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From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer)
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Subject: Re: Summary of an article on Gays on TV
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Date: Fri, 27-Apr-84 19:18:19 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 27 19:18:19 1984
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Speaking of TV, did anyone see the Wednesday night broadcast of "David
Letterman?"  Letterman was interviewing Harvey Fierstein, author of "Torch
Song Trilogy", and the book of the musical, "La Cage aux Folles."

I had always suspected that beneath Letterman's smarmy delivery lay a
frat-house mentality.  While it's expected that any interview with
Fierstein would be funny--he's a very funny guy, Letterman just could
not get off the "gay" schtick, thinking it was just hilarious that
Fierstein now has a lover who was an "ex-heterosexual" and that he brought
him home to meet his mother.  None of what Fierstein was relating was
funny, a-priori, but you'd never tell that by Letterman's school-boy grins and
barely suppressed chuckles.  You could tell that he regarded Fierstein's
behavior as a quirky aberration to be subject to the same ridicule as
the normal fodder of his humor.

You could best describe Fierstein's responses as "polite"--he's been there
before, I'm sure.
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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