Morgan’s sorry for rant
With prominent gay rights groups demanding an apology over jokes he made during a June 3 performance in Nashville, Tracy Morgan issued one Friday, TMZ.com reports.
During his set at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, Morgan said that he would stab his son to death if he talked to him in “a gay voice.” After the performance, at least one gay fan expressed outrage online, and the Ryman Auditorium issued a statement apologizing to anyone offended by the comic’s remarks. On Friday, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and the Human Rights Campaign called for Morgan to apologize.
Morgan obliged, saying he had gone too far and that his comments weren’t funny. “I’m not a hateful person and don’t condone any kind of violence against others,” he said in a statement. “While I am an equal opportunity jokester, and my friends know what is in my heart, even in a comedy club this clearly went too far and was not funny in any context.”
It didn’t end there, though. In a statement following Morgan’s apology Friday, the Human Rights Campaign’s Fred Sainz called on Morgan to do more: “Words have consequences and Morgan should be held to a higher standard. Until he does something meaningful, his brand will remain tarnished.”
Jack White and wife are divorcing
In other news out of Nashville, rocker Jack White and his model-singer wife, Karen Elson, announced they would be throwing a party there to celebrate their sixth wedding anniversary and their upcoming divorce, People reports. The two made the split official Friday in a joint statement: “We remain dear and trusted friends and co-parents to our wonderful children Scarlett and Henry Lee.” According to the invitation, the Friday night party would include “dancing, photos, memories and drinks with alcohol in them.”
White, 35, and Elson, 32, wed in Brazil in 2005. White and Meg White this year disbanded their longtime group, the White Stripes, while Elson has been performing her own music.
‘Wire’ exchange proposed
Attorney General Eric Holder is a fan of television drama “The Wire.” On May 31, the Justice Department hosted “Wire” cast members Jim True-Frost, Wendell Pierce and Sonja Sohn in the District during the launch of a public-awareness campaign by the Federal Interagency Drug Endangered Children Task Force. Holder said he’d like to see another season of the show, which went off the air in 2008. He addressed show creators David Simon and Ed Burns by name.
It took a week, but Simon responded to Holder’s comment with a counteroffer, the Atlantic reports: End the war on drugs, and I’ll make another season of “The Wire.”
“The Attorney-General’s kind remarks are noted and appreciated,” Simon said in an e-mail to the Times of London. “I’ve spoken to Ed Burns and we are prepared to go to work on season six of ‘The Wire’ if the Department of Justice is equally ready to reconsider and address its continuing prosecution of our misguided, destructive and dehumanising drug prohibition.”
Spotted . . .
l Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison
(R-Tex.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) sharing an early dinner at Bibiana on Thursday. They enjoyed a multicourse meal and were engrossed in conversation throughout.
l Boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard having lunch with a small group at Sette on Thursday. According to a fellow diner, he wore a royal blue V-neck T-shirt and casual black pants, and he appeared to be in great shape. He may have been in town in support of his new memoir “The Big Fight.”
— Christian Hettinger from staff,
Web and wire reports
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