Author David King NAILS why the whole country should be singing the praises of Emperor Cheeto! The description on Amazon is brief and succinct,

“This book is full of blank pages. Despite years of research, we could not find anything to say on this subject, so please feel free to use this book for notes.”

Despite the sparseness of information, some of the reviews on Amazon are raves…

“Now, I’ve read some books in my day. I really can read. I read a lot. I’m great at reading… the best. In fact, there are teenagers living in their parents’ basements who can tell you all about it on Twitter. They know I’m fantastic. If anyone has anything to say otherwise, they’re crooked crybabies. I can read all sorts of books. I think reading is great. I’m fantastic at reading. It’s probably my best skill (unless we’re talking about something else in which case whatever we’re talking about is my best skill). If you don’t think I’m the best at reading, it’s probably because you are a member of one of the many subgroups of the population for which I have no respect.

Wait… was I supposed to be talking about something other than myself, some sort of topic or something? I either forgot or awkwardly got out of it. I’m also excellent at forgetting and awkwardly getting out of things.“

You can get your copy here. Bestseller!

(T/Y Fenton)

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Allison Harvard
Amber Benson
Bob Eubanks
Carolina Herrera
David Bowie – (January 8, 1947 – January 10, 2016)
Gaby Hoffmann
Harriet Harris
Jason Giambi
Jenny Lewis
Michelle Forbes
R. Kelly
Rachel Nichols
Sam Riley
Sarah Polley
Shirley Bassey
Stephen Hawking

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January 8, 1911– Gypsy Rose Lee

My friends who care about such things understand that Jule Styne–Stephen Sondheim–Arthur Laurents‘ Gypsy (1959) is my favorite musical. I think it is a perfect piece of theatre. I consider Gypsy to be the highest of human accomplishments.

I am well connected in Hollywood and my insiders tell me that Barbra Streisand still plans to produce, direct and star in a new film version of this classic show. Streisand, too old to play the role of Gypsy Rose Lee’s mother by decades, states:

“Age is just a number; some people look old at 45. Some people look younger at my age… I saw CGI of an actor that made him go from 60 to 30, by the way. What they can do now, technically. It should happen, but it just takes forever.”

“Forever” must have meant waiting for Arthur Laurents to die. Laurents, who wrote the script for the original and had held rights to all productions, was not in favor of Streisand playing Mama Rose on film.

It has been filmed before, with Rosalind Russell as an effective, but the softest of Mama Roses. Hardcore Musical Theatre people love to opine about the casting of any Mama Rose. I admire Streisand’s talent as a director, but I am afraid that at nearly 75 years old, she is a tiny bit long-in-the-tooth for a character that starts the story in her 30s. Streisand might break a hip. Still, Streisand doing that great sung monologue, Rose’s Turn, intrigues.

She was dismissed as “untalented” by her own mother, but Gypsy Rose Lee remains a source of inspiration even 47 years after she took that final curtain call.

Born Rose Louise Hovick in Seattle to a teenage mother right out of a convent, she got an early start in show business, appearing with her little sister June Hovick in a Vaudeville act when she was just 8-years-old. It was apparent that the sister, Baby June, was the true talent of the siblings. From the start of their act, Louise was pushed to the background while June was moved to the center stage and given a special pink spotlight.

The family moved to Hollywood with an act named Dainty June, The Hollywood Baby, And Her Newsboys. Their mother, Rose Thompson Hovick, had an overbearing determination to see her young daughters have successful stage careers and she divorced her husband to become the girls’ full-time manager.

In their teenage years, Louise and June had the responsibility of supporting the family. They traveled all over the USA, playing cheap Vaudeville theatres, living out of suitcases, and skipping school. When June was 13-years-old, she eloped with fellow vaudevillian Bobby Reed. The sister act was finished.

Louise was unable to generate much interest as a solo act. At 17-years-old, and stranded in Kansas City without a booking, she was approached by an agent about appearing in a Burlesque show when the usual stripper had landed in prison. Despite Mama Rose’s objections, Louise took the gig and was reinvented as Gypsy Rose Lee.

