Angel in America - Any occasion when Drew praises an article by Mike Signorile is noteworthy. In this case, it's about the unusual reticence in the press about the cause of gay photographer Herb Ritt's death from AIDS. (Obviously this is a subject near-and-dear to Drew.)

I am just barely old enough to remember reading the first reports of celebrity AIDS victims, back when I was a precocious ninth-grade Newsweek reader, so the concept of obituary "cover stories" isn't completely foreign to me. Thankfully, I am not old enough to have lost anyone close to the disease. (A couple of peers lost their closeted fathers.) Let's hope I can still say that a few decades from now.