Rants raves
Advocate, The, Feb 14, 2006
"We double-check our material carefully, but Spacey's name got through." --PAUL PATRICK, organizer of the U.K.'s LGBT Project, which included Kevin Spacey in an online list of famous gay people on December 29. The actor's name was later removed, and Patrick apologized.
"Kelly must have a crush on me, because she's always saying mean things about me."--CHRISTINA AGUILERA, on Kelly Osbourne, as quoted by the New York Post, January 9
"He likes shoes, and it was like having a girlfriend on the set." --SCARLETT JOHANSSON, on her Match Point costar Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, as quoted by MSNBC's Jeannette Walls, January 10
"They died in shame and disgrace, citizens of a cursed nation of ... unholy perverts who have departed from the living God to worship on 'Brokeback Mountain.'"--Press release from Fred Phelps's Westboro Baptist Church, explaining why it would stage antigay protests at funerals of miners killed in the January 2 West Virginia mine disaster, January 4
"We can ... expect to see a lot more men like ... Jim McGreevey [leaving] their wives, children, and families."
--"Ex-gay" STEPHEN BENNETT, on the effect of Brokeback Mountain, as quoted on the Traditional Values Coalition Web site, December 14
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