"Being gay and having a gay father definitely has its advantages. You don't feel like you're disappointing your parents, since they beat you to the punch." — Competitor Mike White ( son of activist Mel White ) on TV's The Amazing Race, as quoted in the Feb. 27 issue of Entertainment Weekly.
"Chicago is the only theater town that I think is better than London." — Movie director ( and husband of Oscar winner Kate Winslet ) Sam Mendes to Chicago Tribune reporter Mark Caro, as quoted in the newspaper's Feb. 24 issue.
"I remember what clothes he wore, which umbrella he had, how the weather was, how it smelled in that place, the temperature. It was winter but quite mild, and it rained—I have it all exactly in my head. Then our eyes met, and this looking in each other's eyes was the great beginning." — Stefan Petzner, on the first time he met lover Jörg Haider, in the March 2009 issue of Details. Petzner and Haider were members of the far-right-wing group the Alliance for the Future of Austria.