“With all due respect to pop culture, if love has found
their way into that relationship, God bless them both. 
Leave them the fuck alone and let them like each other
because both of them have had hardship and they’re
both beautiful human beings.”
– Jamie Lee Curtis tells Access Hollywood her thoughts on rumors that
Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson are in an actual relationship.

Violence is never the answer.  I was reminded of that when a local hothead accosted me in the crowded parking lot of a popular Chinese restaurant.  While I did indeed tap his car door trying to get out of my own vehicle, I left no mark.  This did not stop him from attempting to initiate a physical altercation.  When he saw I was neither intimidated nor impressed, he not only caused physical damage to my car, he shoved me!  I calmly called the police, who I am told apprehended him after he fled the scene.  I’m told he has been charged with various criminal felonies.  And I enjoyed my dinner.

I don’t know Donald or Jacob Zieben-Hood.  My esteemed colleague Michael Musto posted the following on social media: “Don Hood is a fitness model slash promoter whom I know from the club scene.  He and his husband fought constantly, and Hood exacerbated things by repeatedly violating an order of protection.  Well, the husband died on Friday morning, covered in stab wounds, following yet another fight between the couple.  The husband, Jacob Zieben-Hood, had called his father earlier to say that Hood wouldn’t let him leave their apartment and was ‘coming after him’.  Hood is charged with violating an order of protection…and there’s also that burglary thing and oh yeah, carrying a weapon.  And I’m pretty certain he’ll also have ‘murderer’ on his resume soon enough.”

Then performer Mark MacKillop wrote: “There was this guy I used to want to date so bad.  We spent time together a few summers ago.  He was beautiful but cocky & it turned me off.  Story just dropped that he allegedly stabbed his boyfriend to death.  Dear Universe thank you for removing me from that situation.”   After that, a fan wrote me the following.  “I went out with Donald a few times.  He was an asshole and definitely had dangerous mood swings.  But he was so fuckin’ hot.  Now he’s killed his husband.  What’s wrong with him?”  The bigger question – what’s wrong with all of us?  It’s simple – we’re guys.  We respond to physical beauty.  How many gay men forgave Luigi Mangione or those poor misunderstood Menendez boys because they were hot?  If they were fat, missing an eye, and sporting a hump, nobody would be rushing to their defense.  OK, maybe some straight women would!  It’s not just gay men.  Straight men will stay with crazy women if they’re hot (well, hot to them).  That’s how we’re wired.

P.S. It’s true – this Donald guy IS hot.  Then again, so was his dead husband.

Meanwhile, a stage show about Mangione has been selling out performances in San Francisco.  Luigi: The Musical not only turns the spotlight on the alleged murderer, but also takes on Sean “Diddy” Combs and Sam Bankman-Fried (from the crypto con), who all happen to be luxuriating in the same prison.  Sure, the musical is selling out a 49-seat theatre and not Radio City Music Hall, but it shows our collective fascination with bad boys.