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Morning Brew – Friday, April 22: Kelly McGillis doesn’t want to be a role model, Mel Gibson on Jodie Foster

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Two lesbians in Canada have won their lawsuit against comedian Guy Earle for calling them as “f–king c–ts,” “stupid c–ts,” “stupid dykes” and “f–king dyke c–ts,” on stage in 2007. Apparently that’s the best he could come up with. Limited vocabulary! The women won $22,500.

TheAwl.com has an in-depth profile of opera singer Anne Sofie Von Otter and the queerness of the genre in general.

An excerpt:

This warped kinship with Winterson’s characters is yet another reason for von Otter’s prominence in the pantheon of queer icons. In particular, icons to queer women, as there is often a disparity between lesbian and gay icons in the opera world. Which does not mean that only queer women fall for Otter: everybody falls for Otter, women, men, children and animals of all persuasions, but they will have to write their own paeans.

If you like opera, you’ll love this story.

Mel Gibson has finally given an interview where he discusses pretty much everything, including his friendship with Jodie Foster:

I’d give her a pedicure every day of the week if I could. We met on Maverick many years ago. I realized that one has a perception – everyone gets preconceptions. She totally surprised me. I knew she was bright, so that didn’t surprise me. She was really bright. And she was pragmatic and extremely sensitive and a good heart, a real good heart. So how could you not become friends? We became fast friends and we maintained that over the years.

We’ve both had our different little journeys. It’s untraditional. But there are a lot of things we have in common. I can empathize with her. From four years of age, she’s been out there. And it’s not that for me, but almost, because I was a baby when I started. I was probably more developmentally arrested at the age of 21 than she was at four. [Laughs] You couldn’t get two people who are more diametrically opposed on everything that they think about religion and politics than what we do. But there is a core of goodness there that’s undeniable and I just love her.

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