Took a nice, three-hour nap at home yesterday after a long day that included covering Golden Globe nominations at 4:30 a.m. Woken up in the early evening by a friend calling who wanted to meet for a drink at a bar on Santa Monica Blvd. in WeHo. I decide I've slept enough to have a night out after all. So we meet, have a drink or two at Mickey's, I buy the new issue of "The Advocate" next door at A Different Light bookstore and show my latest article to my friends then decide to head home to get some zzzzzzzzzzzs.
Walking down Robertson to my car, I bump into Reichen! He is so nice as he gives me a hello peck and a little hug. Tells me he is on his way to a party at Here Lounge being thrown by Bravo. So, I follow him in and get away with it even though I'm not on "the list." I watch as Reichen, looking a little thin these days, does scores of interviews and he's charming and laughing and thoughtful. I start to feel like a schmuck for making some snarky remarks in recent weeks about he and Lance breaking up and making up. I'm not good at being nasty! I'll leave that to Perez Hilton (who I interview in thne new Advocate article. Will give you a link as soon as it's available online). Anyway, every time i see Reichen, he is always so polite and nice and I'm just not gonna knock him. I'm not gonna be a schmuck.
Anyway, I begin to wander around the party and I see Wilson Cruz who I've interviewed several times and he's always great to see. He's being led somewhere by his publicist so our remarks are brief. I begin to walk up to him later and I am stopped by some girl with a clipboard: "Are you purple?" Huh? Apparently I had to have a purple wrist band to walk the two feet to Wilson. Heck, I didn't even HAVE a wristband. I was crashing this shindig!
So, I turn around and am suddenly face-to-face with this cute young blond kid and we start to chat. Turns out he's not just some Hollywood wannabe, he's a working actor by the name of Randy Wayne.
He's straight but he is playing gay in an upcoming indie movie "Dream Boy" based on the novel by Jim Grimsley which chronicles the secret relationship between two gay teenagers in the rural south. It is directed by James Bolton whose "The Graffiti Artist" made a splash at Outfest a few years ago. Randy, who is quite personable and articulate, plays Luke Duke in Warner Bros. straight-to-DVD sequel "The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning" out in 2007, was a regular in the short-lived NBC comedy "Sons & Daughters" this year, and will also star opposite Lindsay Wagner in "The Surfer King" as a kid working at a water park's snack shack and competes in the "Employee Olympics."
Best of luck to Randy! I hope he stays just as sweet after he becomes a big star. We agreed to talk again before "Dream Boy" comes out for Out in Hollywood."
Getting tired, I left Here Lounge and headed to The Abbey next door (just to use the restroom). I bump into a coupla radio personalities I know and they tell me that I have wandered into a party for "Dreamgirls." Well, looks like I'm at the right place!" But I am exhuasted, it is near midnight, and I only last about 15 minutes.
Party crashing is exhausting.