Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Ellen Is A True American Hero

Weekly Column


Ellen DeGeneres strode up to the stage as this year's Emmy host with the Herculean task of brightening the nation's somber mood following the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina.

"New Orleans is my hometown, and I have family in Mississippi," Ellen said, striking the right note at the awards ceremony. "It's times like this we really, really need laughter."

Ellen could just have easily been talking about her career, which was derailed by the storm of controversy that followed her very public coming out in 1997.

TO READ MORE CLICK HERE

5 comments:

  1. Dood - Elen is fuckin GOD!!

    Ruth
    Florida

    ReplyDelete
  2. I love Ellen!

    ReplyDelete
  3. Interesting semi Ellen related side note.

    Seems that Anne Heche is taking issue with Love Won Out pimping her mother out for the "ex-gay" cause.

    http://www.exgaywatch.com/blog/index.html

    ReplyDelete
  4. FYI- a post purportedly from Anne Heche saying she disagrees with her mother's attempts to paint her as the new ex-gay poster child:

    http://www.anneheche.com/guestbook/viewpost.asp?ID=8%2F1%2F2005+9%3A07%3A29+AM243&Forum=Guestbook&Level=001&Repl=0

    ReplyDelete