Cover Story: Great Scott

The handsome and talented Scott Evans, a.k.a. Officer Oliver Fish on One Life to Live, graces the cover of Instinct Magazine's latest issue.

Read the interview, wherein he says his mom's reaction to his coming out was “Oh, yeah. I knew when I gave birth to you”, here.

See more pictures of Scott Evans in The Back Room (NSFW).

MD News Desk: Kishy Face

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Kish:
- This week saw the "Big Gay Wedding" storyline come to a head on One Life to Live, culminating in this climactic kiss between Scott Evans' Oliver Fish and Brett Claywell's Kyle Lewis. Watch it all here.
- You can catch up on all the soapy goodness of the complete Kish storyline at the Official Movie Dearest YouTube channel (courtesy of YouTuber final81).

Awards Watch:
- The Big News this week was that Oscar has not one host, but two: Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin.
- Academy Award nominated cinematographer Caleb Deschanel (The Right Stuff, The Natural) to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Cinematographers.
- Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart is a late-breaking Best Actor contender.
- Meanwhile, Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side could be a surprise in the Best Actress race, which is also seeing some last minute entrants.


The Latest on TV:
- Move over, Ellen: The Wanda Sykes Show premieres tonight on Fox. In preparation for her talk show debut, Wanda has been all over the place this past week, including chats with TV Guide and Entertainment Weekly.
- And speaking of Ellen: Miss DeGeneres and her Mrs., Portia de Rossi, will have a sit down with the Big O on Monday's edition of Oprah.

Coming Soon:
- Sex and the City Watch: Stars spotted filming in Morocco.
- More childhood memories to be plundered by Hollywood: feature film adaptations of the Risk board game, the Berenstain Bears books, the Marmaduke comic strip and Yogi Bear are all in the works.
- Is the world ready for Three Men and a Bride?
- Beyond the Apocalypse: Roland Emmerich's 2012 may get a TV spin-off.
- More than 50 years after To Hell and Back, movie star/war hero Audie Murphy to get another biopic.

Cinematic Crushes:
- First Look: James Franco on General Hospital. And after that, he'll head on over to 30 Rock.
- In more Soap Hunk News: Cameron Mathison's Dr. Dan brightens up Brighten Bay.
- Heroes' Adrian Pasdar to fly the coop. And apparently, this is how he found out about it.
- Casting About: Gerard Butler in Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut Coriolanus, George Clooney in Alexander Payne's family dramedy The Descendants, Bradley Cooper in the suspense thriller Dark Fields, Patrick Dempsey in an untitled bank-heist comedy, Johnny Depp joins Angelina Jolie in The Tourist and Dwayne Johnson in the action drama Faster.
- Wouldn't you like to be the cloth on that loin: Into the Wild's Dave Salmoni does Tarzan on Tyra.
- Cover Story: Robert Pattinson does Vanity Fair.

Videodrone:
- Trailer Park: Jake Gyllenhaal in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and Brothers, Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law in Sherlock Holmes and Bruce LaBruce's L.A. Zombie (NSFW) starring François Sagat.
- A video salute to gay characters in prime time soaps.
- Several Lloyd Doblers take to the streets of NYC to promote the 20th anniversary DVDof Say Anything ...


From Screen to Stage:
- First Look: The Addams Family starring gay faves Nathan Lane (Gomez), Bebe Neuwirth (Morticia), Kevin Chamberlin (Uncle Fester) and Jackie Hoffman (Grandmama).
- Both The Shawkshank Redemption and Prick Up Your Ears to close early in the West End.
- Billy Elliot, Bye Bye Birdie, Hair and Shrek (plus Alan Cumming and Jane Krakowski) to perform at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
- Speaking of Billy Elliot: the hit musical gets another award and two new Billys.
- Photo Calls: The new cast of Irving Berlin's White Christmas, and The Lion King celebrates 5,000 performances.
- Buffy alum Anthony Head headlines the London revival of Six Degrees of Separation.
- Off the Shelf: Get all the backstage dish on your favorite musical parody revue in Forbidden Broadway: Behind the Mylar Curtain.
- Meet Broadway's Spider-Man.

