Broadway veteran and Professional Gay Harvey Fierstein likes to hold weekly card games in the basement of the Neil Simon Theater during which everyone drinks, smokes, and refers to one another as a fag. Just like Thanksgiving with family! Have a taste:

“Oh, look at this faggot,” he said, referring to the player to my right, Matthew Scott, 26, who had come over from Jersey Boys just down the block. “This faggot’s got a girlfriend. Unless Matt Cavenaugh’s around, he doesn’t eat dick.” (Mr. Scott had been Mr. Cavenaugh’s understudy in A Catered Affair last year.)

Six players total—four actors and Darrell, whom the actors referred to as their “bodyguard.” I asked Darrell his last name. He removed the clip from his gun and set it on the table. Darrell it is!

“Cookie, put that thing away,” said Mr. Fierstein, referring to my tape recorder.

I said something about just wanting to “capture the beauty of it all.”

“Get over that shit. Capture the beauty of it! Where do you get these heterosexual terms?”

Typical breeder babble. What is particularly interesting to us, though, is that someone in the business of show seems to have a thing for Latino “boys.” Anderson Cooper’s on Broadway?:

“Isn’t that what they always do: pretend they’re going to stay in and then pull out?” he said.

This reminded Mr. Robinson of the various handsome Latin boys who have been coming around backstage. It’s a real letdown, he said, when they inevitably reveal that they are the guest of a certain bearish showbiz fixture. “I’m like, ‘Eww. So how much is he paying you?’” he said.

Any showbiz fans have any guesses? It’s totally John Travolta, isn’t it? True, he’s not a “bear,” per se. But he does probably smell like one.

Five Card Studs: Harvey Fierstein’s Poker Game [Observer]
Who’s the ‘Bearish Showbiz Fixture’ With a Taste for Latino Boys? [Gawker]