Tuesday, July 02, 2002

Something Else to Worry About: If the Taliban, scuba divers, salmonella, your accounting firm, fires, anthrax or the heat don't get you, the Gay Mafia might. A Michael Ovitz interview in the new Vanity Fair has him positively splenetic over rich and powerful Hollywood gays who are out to do him in. It's so bad that some of them aren't even gay. Maybe the Billy Joel room at Smithers is still available?

Clearing the Underbrush: If any good at all has come from the horrendous Western fires last month it is the fresh, hard look the media is now taking at the muddled and dangerous thinking of east coast tree huggers. Here the Wall Street Journal opines.

Stop the Madness: Law makers in Washington State have banned the word "Oriental" saying that using it to describe Asian folk is a slur. We'd like to see a poll of Orientals who even know what these Caucasian nitwits are even talking about.

Gordo Keeps On Keeping On: We call your attention to a drama you may have missed being played in a Baltimore courtroom that involves an ancient grudge between that tiresome John Dean and stuff G. Gordon Liddy said about Dean's wife a million light years ago. Amazing this thing is still alive but its kind of kitchy to follow. Our feeling is that, as usual, the G-Man will prevail.

Fly Me, I'm Pie-Faced: Its not enough that the airlines can now check your rear end, take your cuticle clippers (or boomarangs in this case) and stick a finger down your cleavage, now we have to worry about pilots so bombed they have to be hauled out of their planes and arrested. Thanks anyway, we're staying home.

LDotter Note: Long time Ldotter "tofu" has found a great quote from Voltaire to apply to Richard Cohen's column on Algore: "It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere."

Cut Connie Some Slack: The reviews of Connie Chung's new CNN interview show are uniformly bad but we think people are missing its real charm: goofs, gaffs and simple bad luck. Here, the Daily News' David Bianculli lists a few but our favorite was the trailer park appearance of Richard Ricci's father-in-law who hadn't even bothered to put on a shirt (or some needed teeth). When a guest who had refused a school drug test stood and blocked Connie's camera, Connie smiled and said, "That's okay, honey." Silky smooth she's not but the uncontrolled sloppiness is great fun after a long hot day.

-Your Looking-for-a-cool-spot LComStaff