Is That Queen Mother, Or Mother Queen?
If Elton John reminds you of another gay pianist, it’s really no accident.
“The first gay person I saw on TV was a hero of mine, Liberace,” he tells Rolling Stone magazine. “He was what every straight person wants to think gay people are like - so camp, not at all threatening.”
For all of his own flamboyant antics onstage, John was a late bloomer when it came to love.
“I didn’t have sex until I was about 23,” he said. “And then I didn’t stop. Now, though, I’m very picket fence.”
As well as sex, John, 50, says he once was also addicted to alcohol, drugs, food and shopping. Then he joined Alcoholics Anonymous, and has been sober for six years.
“I never go to discos now,” he said. “I’d feel like the queen mother if I went, I’m so old. I’d rather go to an antique show or read a book.”
Loose talk
Lesbian crooner k.d. lang, on her fashion sense (in Vogue): “I have never worn a dress in my adult life … women’s clothes make me feel vulnerable.”
We thought she was born sometime in Joon
Mary Stuart Masterson turns 31 today.
You’ve probably seen his greatest hits video
Celebrity police brutality victim Rodney King says he’s using part of his $3.8 million civil judgment to launch a rap record label. “We want to give a real positive boost to the rap market,” King said. “I believe there are only two cuss words in the entire album.”
And we wondered when he’d have another hit
A South Carolina man claims he was beaten by Hootie and the Blowfish singer Darius Rucker when he tried to break up a fight outside a Charleston convenience store. Rucker says he acted in self-defense.
Every step he takes, he should be watching it
Sting accidentally left his favorite guitar behind on an airport luggage cart in Frankfurt, Germany last weekend. An airport employee delivered the instrument a half-hour before the pop star went onstage.
He apparently hasn’t met Marilyn Manson
Trent Reznor of nine inch nails, who once lived in the Charles Manson murder house, on recording his next album in a New Orleans funeral parlor (in Entertainment Weekly): “The press is gonna like this. First Sharon Tate’s house, now a funeral home. I’m the spooky guy.”
One bad one really can spoil the whole bunch
Singer/songwriter Fiona Apple, 19, on how she ended up in therapy (in Details magazine): “I was compared to my sister Amber a lot, and she was officially named the Queen at school, and I was officially the Dog … One day everybody was making fun of me and I said, ‘I’m gonna kill myself and bring my sister with me!’ I so remember seeing my fifth-grade teacher looking down in horror, like, ‘Oh my God, she’s going to kill herself and her beautiful sister - we can’t have that!’ They brought me in and said, ‘You’re showing signs of depression.”’
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