I called in & discussed this with Dave & the gang & very surprisingly they played the whole thing back. More details after the Drive's 10@10, but Ali heard it and called me up.
So I said, "I have a comment about Tom Cruise, but maybe you can't replay my call without getting sued. For a lot of my gay friends it's an absolute article of faith that Tom Cruise is living a double lifestyle, and Mimi Rodgers, Nicole Kidman & now young Katie Holmes are just a bunch of high profile beards."
Dave: "Yeah I have a lot of friends who say the same thing. It's always somebody heard something..."
Me: "'My ex-boyfriend's former lover was on the set and had an encounter..."
Dave: "Yeah, exactly."
Irish Greg: (and this is the part I was sure they'd edit out) "Well,
we heard it first hand from one his directors..."
Peter: (something unclear about Nicole Kidman, and after hearing it then & on the replay I still can't tell if he meant they had Nicole on & she also said something, or if something was said about her, like Tom was her beard, too). Then he said something about how famous people get all kinds of rumors spread about them.
Me: "And I heard the exact same thing about Luke Perry from
90210..."
Dave: "My friends said that, too...."
Me: "Except in this case it was 'My brother slept with Luke Perry'."
Greg: something about Cruise having been in denial for years about these rumors...
Me: "Well he's proven to be very good about getting people sued if they say anything in public."
Dave & Greg voiced general agreement with this.
And then I said thanks & they said thanks & I got off the line. I figured they wouldn't air this, but they did a few minutes later. They left in all the juicy stuff, but edited out any talk of lawsuits. Then Peter & Dave continued a bit:
Peter: "The same thing happens to single quarterbacks in the NFL...(long pause & I swear I could see him
almost saying Steve Young & Jeff Garcia's names)...uh...why is that Dave?"
Dave: "Don't ask me, I've got enough gay men in my life.
...Just KIDDING!"
(at which point I totally cracked up.)
So, keep those gay men coming, Dave is not done yet.