​Anderson Cooper has long said that he won't address his private life because he doesn't want to be the story.

But he'll talk about the tragedy of his dead brother.

Somehow that's more reportable than the way happier tale of Anderson's gayness and love relationship.

Next Monday, on his daytime talk show, the anchor-slash-chat-host will air an episode where he and his mother, the high-cheekboned Gloria Vanderbilt, reminisce about past horrors.

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Anderson Cooper and I have so much in common.

Our moms are world-famous socialites, though mine is only the queen of lower Brooklyn.

Our bodies are in exactly the shape we want them, though in my case, that involves looking like a human beanbag chair.

And we both have connections to the bar Eastern Bloc, though I'm simply an occasional customer, not an intimate part of the family.

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CNN's charismatic Anderson Cooper and his boyfriend, club owner Ben Maisani, turned up at the gayest party in town on Wednesday night.

​I was the first one to lambast this expression some years ago, a phrase which is used to denote something tacky, sad, awful, and tasteless.

I thought the phrase itself was appalling, and couldn't believe it was being used by people who would surely never have the nerve to publicly say things like "That's so black!" or "That's so Jew!"

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​Technically, Anderson Cooper will be the new Oprah, since he's pretty much jumping into daytime talk TV next fall in the wake of the chat queen's dramatic exit.

But he's more like Phil Donahue -- gray-haired, compassionate, with a healthy sense of humor, and a supportive spouse.

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​CLICK HERE for my column in which I describe an early-stages walking tour of The Out NYC, the hotel complex where every gay in the world will converge next year -- or at least every gay I know.

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​CLICK HERE to devour the new column, which reports that Kathy Griffin was asked by a journalist about Anderson Cooper's love life, and my name came up in the question!

In the same column, I broke my rule of never speaking to a reality show star by chatting up The Real Housewives Of New York City's Countess LuAnn de Lesseps.

And she told me to get a massage!

That's it! I'm going back to my no-reality-star rule!

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​CLICK HERE, read my new column, and find out which famous hottie Sir Ian McKellen eyelash-battingly said that to last week in public!

Not quite as butchly, I also dive into:

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​I hate to trivialize such esteemed personages by pitting them in a battle of adorableness, but let's face it, they're both pretty sweet looking and it's time to decide which of the two TV stars comes out on top, as it were.

Do you prefer Anderson Cooper's upper crusty, silver fox-like gym bunny looks?

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​My spies tell me that the other night, an incredibly glittery posse came in to the Bourgeois Pig restaurant on East 7th Street for some steaming cheese fondue.

The group consisted of:

Madonna and Jesus Luz

Jessica Seinfeld

And Anderson Cooper and a cute guy who was recognized as a bartender from the East Village gay bar Eastern Bloc. Anderson and the guy both came on bicycles.

Discuss.