Linda Ronstadt's Gay Mission

By Jenny Stewart, PlanetOut

You’ve had the fantasyas a teen: You’re in a room with your favorite rock star -- someone whose every hit you know by heart, whose voice made you close your bedroom door and turn the music up as you hold a hairbrush up to your mouth as a microphone and sing along with them. In the dream they’ll share their most intimate thoughts with you.
 
For me, that singer was Linda Ronstadt, who cut me to the quick with her heartbreaking “Different Drum,” roused me with her sexy, soulful “You’re No Good,” and, at 14, made me dread the heartbreak I had yet to experience with “Blue Bayou.”
 
This isn’t a dream, though it’s utterly surreal – 25 years later, Ronstadt and I are actually sitting in beach chairs in the otherwise empty master bedroom of her newly-purchased, still-unfurnished San Francisco home. We’re surrounded only by her freshly painted swatch samples on the walls, as the rest of the house is being renovated. 

DVD Pick: Jim Breuer's "Let's Clear the Air"

A decade later, Breuer's married with kids, has his own Sirius Satellite radio show and continues to thrive as a hugely popular stand up comic. But "the simple life" hasn't calmed him at all, as proven by "Let's Clear the Air," his latest Comedy Central special.

Also available on DVD, the manic genius of Breuer is in full force in the new show.  His impressions of Sylvester Stallone, Tracy Morgan, Dave Chappelle and Norm MacDonald are absolutely killer, but equally funny are the stories he tells about his home life, including what it's like to take care of his elderly parents.