Newbie you are right of course, and you did cause me a twinge of guilt, but I would find it even ruder to be featured, without permission, in some mag thousands of miles away with my date of birth published and my perceived personality discussed. He's a public servant, not a fame-hungry L.A. starlet............Brian has had enough of his private life being discussed and lied about in the gutter press and now in an article on Astrology?.......invasion of privacy in my book, so Newbie, although you are right on a don't sink to her level basis IMO, she is damnably rude to ask, even ruder not to ask Brian directly...he works at the Met...a letter would have worked. Not a hard address to discover.
So she's fair game in my book, but you are a much nicer, politer person than me, Newbie. And I'm also sure that you are not menopausal either.