rants & raves."I wish that there were sort of a central clearinghouse for scheduling St. Patrick's Day parades. There isn't." --Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), on the scheduling conflict that was her stated reason for deciding not to march in the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. St. Patrick's Day parade, which excludes gay groups, after having announced earlier that she would march, as quoted in the New York Daily News New York Daily News Morning daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson and his cousin Robert McCormick as a subsidiary of the Tribune Co. of Chicago. The first successful tabloid-format newspaper in the U.S. , March 12 "It's not going to be with another guy, so I'm happy." --David Spade, on a menage a trois ménage à trois n. A relationship in which three people, such as a married couple and a lover, live together and have sexual relations. [French : ménage, household + à, for (with two women) planned for his sitcom Just Shoot Me, as quoted by Mitchell Fink in the New York Daily News. March 9 "The next record is chock-full of hits, profanity Irreverence towards sacred things; particularly, an irreverent or blasphemous use of the name of God. Vulgar, irreverent, or coarse language. The use of certain profane or obscene language on the radio or television is a federal offense, but in other situations, profanity , gay-bashing, and antiwoman statements, and I think it's gonna be huge." --Rocker Sheryl Crow, alluding to Eminem's success, as quoted in Ted Casablanca's column The Awful Truth on E! Online, March 1 "Homosexuality for many stars was an opportunistic thing, a passing phase to get their careers off the launching pad." --Richard Gulley, the late openly gay former aide to MGM MGM in full Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. U.S. corporation and film studio. It was formed when the film distributor Marcus Loew, who bought Metro Pictures in 1920, merged it with the Goldwyn production company in 1924 and with Louis B. Mayer Pictures in 1925. studio boss Jack Warner, explaining his claim that Spencer Tracy was bisexual, as quoted in the April issue of Vanity Fair "It's bunk. It's ridiculous." --Spencer Tracy's frequent costar Katharine Hepburn, responding to Gulley's claim, as quoted in the Rush & Molloy column in the New York Daily News, March 13 |
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