Will he or won’t he?
May 17, 2007 at 8:27 am by Scott Henry in NewsCNN’s superstar anchor Anderson Cooper arrives in Atlanta on Friday to sign copies of his memoir, Dispatches From The Edge at the CNN Center bookstore from noon till 2 p.m.
There’s a chance he might answer questions about his post-Katrina coverage or his famous mom. But good luck getting Cooper to comment on the seemingly increasing efforts to pry him from the closet.
Just this month, Out magazine pictures a clever cover shot of models holding up masks of the faces of Jodie Foster and Cooper with the headline “Glass closet: Why the stars won’t come out and play.” Still, he ranks No. 2 on their “50 Most Powerful Gay Men and Women in America” list.
Also recently, NBC sitcom “30 Rock” had a Cooper in-joke as part of a gay-themed subplot and in the February Out, openly gay actor Rupert Everett discussed the perils of celebrities coming out, using Cooper as a theoretical example.
So give it a shot. What’s the worst that could happen? That you get an autograph and a black eye.
May 17th, 2007 at 11:35 am
Honestly, who fucking cares? So he reports the news and looks fabulous doing so. Maybe he just takes hints from Queer Eye. Maybe he does have a guy at home, fussing over how to get the smell of sweat, sand, and shrapnel out of his cute crisp shirts. Either way, he does his job. I’m gay myself and frankly I can still, amazingly, sleep through every night not knowing if Anderson plays for my team or the other.
I would much rather have him give me the scoop of what’s really going down in Somalia or wherever, than to hear what cute thing his hubby got him for Valentine’s Day or where they go on vacation.