This story has it all: fashion, white trash, Bush-bashing...
It started out a fashion show for full-figured gals, but Roseanne Barr, that mistress of the public spectacle, quickly turned Tuesday's Lane Bryant runway event into a demo for the disenfranchised.
"Are there any fat people in the house?" brayed the comic. Cheers rose from the crowd at the Manhattan Center display of plus-size lingerie and "cabaret attire."
"Are there any gay people in the house?" she asked.
Louder cheering.
"What about the Jews?" she continued.
Still more cheers.
Roseanne, who has slimmed down a bit herself, went on to tell of her love for "the Hitler channel" (which is apparently what she calls the History Channel).
Suggesting that Bush's Washington has come to resemble the Fuhrer's Berlin, she added: "We're going back to that time now." That comment gave model Tyson Beckford cause to nudge Dubya's cousin Billy Bush, who was in the audience.
Getting back to herself, Roseanne, who's Jewish, then announced to the assembly, "I study the Kabbalah now. I love my Kabbalah instructor, and he gets the best pot."
Her rambling continued backstage, where she told us, "I'm an idol for men and women. I am trying to give a positive message: to not have sex, to stay celibate ... and fat."
Her message was lost on Kelly Osbourne.
"I wouldn't call anything to do with me plus-sized," said Ozzy's demon seed, who performed at the show. "To me, plus-sized is a size 26 or something like that, but anything [around] a size 10 I wouldn't call plus-sized."
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/57628p-53997c.html
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Size 10? In her dreams.
You may have heard that friend and traveling companion of x42, Kevin Spacey, was just named artistic director of the "Old Vic" theater in London (Elton John is chairman; connect the dots). They had a big benefit soiree Wednesday and NY's next megawatt consultant was there (another light day of classes at Oxford)!
The performance of the actor, a life-long Democrat and active campaigner for President Bill Clinton, was warmly applauded by Clinton's daughter Chelsea, who is in Britain studying Oxford University, north of London. "I was thrilled to support the Old Vic and hope to do so many times in the future," she later told Reuters. link