Rants & raves.

"I didn't like the blog. I'm counting on Rosie's intelligence and sensitivity and humor."

--BARBARA WALTERS, talking about View costar Rosie O'Donnell's musings on her blog about the talk show, to Newsweek, September 11

"When I hear [Boy George] sing, 'Do you really want to hurt me ...' I say to myself, Yes, I want to punch your lights out, pal, and break your ribs."

--Republican U.S. Senate candidate STEPHEN LAFFEY of Rhode Island, writing in a column for his college Republican group in the 1980s, as reported in The Providence Journal, August 26

"I think if [gays] want to get married, God bless them."

--Former NBA star CHARLES BARKLEY, who's mulling a run for Alabama governor, on CMI: The Chris Myers Interview, September 3

"With Jackass we're not trying to act homosexual--what we're trying to do is rid the world of homophobia. Homophobics are the creepiest of the creeps."

--Jackass: Number Two star STEVE-O, on the The Howard Stem Show, September 8

"Without doubt, gays are discriminated against in show business.... Everything Hugh Grant does, I could be in."

--RUPERT EVERETT, in London's Daily Mail, September 2