The "Big, Fat, Gay Wedding" contest, put on by WRIF's Mike in the Morning show, urged gay couples from around the Detroit area to submit a photo and statement to the WRIF Web site saying why they should be chosen to get hitched in California. The winners were to be flown to San Diego for the big day.

I think that anything that's freeing is good for the audience. Anything that's stepping on a taboo is good for the audience, because culture always follows art.

"Let me tell you, if 'Robin' somehow crops up in one of the new 'Batman' films along the line, I'll be chaining myself up somewhere and refusing to go to work."

In his guise as Natalie, Joe Plambeck could be Ugly Betty if he had those glasses on; in his guise as the evil schoolmaster, he more or less channels Captain Picard gone to the dark side.