Lily Tomlin is Faaabulous
Lily Tomlin just make me feel so happy sometimes.
ACTOR Lily Tomlin[, in Australia for her first comedy tour,] has criticised the United States and Australian governments over their opposition to same-sex marriage, saying everyone should have the right to wed.
The openly-gay Hollywood veteran, 66, has been with her female partner, Jane Wagner, a writer and producer, for 35 years.
While she and Wagner have no plans to marry, Tomlin feels all people should have the choice.
US President George W Bush and Australian Prime Minister John Howard have both spoken out against same-sex marriage, and the Federal Government recently quashed ACT legislation allowing homosexuals to create civil unions.
"I am happy for anybody who wants to get married and I think they should have every right to," Tomlin said today. "It is an aggressively negative rejection," she said of the governments' responses to the issue.
[from Jonathon Moran, "Actor Tomlin slams gay laws", news.com.au, 27 August 2006.]
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Tomlin is a wonderfully talented comedienne. I especially enjoy her old-time telephone operator routine.
I wonder if it will be lost on those who'll think less of her for being a lesbian, and thus supposedly some kind of threat to traditional man-woman marriage, that she and her partner have been together 35 years.
That's remarkable, considering the high percentage of man-woman marriages that come apart in five years or less. It's even more remarkable given her line of work, which is especially prone to marital breakups.