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Dearly Beloved… on June 27 we will gather at the Shrine Auditorium and mark the 10 year anniversary of the hottest award show in cable television, the BET AWARDS. This year, BET will honor the musical legacy and genius that is Prince as the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, an honor bestowed to the most significant and influential individuals in music history.

We are humbled that Prince will be our lifetime achievement award recipient,” said Stephen G. Hill, President of Programming, Music and Specials.  “Genre smasher, virtuoso musician, one of the most emotional singers of all time; words are too weak to describe just what he means to our culture. We have a different kind of tribute planned for him as his unique style deserves a unique honor. Prince is dynamic. Prince is genius. Prince is music.

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At post time, Betty White was on Joy Behar’s show.  That said we waited for the show to wrap so we could grab a quick look at the transcripts and rewind the video.  White and Behar took a trip down memory when the topic landed on Rock Hudson.  Betty White told a story how Doris Day may have outed Rock Hudson.  White then told Behar (and don’t quote us yet till we get the transcript) but it went something like this “everybody kind of knew his situation . . . and Cary Grant too.”

Was that an “out?”  Behar asked White was she saying Grant was gay.  Betty White threw in a quick punchline and the topic was changed.  We googled to past the time till the end of the show and saw that the topic Grant’s status was trending some two years ago.  The show is done.  Here comes the buzz . . . wait for it.

Update 06.15.10:  The transcript is in . . .

BEHAR: Right. She`s very sweet. Now, Sean Hayes is the EPL, the executive producer of your new show. The actor Sean Hayes.

WHITE: Yes.

BEHAR: That`s an interesting departure for him. He`s not usually the executive producer.

WHITE: Well, who knows?

BEHAR: There you go, you know he was in the middle of this controversy recently because a guy in “Newsweek” wrote an article saying that actors who are out, gay actors who are out of the closet -

WHITE: Right.

BEHAR: Could not play straight roles because people wouldn`t believe that they were straight once they were out and gay. What do you think — do you have any ideas about that? You`ve been in the business a long time.

WHITE: Well, I mean a lot of the people that we didn`t know were gay and turned out to be gay still went on — and look, Anne Heche was a good example. She and Ellen DeGeneres were close. And she played some of these romantic roles after she came out of the closet. It doesn`t — I think people are going to worry about how they look at things, not what somebody else does.

BEHAR: It seems to work differently for women, though. Because two women in a lesbian relationship, men like that. But — they do. They like to watch that and think about it.

WHITE: Really?

BEHAR: Yes. They do. They love it.

WHITE: Could have fooled me. I`ve been straight all my life. Gee, I`ve been wasting all this time.

(LAUGHTER)

BEHAR: See? That`s your next career.

WHITE: I don`t think so. I don`t think so.

BEHAR: But when it comes to a man, all those year, I don`t know that Rock Hudson, he was the heart throb. Let`s say he was out and everybody knew he was a homosexual, I`m not sure he would have had the career. That`s what the point of this article was.

WHITE: Actually it was his dear friend, his beloved friend Doris Day who inadvertently outed him. She invited him to a show she was doing up in Cacarmel (ph). So by then he had AIDS. So the minute he came on camera, then everybody knew. And Doris just couldn`t believe that she had been — you know, a party to that. But Rock was – was — everybody kind of knew his situation, but it didn`t seem to hold back his career.

BEHAR: No, no but –

WHITE: Cary Grant, the same thing.

BEHAR: Oh he was gay, too?

WHITE: Oh, I don`t know.

BEHAR: Yes, you know something, Betty.

WHITE: No, I don`t know. I never had him — I never had it.

(LAUGHTER)

BEHAR: All right. We`ve got even more chatting to do with you. She`s just warming up. We`ll be right back.

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