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have to go with drama major. I just Cameron ]Diaz]." happened to get What else? cast in a play and I suddenly started After playing lots doing them. of tough charac- ters, this year you It just attacked you were finally allowed suddenly. to be warm and It fucking attacked sexy in a funny me, threw me to movie, The 40- the ground, and Year-Old Virgin. shoved lines into You must have felt my mouth. like ''Thank God." Thank God! I'm Then, of course, you not intimidating played the charac- everybody. ter with the death- less name Lt. Crick- And Capote is such et Sideris on the TV a special movie. show Ohara. You play the author Shut 'up! Is that her Harper Lee. The last name? Oh, my movie doesn't say God, I'm so happy she's gay, but- to know it was [She's intrigued; it's Sedaris. come up before] Now, why do you Not quite spelled get the impression the same. that she's gay from Not the same as my performance? David and Amy? [Giggles] But still-Cricket. I don't know. Eww. I was so bad There's nothing on that show. you can point to except- You've been a les- There is nothing bian icon for years. ever that's i ndicat- Now your sister ed that Harper is or Elizabeth plays a was or has been lesbian cartoonist Catherine Keener gay in her life. But in the short Get- as my manager just ting to Know You, With four movies this year-including a hit comedy, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and an said, "Isn't every- which has been a Oscar-bait drama, Capote-Catherine Keener is on fire. Gay men love her work (and one gay?" It's true. big hit on the fes- her husband, Dermot Mulroney). Lesbians just love her. She and I bond over grow­ I'm a big Kurt tival circuit. Cobain fan. I just She's so great in it. ing up in Florida amid hurricanes and Anita Bryant ("She was nuts!" laughs Keener) got that [Lee] was a and argue over whose Catholic high school volleyball team was better. "Excuse me, person without Are you ready to re- I was on the volleyball team," she says. 'We were excellent." If Keener were still a stereotypical linquish the crown? playing, the stands would be full of her queer fans. -Michael Giltz female vanity. Oh, my God. My sister is reigning. What was the very Not everyone How exciting Advocate wants to What movies do She sleeps with first time you got knows that yet, to find out you do this. I called your gay fans everyone! It must onstage in front of but my sister have a big gay all my gay friends always bring up? have been confus- people? wears the crown. If following. and said, "So lis- Uh, let's see, Maxine ing by the end of Oh, Christ. College. you met her, you'd I was so ecstatic ten! In case you in Being John Mal- the film. I was an English know why. She's when Ithey] called didn't know-it's kovich. ]Laughing] It was! 'Cause look, history major. We cool and beautiful me and said The not just you!" That's my favorite. I'm like, "I think I didn't even have a and great . •

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