hi kids
im at my home away from home PTOWN
for my summer exodus from MA Ha Tan
as we say
and the weather is lovely
the scenery is lovely
and my pal lizita and i actually managed to have two lovely meals in row
i do love the early summer enthousiasm
anyway
im writing new shows for WOMR in town
and painting
and being a girl
i shall keep you posted
xxx
toodles
ya know say what you will about the man
i kinda like that the mayor of new orleans refuses to wear anything but shorts in honor of the katrina tragedy
i was thinking maybe i should do something in honor of the george dubya bush tragedy, 8 years of america being suckered
ya dont like george
ya dont like god
ya dont like the war
you're anti american
sheesh
what ever happened to free thinking independant thought in this country?
is it really the 1950s all over again?
anyway
in honor of the bush tragedy i have decided the following
i will not wear a dress
ever
hehehehe
ok i admit
i dont anyway
but now i have a cause
okay
im gonna say it out loud
damn the consequences
i
love
barbara
streisand
there
phew
i said it
well its june again
which means two things to me
the big wedding season in which i cater a hundred thousand weddings (slight exaggeration) and then fall face first onto the beach come end of june and try not to move until september
and gay pride
this gay pride in america seems to have more meaning to me then it has in many years
maybe its because i was in provincetown when the first gay marriage excitement started
maybe its because i've never felt so much homophobia in this country
as i do now watching all the red states stand up and scream
hell no, queers can't go...down the aisle
maybe its just that i'm finally old enough, savy enough and smart enough to understand the full spetrum of prejudice and reverse prejudice and the need to stand tall and proud against it
i feel of late that my judaism has been under attack by countless people who have used the plight of the palestinian as a very clever way to scape-goat jews
i feel of late that my gay-dom is under attack by countless people who feel that just because they have a dick and their spouse does not, or vice versa
that they have the god-given right to marry and no one else does
so for june
as the sun warms
the ocean calls
and i cater countless weddings of couples who do have the right to marry
i say
stand tall
stand proud
and celebrate your diversity
regardless of what it is
your lover is beautiful
your color is beautiful
your religion is beautiful
and so are you
be proud
The Senate votes this week on a proposed constitutional amendment banning marriage with anyone with a below average IQ
To become law, the proposal needs to pass the Senate and the House with a two-thirds vote. It would then have to be ratified by at least 38 state legislatures.
President Bush begged the American public to not let this pass as he will then be forced to have his marriage annulled.
He plans on using his radio address to demand rights for the non intelligent to marry.
Supporters say the amendment is needed to prevent “those dummies from getting hitched!”
i saw "THE MACHINIST" last night with Christian Bale
lord
i'd heard he'd lost so much weight for the role
that he had to be monitored by a doctor
daily
but my god that can't be good for the guy
first he beefed up for batman
then he went to concentration camp form for the machinist
but i gotta say
this boy can really act
i had a sliver of an opportunity to interview
christian
when he did Velvet Goldmine
a movie early in his career and early in jonathan rys myers too
and a movie that i found to be incredibly brilliant
i wrote a column in NYC's The Flatiron News
called "MY Dinner with Rossi"
it was a fun column
i would take out mostly b celebs
to dinner and ply them with booze and interview them
what i felt especially talented at
was finding celebs before they were about to explode
sometimes so closely that they would be A list celebs
as my column was coming to print
i had the pleasure to interviw Edie Falco early in the Sopranos
run
she was a doll
though i never met anyone who drank so much diet coke in my life
but sweet and polite
and respectful and
honest
she said she'd modeled the mom soprano character
after the women she grew up around in her neighborhood
that she'd see in the beauty parlors
i had a fun interview in a mexican joint
with Aaron Eckhart
just after his first flick
In the Company of Men
had a fab night with Kevin Corrigan
who went on to the drink the night away with my photographer
actually in the 4 years i wrote the column
the only interview i hated
was the one with Philip Seymor Hoffman
he picked The Chat and Chew
as his food destination
this was shortly after he'd done Boogie Nights
and he was defensive
and edgy
and condescending
and basicaly everything i thought this
sweet seeming guy would not be
so you can't judge a book by its cover
of all the interviews i did the one i loved best
was with Quentin Crisp
sweet odorable 90 year old Quentin
was so happy to be taken out to dinner
so thrilled to be treated nicely
and after all that
he was going to take a bus home
because the darling man
after all that fame
didn't have a dime and
lived in an old rooming house in the east village
i put him in a cab and gave him 20 dollars for the fair
he died within a year of that interview
and i will always be grateful to have had the chance to treat him
like the royalty he was for one night
but Christian
i missed by a day
his flight ran late
things happened
and the next thing you know
came American Psycho
and he was too big for The Flatiron News
ah well
i gave up the column
when a new editor stepped in
who trimmed my interviews down to nothing
and dumped an interview i'd work with much love
on a movie i beleived in
because he felt the movie wouldn't go anywhere
the movie was
Boys Don't Cry
damn shame they didn't run the interview
