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Liza Minnelli says Cher would win contest to determine No. 1 gay icon (over herself & Streisand)
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| 4/3/6
Posted on 04/03/2006 7:15:34 PM PDT by presidio9
In a contest among Liza Minnelli, Cher and Barbra Streisand to determine who's the No. 1 gay icon, Cher would win - or so Minnelli says.
"I think probably Barbra and maybe even Cher and myself in school felt like outcasts because we didn't have standard looks," Minnelli told Newsweek for its issue on newsstands Monday.
"Maybe what a gay icon is, is a person who is rooted for - in other words, cheered on - by people who feel different," the 60-year-old Minnelli said as her 1972 concert Liza With a Z aired on Showtime and comes out this week on DVD.
But being a gay icon doesn't necessarily mean "gaydar" comes with the turf. She says she didn't find out until two weeks after she married her first husband, Peter Allen, that he was gay.
"Honey, I was 17 when I met him," Minnelli told Newsweek. "But I was the last one to see him before he died because we stayed friends, and that was tough."
She may be a legend, but Minnelli said she mingles with all the classes.
"One of my best friends is a taxi driver; another is a maintenance man," she said. "I go everywhere. People are wonderful. They say hi and I say hi, and we keep going. That's New York."
TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: barbrastreisand; cher; famoustrannies; lizaminnelli
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To: JennysCool; hsalaw; ClearCase_guy
"I always enjoy trotting out the ol' wedding photo"Brings tears to your eyes.
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posted on
04/03/2006 7:51:15 PM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(9/11 was never repeated--thanks to President Bush and his surveillance program.)
To: presidio9
Only "THEY" would give a rats arse about "icons" in the first place. The real world doesn't care.
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posted on
04/03/2006 7:53:28 PM PDT
by
George - the Other
(400,000 bodies in Saddam's Mass Graves, and counting ...)
To: JennysCool
"I always enjoy trotting out the ol' wedding photo:"
ROFLOL
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posted on
04/03/2006 7:55:21 PM PDT
by
George - the Other
(400,000 bodies in Saddam's Mass Graves, and counting ...)
To: presidio9
To: riri
Are they talking about who could quickest DRIVE a man to homosexuality? Homosexuality, druggies or alcoholics. Take your pick.
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posted on
04/03/2006 7:56:55 PM PDT
by
demkicker
(democrats and terrorists are familiar bedfellows)
To: presidio9
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posted on
04/03/2006 7:57:14 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
To: Billthedrill
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posted on
04/03/2006 7:59:18 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
To: ClearCase_guy
Liza with gay husband, Peter Allen.
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posted on
04/03/2006 8:01:56 PM PDT
by
Dr. Scarpetta
(There's always a reason to choose life.)
To: JennysCool
I am continually perplexed by how Liz Taylor got herself involved with this crowd. Jacko and Liza were always weird, but Liz Taylor was once regarded as the sexiest woman on the planet. Did getting fat suddnly make her identify with celebrity outcasts? I have no opinion of David Guest because I have a hard time believing that he is a natural Earth citizen.
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posted on
04/03/2006 8:02:27 PM PDT
by
presidio9
("Bird Flu" is the new Y2K Virus -Only without the inconvenient deadline.)
To: acapesket
I saw Liza on Ellen's show also. She was out of breath after doing nothing but walking up on stage!
To: JennysCool
Weird thing: Liza is the one who looks normal
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posted on
04/03/2006 8:04:02 PM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
(Conscience: the inner voice which warns us that someone may be watching. - H L Mencken)
To: Revolting cat!
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posted on
04/03/2006 8:04:50 PM PDT
by
presidio9
("Bird Flu" is the new Y2K Virus -Only without the inconvenient deadline.)
To: I still care
To: T Minus Four
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posted on
04/03/2006 8:09:25 PM PDT
by
presidio9
("Bird Flu" is the new Y2K Virus -Only without the inconvenient deadline.)
To: JennysCool
The Adams Family, squared.
To: Revolting cat!
To: xarmydog
Liza, Streisand, and Cher?
Hmmmmmn.
Yeppers, three faces and figures and personalities only a homosexual would/could/should love.
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posted on
04/03/2006 8:17:06 PM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: lormand
"Maybe what a gay icon is, is a person who is rooted for - in other words, cheered on - by people who feel different," Feelings aren't always reality. Physically speaking, they are heterosexual. They may feel different, but that doesn't make it so. I see no reason to cheer on a delusion.
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posted on
04/03/2006 8:17:45 PM PDT
by
The Ghost of FReepers Past
(Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
To: acapesket
Incidently, those taxi drivers and maintenence men Liza mentioned? She hangs with them at AA meetings and gets into her limo when they're over.
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posted on
04/03/2006 8:22:48 PM PDT
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presidio9
("Bird Flu" is the new Y2K Virus -Only without the inconvenient deadline.)
To: presidio9
Why do homosexuals like those three? What's the attraction there?
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posted on
04/03/2006 8:28:26 PM PDT
by
Jim_Curtis
(There isn't a more appropriate way to wave the US flag than in the face of its enemies.)
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