Wait, Fanny Flagg? Fanny FLAGG????

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/7/06 at 12:49pm

A local TV station has put together a slideshow with all the "out" gay celebrities. Personally, I will consult it often-- when I am watching the Late Late Show and you find myself wondering "God, did that queen ever come out?"

And it was obviously put together by a Friend of Dorothy's: Notice how they illustrate the ONE out gay male from the TV Show Frasier with a photo that includes several "Usual Suspects."
THE LIST-- a slide show!

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 11/7/06 at 12:52pm

"Fannie Flagg is SOOOO GAY"
"HOW GAY IS SHE?"
"Even her cat wears ____________"



She has been out for years.

[WOSQ]

Posted: 11/7/06 at 1:06pm

Fannie is part of the Charlottesville crowd like Rita Mae and Sue Grafton.

And her cat wears flannel.

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 11/7/06 at 1:11pm

She was, of course, in the very gay film, SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE. Whatever happened to that movie? Saw it in 1971, while in college, then, never again.

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 11/7/06 at 1:14pm

Isn't John Mahoney gay also?

Funny they mention Dan Butler but not him.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/7/06 at 1:18pm

I have loved Fanny Flagg with an unreasonable devotion since childhood. It all makes sense now! But, I had no idea!

Aren't they ALL Day Dreamer?

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 11/7/06 at 1:46pm

Ain't that the truth.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 11/7/06 at 1:56pm

Some of My Best Friends Are was on cable recently. I'd never seen it before...

Rue McClanahan is in it as well.

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 11/7/06 at 1:59pm

I didn't remember her, because I didn't know her, at the time. I did know Fannie Flagg, in 1971. I would like to see it again. How was it? I don't remember thinking it was very good, but I found it very interesting.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 11/7/06 at 2:11pm

Like a milder "Boys in the Band." I liked it alot, tho it isnt great by any means...very interesting as a time/period piece.

I liked the subplots, but there is a definite air of sadness in everyone's story.

[fflagg]

Posted: 11/7/06 at 3:11pm

You can also see more of Ms. Flagg when the boxed set of MATCH GAME comes out later this month.

She is also a wonderful writer and you can see her list of books on amazon.com. Her latest is CAN'T WAIT TO GET TO HEAVEN which is wonderful.

Dumb Dora is so dumb!! How dumb is she? She tried to blank her birthday suit.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 11/7/06 at 3:19pm

Gene Rayburn...what a tool!

[Garland Grrrl]

Posted: 11/7/06 at 3:23pm

dan butler is out. at this point, john mahoney is only allegedly gay. as is DHP.
fannie was partners with the allegedly gay linda dano. i believe they are allegedly broken up now.

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 11/7/06 at 3:24pm

Issues with that feature:

1.) Since when is the son of a famous writer a "celebrity," ie Anne Rice's son?

2.) OMFG, George Michael and Elton John are GAY?!? Come on now. Do we really need to waste precious Internet space on those revelations?

3.) The Queer Eye guys? No sh!t they're openly gay. Their celebrity is based on the fact that THEY ARE INDEED GAY.



Argh.

Updated On: 11/7/06 at 03:24 PM

[WalkOn]

Posted: 11/7/06 at 3:27pm

JoeKv99, I had the same unresonable devotion to Fannie Flagg too! As a kid, I would watch her on THE MATCH GAME and think she was the funniest person on T.V. I didn't even understand ther jokes, but her delivery always made me howl.

[robbiej]

Posted: 11/7/06 at 3:28pm

OK...I'll totally admit it. I LOVED Christopher Rice's book DENSITY OF SOULS...and kinda liked his THE SNOW GARDEN. Haven't read LIGHT BEFORE DAY.

I never claimed to have highbrow reading tastes.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 11/7/06 at 3:30pm

Noone was better on Match Game than Fannie.

I'm not sure I got her jokes either.

And...Fried Green Tomatoes is a much better book than movie.

And...I wish I got to see Fannie play Miss Mona.

[fflagg]

Posted: 11/7/06 at 3:30pm

Check out her books.

She was also in Joan Rivers's RABBIT TEST [not on DVD], FIVE EASY PIECES, and toured in the 1980s in THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE.

[Calvin]

Posted: 11/7/06 at 3:34pm

I liked The Snow Garden, too, robbiej! (and thanks to a certain BWW-er for giving it to me )

eta -- uh, I put the wrong title down. That shows how much I really liked it, eh?

Did he just out the rest of Westlife?
Updated On: 11/7/06 at 03:34 PM

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 11/7/06 at 3:35pm

Christopher Rice has published 3 novels.
Granted, they're not great, but he's made a name for himself.
(I doubt he would've been published had it not been for his mom, but that's another thread.)

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 11/7/06 at 3:39pm

See, I didn't realize that he was a writer as well. All I saw when I looked at the caption next to his name was "son of Anne Rice," or something along that line.

I apologize to all the Rice queens out there.

I stick by my other points, though.

[WalkOn]

Posted: 11/7/06 at 3:47pm

Her first book "Coming Attractions" was the first adult novel I bought ... I had to be under ten years old, but loved her on T.V. so much I had to get her first book. I read the first chapter, very slowly and thought it was a hoot. I never did finish it, however...

It was later re-titled something else.

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 11/7/06 at 3:53pm

She was also superb in all her CANDID CAMERA appearances.

[fflagg]

Posted: 11/7/06 at 3:59pm

Daisy Fae and the Miracle Man.

[WalkOn]

Posted: 11/7/06 at 4:09pm

Thats it, thank you.