Lee made her NYC debut in 1931, at Minsky’s Famous Republic Theatre, the first Burlesque house on Broadway. Comedians Abbott And Costello, Phil Silvers, and Red Buttons were on the same bill, but the strippers were the stars. At the height of the Great Depression, a strip tease artist could make more than $2,000 a week. Lee played 12 weeks in a row at The Republic, setting a record for the theatre. She was arrested during one of the many police raids on Minsky’s theatres. This only helped her become even more popular.

Lee didn’t perform the usual bumps and grinds of traditional Burlesque routines. She developed a special slow strip which she accompanied with a smart patter song. Her patter was her biggest asset. In those days, women made up half of the typical Burlesque audience, and Lee became famous for her onstage wit and sophistication.

When she turned of 33-years-old, Lee decided she wanted have a child. She told her sister June that she wanted to select the father, and he needed to be:

“The toughest, meanest son of a bitch that I can find, somebody who’s ruthless, and my child will rule the world.”

Her choice was the great Hollywood film director Otto Preminger. Lee slept with him just one time. When he was 18-years-old, her son, Erik Lee, demanded to know why she wouldn’t tell him who his father was. Her retort:

 “Because it’s none of your business.”

Lee’s Gypsy: Memoirs Of America’s Most Celebrated Stripper (1957), plus that landmark stage musical and the film based on it, made Rose even more notorious than the daughter. Lee’s book was a bestseller, but she could have sold even more copies had she told the real story about herself and her mother. Rose hounded her daughters for decades, demanding money and credit for their fame.

June, the sister, became June Havoc. She not only starred in the premiere of the great Rodgers and Hart musical Pal Joey (1940), she wrote a pair of memoirs that told the story of her long career as an acclaimed actor and stage director. Havoc took her final curtain call in spring 2012.

The musical Gypsy is a horror show wrapped up as a showbiz fable. Rose Hovick is the scary monster. The musical and the memoir were, like everything else having to do with that family, highly fictionalized. It turns out that Rose, who wrote the manual on how to be a stage-mother, was actually worse in real life. She was an epic bully, enabler, and manipulator, plus she was guilty of at least two murders, and possibly a third. And, most dreadful of all… she was probably a lesbian.

The essence of Gypsy is basically true though. Rose’s voracious, inhuman ambition, the early fame of Lee’s little sister who could toe-dance at the age of two as “Baby June” on the Vaudeville circuit, and the desperation that set in when radio, films and the Depression made Vaudeville extinct, those are all fact. June really did elope with one of the act’s chorus boys. It was true that Louise could not sing, dance or act, but she was willing to take her clothes off on stage, and smart theater owners recognized that the way she did it was something special.

After one of her many arrests, Lee stated:

“I was completely covered… in a blue spotlight”.

Her talent for publicity made her a household name. The more famous and adored she became, the fewer garments she had to take off.

“Funny thing about show people, they think if you’re not in Hollywood or on Broadway making a couple of thousand a week, taking guff from everybody and his cousin, and sweating out poor crowds, you’re not doing well. But, I’ve been touring the country playing nightclubs and making twice as much as I made in the movies, and having more fun! I get a lot more fishing done, for one thing, and I can live in my trailer and see the country.”

Through the decades, Lee and her sister continued to fight, then reconcile. Havoc helped Lee get through her final battle with that damn cancer, finally taken in 1970 at just 57-years-old. But, when Lee was on her deathbed, she whispered to her son Erik:

“After I go, don’t let June in the house. She’ll rob you blind.”

If she interests you, and she should, I recommend American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare, The Life And Times Of Gypsy Rose Lee (2011) by Karen Abbott. Erik Preminger is now in his early 70s. He works as an actor and writer, with his own memoir titled G-String Mother: My Life With Gypsy Rose Lee. He wrote of his famous mother:

“She was a true-life Auntie Mame, only better.”

