When I was a kid way back in them there ’70s and ’80s, I already thought Gene Shalit was a strange old dude. He must’ve only been in his friggin’ teens as the guy’s still around. It’s Abe Vigoda Syndrome, baby. Anyway, GLAAD is pissed off at Shalit’s recent review of Brokeback Mountain. I guess Gene had decided that it was time to prove he still existed, since only us old schoolers remember him. I mean, Roger Ebert gets older and thinner, and Shalit remains the same scary hairball with each passing year. Thank God we never had to see Gene in a “Battle of the Network Stars” way back when. Can you imagine having to inadvertently discover where the rest of that hair decided to go on his body while watching him in a tug o’ war match? Creepy.