by Andrew FrisicanoThomas Bartlett aka Doveman On November 1st, Doveman opened up at Mercury Lounge for The Ghost of a Sabre Toothed Tiger, a project that features Sean Lenon, his model girlfriend Charlotte Kemp Muhl (who, as announced from...
Lessons in Curating. Lessons in Culture. (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
CRISIS: waking up with serious kate gosselin bedhead. BRUTAL. I have a knack for crises, as November 11th's show and this morning proved. You see, I put together a little suburban video comp to play in the background of Crisis&Suburbia nite, had the cd all ready to go, but apparently this disc did something to piss off computers in a past life, because no device would play it. I had to admit defeat...
Should we now call him the award-winning Levi Johnston? The Alaskan teen formerly known as Sarah Palin's future son-in-law was in New York City last night to pick up porn website...
Join us at GLAAD’s 8th Annual OUTAuction, presented by Bud Light, on Sunday November 15th, 2009 from 5:00pm-9:00pm at New York City’s Metropolitan Pavilion! Art and Celebrities to Shine at GLAAD’s 8th Annual OUTAuction NYC is a post from the Out Gay Life Family of Websites. Arizona: Tucson Phoenix California: Los Angeles Sacramento San Diego San Francisco Colorado: Denver District...
I saw an "Invictus" poster in the lobby of my neighborhood theater yesterday, and was surprised to see that it had a date ("December 11th") affixed. This was in NE Ohio, mind you; not LA or NYC.Is Warner Brothers planning to go wide on that date instead of employing their usual platform strategy for Eastwood's year-end awards hopefuls? Considering the (relative) dearth of major...
We've known about the Dreamworks Animation adaptation of William Joyce's The Guardians of Childhood for some time. The book series, called "a contemporary fairytale based on existing fairytale characters" has a band of unlikely characters joining forces to stop the boogeyman from plunging the world into darkness. Now we know that the film has an award-winning writer, and one who is already...
This is one of my favorite scenes from Hedwig and the Angry Inch. I've always thought John Cameron Mitchell was really kind of beautiful in this movie. I love his voice. A few drawings from my sketchbook: A sketch from MACYS while waiting for friends. Sketch from Harper's Bizaar.
Charles Bronson, who was born Michael Peterson but changed his name when he became a bare knuckle boxer during his rare time outside of jail, is Britain's most violent and notorious prisoner. Born in 1952, he has spent more than...
Folk singer Jay Brannan's path to cult stardom (and a one-night gig in Miami):<p/> Told he has no talent, Brannan gets kicked out of acting school, then lands a plum role in John Cameron Mitchell's controversial, sexually explicit 2006 film Shortbus -- as a singer who has a ménage a` trois with a dissatisfied gay couple.
BY STEVE ROTHAUS, srothaus@MiamiHerald.com Folk singer Jay Brannan's path to cult stardom (and a one-night gig in Miami): Told he has no talent, Brannan gets kicked out of acting school, then lands a plum role in John Cameron Mitchell's controversial,...
These bitches sucking cock and eating ass… then they show up at the buffet and say they’re vegan. – Justin Bond I am familiar with John Cameron Mitchell’s work, thoroughly enjoying his transsexual rock musical, Hedwig and the Angry Inch. I eagerly wanted for his follow-up. Now, we have Shortbus. It’s not going to be a classic [...]
Last night, actor Alan Cumming removed a leather suit jacket to reveal a sparkly sleeveless number, and a pair of surprisingly toned arms. He was standing on stage at The Box, the dark Chrystie Street den of iniquity on New York City's Lower East Side, where the famous and their followers come to disappear. Alan [...]
Brandy Wine and Brenda A. Go-Go are On Patrol (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
Today marks the first day of Autumn and the official release date for Alan Cumming's debut album "I Bought a Blue Car Today". Alan sounded pitch perfect at the album release party tonight at The Box and entertained the audience with three fantastic songs. We sat next to photographer Mick Rock and John Cameron Mitchell. This was the first time we really got a chance to talk to John. He is...
Keep up to date with all the latest from the entertainment world with the MD News Desk : Coming Soon : - Twilight Watch: Taylor Lautner bares (almost) all on the set of New Moon . - Could all the Emmy love mean good news for the Pushing Daisies movie? Creator Bryan Fuller hopes so. Awards Watch : - The Producers Guild will have 10 Best Picture nominees this year, just like the Academy. - Colin Firth,...
This post is part of Film Babble Blog's "Soundtrack September". As every good show queen worth their Playbill collection knows, nothing beats a good show tune, whether belted out on the Great White Way or on the Silver Screen. So, as a service to our readers (as well as sexually confused high school drama students everywhere), we here at Movie Dearest have compiled the following list (in...