rants&raves.

"I want someone to be George Jones to my Tammy Wynette."

-- Rufus Wainwright, explaining what he wants in a man, in the June 10 issue of Rolling Stone 

"I think other people made prettier women than David [Duchovny], but he was cute with his shaved chest and big hair."

-- Sherilyn Fenn, on Duchovny's pre-X-Files drag persona on Twin Peaks, in which she also starred, in the June issue of Movieline

"You're going to have to give me a minute to compose myself after getting that close to Brendan Fraser."

-- Gucci's Tom Ford, after accepting AIDS Project Los Angeles's Commitment to Life A ward from the star of Gods and Monsters, May 27 in Los Angeles 

"I guess they wanted to get the gay-amphibian community in on the movie."

-- Ahmed Best, on rumors about the homosexuality of Jar Jar Binks, the character Best plays in Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace, in the June 24 issue of Rolling Stone

"I finally got my wish and ended up in bed with a bunch of brilliant lesbians."

-- Roseanne, closing out the "I Love Lesbians" episode of her syndicated The Roseanne Show, which aired May 27.