The elegant Jodie Foster side steps coming out…again. Sigh. (Photo by AP/Jae C. Hong)
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Friday, March 21, 2008
Dish’s head aches trying to keep track of who’s in and who’s out of the closet these days. Who is that behind that door over there?. Oh, hi there, dear. Ever since you kind of came out a couple of months ago — what’s that? Oh, right. Dish forgot. Forgive her. For the lovely Ms. Foster, with the sort of intelligence and self-respect that would make her such a wonderful role model for lesbians if she were one, has tugged that glass closet door back shut again in an interview with journalism’s august “Parade” “magazine.”
That lady had the audacity to claim that she has never fallen in love.
The interviewer says that Foster gets “irritated” at the question about that remark and responds, “Oh, my life is basically from the head up. I’m definitely not proud of that. I’m very analytical.”
Dish sees. So Cydney Bernard, whom she publicly called “my beautiful Cydney, who sticks with me through all the rotten and the bliss,” at a December Women In Entertainment breakfast is just her “friend,” as the article puts it. And the fact that her sons’ “middle names” are Bernard is simply a coincidence. Middle names. Everyone’s got them, even Dish, but hers isn’t “denial.”
 On the other side of the fence is front man for R.E.M., who “came out” in Spin magazine this month. Didn’t everyone know this already? Nonetheless, congratulations to him for recognizing the positive impact that leading an open life can have, whether one intends it or not. (Ahem.)
“It was super complicated for me in the ’80s,” he told Spin. “I was totally open with the band and my family and my friends and certainly the people I was sleeping with. I thought it was pretty obvious.”
Oh, it was, dear. Nonetheless, this is a good thing, for the very reasons Stipe puts out there.
“Now I recognize that to have public figures be very open about their sexuality helps some kid somewhere out there,” he said.
Is he preparing for a PSA? If so, Dish knows just the person who needs to hear it.
 Which leads her to her next point. . The New York Post’s Page Six says he and his occasional and yet forever partner/boyfriend/fiancé/hooker mess are experiencing troubles. Imagine.
The details are scant and include some kind of screaming fight that sounds interesting but is probably just boring. They did, however, take separate private jets back to New York from Turks and Caicos. Shouldn’t the environmentalists be up in arms? Perez Hilton claims the two have broken up, but even if that’s true it’s not news, is it?
So, do all of Dish’s readers know about the one million or so films in production? Well, in the film version of the gay city official’s life, plays Milk. He planted a kiss on Mark Martinez who plays singer Sylvester in the film, much to Martinez’s apparent delight.
“I’m performing, and he comes onto the dance floor,” Martinez told E! News. “He grabs me, and he just slaps the biggest kiss on me … It felt like the kiss was forever. I’m like, is he going to stop? I had to close my eyes. I couldn’t believe it.”
And then Martinez asked for another take. Van Sant wouldn’t let it happen and Penn laughed.
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