Legendarily straight Tom Cruise apparently can't even handle being mentioned in a gay book! Former Village Person Randy Jones' new biography included an eighties-era anecdote involving him and Tom, but the actor's people had it removed. How queer.

"Tom and I had the same management company at the time," Jones told me at the new Bowery hot spot Antik. "I met him at a party Andy Warhol threw for Peter Gatien's Limelight [nightclub offshoot] in Atlanta."

To hear Jones tell the story, it was quite a party. But after calls went out to a spokeswoman and attorney for the Mission: Impossible star yesterday, the book's editor assured me that Cruise's name had been removed from the final version.

Great, now we're forced to use our imagination!

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UK-based Vodaphone, which has interests around the world including a joint venture, Verizon Wireless, in America, puts a block on access to this site – and on the highly-reputable Gay City News in New York – deeming the content to be “adult” in nature.

We understand the world's an ugly place, but this is just ridiculous!

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It seems like former Village person and forever homosexual Randy Jones will be trading his chaps for an eye patch. The singer has teamed up with Carnival Cruises for an eight-day floating fag fest. Not only that, but legendary photographer Ron Galella will document the boat wreck for posterity, thus ensuring you have at least one thing to talk about at family reunions.

Now, we're sure you're wondering - why in the world would we want to spend more than a week of our lives cruising the ocean with Jones and his gay gaggle? Quite honestly, we don't know. It sounds kind of…how do we put this delicately? Terrible.

While we may not be sailing with the ever-smiling Jones, we're totally psyched about his new movie, Lawn of The Dead, which Jones describes as "a cross between Dawn of the Dead and Caddyshack in which a new fertilizer causes the dead to come back to life on a golf course built over a Civil War cemetary". Zombie Civil War vets and Randy Jones? That may be the most deliciously campy thing we've ever heard. And, of course, we love it.

As for that cruise - if you're interested, head on over to Alice Travel's website, get their number, call it and ask for Phyllis. Also, be sure to poke around Jones' virtual digs, too.

With the noise being made about Brokeback Mountain may we remind you of the original gay cowboy: Randy Jones. The cowboy from the Village People recently chatted with Bradford Shellhammer about playing God, the Pet Shop Boys, and those other cowboys, Jake and Heath.

What is it like playing God?
As opposed to WHAT? (smile)

Tell us about the new plays?
I'm having a ball playing God in Sodom: The Musical. There's nothing like having all the power and playing the multi-male-plus roles in I Wanna Be Rosie at LaMaMa sure keeps an actor on his toes. Getting cast as God was typecasting, getting cast as George Clooney is hype-casting, and getting cast as Marlene Dietrich…well, that's just pipe-casting!

How did the idea for the Village People come together?
I believe it to have been a Halloween nightmare of a couple of Frenchmen, Henri Belolo and Jacques Morali. And God is thanked for the experience!

Randy dishes on Jake and Heath after the jump.

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