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june 16.2000 * J u t Lea rules Continued from Page 47 don in vain.” Later, when Sarandon appears in the top spot on a list of “women it’s okay to sleep with and it’s not adultery,” DeLaria admits that “if I was married to the most per fect woman in the world and the opportunity arose to ‘do’ Susan Sarandon, an exception would have to be made.”) According to DeLaria, the babelicious Sarandon let out a hearty laugh when told the nature o f the remarks. In addition to Sarandon’s scantily-clad star turn in T he Rocky H orror Picture Show, DeLaria loves her best yumming on Catherine Deneuve in T he Hunger. Hard to argue with that! Fans should keep an eye out for DeLaria’s latest traveling road show, So Over the Rainbow , which she’s performing with fellow out comedians Scott i Thompson and Sandra Bern- hard. "W e’re all close friends, and it’s so much better to tour with someone,” she explains. DeLaria also has a role in Further Tales o f the City, playing a het named Willy. “I’m so excit ed about it,” she says, adding that she even gets to do some kissing. And as if that isn’t enough for any mortal to be doing, DeLaria is also creating a one- woman show, I ’ll Be Damned, with the leg endary writer-director George Wolfe. In it she falls in love with a Mafia princess and falls vic tim to a hit man. As she enters the white light and realizes she’s on the fast track to heaven, she takes God aside for a little chat. “T he entire show is me convincing God that I should go to hell,” she explains with pure delight. She hopes to mount the show in New York later this year. W ho knows, perhaps she’ll final ly nab a Tony for it. (Many Broadway insiders felt she deserved one last year for her bravura performance as Hildy in On the Town.) But wait, there’s more! In her spare time she writes all manner of things, including a screenplay based on Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues, which she would dearly love to get produced. She’s hoping the success of Boys D on’t Cry will help create a more receptive climate for it. bathrooms,” she recalls. G o figure. Ironically, to many lesbians in her audi ences, she is seen as a sex object. Any problem with that? “T h a t’s my favorite part o f the job,” she crows. “For me it’s all about getting laid, and it’s working!” So does anyone intim idate this tough-as- boot-bottoms broad? N ot really, though she says she is in awe o f the old Broadway legends. Not too long ago she shared a dressing room with Elaine Stritch , a grand old dame if ever there was one. “I could hardly talk the first time I met her,” DeLaria remembers. “But she had been to the opening o f O n the Town and loved me in it— th at’s a real level- er. Is there a gentler side o f DeLaria, a delicate flower lurking beneath the outrageous exterior? “You see the softer side o f me through my m usic.... You can’t show that as a comic— unless you’re Emo Phillips!” she quips. DeLaria is, indeed, an accom plished singer who has won critical acclaim in several singing roles on and off Broadway. S h e is about to announce a record deal and hopes to release her first C D in February. Her true love is jazz, so what song best tells the story o f her life? Sh e snorts out a laugh, then quickly rips off a few lines of "Filthy McNasty.” Som ething else that may surprise you about DeLaria: She collects gay and lesbian art, though she is bothered by lesbian artists who see vaginas everywhere. “I like vaginas as much as the next lesbian,” she writes. “However, I do try to refrain from searching for one in a piece o f driftwood.” A nother thing that may sur prise you about DeLar ia: Sh e’s good at some other girly things, like cooking. Her recipe for seduction: “Take a nice piece of salmon and grill it with olive oil and basil and garlic. Put on some Chet Baker and serve the fish rare, so it melts in your mouth. If you can do th at,” b o o k OF she promises, “you can have it * for any girl.” t’s definitely a hoot to read a book of rules written by a determined rule breaker. Frequent mention is made throughout the book of her predilec tion for younger women. W hat she writes about that subject seems to sum up who Lea DeLaria is: R U tfS “All right, then. Everyone who As she admits in her '\ W 0 R '-° T H E believes dating out of your genera book, “Cooking is one way tion is: we Italians get laid.” a. A control thing b. A mid-life crisis ea DeLaria has been on quite a wild ride c. Insecurity with oneself lately. S h e ’s a bit fuzzy when the interview d. Escaping death begins, even though it’s noon in New York, e. Just about tits and ass because she was out late the night before with please form a military-straight line, bend over, another o f those Broadway legends, fresh from pucker up, and kiss my hairy dyke ass. an appearance at the Tony Awards. Okay...som e of it is about tits and ass. That “Ann Reinking took me out and got me doesn’t change the fact that you are jealous. loaded," she confides. And a few nights before You know it. I know it. Straight boys can’t han that, “I got twisted with Janeane Garofalo. But dle it when a woman gets more pussy than they then my girlfriend showed up and broke it d o .. and I’m the one who’s supposed to grow up— we were out o f control. Sh e took the up. Nope. Forget it. Not going to happen." drink out of Janeane’s hand, told her she’d had PAG EON E SU M M ER SP EC IA LS Pagers ■ Cellular ft ft ft ft ft ft FREE* Voice Mail Pagers f t Starting at f t ft only * 1 5 ! ft ft ft New Pager, 3 Months Service & Voice Mail ft PAG EON E 297-5548 only $ 4850 S.W. 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