rants&raves

"I thought, My gosh, I'm here."

--Representative-elect Tammy Baldwin (D.Wis.), upon arriving in Washington, D.C., in the November 16 Madison, Wis., Capital Times

"The tabloids linked them romantically, but even 18-year-old Taylor knew better. In an era when studios arranged publicity stunts like the Most Eligible Bachelor Award, she was trying to set Monty up with other men."

--A&E Biography narrator Peter Graves, on Montgomery Clift's friendship with Elizabeth Taylor, in the cable network's biography of Clift, premiering December 14

"I felt forced to talk about my sexuality and, you know, ray queerness, just because ... uh ... I felt like I was being looked on as a coward for not talking about it. And I ... I ... abhor that, you know. If anything, I felt like ... a ... I thought it was dead obvious to everyone all along, you know. I was wearing skirts and mascara in 1981 ... um ... onstage and in photo shoots."

--REM front man Michael Stipe, discussing being gay, on VH1's Behind the Music profile of the group, which premiered December 6

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