Movie Music:
- Movie Music Videos: Adam Lambert's "Time for Miracles" from 2012 and Jake Monaco and Jen Hansen's "Gloria" from Make the Yuletide Gay (on DVDthis Tuesday).

Out in Film:
- Pedro Almodóvar and his muse Penélope Cruz on their latest collaboration, Broken Embraces.
- Finian's Rainbow star Terri White's inspiring story, from homelessness to Broadway to marriage.
- Neil Patrick Harris Watch: He'll lend his voice to the CBS Christmas special Yes, Virginia, and will be honored by the Trevor Project.
- Fiona Shaw to reprise her performance of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land in London.
- Logo's Legacy Campaign salutes Mad Men's Bryan Batt.
- Rosie O'Donnell can now add "radio host" to her long résumé with the debut of Rosie Radio on Sirius XM.
- Michael Feinstein to return to Broadway with his new show All About Me next spring.
- Jane Lynch really really wants to sing on Glee.

Women We Love:
- Casting About: Jennifer Beals in the Hallmark Channel's The Night Before the Night Before Christmas, Annette Bening in Andy Garcia's Hemingway & Fuentes, Sally Hawkins in the coming-of-age comedy Dirty Girl, Helen Mirren in the espionage thriller Red, Elizabeth Mitchell in the indie ensemble drama Answers to Nothing, Sigourney Weaver in the comedy Cedar Rapids and Zhang Ziyi in the English-language drama Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.
- Jamie-Lynn Sigler dishes on her Ugly Betty stint.
- President Obama has selected the 25 members of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, including Sarah Jessica Parker, Alfre Woodard and Vogue editor Anna Wintour, as well as talent agent Bryan Lourd and playwright George C. Wolfe.


GLBT Entertainment:
- A Single Man gets a poster, but is it "too straight"? Meanwhile, director Tom Ford is ready for his close up.
- The controversial play Jesus, Queen of Heaven — in which Christ is depicted as a transsexual woman — met with protests in Scotland; playwright and star Jo Clifford responds.
- More new queer theater: Made in Heaven (billed as "the best gay/straight Siamese twin comedy of 2009"), Loaded and My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding.
- Natalie Portman talks about her sex scenes with Mila Kunis in Black Swan.
- Author Annie Proulx to donate an early draft of her classic short story Brokeback Mountain to the New York Public Library.
- Foodie Frank Bruni's memoir Born Round heading to television.
- Grey's Anatomy's Jessica Capshaw on the future of Arizona Robbins and her relationship with Callie Torres (Sara Ramirez).
- More lesbian storylines coming to TV on Legend of the Seeker and Law & Order.
- Gwyneth Paltrow joins Nicole Kidman in The Danish Girl, an adaptation of the David Ebershoff novel that tells the story of the first post-operative transsexual.


Potent Quotables:
- "This is the first time I’ve done an interview with an ice pack down my pants." — Invictus star Matt Damon, suffering from a pulled groin muscle while filming the romantic thriller The Adjustment Bureau, to The New York Times.

MD News Desk: Trick ünd Treat

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Hands Off the Merchandise:
- Acht, lederhosen! Get your own Brüno costumefor Halloween! Also available in "Clear Vinyl" and "Pink Penis".
- Coming to a Wii near you: Project Runway, the video game.

Cinematic Crushes:
- The Robert Pattinson phenomenon is explored in the new documentary Robsessed, coming to DVDNovember 10.
- Get in line: True Blood's Stephen Moyer wants gay sex scene with Alexander Skarsgård.
- Ewan McGregor to play son to Christopher Plummer's gay dad in Beginners.


Glee:
- In what may be a first, the first half of Glee's debut season will be released on DVD while the season is still in progress. Glee, Volume One: Road to Sectionals goes on sale December 29 (click here to pre-orderfrom Amazon.com).
- A germaphobe guidance counselor's worst enemy: Jessalyn Gilsig on playing Terri Schuester.
- Watch This: Kurt/Puck slash.

