The world according to Bruce Vilanch...

I attended last night's Outfest Legacy Awards at the Directors Guild of Amerca Theatre which was hosted by the smart and funny Bruce Vilanch. Before the show began, I asked Bruce for his thoughts on a few topics, staring with Proposition 8:

"It's an idiotic proposition because the Supreme Court has grantred people the right to marry whom they love and it;'s a fundamental right. I don't think anybody in California ever envisioned taking away a right by popular mandate. I think it's kind of crazy at this point to take away a right that everybody should have just because you don't like me or because I don't read the bible you read. I think that's fundamentally wrong and I think reasonable people will see it that way..."

"...I think the right wing lost the culture war when they lost the Iraq war and they don't have a whole lot of traction right now and this is kind of a last ditch effot by a bunch of people who don't have nothing better to do..."

"...This is a civil rights issue and the world doesn't change. There's gay marriage all over the world and it hasn't affected straight marriage one iota. I mean, it didn't take gay marriage to get John McCain out of the house from wife number one so gay marriage isn't going to force him to take a walk on Cindy. That's nolt how it works and I think it's ridiculous that the right wing thinks they can paint it that way."
I had to get Bruce's take on Sarah Palin. Here it is:

"She's just amazing. She has all of the depth of the woman from the 1-800-DENTIST commercials which is where I think they found her - 1-800-RUNNINGMATE. She scares me because she's never been out of Alaska. Even a walrus has done that."

Since Bruce is usually one of the comedy writers for the Academy Awards each year, I wondered what he thought of Sunday's widely-panned Emmy Awards: "I thought you shouldn't really try to make Heidi Klum funny. I don't think Seal ever asked her to be funny."