Born On This Day- July 14th... Jane Lynch

With Jane Lynchhosting last year's Emmy Broadcast & Neil Patrick Harris just finishing being brilliant & charming hosting the Tonys, I suggest that we only have smart, funny, profoundly gifted, out & proud, legally married to their same sex spoused performers host award shows. It is proven to work, don't mess with the formula.

Do you love Jane Lynch as much as I do? I read her terrifically honest memoir- Happy Endings this spring, where Lynch reveals she would dress up as a man every chance she got, like at Halloween.

Lynch: “I felt I was in the wrong sex. I really did. I would go into my dad’s room & put on his clothes, very Mad Men of me, I would pretend to have a cocktail, this was in the mid-1960s, & I just felt more myself in a suit & a tie. I looked at my mom & her life & said, ‘I don’t want that at all’; I don’t think my mom wanted it either!”

“Any chance I had to dress up as a boy, like Halloween, I would be a pirate, or a ghost that wore a tie… or a hobo.”

“I am just really, really gay. I am. If here’s the spectrum, I am gay. I have no interest in men sexually at all. I don’t. I want to be them, I get the male thing & I like being that for a woman. But I also like being a woman, too.”

In the book Lynch tells of realizing she was gay when she was just 12 years old. She “never felt quite right” as a child, but the pivotal moment came to her as a budding teen when she spied a pair of boys walking hand in hand on a beach in Florida.  Lynch: “I thought, that’s what I have… I am the girl version of that.” But, as a conflicted girl, Lynch vowed to keep that notion a secret to avoid a backlash from her peers. Lynch: “When I grew up… I didn’t want to be too tall. I didn’t want to be too loud. I didn’t want to be gay.”

Lynch finally came to terms with her sexuality & confessed all to her parents after watching comedienne Ellen DeGeneres come out on her sitcom.

Lynch married psychologist Lara Embry. She insists her parents have always been supportive of her & her mother even handled her daughter’s 2010 gay nuptials with humor, telling her, “Well, you’re marrying a doctor!”

 Lynch turns 52 years old on this day, July 14^th.

Perfection

With Jane Lynch hosting the upcoming Emmys & Neil Patrick Harris just finishing being brilliant & charming hosting the Tonys, I suggest that we only have smart, funny, profoundly gifted, out & proud, legally married to their same sex spoused performers host award shows. It is proven to work, don't mess with the formula.

Do you love Jane Lynch like I do? She Turns 51 today.

Happy 50th, Jane Lynch!

I took note of her, well actually I went crazy for her ,when I witnessed her comic brilliance opposite Jennifer Coolidge in the sublime- Best Of Show. I don’t realize at the moment that I already knew her work as a supporting roles in a series of films & TV shows, often the best thing in these projects. I had just not a had a chance to be washed over with the comic magic of Jane Lynch, I know who she is now, with 2 Emmy nominations this year.Only a decade ago, she was a 40 year old lesbian trying to make in show biz after a stint with the legendary 2nd City Troupe in Chicago.. Jane was cast is a commercial directed by Christopher Guest, & he found a place for her in the cast of Best in Show ( one of the few movies that I own). I will never, ever recover from the comic genius of Jennifer Coolidge as a rich trophy wife of a very old gentleman & Jane as her dog trainer/lover who publish the magazine- American Bitch, a publication for “lesbian purebred dog owner."

Just as I did, Jane did the whole routine of commercials & small parts in TV & film: L.A. Law, Judging Amy, The West Wing, 7th Heaven, Friends, Felicity, Arrested Development, Two and a Half Men, Weeds, Boston Legal, The L Word, Criminal Minds, Help Me Help You, Gilmore Girls, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Psych, Monk & Party Down . thing worked out better for Jane Lynch. After graduate school at Cornell, she returned to her native Chicago, & starred on stage as Carol Brady in a stage of the Brady Bunch. Post-Best in Show she has portrayed a parade of zany & inspired roles: a porn star turned folk singer in A Mighty Wind, the horny & insistent boss in The 40 Year-Old Virgin, Ricky Bobby' mother in Talladega Nights, the clueless Cindy in For Your Consideration. I think Jane was robbed of an Oscar nomination for her work as Julia Child's sister in 2009’s Julie & Julia ( still a favorite). Now I have to share her with 100s of millions of Gleeks where she inhabits one of the best characters in TV history- cherrleading coach- Sue Sylvester on Glee, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe & the Emmy. She is also nominated for an Emmy for Best Guest Star on Two & A Half Men. The most sublime moment of 2010, for me: Jane Lynch doing Madonna's Vogue on Glee.

 This spring she married her partner, Dr. Lara Embry in Massachusetts. Beautiful, talented, celebrated & out. How times have changed. I love her! She turns 50 today.