Perhaps getting back to his roots, Governator (he definitely helped terminate California's economy) Schwarzenegger signed into lawthree big LGBT bills: Harvey Milk Day (which he's previously vetoed for no good reason at all), an LGBT domestic violence bill and the Family Protection and Marriage Recogition Act.
Idiotically, he said the press garnered by the movie Milk helped change the tide on Milk Day. Once a movie star, always a movie star. Milk deserved a day last year as much as this year. But hey, we'll take it.
An anonymous hooker who worked for madame Kristin Davis (pictured above) and who's already alleged that disgraced ex-Governor Spitzer roughed her up during sex is now telling a blind-items tale about another state's governor who paid for sex with her through an intermediary a few times. He has a wife almost as prominent as he is, something the sex worker didn't realize until later.
It sounds like Arnold Schwarzenegger, although anyone who didn't realize he was married to Maria would have to be...hmmm...a stupid whore.
I saw D-list darling Kathy Griffin for the first timea year ago, then I saw her at Madison Square Garden's WaMu Theater last night. As she pointed out, the WaMu has to be renamed in a few months thanks to its namesake bank's disastrous collapse and since nobody wants to pay for the privilege it'll just be called "The Theater" again. Even when she plays MSG she's D-list, forced to appear in the wing with the undesirable sponsor.
Reality check: It was the opening night of a sold-out run of shows.
Griffin's increasingly popular comedy is fascinating to me because it's anti-cerebral and yet still incredibly smart. She's a consummate pop-culture connoisseur and observer and owes a huge part of her following to how much her audience probably agrees with every word out of her mouth, whether she's joking or being serious or both.
At one point, she made a side reference to Jessica Simpson's weight gain, which got a big hoot. This led to a coquettish, "Shall we?" This is her secret—she knows her fans' limits (non-existent) and revels in seeking our approval for her obscene and obscenely funny remarks.
Her gay following is not surprising considering her surgical take on pop culture—I think gay people are particularly good at observation, deconstruction and destruction—and due to her explicitly identifying as one of us. She ended her set with a funny report on how she spent her birthday with Cher, during which she admitted "as a gay man" it was an amazing thrill meeting Cher. Remember when Madonna started the "I'm a gay man trapped in the body of a woman" trend 18 years or so ago? Kathy has dropped the body of a woman part.
(Oh, and she's rooting for The Woz on Dancing With The Stars.)
It was a hilarious evening, a real pleasure and was almost 100% new material. She's funny, fearless, desperate for attention and an unflinching liberal big-mouth—if I believed in organized religion, I might nominate Kathy for Jesus.
MSG as gay mega-church.
Some of her highlights (or lowlights, depending on your last name):
Miley Cyrus is a whore: "I'm just gonna come out and say it—Miley Cyrus is a whore. I don't care anymore! She's a whooore...whooore...oh, God...whooore! That's not, that's not nice to say about a 16-year-old. But don't you think she would fuck a cucumber at this point...if it was attached to her dad?...Believe me, she is sore right now from some shit...Granted, this girl is 16 and I'm definitely being too hard on her, but she's a little advanced. Can we at least agree that she's a little what we could call forward? When I was 16, I was such a nerd I was looking at my mom and saying, 'When will I get menstruation?' I wasn't sending pictures of myself in panties on the Internet...which they didn't have. Nor did I use the postal system or a mule team. She's a whore."
