Posted on 12/13/2007 11:23:09 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
December 12, 2007
Jodie Foster comes out... finally
The notoriously private Oscar-winning actress has acknowledged her lesbian partner in public for the first time
Veronica Schmidt
After guarding her private life fiercely for 15 years, Hollywood actress Jodie Foster has publicly acknowledged her lesbian partner.
The Oscar-winning actress thanked "my beautiful Cydney" after winning an award at the Women in Entertainment Power 100 breakfast in Los Angeles.
She went on to praise Cydney Bernard, saying the film producer "sticks with me through all the rotten and the bliss".
Despite more than a decade of speculation, questions over the paternity of her two sons and critics calling for her be “out and proud”, Foster has refused to discuss her sexuality.
The 44-year-old maintained her silence when, earlier this year, gay American magazine Out put a picture of her on its cover above the words “The glass closet – why the stars won’t come out and play.” Inside, it was argued “the stars aren’t willing to make the jump to being officially labelled queer and all that it represents in the business.”
Now that Foster has, reactions are mixed. On American website Gay.com, readers posted comments praising the actress for coming out, while others expressed anger that it was considered news.
“It is her life to live as she pleases. Why do so many gays worry about who is and who is not gay?” asked one reader
“Whether or not Jodie comes out is definitely her own decision, but she would provide an excellent positive role model to GLBT [gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender] people everywhere. I think that is why we get excited when someone comes out,” posted another.
Foster is one of only a few Hollywood actresses to have publicly acknowledged they are lesbian. Comedian Ellen de Generes made headlines when she came out in 1997, as did her partner Portia de Rossi when she was photographed kissing then girlfriend Francesca Gregorini in 2001.
Foster reportedly met Bernard on the set of Sommersby in 1993. The actress later gave birth to sons Charles, 9, and Kit, 6.
The actress found world-wide fame at 14, playing a prostitute opposite Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver before going on to star in Bugsy Malone, Freaky Friday, The Silence of the Lambs and Nell.
Her latest movie Nim’s Island is due for release in May next year.
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Well that is just too bad. I guess I am not surprised though.
all of a sudden we’re a laugh track.....
I don’t think it endured her to the leftist agenda.
She do have some good curves - that's fer shur and I'd most definitely hit it. However, I most certainly get a butch vibe from Cat which is a little bit of a turn off. Porsha might be lezbo, but she's retained her femininity.
Catherine Bell has been my favorite since JAG came out.
'Cept a turkey baster.
I'd hit it.
You mean "old Beans". An example of an old Queen would be Peter O'Toole.
I did see Jodie Foster walking down the streets of NY (upper west side). She looks like a weasel. I have never understood her appeal, but some men think she is hot. I say not.
Will Laura Linney be next out of the closet?
Catherine Bell has been my favorite since JAG came out.
So true. She is beautiful too.
Nahhh... It's just one more thing to have in common with her!
There was a scene in the old TV series "Mad About You" where Jaime (Helen Hunt) asks Paul (Paul Reiser) what it is about lesbians that guys like... He says (something along the lines of), they're sexy, hot, and I wish I was with both of them!
Mark
And you've determined this through long interviews with her, right?
Mark
“Jodie, you talkin’ to me?”
I had a serious crush on her since I first saw "The Little Girl Who Lived Down the Lane." Now before you go and saw how creepy is it for a 45 year old guy to say that, please note that I said "since I first saw!" When I saw it, I believe that I was roughly her age, or a bit younger... On the other hand, the Martin Sheen character in the movie was REALLY creepy!
I guess that the "crush" just kept going. I still think that she's a babe. I thought that she was really hot in "Inside Man." I like much of her work, and I'm glad that she hasn't made the fact that she's a lesbian a central part of her life. Frankly, I don't think that Ellen meant to do so either. She just wanted to make a simple statement, but then the press jumped all over it, and it killed her show and was hard on her career.
I don't really see anything wrong with her wanting to thank the person that she loves and from who gains support, any more than a heterosexual thanking his or her wife or parents.
What I respect most is that shes a private person, and deserves her privacy and to be left alone.
Mark
I am so with you on both points.
People are more enamored of a woman's glam and movie power .. and usually confuse THAT with beauty.
As for Julia Roberts, she has a bubbly personality -- and had 'young' beauty -- but in the classic sense, she is NOT that enduring in the beauty dept.
Something about those big nostrils that just don't do it for me.
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