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N.Y.’S ‘SHOT
BYJOANNAMOLLOY,
KERRYWILLS
andMIKEJACCARINO
DAILYNEWSWRITERS
MANHATTANITE ANDIE San-
tiago never gave up on dreams of
herweddingday.
Now they can come to frui-
tion.
“I would love to have the
dream that little girls always
have,” said Santiago, 25, stand-
ing with Mary Rodriguez, her
30-year-old paramour, at the
Stonewall Inn, where the LGBT
movementkickedoff.
“I want my mother to be able
toseemeinmyweddingdress.”
Hundreds had gathered with
her at the LGBT lodestone in
Greenwich Village, waiting and
hoping and praying — some in
drag — that their officials in the
state Senate would grant them
thelong-sought-afterequality.
They held Technicolor ban-
ners,chantedslogansasloudlyas
theirlungswouldallowandsang,
“Somewhere Over the Rain-
bow.”
And then news of the vote
reached them with all the herald-
ry of a score of trumpets unleash-
ingathunderousbellow.
Someone yelled out, “I do!”
and the crowd erupted in joyful
exclamation and childlike exu-
berance. They had waited so long
and so patiently for the news that
itwasasifadamhadbuckledand
all their pentup frustration came
cascading forth in a fusillade of
howlsandhigh-fives.
“This has been a long road,”
saidagleefulGilbertBaker,60,of
Harlem, the self-professed inven-
toroftherainbowflag.
“Having gay marriage is not
going to stop homophobia, but
it’s going to send a message to the
country and the world that if we
can do it in New York, we can do
itanywhere.”
“I can’t wait for the gay mar-
riage law to pass in New York,”
drag queen Hedda Lettuce is
often quoted as saying, “because
Ijustcan’twaitforgaydivorce!”
It’s a line that always gets
laughs,butforsomefolksoutside
the Stonewall Inn, the Legisla-
ture’s foot-dragging on the same-
sexmarriagebillwasnojoke.
“We knew it was going to be a
matter of when — not if,” said
Robert Ostergaard, 44, of
Chelsea. “That’s the arc of histo-
ry.”
“It was a huge disappointment
last time, when the bill didn’t
pass,” said Paul Feinman, 46, of
Chelsea,who is engaged to Oster-
gaard. “I’m overjoyed and at a
loss for words. I’m thrilled that I
don’t have to go to Massachu-
setts.”
“It’sgoingtobenicetogivemy
momaweddingtoplaninsteadof
a civil union,” added Dan Gold-
man,26,ofEastHarlem.
“My partner, Leah, and I have
been together for 9 years, and we
have a 5-year-old daughter,” said
Cathy Renna a few hours before
thestateSenatefinallypassedthe
bill.
“We married in a religious cer-
emony, but when she had a sei-
zure reaction to medication, I
had to bring a power of attorney
to the hospital in order to be in-
volved in decisions about her
care.”
Meanwhile, Andie Santiago
joyfully exclaimed before the
vote, “I love her so much, and I
want to marry her. I want her to
have my children.” Rodriguez
was nearby. The two could now
havetheirdream.
With Daniel Prendergast
jmolloy@nydailynews.com
Longtime couples’ wait is over —
Gov. Cuomo hands pens to legislators after signing
into law a bill legalizing same-sex marriage minutes
after it passed the State Senate at the Capitol in
Albany yesterday. Below, Sen. Stephen Saland,
R-Poughkeepsie, was one of four Republicans topro-
vide the margin needed to pass the bill. Photos by AP
Exuberant revelers celebrate last night at the landmark
BYRICH SCHAPIRO
DAILYNEWSSTAFFWRITER
BROOKLYN MOM Jo-Ann
Shain and her partner Mary Jo
Kennedy have waited 29 years
and seven months for the news
thatcamelastnight.
They don’t plan to wait much
longer.
“We hope to be among the first
in line at the city clerk’s office,”
crowed Shain, 58, who has a
22-year-old daughter, Aliya, with
Kennedy.
“We can’t wait to get married.
Our daughter wants to walk us
down the aisle, and I can’t think
of anything more joyful than our
daughter walking the two of us
down the aisle in front of all our
friendsandfamily.”
Kennedy, overcome with emo-
tion, struggled to summon the
wordstoexpressherjoy.
“It’s incredible because I grew
up thinking this day would never
come,” said the 56-year-old fami-
ly practice doctor who lives with
ShaininParkSlope.
The legislative approval of the
same-sex marriage was celebrat-
ed by thousands across the city —
but for long-time gay couples, it
carriesaspecialsignificance.
Just ask George Constantinou,
who has been dating his partner
Farid Lancheros since February
2001.
Theyarethesoon-to-befathers
oftwins,dueinNovember.
“This is a dream come true and
to have this in place before the
kids are born, it’s something I
never thought would happen,”
said Constantinou, 35, who runs
Bogota Latin Bistro in Park Slope
withhispartner.
Finally,
dreams do
come true
GAYSCANMARRY
Farid Lancheros (l.) and partner
George Constantinou will now
be able to celebrate the birth of
their children — and marriage.
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BYDAVIDHINCKLEY
DAILYNEWSTVCRITIC
“SWAMP SHARK” swims onto your TV
screen just in time to answer the question
that’s been tormenting the movie world
forlongerthanmostofuscanremember.
