The Awful Truth

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"I think she should get a tat, that would just freak 'em out!"

—Sassy Vivica A. Fox at the Bel-Air Film Festival, regarding her advice for first lady Michelle Obama.

"After all," continued the Curb Your Enthusiasm babe, "they freaked out when [Michelle] wore a pair of shorts. They're bringing some fun back to the White House!"

Ya up to it, Mrs. O.?

Somehow I doubt the ink power sign you'd probably chose would go with those darling cardigans you're so fond of. But maybe you could start a new mayhem-meets-middle-class trend?

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"I think she respects him a great deal, but do they get along? That's a stretch."

—Inside White House source, regarding recent reports that Hillary Clinton may be chafing under President Barack Obama's sometimes distant rule (with her) and that Clinton was considering resigning, a report Clinton's office has adamantly denied

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Backstage at the Oscars, I apparently started something when I asked Milk's Best Original Screenplay winner, Dustin Lance Black, if he felt President Obama should reverse his stand against gay marriage.

"Absolutely," Black (who was raised a Mormon, interestingly enough) exclaimed to me.

A reporter later also asked Sean Penn my same query about the president's unfortunate stand on gay unions. Penn, brow-wrinkled, replied that he hoped Obama's anti-gay-marriage stance was a "political" one, and not one from the heart, and that he, too, felt the 44th prez should reconsider his intolerant position.

This was such a personality change for Penn!

Last time he was backstage with his Oscar (for Mystic River), Robin's naughty hubby was chewing ice from his cocktail tumbler the whole time, ranting away! Not so 2009: Penn, circumspect, meant business with his serious words to the president. Besides, he got smart this time: He had his publicist hold his cocktail glass for him offstage, out of camera range.

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As George Clooney is one of Hollywood's most outspoken and informed residents, been waiting to hear how he felt about Prop 8, one of the most controversial political developments in our lifetime.

Here's what Mr. C revealed exclusively to the Awful Truth:

"At some point in our lifetime, gay marriage won't be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look as outdated as George Wallace standing on the school steps keeping James Hood from entering the University of Alabama because he was black."

Couldn't have said it better, George, well done.

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So you all know, obviously, how furious we feel about this horrid Ellen-and-Portia-dooming Prop 8 fiasco happening in Cali. Here, too, are four H'wood types who couldn't hold back their hatred against hate:

Awful Truth: What are your thoughts on Prop 8 passing?

Cameron Manheim: I feel just disgusted. I don't know who would vote for Prop 8, what's the matter with love? You fight for guns, but fight against love?

James Cromwell: I think it's disgraceful, I think it's illegal and it will be turned down in the courts. And if it isn't turned down in court, I will support the gay people being out there everyday in front of that church. The Mormons, what a disgraceful performance for somebody who calls themself a Christian, to take away somebody's constitutionally given rights just because they don't think it's appropriate.

Angelica Houston: I try not to expect too much because it is actually the same world it was yesterday. But I'm expecting slowly and confidently we can change our world.

Michael Sheen: I'd hoped that people would vote for making gay marriage legal. I thought it would happen. So, I was shocked and dismayed when it wasn't.

We, too, Mike. Great job in Frost/Nixon, by the by!

—Additional reporting by Becky Bain