubles. Imagine.
The details are scant and include some kind of screaming fight that
sounds interesting but is probably just boring. They did, however, take
separate private jets back to New York from Turks and Caicos. Shouldn’t
the environmentalists be up in arms? Perez Hilton claims the two have
broken up, but even if that's true it's not news, is it?
So, do all of Dish's readers know about the one million or so HARVEY
MILK films in production? Well, in the GUS VAN SANT film version of the
gay city official's life, SEAN PENN plays Milk. He planted a kiss on
Mark Martinez who plays singer Sylvester in the film, much to
Martinez's apparent delight.
"I'm performing, and he comes onto the dance floor," Martinez told E!
News. "He grabs me, and he just slaps the biggest kiss on me … It felt
like the kiss was forever. I'm like, is he going to stop? I had to
close my eyes. I couldn’t believe it."
And then Martinez asked for another take. Van Sant wouldn't let it happen and Penn laughed.
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