WhateverhappenedtoD.B.Sweeney?
Well, he’s been found. He’s cruising the
bayou on a small boat in search of a large
shark.
As you watch him, all you can think is,
that boy needs a bigger boat. Could D.B.
Sweeney be the only person in the world
whohasneverseen“Jaws”?
Well, no matter. Griff Furst, who direct-
ed “Swamp Shark,” has not only seen
“Jaws,”heabsorbedit.
Imagine “Jaws” set in a large swamp,
with a really, really low-budget shark, and
you’re95%ofthewayhome.
That’s not criticism, either. As fans of all
cheap horror flicks know, the goofier the
story and the lower the budget, the greater
thefun.
Rachel McDaniel (Kristy Swanson)
runs a family-owned restaurant in a small
town in Louisiana. You know when her
brother (Jeff Chase) has a name like
“Swamp Thing” that they probably don’t
hold their reunions at Mensa meetings.
Still, life would be okay except that Sheriff
Watson (Robert Davi) has a bad attitude
and a bad habit of smuggling dangerous
exoticcrittersintotown.
It’s not clear exactly why he does this,
but it’s clear that the danger level on the
bayou spikes when the swamp shark gets
loose.Besides beingtheonlythingintown
with a worse attitude than the sheriff, the
swampsharkishungry.
This is not good news for several mem-
bers of the cast, to whom we are advised
nottobecometooattached.
“Swamp Shark” does honor the victim
etiquette of horror movies, however, in
severalcriticalways.
First, several of the people who are man-
gled and eaten by the shark deserve it.
Theyare badpeople.
Second, you do not want to be a teenag-
ersneakingoffforanillicitdalliancewhen
a lethal predator is loose in your neighbor-
hood,landorsea.Whetherthebadactoris
a maniac with an ax or a fish with a weak-
ness for jail bait, any teenager who thinks
some secluded, exposed area is the ideal
spotforaquickieisjustaskingtobecomea
statistic.
And, oh yeah, about D.B. He plays
Charlie, a mysterious stranger who drifts
into town and shows up at Rachel’s restau-
ranteverymorningforacupofcoffee.
Naturally he’s got more on his mind
than two sugars and cream. Just as natural-
ly, he turns out to know something about
sharks.
You’d say he’s a little like the Richard
Dreyfuss character in “Jaws” except, as
previously noted, Charlie doesn’t appear
tohaveseen“Jaws.”
But we have. And now we can see
“Jaws”lite.
dhinckley@nydailynews.com
Cheap fun is jawesome in ‘Swamp Shark’
Jumping the “Shark”? From left, Richard Tanne, D.B. Sweeney and Kristy Swanson
TV TODAY
ACROSS
1 Astern
4 Cans, in
England
8 “Come — Your
Horn”
12 Bill and —
13 Vanessa —
Hudgens
14 Part to play
15 Shown, “Men in
Black” star:
3 wds.
18 Canadian
singer/actress
Cassie
19 Faintest
20 Balderdash
21 Participates
at Stowe
22 “Real Time
with Bill —”
25 2009 film,
“— the Ninja”
28 LL Cool J movie,
“Deliver Us
From —”
29 “Where — the
Children?”
30 Chutzpah
33 Mariah or
Macdonald
35 Serling and
Steiger
37 “— of the
Worlds”
38 Julianna
Margulies on
“The Good Wife”
40 The “O” in
“The O.C.”
44 She’s Cuddy on
“House”: 2 wds.
46 Rocker Billy
47 Data, briefly
48 Hubbub
49 Huge amount
50 Actress Barbara
51 Bandleader
Brown
DOWN
1 New Testament
book
2 Daniel
Day-Lewis’
“My Left —”
3 Minnie Driver
movie,
“Return — —”
4 Singer Swift
5 Estuary
6 Dir. from
Philadelphia
to NYC
7 Leaks slowly
8 James or Josh
9 1996 Chris
Cooper film:
2 wds.
10 Acapulco cheers
11 Dominic of
“The Wire”
16 Unmitigated
17 The “half” of
“Two and a Half
Men”
22 “3 — and
a Baby”
23 Blvd. kin
24 Actor Bret of
“Reaper”
26 Poetic
preposition
27 Actor Alejandro
31 Compositions
for a singer
32 Ms. McClurg
33 Mr. Daly of
“Total Request
Live”
34 “I smell — —!”
36 Actress Frost
37 Author Tom
38 Blazing
39 Beach resort
41 Actress Elise
42 French author
Andre
43 Baseball’s
Slaughter
45 “The —
of the Affair”
LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS, above
See next week’s issue for solution.
ANSWERS:JINGLE,ACTING,SURVEY,MICKEY.
Thisactorwasawinneratthe“JustforLaughs”
MontrealComedyFestivalin1996:
KEVINJAMES.
Use the clues to help unscramble the four
Jumbles, one letter to each square to form four
words. Then arrange the circled letters to form the
answer, as suggested by the cartoon and clue.
TV CROSSWORDS
TV JUMBLE BY DAVID L. HOYT
‘SwampShark’
HHHHH
Tonightat9,Syfy
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