rants&raves

"It must be a trend with the Hollywood cuties: They turn on the gay men in film, and then they run and get married as if to prove a point. Such as you [Brad Rowe] and little Ryan Phillippe."

--George Wayne, interviewing Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss star Brad Rowe in the April issue of Vanity Fair

"I was probably 10 or 11, and the B-52's were on Saturday Night Live with the beehive hairdos and Fred Schneider and that weird guitar with two strings on it. They were all just gay and geeky and weird."

--Rock star Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters) on why "Rock Lobster" is "one of the most genius songs of all time," as quoted in the March 30 issue of Rolling Stone

"Is Madonna getting better, or am I getting more gay?"

--Bob Mould, onstage at San Francisco's eighth annual Noise Pop festival March 7, as quoted on Sonicnet.com

"I think Dr. Laura is ridiculous, but it's a free country, and she is entitled to her opinion. Let her alone, and she'll dissolve, like the Wicked Witch of the West."

--Liz Smith, in her syndicated column, March 16

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