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Kelly McGillis comes out
'Top Gun' leading lady ends speculation that she's lesbian. Hey, remember those rumors about her and Jodi Foster?
Actress Kelly McGillis says she% gay and
looking for a female companion. The twice-
divorced mother of two is best known for her
roles in the films "Top Gun," "The Accused"
and "Witness *
Asked on the Internet show "Girl Rock!" if
she wants to date a man or a woman, the sin-
gle 51-year-old actress replied, "Definitely a
woman."
McGillis said she's "done with the man
tiling. I did that. I need to move on in life. It's a
part of being true to yourself. That's been a
challenge for me."1'
Coming out as a lesbian was an ongoing
process —since before she was a teen, McGillis
said. "I had a lot of things happen that con-
vinced me that God was punishing me because
I was gay," she continued.
McGillis has appeared on "The L Word" —
playing Col. Gillian Davis, a golf-loving, single-
malt-sipping prosecutor on loan from the
National Guard.
In a nod to butch sportsmanship, McGillis
already has a women's flag football tourna-
ment named after her. And she's already work-
ing with Pride events. On May 17, during New
Hope, Penn.'s Gay Pride Weekend, McGillis
hosts "Sing Out Loud and Proud" at the New
Hope-Solebury High School's Stephen Buck
Theatre, which benefits the Rainbow Room of
Planned Parenthood of Bucks County, the
region's youth resource center for GLBTAs (the
A stands for "allied").
McGillis is currently in rehearsals for a
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stage production of "The Little Foxes" in
Pasadena, Calif.
Wasn't McGillis great in "The Accused"?
That's when she played an attorney defending
rape victim Sarah Tobias, played by Jodie
Foster, who won an Oscar in 1988,
Since then, there's always been this urban
legend about a love triangle between Foster
and McGillis. Of course, this rumor is unsub-
stanitaed, but it went something like this:
McGillis was "saving all her love" for Whitney
Houston. But on the set, McGillis and Foster
got all hot 'n' heavy. And Houston visited the
set, threatening to open a can of whoop-ass on
Foster ... or was it McGillis?
Paul Newman's bi-sexiness
In Darwin Porter's upcoming book "Paul
Newman: The Man Behind the Baby Blues,"
(Blue Moon; release date, July 25) the biogra-
pher say# Cool Hand Luke was a closeted
bisexual.
Porter, who also wrote "Brando Unzipped,"
claims to have been collecting insider info on
Newman since 1959.
Included in Porter's book is a quote from
Marlon Brando: "Paul Newman had just as
many on-location affairs as the rest of us, and
he was just as bisexual as I was. But whereas I
was always getting caught with my pants
down, he managed to do it in the dark with
not a paparazzo in sight. He might have bed-
ded Marilyn Monroe of Elizabeth Taylor the
night before, but he always managed to show
up for breakfast with Joanne Woodward, with
those baby blues looking as innocent as a
Botticelli angel. He never fooled me. It takes an
alleycat to know another one. Did I ever tell
you what really happened between Newman
and me? If that doesn't grab you, what about
what went on between James Dean and
Newman? Let me tell you about this so-called
model husband if you want to look behind
those famous peepers."
Almodovar on the 'Verge' of Fox
If you were brainstorming about unlikely
pairings in the entertainment world, andeven
if you were brainstorming really hard, then Fox
TV Studios and Pedro Almodovar's break-
through hit 1988 film "Women on the Verge of
a Nervous Breakdown" still might not ever
cross paths in your mind. But Almodovar him-
self is in the process of developing his crowd-
pleaser for an international English-speaking
TV audience with the production company
right now.
The one-hour, so-far-untitled pilot will focus
on a suburban group of women (cue
"Desperate Housewives" comparisons, even
though that series studied at the feet of
Almodovar) who are confronting middle age
and all the comedic scenarios that come along
with it. Unknown is if, like in the film, one of
the women on the verge will be a voice-over
actress who gets abandoned by her lover and
proceeds to drug houseguests with sedative-
laced gazpacho. But it could happen.
INSTANT TEA
BITES FROM OUR BLOG
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Will Paul J. be the next Logo star?
He certainly hopes so. Local actor-come-
dian-host Paul J. Williams, pictured, who
just returned from a high-seas adventure as
Edna Garrett on an RSVP cruise, has another
gig lined up — this time on dry land.
Williams will be one of four gay comics per-
forming for "One Night Stand Up 6" at the
Music Box in Hollywood. The concert —
which also features lesbians Dana Eagle and
Kate Rigg, and transgender comedian Ian
Harvie — will be recorded live on May 30,
for broadcast later this year. Way to go, Paul!
Lies on Hate Crimes Bill in East Texas
News anchors for KETK, a local NBC sta-
tion in Tyler, and Garth Maier, a radio jock
for KTBB AM were mulling over the "ques-
tion of the day" — whether "religious
preachers'"Should be exempt from prosecu-
tion under the Matthew Shepard Hate
Grimes Act.
The anchors and Maier rattled on about
how "religious preachers" could, under this
legislation, face criminal prosecution for
preaching that homosexuality is a sin.
Recordings from radio listeners were aired,
saying how homosexuality is a sin and the
hate crimes law is not just useless, but could
be harmful.
The male TV news anchor even pulled
out the old "every crime is a hate crime"
standard. And Maier made a point of stress-
ing that the hate crimes biii was stalled in
Congress when President Bush was in the
White House because Bush said he would
veto it. But now that President Obama is in
office, he "promotes" gay rights and sup-
ports the hate crimes bill.
But here's the deal. The crap about
preachers being prosecuted is a pack of lies.
Anybody with any sense knows that the hate
crimes bill contains a "Rule of
Construction," which specifically provides
that "Nothing in this Act... shall be con-
strued to prohibit any expressive conduct
protected from legal prohibition by, or any
activities protected by the free speech or free
exercise clauses of, the First Amendment to
the Constitution."
So the folks at KETK and KTBB are
either terribly misinformed, or they are just
outright liars. If you want to contact them
and tell them to get it right or shut up about
it, here's the info: KETK NBC, 4300
Richmond Road, Tyler, TX 75703; phone:
903-581-5656; fax: 903-561-2459;
KTBB AM 600: 903-593-5822.:
Instant Tea commentor Kia says, "To the
news anchor: I wish you luck getting out of
the highly coveted East Texas market and
moving on to bigger cities with your bigotry
on record,
I love your tumbleweeds, they're fierce!!"
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