Amid yet another hot streak on Broadway, celebrated actor/playwright and Harvey Fierstein doesn't have to answer to anyone about anything — his nearly 40-year career, his iconic gayness, none of it! At least not until Adam Sandler, apparently in the market for a flaming foil, came a-calling while casting his new film. Fierstein did have a response for that:

Harvey Fierstein, four-time Tony Award-winning actor, playwright and singer, has just turned down a part in an Adam Sandler movie. ...
"Yes, Sandler," he says in the middle of a stream of consciousness about art and theater. "I've been offered a bit part in the Sandler movie — me and another well-known gay guy. That's the whole gag, one line. I think I have more life in me than being a side gag in an Adam Sandler movie."

More power to Fierstein, though the imminent threat of a Mario Lopez replacement has us kind of wishing he'd just taken one for the team. Oh, but for the halcyon, compliant days of Charles Nelson Reilly.

Harvey Fierstein is a Theater Creature [AP]

1:40 PM on Thu May 1 2008
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saltwater at 01:52 PM on 05/01/08
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Gay!?!?!?
First.
metroville at 02:13 PM on 05/01/08
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@saltwater: The prophecy has been fulfilled.
calpetro at 02:52 PM on 05/01/08
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"If you were a gay bee, would you be attracted to me?"
spankhaus at 03:18 PM on 05/01/08
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@calpetro: Bastard, you beat me to it!
SanFranBetsu at 04:10 PM on 05/01/08
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Who's the other gay guy?
VirusWithShoes at 05:34 PM on 05/01/08
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Connectedness Index: 833

I like how the above picture has captured his little finger-walk mid-stride.
moochia at 06:37 PM on 05/01/08
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Am I the only one surprised to learn that "A Catered Affair" has been made into a B'way play?

I mean, I know Hollywood's officially out of ideas, but The Great White Way?

Oh, I forgot. Shrek, The Musical. Never mind.
regisgoat at 06:10 AM on 05/02/08
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Good for him for not putting the gay seal of approval on that homophobe.
I like the picutre, too. That's kind of the Dracula hand gesture. And kind of the Dracula facial expression too. I wish he'd bite Adam Sandler and turn him stark raving gay.
Seriously, though, interviewed him once. Great guy.