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[email protected] AC²: An Intimate Evening with Anderson Cooper & Andy Cohen at the Saenger Theatre At the recent AC²: An Intimate Evening with Anderson Cooper & Andy Cohen, the crowd at the Saenger Theatre seemed to be made up mostly of two groups, gay men and female Real Housewives fans. Addressing this early on in the program, Cooper gave an apologetic shout-out to the “straight husbands and boyfriends” of the latter group who allowed themselves to be dragged to the show. He needn’t have as there was some- for—a backstage view of all the Real House- thing for everyone to savor in this nearly two wives. hour long chatfest. While I enjoyed Cohen’s breathless Journalist/author Cooper and House- discussion of the part-Shakespearean com- wives producer/late night talk show host edy, part-Greek tragedy world of the House- Cohen first crossed paths about 25 years wives, I preferred Cooper’s account of how ago when friends tried to set them up on a he was named the Pussy Willow Prince of date. But when the celebrity-obsessed Buffalo’s Dyngus Day celebration (google Cohen brought up Gloria Vanderbilt, for the improbable details); a clip of him Cooper’s mother, Cooper recoiled. Years diving in search of the dangerous Nile later they became pals and have been crocodile; and, especially, his serious in- mobile hanging out around the world ever since. sights on his uncommon life’s path. paparazzi Promising “Deep Talk and Shallow Tales”, AC² offers both with Cooper providing more of the former, Cohen a healthy help- ing of the latter.