Videodrone:
- Trailer Park: You'll laugh, you'll cry ... the Toy Story 3 trailer!
- Lin-Manuel Miranda goes viral for the tour of his Tony winning musical In the Heights.

Awards Watch:
- The eight documentary short subjects short-listed for the 2009 Oscars includes Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are.

Coming to TV:
- A Fantasy Island reality show and a Hawaii 5-0 remake. (Go on say it ... "Book 'em, Danno!")


Kish:
- One Life to Live diva Robin Strasser (a.k.a. the devious Dr. Dorian Lord) talks to The Advocate about her lesbian wedding storyline and her own support of GLBT rights.

In the News:
- California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the bill to approve "Harvey Milk Day". GayPolitics.com reports that the Oscar-winning movie Milk helped.

The Latest on TV:
- George Takei and Brad Altman make game show history as the first gay couple to ever appear on The Newlywed Game. The episode airs tomorrow night on the Game Show Network.


Out in Film:
- The Los Angeles Times chats with T.R. Knight about his Grey's Anatomy exit and the "complex musical" Parade.
- Tab Hunter's "tell-all autobiography" to become a "tell-all documentary".
- Upon the release of his new cover album, Colton Ford talks about the "virtues of the flesh and the joys of song".
- Bryan Singer hints he may return to the X-Men universe.
- Here's a tease of Adam Lambert's "Time for Miracles", a.k.a. "The Love Theme from 2012".

RIP:
- Irish pop star Stephen Gately, of Boyzone fame, passed away suddenly Saturday while on vacation in Mallorca. He was only 33 years old. Here's a video of Boyzone performing "No Matter What" (from the musical version of Whistle Down the Wind) during the Andrew Lloyd Webber Celebration at Royal Albert Hall.

Potent Quotables:
- Actor Said Mohamed on his new film Colonial Gods: "I was aware of the gay content in the film but this did not bother me. I am a Muslim but I approached the project in a professional manner, as I hope most actors would."

MD News Desk: Hair Apparent

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Film Art:
- David Kawena finally gets around to my favorite Disney hunk, Beauty and the Beast bad boy Gaston.

GLBT Entertainment:
- Out chats with Logo's newest reality TV star Ambrose Price about his Decorating Adventures. (Watch the complete premiere episode here.)
- That's Gay: Bryan Safi says "No" to "No Homo".
- Bollywood is bi-curious in 3 Nights 4 Days.
- ABC's gay-inclusive hit comedy Modern Family gets a full season.
- The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love on Skins and Heroes.
- Director Manan Katohora tackles his third lesbian-themed film with Come to My Window.

Awards Watch:
- Can Michael Jackson win a posthumous Academy Award with his concert film This Is It? Uh, not unless he's a credited producer ...
- The 2009 AFI Awards to be announced December 13.
- George Clooney: double Oscar nominee?
- With an abundance of toon riches this year, the Academy may go with five Best Animated Feature nominations.
- The 2009 Theater Hall of Fame inductees include Jim Dale, Lynn Redgrave, Charles Ludlam, Stephen Schwartz and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
- Are you a genre film and TV fan? Then vote now for the 2009 Spike TV Scream Awards. Nominees include Lost, Star Trek, True Blood, Up, Watchmen and X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

And the List Goes On:
- From dating divorcées to lip-locking lesbians: 10 Sexual Controversies That Changed TV.
- Out Magazine outs the Gayest Monsters.
- Meanwhile, here's 15 TV Characters Who Never Came Out of the Closet (But Should Have).
- Are these the 100 Greatest Movie Posters of all time?
- "Rosebud!" 30 Killer Movie Opening Lines.


The Latest on TV:
- Sunday night hunk alert: Jesse Metcalfe on Desperate Housewives and Gilles Marini on Brothers & Sisters.
- Sunday is also the day for the National Equality March on Washington and gay cable network Logo announced that it would go dark for four hours in support of it.
- Meanwhile, Saturday sees the season premiere of The Graham Norton Show on BBC America (guests include Olivia Newton John and Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne) and the HBO debut of the new Wanda Sykes comedy special I'ma Be Me.

