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> While Leisha Hailey has no problem discussing her role as bisexual journalist Alice Pieszecki on The L Word or the difference between her old band, the Murmurs, and her new band, Uh Huh Her, in an interview with CreativeLoafing.com, the actress-musician refused to discuss personal issues. Whenever the interviewer got even remotely close to talking about Hailey's love life, the "world's sexiest woman" -- as named by AfterEllen.com -- simply offered an "I'll pass" or "I don't want to talk about it." We get the whole "keep work and business separate" bit, Leisha, but would it kill you to give us just a smidge of dirt?
> Apparently Mario Lopez is even vainer than we thought (and we assumed he was pretty vain.) The New York Post is reporting that the new star of A Chorus Line was unhappy with his costume -- a tan sweater with long sleeves, based on the outfit worn by A Chorus Line creator Michael Bennett and countless other actors playing the character of Zach. Lopez was miffed that the shirt hid his biceps, so he demanded it be made short-sleeved. But wait, it gets better (or worse, depending on how you look at it): Lopez also demanded that his costar Nick Adams, who plays Zach's assistant in the show, wear a hoodie over his tank top whenever the two are near each other on stage because Adams' biceps are bigger than Lopez's. Officials for the show claim they merely changed up Adams' costume because the actors looked too similar -- but we know what a couple of theater queens in a cat fight looks like when we see it.
> The media is all riled up about the new Barbara Walters tell-all that just hit shelves. In the book Audition the newscaster and talk-show host claims she had an affair with then-married Sen. Edward Brooke, and says of their time together, "Sometimes
when he said that I was the oldest woman he had ever been with, I
thought of telling him: 'Oh yeah? Well, you are the blackest man I have
ever been with.' But the truth is, it didn't matter." She also tells her side
of the story involving her tempestuous relationships with The View
cohosts Rosie O'Donnell and Star Jones. Of Jones' departure from the show she says, "I still feel it might have been easier for her to find a new position
if she had left the program in the graceful way we had suggested." In other words, don't mess with Mama Walters or you'll be begging Court TV to let you cover the parking ticket circuit.
-- NOAH MICHELSON
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