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You might know Paul Rudnick from his work on movies like Addams Family Values, The First Wives Club, In & Out, and the screen version of his play Jeffrey. He’s written many other things, but I’ve been following his posts on Facebook lately and his astue observations have turned to politics, recently summing up why Emperor Cheeto. is so desperate for approval and respectability.

As with most demagogues, Trump continues to be denied the one thing he yearns for: respectability. I’m not saying this is even an admirable goal, but he longs for it. If he hates elitist publications like the New York Times and Vanity Fair, why is he obsessed with them? He keeps tweeting his disdain for Alec Baldwin and SNL – so why does he keep watching?

If he truly doesn’t care about the fact that no A-List celebrities will attend his Inauguration, why does he keep trying to turn Jackie Evancho, a runner-up on a reality show singing competition, into a star, tweeting about how, since she’s agreed to sing for him, her album sales have risen (by not very much)?

Trump would love to be hosting, say, George Clooney and Beyonce, but it’s not going to happen. For most of his life Trump was a Democrat, the party of the elites, but he couldn’t gain much traction. He became a Republican by default: it was the only party that would, however reluctantly, include him. Whenever he gets justifiably attacked he tweets about the “passion” of his followers and “the power of our Movement” but it’s a fallback pose and reeks of self-serving desperation.

Trump’s achieved everything he’s ever wanted, including great wealth, the company of beautiful women and now the Presidency, but it’s all tainted. His businesses are cheesy at best and keep failing. His marriages to much younger women all seem like financial arrangements, with ironclad prenups and nondisclosure contracts in place. He’s the President-Elect but he lost the popular vote by over three million and he remains despised.

Trump is like one of those peasant characters in a Chekov play, sucking up to the aristocrats who continue to spurn him. In these plays the peasant often ends up buying the aristocrats’ estate, tearing it down and selling off the land. Trump bought Mar-a-Lago, the fabled retreat of American heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and turned it into a country club and resort.

If Trump were a true rebel none of this exclusion would bother him. But demagogues always picture themselves as royalty, building the most garish castles and surrounding themselves with fawning courts filled with fellow D-listers.When Trump met with Obama he was instantly and obviously out-classed especially because Obama was so gracious.

Trump’s nose-pressed-to-the-glass vulgarian status is part of what got him elected. Trump voters don’t just hate the snobbish elites, they’re jealous of them. Why keep attacking college-educated liberals unless you secretly believe that they’ve got something you want? When voters feel not just insulted but deprived they can turn vicious and vengeful.

The elites aren’t guilt-free in all this and they could use some raucous vulgarity to energize them. But for the most part the elites are an illusion, created by people like Trump. Most of Hillary’s voters were middle or working class and as embattled as anyone else.

Trump’s followers have no interest in jobs or change or even America. They don’t want to blow things up and fix the system. They want to be valued, which is understandable. But they also want to punish the people they see as insiders – the people they can never become. This is a class war and a taste war, which Trump will always lose. It’s often a ridiculous war as well, because it distracts from far more important issues of poverty, discrimination, warfare and education. But these topics don’t interest Trump so he outsources them to hacks and relatives. On the deepest level, Trump wants to be embraced by the people who’d never stay at a tacky Trump Hotel.–Paul Rudnick

The Trump Hotel in Sin City is tacky even for Vegas

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David’s Friend, was created by and stars my friend, Nora Burns. It’a a powerful new comic memoir about the electrifying joy and intoxicating madness of New York City in the 80s that I’ve managed to miss every single time she performed it, much to my shame and embarrassment.

This multi-media show, a celebration Nora’s friendship & fun, freaks & fag hags, has been lauded by everyone from Jennifer Coolidge to Sandra Bernhard. It’s a coming of age story, a love and loss story, and a New York story, and a story we all know and have experienced in some way. As Nora says David would say it’s,

“a story that just gets better with the telling.”

