I guess to some extent, I have to admire these actors for having the guts to stick to their idiotic, wrong-headed principles. And I can kinda sorta, almost see their point of view. I mean, no reasonable person would imagine that they approved of framing people for murder, causing miscarriages, or injecting people's eyeballs (double eww) just because they did those things on a soap opera. But someone *might* think they supported gay rights in real life if they pretended to do so on TV, since that's actually a reasonable and valid position to take in reality. Uh, yeah......

That newsstand stuff is SO depressing--newsstands are one of the things that make New York New York. Have you ever read "The Cricket in Times Square" by George Selden? If you haven't, you must--the main setting is a tiny newsstand in the Times Square subway station. It's beautifully written--seriously, Hemingway could have written it, but it wouldn't have been as good--and it's an absolutely wonderful story.