They Know Something and We Don't

In Tuesday’s Daily News it was reported:

FIELDS OF NIGHTMARES? Star Jones has acquired a scary lawyer. She was so ticked off about Philadelphia shock jock Patty Jackson's recent column claiming that Al Reynolds visited L.A. gay bars after the BET Awards that she sicced Hollywood pit bull Bert Fields on the hapless Jackson - who immediately issued a retraction and apology. So are Fields and Jones the new match made in heaven? Yesterday Jones' flack, Brad Zeifman, E-mailed Lowdown: "When Star needs to make important decisions in her professional or personal life, she hires the best people in the business to advise her. There is no question that Mr. Fields falls into that category."


This item is simply chock full of information. It really doesn’t put anything to rest about Al Reynolds’ sexuality but reaffirms that Ms. Jones is now scary two times over. Who will she hire to advise her on achieving good taste and erasing people’s memories? It also begs the question: Does Star Jones actually live in the real world, or even in New York? Lawyers and such cannot -- in the end -- kill the truth, whatever it may be as the great unwashed know. In fact it begs even more questions. Yelling "Not so!" at the top of your lungs convinces no one.

At least it wasn’t a blind item as noted in the current Soap Opera Weekly:

This front-burner soap newcomer got a little too friendly with a same-sex producer after a party, causing some tension and awkward moments on the set the week after.

Blind items are too frustratingly cute. The Daily News at least mentioned Al Reynolds by name and although some may say it virtually fanned the flames, so to speak. The coyness of the piece, since it even alludes to Jones and Fields being the heavenly match rather than Jones-Reynolds, gives its readers some food for thought, albeit food with empty calories.

SOW’s item from their “Buzz” column only serves to reinforce unfounded opinions of readers in either the positive or negative veins of the “gay issue.” Most intelligent people know that things like that happen. Then there are those people who are vexed by the we-know-something-you-don’t attitude. With an item like that at least three people for each reader will come to mind. Get off the pot, SOW, if you are not ready to divulge who is or isn’t gay.

The true vexation is that both items speak as if homosexuality is still a dirty little secret. It is time for all the people involved to understand that homosexuality is a fact of life.

It occurs. It happens. It is what people are. It is what people do. In many cases it is a blessing.

It is not an accusation.