Out Magazine has a new column up today by Michael Musto, in which he revisits his controversial 2007 story about the concept of the ‘glass closet‘. In short, people in the glass closet are celebrities who, according to Musto, live relatively open gay lives in private and are careful never to deny that they are gay if asked, while never acknowledging that they are, either. As Musto quite triumphantly points out, several of the people he singled out in his initial piece – Clay Aiken, Wanda Sykes, Sean Hayes – have since come out, but he bemoans that Jodie Foster and Anderson Cooper, two of the most prominent celebrities in his initial ‘glass closet’ have not come forward yet (or at least not in a way that satisfies Musto, considering Foster went a big step toward outing herself by thanking her female companion publicly a few years back.) (more…)
Anderson Cooper Saves CNN From Itself
8 JanIt’s been 2012 for a week already and this blog has roundup duties to take care of, but I just gott sneak this in before the Republican presidential freakshow exhibit moves on from New Hampshire and thus renders the results from Iowa even less significant: Is there a better reason to watch election night coverage than to see the elegant and sensible Anderson Cooper make fun of the inanity of his CNN colleagues’ so-called “analysis” (oh, the sanctimoniousness of self-described centrists!), and the network’s grating hangup on slick-looking but ultimately useless digital data-collection tools? Well, no. (Fortunately, Wolf Blitzer doesn’t invoke the phrase the best political team on television nearly as often as he did four years ago. Good on him, since the core of that team still is David Gergen, probably the dullest and most risk-averse pundit in the history of televised punditry.) (more…)
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