And here are some saucy samplings of what I said.
About Melissa Leo's F-word:
"It was in keeping with her character in The Fighter. And it was the only sign of life all night. It's just sad that it was the highlight of the whole telecast and you couldn't hear it! You had to read her lips!"
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As you know, John Galliano was suspended by Dior after his allegedly anti-Semitic rant against a couple in Paris last Thursday (Galliano denies it and is crying "defamation" -- but today, a clip surfaced of him saying, "I love Hitler").
The same day, Charlie Sheen went into crazed radio-show tirades against his show's producer Chuck Lorre, saying the guy's real name is "Haim Levine."
(Sheen argues that it's the Hebrew translation of Lorre's birth name, but let's face it; the actor was in attack mode and spewing it as an epithet.)
And of course there's always Mel Gibson.
So nu?
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Benn Jaye
You can even shoot it in prison, since some of the scenes will be set there!
I want you to play 1950s starlet Barbara Payton, who unglamorously spiraled from fame to tawdriness, though at least she got a brilliantly frank memoir called I Am Not Ashamed out of it.
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FOR DRAG QUEENS:
Karen Alot
Pearl Necklace
June Bride
April Showers
May Pole
Mona More
Eydie Amin
Barbara Seville
Gerry Visco
When I went to Columbia University, there were no drag queens in sight except for an occasional professor who'd accidentally put on his wife's halter top.
But the other night at the very same school -- 800 years later, mind you -- the place was positively crawling with them.
It was IvyQ 2011's Fantasy Ball, and as a judge (along with Gerry Visco and Daniel Nardicio), I was witness to all sorts of drag queens in their embryo stages, many of them flouncing and voguing like virgins, for the very first time.
And I have to say I was deeply moved!
As I watched these kids sashay tentatively out of the Ivy League womb, there was something super-sweet and sincere about the whole thing that touched my aged drag soul!
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I was on CNN this morning with anchor Kyra Phillips, discussing the plight of crazed Charlie Sheen, whose rants against the creator of Two and a Half Men have led to the suspension of this season's remaining episodes.
Among my highly illuminating bon mots:
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Book of Mormon
No, that's not me talking.
I don't believe in God, so why on earth would I tell Her to fuck off?
It happens to be a line from The Book of Mormon, the reportedly wacky musical by the South Park guys that just started previews on Broadway.
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Yes, I know that every breathing creature on earth dreams of a life in showbiz, but trust me: It's hell in a handbasket.
Once you enter into "the biz," there's no stability, zero security, and incomplete satisfaction.
Unlike most professions, the life of an actor is a job-by-job existence in which, every time a show closes or isn't renewed, you horrifyingly find yourself at square zero, sending out head shots to total strangers!
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You have to trust me on this one.
In Charlotte Chandler's imminent book Marlene, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is quoted as saying that the great Dietrich was desperate to kill the diabolical dictator Hitler -- naked.
The screen goddess's plan was to go visit Hitler completely starkers and somehow murder him via seduction.
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