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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 2003)
november 21. 2003 * Ju st out, 57 HUMOR ▼.............. Secrets and Liza T he time has come to break the silence. For nearly a year and a halt I’ve held my tongue, allowing others to indulge in rumor and innuendo while I’ve patiently sat hy, refusing to contribute to the mud- slinging and character assassination, hut I simply can’t hold it in any longer. I must write about Liza and David. Like many of you, I was saddened when the pair announced that their fairy tale romance had ended; it’s always sad when marriages to fairies fail. What’s more, the split came the very same week Floyd and 1 eloped to Canada. I’m st> glad I didn’t know about it beforehand or 1 might have questioned the entire institu tion of marriage. You may recall that, despite not having been invited to the wedding (or even knowing the bride or groom), Floyd and I forked over 80 bucks for a sterling silver Elsa Peretti butter spreader from Liza’s bridal registry at Tiffany.com. As such, i feel that gives me a cer tain credibility in speaking frankly about the marriage and upcoming divorce. Most importantly, there’s the issue of who gets custody of the butter spreader. This is an easy one. I mean, it’s not like I would have Knight a gift for David Gest if he’d married someone else— say, Michael Jackson. No, that butter spreader was meant for Liza. What’s more, call me old-fashioned, but I believe cut lery does best when it remains with the mother. Several readers have written suggesting Liza return the butter spreader to me, but they fail to understand that with Liza now facing a $10 million lawsuit from the unwanted Gest, chances are the gifts are already hocked. Then there are the affidavits. Gest claims he is a victim of domestic The Minnelli-Acito connection THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARC b y M arc Acito abuse, stating that drinking vodka gave Liza "almost superhuman strength” and that she threw a hotel lamp at him. Personally, I find this hard to believe. For starters, in every hotel I’ve ever stayed at, the lamps are Kilted to the tables. Secondly, every one knows that vodka doesn’t give you super human strength. Gin, yes, but vodka— never. Liza responded with a brief statement, say ing: “ I hoped very much that the end of my marriage would he handled with mutual respect and dignity.” I, for one, am glad to see she’s taking the high road. This marriage deserves to end with the same amount of dignity with which it began. However, Liza did go on to describe Gest as being “cruel and inhuman.” Now I can’t speak for the cniel part, but one kxik at Gest’s Mr. Potato Head face, and I’d have to say she’s pretty accurate about the inhuman part. The guy looks like the great and powerful Oz, which might lx- what attracted her to him in the first place. G est says he’s suffering from “severe, un relenting headaches" and “scalp tender ness,” though with all the Botox he must use it’s a wonder the man feels anything at all. It would kike a hotel lamp to crack that egg. t’s strange how we come to care tor celebrities we don’t even know. The tact is, I find that I’m actually worried about Liza’s health and career and secretly hope that the whole domestic abuse thing is simply a public relations ploy to position her as the next female action star. C an ’t you just see Liza as an ass-kicking, lamp-throwing superheroine? They can call her Vodka Woman. I’ve long wondered why I care so much aKuit what happens to Liz;», but all the buzz about The Boy from Oz — the Broadway musical bio of Liza’s first husband, Peter Allen— finally provided me with an answer. You see, looking at photos of the total ly edible Hugh Jackman camping it up as the over-the-top gay Aussie entertainer V H S a n d DVD R e n ta l a a n d S a le A /A Op to meeting his talented Aunt Loma. Write him at nuirc@rruircaato.com le /FD Club P o rtla n d W A (& 1 ★ 2 Great Location*! Lw M arc : A u to also Zooks forward The M o s t Men The M o s t Times The M o s t Popular A ll R en talA 5 day*! k confirmed to me something I’ve long suspected but never dared say: 1 am the secret love child of Liza Minnelli and Peter Allen. There is simply no other explanation. The effervescent grin, the sparkling talent, the heartfelt insincerity, the affection for prescription medications— there’s not a doubt in my mind that l am their spawn. My adoptive parents deny it, of course, insisting that I descended from a long line of Portuguese fishermen and Italian pushcart vendors, but, growing up in subur ban New Jersey as a young gayling with a Judy Garland fixation, I knew in my heart that 1 belonged over the rainh>w. In his affidavit Gest claimed that when a security guard tried to help Liza by reminding her he was her friend, Liza stated, “I have no friends." It’s not true, Liza. 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