Chai wrote:oh...mega LIPs, gotcha.
whew...I was starting to think no one would let me eat at their lunch table.
so...were people really supposed to believe rosie liked tom cruise and watched the show....or were people supposed to watch the show because they couldn't believe this butch was trying to make us thing she was straight?
Weird, I was just thinking about this general topic this morning. (No idea why. Maybe something happened that started the train of thought for both of us.) I was thinking about Rosie and Madonna -- that was when I first figured out that Rosie HAD to be gay. (OK maybe not first, but it was another "she's so lesbian" moment.) There was no way Madonna would find her interesting otherwise. (Not that Madonna is lesbian or anything, but that Madonna only likes "edgy" people and likes having a secret and likes being admired.) Then I was wondering if they're still friends since Rosie came out and it's not this big hush-hush thing anymore.
Anyway, Tom. I think it's kind of like gay guys and Barbra Streisand. They LOVE her, but that doesn't mean that they're in love with her per se. She embodies a certain kind of fabulousness that is valued by gay guys, and I think Tom embodies (or embodied, he's pretty much washed up) a certain kind of alpha male swagger that is valued by some lesbians. (As in, wanna BE him, not wanna do him.)
I do think she was using it to try to pretend to be straight, but I think there's also some genuine star-struck/ celebrity-worship/ wanna be him kind of thing going on too. I think she LOVES him without being in love with him or attracted to him.
(I watched Rosie's show for a while in there and watched the one where Tom finally came on, after endless build-up -- the woman was GLOWING. She's not
that good of an actress.)