MAG*NO RU*BI*OH!!!

My old friend from NYU [who plays the "white girl with attitude" on the painful "WHOOPI"] was on the Howard Stern show this morning. As part of the news, they always play soundbites from celebrity interviews -- and usually make fun of the celebrities. However, in her soundbite she talked about being for freedom-of-speech (what a rebel!) and against the FCC's renewed war on Howard, so he was easy on her. Still, it's so strange hearing someone you knew back in the day rise up into the ranks of "celebrity".

Well, as awful as WHOOPI is, they seem to give a lot of breaks to people from the community. Lot of ethnic minorities. I saw the guy who played "Magno Rubio" (Orlando Pabotoy) on there the other week, playing a bitchy Filipino male nurse. [He was also featured prominently on Amy Sedaris's STRANGERS WITH CANDY show on Comedy Central, when it was on. Perhaps he'll get to be in the film version?]

Maybe *I* should be writing historical filipino musicals... at least i'd get a shot at being produced, motherfuckers...