Rants & raves."If the election goes the wrong way--and I think you know which way I mean--then you're all welcome to come on up to Canada." --Alberta native k.d. lang, addressing a Hollywood Bowl The Hollywood Bowl is a modern amphitheatre at 2301 North Highland Avenue in Hollywood, California, USA, that is used primarily for music performances. The "bowl" in this context is the natural cavity in the earth into which the amphitheater is built, rather than the shape of the audience in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , July 30 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] " Today I am an ex-gay. No, wait ... I don't define myself anymore with a sexual identity. I'm just ... Randy," --Randy Thomas," featured in s newspaper ad for Exodus, a "reparative re·par·a·tive also re·par·a·to·ry adj. 1. Tending to repair. 2. Relating to or of the nature of reparations. therapy" ministry, as seen in the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). , July 23 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Halle's so beautiful, and I wanted to kiss her. I said, 'How can you have us in the movie and not have us kiss? That's such a waste.' That's what you get for having George Bush as president." --Sharon Stone (far left, with Halle Berry), lamenting the absence of a kiss in the film Catwoman, as quoted by Ireland Online, August 3 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "We're both opposed to gay marriage and believe that states should be allowed to decide this question." --Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards, responding to Missouri's passage of a ballot measure to write anti-gay marriage discrimination into the state constitution, as quoted by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is the only major city-wide newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri. Although written to serve Greater St. Louis, the Post-Dispatch is one of the largest newspapers in the region, and is available and read as far west as Springfield, Missouri. , August 5 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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