Videodrone:
- Dancing with the Stars Watch: When Donny met Bruno ...
- Trailer Park: Roland Emmerich throws everything but the kitchen sink at John Cusack and Amanda Peet in 2012.
- Watch This: The first five minutes of Disney' The Princess and the Frog.

Coming Soon:
- Which will be the next Showgirls: Burlesque (now starring Kristen Bell as Christina Aguilera's dancing rival) or ... Showgirls 2???
- "By Odin's beard!" Stellan Skarsgård joins Thor.
- Sequel Watch: Spider-Man villain Venom gets his own franchise, Adrien Brody takes on Predators, National Lampoon goes on another Vacation and don't hold your breath for the next Simpsons movie.
- Director Eli Roth will turn that fake Grindhouse trailer for faux horror flick Thanksgiving into a real movie.

Out in Film:
- Congrats to Glee MVP Chris Colfer, who officially came out in an Advocate interview earlier this week.
- Rich Ross named head of Walt Disney Studios, making him Hollywood's first openly gay male studio chairman.
- Following the tragic death of his ex-husband Kevin McGee, Matt Lucas has withdrawn from the West End production of Prick Up Your Ears "until further notice".
- Lee Daniels discusses his film fest hit Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire.
- Tim Gunn to play Neil Patrick Harris' tailor on How I Met Your Mother.
- Marc Cherry developing a Desperate Housewives-esque new show for ABC.
- Paul Reubens' The Pee-wee Herman Show to play LA in 2010.
- Cheyenne Jackson Update: He is named to Logo's Legacy Campaign, starts previews of the Broadway revival of Finian's Rainbow and more info on 30 Rock!

From Screen to Stage:
- John Barrowman channels Judy in the West End's La Cage aux Folles.
- Lorna Luft takes a tour with Irving Berlin's White Christmas.
- Meet the stars of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera sequel, Love Never Dies.
- Rob Marshall's movie version of Nine will now open in December.
- Avenue Q re-opens Off-Broadway tonight.
- In Disney Theatrical news, Mary Poppins gets a new song on Broadway while Aladdin gets a full-length stage version for licensing.
- UK tour of Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show seeks to set record for the largest-ever "Time Warp".
- The animated TV version of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown is finally coming to DVD in January. (Click hereto pre-order from Amazon.com.)
- Daniel Radcliffe is following in the Tony winning footsteps of Robert Morse and Matthew Broderick in a possible Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

Women We Love:
- Just in time: With her current hit Love is the Answer, Barbra Streisand is the only recording artist to achieve a number 1 album in five consecutive decades.
- Watch This: Jennifer Hudson sings "Over the Rainbow" for Netflix's Wizard of Oz celebration. The Dreamgirls diva is also working on a Christmas special for ABC.
- AfterEllen.com interviews Oscar winner Marlee Matlin.

Potent Quotables:
- Legally Blonde: The Musical's Kate Shindle on her motivations for running in the 2009 ING New York City Marathon to help raise money for marriage equality initiatives: "But what keeps me going is the opportunity to make the statement that fringe lunatics and uneducated so-called activists (I’m looking at you, Carrie Prejean) do not define this issue. It is an effort that all Americans have to care about, regardless of their political or sexual orientation. ‘Separate but equal’ does not work. Still.

So I will run and run and run, not just to raise badly-needed funds for the cause, but to disseminate the message that we all need to pay attention to this and demand that our legislators do the same.”

MD News Desk: Taylor Made

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Coming Soon:
- Twilight Watch: Taylor Lautner bares (almost) all on the set of New Moon.
- Could all the Emmy love mean good news for the Pushing Daisies movie? Creator Bryan Fuller hopes so.

Awards Watch:
- The Producers Guild will have 10 Best Picture nominees this year, just like the Academy.
- Colin Firth, Julianne Moore and Clive Owen are among those getting some good Oscar buzz from the Toronto International Film Festival.