David’s Friend runs at LaMama, The Club | 74a East 4th Street, NYC, January 27 – February 05, 2017, Fridays & Saturdays at 10PM, Sunday at 6PM

Written and performed by Nora Burns and directed by Adrienne Truscott. You can get tickets here.

DAVID'S FRIEND TEASER JAN 2017 from Carmine Covelli on Vimeo.

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Do you know the name, Robert Trachtenberg? Maybe not but I know you’ve seen his photographs in Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, Esquire, the New York Times Magazine, People, and Vanity Fair. He’s shot the comic duo Key & Peele, sex symbols Scott Eastwood & Kelan Lutz & sexpot Tracy Morgan, and Will Arnett in fishnets for the cover. From leading men to comedians, ballet dancers to quarterbacks, war veterans to Broadway veterans, Red-Blooded American Male features more than 100 images that bust the ideal of the typical American male from from trans fitness model Aiden Dowling to Judd Apatow pregnant in a negligee.

And as Mel Brooks says,

“Trachtenberg’s taste in subject matter is impeccable. If I’m in it —you know it’s good.”

You can follow Robert on Instagram and get your copy of Red-Blooded American Male here.

“This was for Rolling Stone’s Hot issue. It seemed absurd to do anything where we tried to make Rudd look deliberately ‘hot.’ His ‘hotness’ comes effortlessly. He agreed we should mock the whole notion of ‘hot.’ He agree to get in the bed. He agree the boxers were getting in the way and dropped them. Months later, he sent me a nice note saying friends had seen the photo on the walls of gay bars across America and he couldn’t be more proud.”

Scott Eastwood

Keegan-Michael Key & Jordan Peele

Matt LeBlanc

Neil Patrick Harris

Aydian Dowling & Andy Cohen

John Stamos

Judd Apatow

Kelan Lutz & Chris Colfer

Tracy Morgan

Big thanks to @paulstuartny and everyone who came out for last night's launch party for Red-Blooded American Male – link in bio. We sold lots of books and I sold three sweaters and a tie by accident. Photo: @micheleromeronyc #redbloodedamericanmale #paulstuart @tenspeedpress

A photo posted by Robert Trachtenberg (@roberttrachtenberg) on Oct 28, 2016 at 9:58am PDT

REDBLOODEDMALE_MASTER_10 from ROBERT TRACHTENBERG on Vimeo.

(Photos, Robert Trachtenberg)

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The 19th Annual Postcards From the Edge featuring post card sized work by Barbara Knight, Robert Longo, Nicole Eisenman, Mark Bradford, Kiki Smith, Polly Apfelbaum, William Wegman, John Baldessari, Kay Rosen, Isaac Julien, Lawrence Weiner, Paulina Olowska, David Maljkovic, Mary Heilmann, Lorraine O’Grady, Ida Applebroog, Julie Mehretu, Louise Fishman, Jane Hammond, Kerry James Marshall, LJ Roberts, Kalup Linzy, Nayland Blake, Barry McGee, Marilyn Minter, Ross Bleckner, Paul Pfeiffer, Donald Baechler, Marlene McCarty and 1400 others!!!*

January 13 – 15, 2017 at Metro Pictures, 519 W 24th Street, NYC

PREVIEW PARTY
Friday January 13
The only opportunity to see the entire exhibition.
Silent Auction & Raffle Prizes. (No postcard sales.)

• Artist Preview from 6pm-8pm
Participating artists can attend the Preview for free (no RSVP required), starting at 6pm, one hour after VIP Preview. Additional guests $75 each (see below).

• VIP Preview begins at 5pm
$75 admission (payable at the door or online here) allows guests into the gallery one hour before the general doors open. Beat the crowd and get an extra close look at all the artwork.

