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Pittsblog (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Where are Pittsburgh's pockets of weirdness? I picked up the phrase from this short piece on Baltimore, in the Style Magazine of the New York Times : Over a meatloaf dinner at the Metropolitan Coffeehouse & Wine Bar in Federal Hill, my old friend, the writer Michael Yockel (he hired me at City Paper), is picking apart my theory about his hometown. I’m suggesting that it’s one of the...
kenneth in the (212) (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
I suppose it could just be that more cool things tend to happen in entertainment at the end of the year, but for the third time in a row I received the final copy of one of my magazine subscriptions that I wasn't planning to renew (for general lack of interest) only to find it to be the most wonderful issue I've seen in ages. This time around it's INTERVIEW , which happens to be the 40th anniversary...
Tabloid Prodigy (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Cincinnati man Eric Brown (at left) was arrested on Sunday after trying to take the wheel of a taxi cab. Police say Brown, dressed in makeup as a vampire (you say vampire, I say drag queen), claimed to be singer Meatloaf. Meatloaf? That was quick thinking on his part. I think he was really dressed as [...]
Deep Dish (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
My very first Divine movie was the 1981 John Waters comedy, Polyester , in which he played Francine Fishpaw, a bored housewife who falls in love with Tab Hunter. I still adore this dark satire of suburban life, but my personal favorite Divine film is Female Trouble (1974). You just have to love a flick that has its heroine--Dawn Davenport--angrily push her mother into a Christmas tree after not receiving...
Obscure Store and Reading Room (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
I'd believe him if he said he was Divine from the old John Waters movies. (WLWT.com)
Hamster's Wheel (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
LGBT people born today: 1921 – George Nader – US Actor / Author – Died 4th February 2002 1932 – Robert Reed – US Actor – Died 12th May 1992 1945 – Divine – US Drag Queen / Singer / Actor – Died 7th March 1988 1948 – Chester Biscardi – US Composer 1948 – Greg Malone – Canadian Impressionist / Actor / Politician 1950 –...
Velvet Threads (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
You may have heard that Siren Beat features tentacle smut. This is almost completely true. One of the sirens Nancy Napoleon and Nick Cadmus have to defeat is a cecaelia (octopus woman) rather than a traditional siren (bird woman). In the interests of feminists everywhere I would like to state for the record that the person at the mercy of tentacles in the story? Is not Nancy. If you want to know more,...
DCist (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Pink Flamingos It's often said that we've become so desensitized as a culture that the things that once shocked us have now become routine. John Waters' first movie must have been decades ahead of its time, because even in an age when any number of perversions are only a...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 09/06/2009
After 35 years of movies, John Waters has hinted that he might be leaving the biz soon. While talking to ArtInfo , he mentioned how financing for Fruitcake (the kids' flick that was to star Johnny Knoxville and Parker Posey) has fallen through twice and: "I want to do two more movies -- that's enough. I hope I can make two more." I can't imagine a world free of fresh, new, campy, audacious,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/24/2009
The comedy actor, who donned drag and assumed a Scottish accent in Mrs Doubtfire, has expressed a wish to play the Britain's Got Talent star in a biopic When the idea of a Susan Boyle biopic was first mooted a few months ago, Meryl Streep was the Guardian's hot tip for the lead role. But today an even less likely frontrunner has emerged : Robin Williams. The Daily Star quotes Williams, the Oscar-winning...
forces of geek (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
I’m a big fan of spoken word performances, and good conversation in general. One of these days I’m going to walk into a store and find these sorts of performances have their own section. Not filed with comedy. Not with music. Not with documentary. But in its own proper category—Spoken Word Performance. Here are five of my current favorite examples of what’s available on DVD....
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
It's Music Weekly time again, and we're kicking off this episode with a ramble through the late 80s, courtesy of Stone Roses bassist Mani. This month sees the rerelease of the band's eponymous debut album, still regarded as one of the finest albums ever made, and Mani (now of Primal Scream) recalls the anticipation and excitement of its release back in 1989. Meanwhile, Alexis Petridis sits in for...
Deep Dish (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Today is actor Tab Hunter's 77th birthday, and if you haven't read his 2005 autobiography, Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star , you should. It's one of the best bios I've ever read, and he discusses his homosexuality quite candidly. The gorgeous man has had a fascinating career, having played opposite such lovely ladies as Gwen Verdon, Natalie Wood and Divine. So I highly recommend...
Gatochy's Blog (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
John Waters is sexy. I don't think I've ever watched any of his movies all the way through, but I love his personality. It totally relaxes me to watch him. He seems so together. I imagine people like him, who are into everything freaky and bizarre, who feel this compulsive need to watch horror, porn, or violence, are deep down inside really sensitive, vulnerable kids, shocked by all the nasty stuff...
The blog Film (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
Drag Show Video Vérité, an annual feature of performance footage taken in New York, pays homage to drag's 50-year journey from outlawed act to an art form now grazing the mainstream Funny how things change. Behaviour that could, not so long ago, have landed you in jail can now get you a showbiz contract. Take men dressing in feminine attire: a lilac-hued striptease of the type offered...
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