GLBT Entertainment:
- The Advocate's "queen on the New York theater scene" Brandon Voss braved the queer theatrical offerings of the New York International Fringe Festival and lived to tell about it.
- With Ten More Good Years, documentary filmmaker Michael Jacoby explores the challenges — and prejudices — faced by today's GLBT senior citizens.
- A one-night-only performance of John Cameron Mitchell's Hedwig and the Angry Inch will be presented at New World Stages in Manhattan next month.

Cinematic Crushes:
- Brad Pitt rumored to play the dastardly Moriarty in the already-planned Sherlock Holmes sequel.
- Josh Lucas to romance Katherine Heigl in Life as We Know It.
- Matt Damon to star in Clint Eastwood's next film, Hereafter.

Glee:
- Woo-hoo! Fox has picked up Glee for a full season!

Coming to DVD:
- Just in time for gift giving! The Judy Garland Show Holiday Special coming to DVD on October 20 (click hereto pre-order from Amazon.com).

From Screen to Stage:
- Falsettos composer William Finn to take on a musical adaptation of Little Miss Sunshine. Also in the works: Like Water for Chocolate.
- The new national tour of Avenue Q begins this week in South Carolina.
- The Chase Ends! Broadway's The 39 Steps will close in January 2010, as will London's Calendar Girls.
- The Broadway-bound play Enron, about the scandalous rise and fall of the Texas energy company, already set for a trip to the big screen.


The Latest on TV:
- This week's premieres of interest include the return of The New Adventures of Old Christine (CBS, Wednesday), Grey's Anatomy (ABC, Thursday) and Smallville (CW, Friday), along with the series debuts of two new shows with gay characters, Modern Family (ABC) and Mercy (NBC). Also new on ABC Wednesday: Eastwick, based on The Witches of Eastwick.
- Dancing With the Stars will offer a special tribute to Patrick Swayze on tomorrow night's results show.

Tune in to TCM:
- Upcoming salutes on Turner Classic Movies: Vincente Minnelli (Thursday), Stephen Boyd (Saturday), Natalie Wood (Sunday) and Mia Farrow (Monday).


Videodrone:
- "I feel the need, the need for ... carrots?" The 30 Second Bunnies take on Top Gun. (And yes, the sweaty rabbits reenact the celebrated volleyball scene.)
- What if True Blood was an Alice-esque sitcom ... starring Movie Dearest fave Carrie Preston! (NSFW for language.)

Potent Quotables:
- Carrie Fisher (whose darkly comic autobiographical solo show Wishful Drinking begins its Broadway run at Studio 54 tonight) on her baby daddy Bryan Lourd, who left her for a guy named Scott: "(That makes) Scott the man who got the man who got away."

MD News Desk: Thank You for Being a Friend

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Women We Love:
- Broadway remembers Beatrice Arthur.
- Meryl Streep on why Hollywood’s men don’t trust women.
- Get well soon, Mrs. McCluskey!: Desperate Housewives' Emmy winning Kathryn Joosten is battling lung cancer.
- Patti LuPone to strap on Annie Oakley's six-shooters for Annie Get Your Gun.
- This Sunday's episode of Lifetime's Drop Dead Diva features a virtual smorgasbord of gay icons: Delta Burke, Rosie O'Donnell and Liza Minnelli.

Awards Watch:
- Betty White to receive Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award.
- Will the Producers Guild of America follow Oscar's lead with 10 Best Picture nominees?
- GLAAD announced the nominees for their inaugural Media Awards for advertising.


Glee:
- Chris Colfer (a.k.a. Kurt) on his audition for series creator Ryan Murphy: "I was thinking, ‘I can’t do this. I can’t sing and dance in front of this man. I idolize him so much’. So I immediately peed a little ... "
- Jane Lynch shares Glee spoilers!
- Photo Call: On the set of our favorite musical comedy.

RIP:
- Paul Burke, who played Lyon Burke in Valley of the Dolls and Neal McVane on Dynasty, passed away Sunday at age 83.
- Crystal Lee Sutton, the woman who inspired Norma Rae, died last Friday. She was 68.

