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FOLLOWING
Catherine Keener
With four movies this year-including a hit comedy, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and an
Oscar-bait drama, Capote-Catherine Keener is on fire. Gay men love her work (and
her husband, Dermot Mulroney). Lesbians just love her. She and I bond over grow
ing up in Florida amid hurricanes and Anita Bryant ("She was nuts!" laughs Keener)
and argue over whose Catholic high school volleyball team was better. "Excuse me,
I was on the volleyball team," she says. 'We were excellent." If Keener were still
playing, the stands would be full of her queer fans. -Michael Giltz
How exciting Advocate wants to What movies do She sleeps with
to find out you do this. I called your gay fans everyone! It must
have a big gay all my gay friends always bring up? have been confus-
following. and said, "So lis- Uh, let's see, Maxine ing by the end of
I was so ecstatic ten! In case you in Being John Mal- the film.
when Ithey] called didn't know-it's kovich. ]Laughing] It was! 'Cause look,
me and said The not just you!" That's my favorite. I'm like, "I think I
THE ADVOCATE www.advocate.com 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
gay in her life. But in the short Get-
as my manager just ting to Know You,
said, "Isn't every- which has been a
one gay?" It's true. big hit on the fes-
I'm a big Kurt tival circuit.
Cobain fan. I just She's so great in it.
got that [Lee] was a
person without Are you ready to re-
a stereotypical linquish the crown?
female vanity. Oh, my God. My
sister is reigning.
What was the very Not everyone
first time you got knows that yet,
onstage in front of but my sister
people? wears the crown. If
Oh, Christ. College. you met her, you'd
I was an English know why. She's
history major. We cool and beautiful
didn't even have a and great .•
October 25, 2005 I 33
FOLLOWING
Catherine Keener
With four movies this year-including a hit comedy, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and an
Oscar-bait drama, Capote-Catherine Keener is on fire. Gay men love her work (and
her husband, Dermot Mulroney). Lesbians just love her. She and I bond over grow
ing up in Florida amid hurricanes and Anita Bryant ("She was nuts!" laughs Keener)
and argue over whose Catholic high school volleyball team was better. "Excuse me,
I was on the volleyball team," she says. 'We were excellent." If Keener were still
playing, the stands would be full of her queer fans. -Michael Giltz
How exciting Advocate wants to What movies do She sleeps with
to find out you do this. I called your gay fans everyone! It must
have a big gay all my gay friends always bring up? have been confus-
following. and said, "So lis- Uh, let's see, Maxine ing by the end of
I was so ecstatic ten! In case you in Being John Mal- the film.
when Ithey] called didn't know-it's kovich. ]Laughing] It was! 'Cause look,
me and said The not just you!" That's my favorite. I'm like, "I think I
THE ADVOCATE www.advocate.com 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
gay in her life. But in the short Get-
as my manager just ting to Know You,
said, "Isn't every- which has been a
one gay?" It's true. big hit on the fes-
I'm a big Kurt tival circuit.
Cobain fan. I just She's so great in it.
got that [Lee] was a
person without Are you ready to re-
a stereotypical linquish the crown?
female vanity. Oh, my God. My
sister is reigning.
What was the very Not everyone
first time you got knows that yet,
onstage in front of but my sister
people? wears the crown. If
Oh, Christ. College. you met her, you'd
I was an English know why. She's
history major. We cool and beautiful
didn't even have a and great .•
October 25, 2005 I 33