It was cold and windy outside the Arclight Theater last night but, teeth chattering, I managed to snag interviews with much of the cast of A&E's "Wedding Wars" including stars John Stamos and Eric (McSteamy) Dane. "Eric, your hand is on my butt," Stamos joked at one point as two of prime-time's hottest docs posed for pics together. 'I invited him to dinner a few weeks ago and he showed up in a towel."

The very tall and very handsome Dane came up to me first as Stamos conducted a miniseries worth of interviews with the E! channel which no doubt was stock-piling footage for its various specials.
"I'm the straight one and John's the gay one. It's not much of a stretch," Dane joked. "My character is a campaign manager for the governor who releases a statement about gay marriage and it creates a rift between my brother and I. He's not personally against gay marriage, he's a politician and he's got the pulse of the state and that sort of determines what his choices are. I didn't have a problem with my brother being gay, it's just what the polls stated."

At this point, some of the other "reporters" interject with silly questions like, 'Do you believe in regifting" and "Do you think there have been more requests for prostate exams since you've been on 'Grey's Anatomy'?" Puleeze. Dane deflected that silliness.

I ask Dane about the recent episode of "Grey's" where his plastic surgeon character treated a patient who wanted to have a sex-change but had developed breast cancer as a result of the hormones she was taking: "She was/he was, my patient for a couple of years and I was taking him through every phase of the transition, the transformation...I think he really cares about his patients. He's super, super dedicated and I think that's where a lot of his angst comes from and his abrasiveness. He's really serious about his job and he doesn't have much time for people around him who aren't as serious as he is."

Then I ask McSteamy if he would ever do a gay role, one that included a same-sex kiss: "It depends on the material. I think we all know that 'Brokeback Mountain' was definitely worthy of that. If something like that presented itself then I would have no problem with it."

Finally Stamos escapes from the clutches of the E! reporter and I remind him of our interview last year for Orange Coast Magazine and he brightens up: 'Yeah! That was a nice thing. And a good picture too!"

I ask you, can this man take a bad picture?

Q. OK, so John did you have any hesitation about playing a gay role?
A. "Nah. I knew the guy was in love with this man and he believed in gay rights but I never thought of him as a gay guy."
Q. Was it entirely unpleasant kissing Sean Maher who plays your boyfriend in the film?
A. No! It was fine. Sean was great. He's not here tonight huh/ (John scans the red carpet for a sec, on-screen lover not to be found). We kissed a lot. We had two separate kisses. One of them was supposed to be hug and I said, 'Why don't we kiss?'"
Q. How many off camera? Did you rehearse?
A. (laughs). We didn't have to rehearse the kiss.
Q. You were on the cover of "The Advocate" and some people were saying, 'I KNEW he was gay!' and you said in an interview that you didn't care.
A. I really don't care.
Q. What do you think of some of these actors who recently came out?
A.You know, I think it's fine. I feel people should come out when they are ready to come out. I think it's hard for actors sometimes for actors to play straight roles when people know they're gay so I think it's up to them. If they feel they want to keep it quiet, then they should keep it quiet."