GLBT Entertainment:
- The Weinstein Company picked up Tom Ford's festival fave A Single Man ... and no, not at the expense of Rob Marshall's Nine.
- Let the Right One In director Tomas Alfredson is in and Charlize Theron is out of the Nicole Kidman true-life sex-change drama The Danish Girl.
- The Advocate chats with Victor Webster on playing gay on Melrose Place.
- Matt Damon will play Scott Thorson to Michael Douglas' Liberace in the planned Steven Soderbergh biopic.

Coming Soon:
- Watch This: music video for the new "Fame" from the new Fame.
- Harrison Ford talks Indy V.
- You sunk my Battleship!: Peter Berg to direct actioner based on the classic board game.
- Inglourious Basterd Christoph Waltz will play the bad guy in Michel Gondry's The Green Hornet.
- Brokeback Mountain reunion: Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway will co-star in Ed Zwick's Love and Other Drugs.
- I love it when a cast comes together: Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, martial arts champ Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and District 9's Sharlto Copley are the new A-Team. Patrick Wilson and Jessica Biel will also star.
- Despite Robert Redford's Lincoln project The Conspirator, Steven Spielberg plans to continue on his own Honest Abe pic ... as well as that Harvey remake, which may star Robert Downey Jr. in the James Stewart role (I guess Tom Hanks was unavailable).
- Disney's D23 Expo wrap-up: Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, The Lone Ranger (starring Johnny Depp as Tonto) The Princess and the Frog, Tron Legacy (starring Michael Sheen) and ... Pixar sequels to The Incredibles and Monsters, Inc.? Meanwhile, Mouse House honchos Dick Cook and John Lasseter discuss such future projects as Burton's feature-length version of his Frankenweenie short, Nicolas Cage in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Guillermo del Toro's Trollhunters and Robert Zemeckis' A Christmas Carol and Yellow Submarine remakes. Plus: Toy Story 3 will feature the voices of Whoopi Goldbert, Bonnie Hunt and Michael Keaton (as a Ken doll), and the next Muppet movie will be titled ... The Cheapest Muppet Movie Ever Made?


Out in Film:
- Cover Boy: Neil Patrick Harris does New York Magazine.
- Ed Harris, Emma Roberts and Amy Madigan cast in Dustin Lance Black's first post-Milk directorial effort, What's Wrong With Virginia?.
- Elton John gets a West Hollywood tribute.
- Alan Cumming will bring his one-man cabaret show, I Bought a Blue Car Today, to Los Angeles.
- Comic Liz Feldman talks about her role on The Jay Leno Show.
- Matthew Bourne's award winning Swan Lake to return to its original London home.
- The Archive of American Television interviews Star Trek icon George Takei.
- One Life to Live hunk Nicholas Rodriguez drops by Brandon's Buzz Radio.
- Sandra Bernhard to play NYC's Joe's Pub in December.
- Alan Ball discusses True Blood seasons past and future. Also: Denis O’Hare has been cast as the Vampire King of Mississippi.
- Dan Savage says his proposed HBO series "may end up at a dildo factory every once in awhile".

From Screen to Stage:
- First Look: John Stamos and Gina Gershon in the new Bye Bye Birdie.
- The planned Broadway transfer of the hit London revival of La Cage aux Folles gets a home and an opening date.
- Rosemary Harris, Ana Gasteyer, John Glover and Tony Roberts are all a part of Broadway's new Royal Family.
- The classic Christopher Reeve/Jane Seymour romantic fantasy Somewhere in Time to get the stage musical treatment.
- The West End's Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story on Stage to pay tribute to Patrick Swayze.

Ride the Movies:
- More from Disney's D23 Expo: A new Star Tours, a refurbished Magic Kingdom Fantasyland and more.
- The Wizarding World of Harry Potter will open at Universal Orlando in spring 2010.


Potent Quotables:
- True Blood's Mehcad Brooks on nudity: "I don’t have any problem taking my clothes off. I don’t even like clothing ... if I had my way, I’d just walk around the street … with just a pair of socks on."