BENEFIT SALE
Saturday, January 14 from 10 AM–6 PM
Sunday, January 15 from 12 PM–4 PM
(Sunday Only: Buy 2 & Get 1 Free)

Over 1400 artworks displayed anonymously – and artist’s only name revealed after purchase. First-come, first-served. All postcard artwork only $85 each. On Sunday ONLY – buy 2 postcards, get 1 free as our “thank you.” With so much wonderful art on display, you are bound to find something you love—and all proceeds supports the programs of Visual AIDS. $5 suggested admission.

SILENT ART AUCTION
Online NOW at Paddle 8

Bid on amazing small works by Will Barnet, Sherry Camhy, Guerrila Girls, Harmony Hammond, Jacob Hashimoto, Geoffrey Hendricks, Scott Hunt, Jayson Keeling, Cary Leibowitz, Glenn Ligon, Lucas Michael, Amy Routman, Mark Saltz, Michael St. John, Christopher Tanner, Steed Taylor, Julie Tolentino, Anthony Viti, and Chuck Webster.

Bid online now. Artwork will also be on view at Metro Pictures starting the evening of the Preview Party. Final bids close on Sunday, January 15 at 4:00 PM. View artwork online here.

Can’t make it to Postcards from the Edge? Make an $85 donation or more to Visual AIDS, and we will select and mail you a postcard-sized artwork after the show.

Postcards from the Edge is Visual AIDS’ biggest show and fundraiser of the year – and one of the most unique and democratic events in the art world! Since 1998, over 25,000 postcard-sized works have been exhibited, raising over $1 million to date. By participating in Postcards From the Edge, artists and collectors support the important mission of Visual AIDS.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:

David Abecassis, Keoni Abraham, Dan Ackles, ŸChristopher Adams, ŸJohn Adkins, ŸDenise Adler, ŸJenna Ahmed, ŸNika Akin, ŸLouisa Lama Aknin, Naji Al-Hasani, ŸMichael Alago, ŸRicci Albenda, ŸJulie Albert, ŸNorman Alcantara ŸAlan Alejo, ŸIrina Alimanestiano, ŸGymnos Alitheia, Stephen Aljian, ŸDominic Alleluia, ŸLotte Allen, Julie Allen, ŸRoberta Allen, ŸRenate Aller, ŸMiguel Alvarez, ŸEdith Alvarez, ŸLuis Alves, ŸBino Alves, ŸRon Amato, ŸAnton Amstad, ŸPaul Anagnostopoulos, ŸStan Anderson, ŸDelight Anderson, ŸOscar Anderson, ŸGail Andreu, ŸStephen Andrews, ŸPolly Apfelbaum, ŸSally Apfelbaum, ŸM. Apparition, ŸRosaire Appel, ŸIda Applebroog, ŸKeith Aquiar, ŸPaolo Arao, ŸAustin Arrington, ŸJohn Arsenault, ŸDarlene Aschbacher, ŸJamie Ashman, ŸJenn Ashton, ŸJane Atlas, ŸDaniel Atyim, ŸErmis Atzemoglou, ŸJulie Ault, ŸMarco Aurelio, ŸDominick Avellino,Ÿ Javier Avila, ŸNancy Azara, ŸAziz + Cucher, Courtney Azzara, ŸGreg B, ŸDonald Baechler, ŸAdam Baer, ŸSimone Bailey, ŸSteven Baines, ŸRaina Bajpai, ŸJohn Baldessari, ŸC Bangs, ŸKarin Bar, Angela Barbalace, ŸGerard Barbot, ŸMo Baretta, ŸBrandin Baron, ŸRoland Barrero, ŸAnthony Battiato, ŸSarah Baum, ŸJennifer Baumann, ŸAlexandra Baye, ŸAllan Bealy, ŸLisa Beck, ŸCarrie Beckmann, ŸAaron Beebe, ŸSheri Lynn Behr, ŸJeff Beler, ŸLisa Marie Bell, ŸMina Bellavia, ŸSusanna Beltrandi, ŸWayne Bennett, ŸBridget Benson, ŸNicholas Bergery, ŸLauren Berke, ŸMari Berkley, ŸKatherine Bernhardt, ŸMartin Bernstein, ŸPascal Berthoud, ŸMichael Berube, ŸRic Best, ŸSandra Bethancort, Todd Betterley, ŸStephen Beveridge, ŸBen Bibriesca, ŸTess Bilhartz, ŸMelinda Billings, ŸDarla Bjork, ŸNancy Blair, ŸNayland Blake, ŸHayley Blatte, ŸRoss Bleckner, ŸRichard Blinkoff, Serena Bocchino, ŸChris Bogia, ŸJon Boles, ŸGeorge Bolster, ŸWilliam Bondar, ŸSharela May Bonfield, ŸDavid Borawski, ŸAleksander Boskovic, ŸNina Bovasso, ŸTamara Bower, ŸDevin Bowes, ŸPatti Bowman, ŸSilvia Soares Boyer, ŸChevalier Daniel Boyer, ŸEliza Boyer, ŸMark Bradford, ŸRoger Braimon, ŸRobert Brand, ŸPeter Brandt, ŸMichelle Bratsafolis, ŸNicholas Bremer, ŸSarah Brenneman, ŸGrey Brent, ŸNorbert Briar, ŸVesna Briceli, ŸSadie Bridger, ŸJohn Brill, ŸAngela Britzman, ŸNancy Brooks Brody, ŸJonathan Brooks, ŸGabe Brown, ŸPatrick Brown, ŸBrice Brown, ŸRodney Brown, ŸNancee Brown, ŸEric Brown, ŸWilliam Brown, ŸJess Broze, ŸMathias O. Bruce, ŸRichard Bruce, ŸEddie Bruckner, ŸAaron Brumbelow, ŸGloria Brush, ŸRobert Buck, ŸRobert Buckley, ŸSarah Buckser, ŸThomas Bugarin, ŸPaul Buijs, ŸTrine Bumiller, ŸBo Kyung Bun, ŸMilanka Bunard, ŸHannah Buonaguro, ŸPaul Bureau, ŸKen Burkhart, ŸAmy Burns, ŸTim Burns, ŸNancy Burson, ŸIra Byelick, ŸValentina Caicedo, ŸPiedad Ceballos Caicedos, ŸPeter Calderon, ŸKate Caldwell, ŸJim Callahan, ŸKit Callahan, ŸBrenda Cambero, ŸSherry Camhy, ŸSally Camp, ŸMary Campbell, ŸNiccolo Canaldi, ŸNathan Maxwell Cann, ŸPatti Capaldi, ŸSuzanne Caporael, ŸAracelis Cardenas, ŸCaren Golden Fine Art, ŸLuis Carle, ŸCurtis Carman, ŸFernando Delas Carnevali, ŸClaude-Marie Caron, ŸMary Ellen Carroll, ŸLana Carter, ŸJandy A. Carvajal, ŸMolly Cassidy, ŸDavid Castillo, ŸJanice Caswell, ŸSean Cavanaugh, ŸFabrice Cazenave, ŸLuigi Cazzaniga, ŸAmy Chaiklin, ŸCorinne Chaix, ŸLisa Chamberlin, ŸWilliam Chan, ŸDaphne Chan, ŸMichael Chandler, ŸVictoria Chang, ŸJana Charl, ŸMarc Cheetham, ŸDavid Chen, ŸEd Cheng, ŸIra Chernova, ŸMarcy Chevali, ŸJoan Chiverton, ŸRebecca Chmielewski, ŸJen Choi, ŸPatricia Chow, ŸDavid Christie, ŸChristybomb, ŸIrene Chrtistensen, ŸTony Yin Tak Chu, ŸYing Chu, ŸElise P. Church, ŸJustin Cirenza, ŸMary Clancy, ŸJulie Clark, ŸRob Clarke, ŸMarion Cloaninger, ŸTom Cocotos, ŸJavier Soriano Cohetero, ŸCecy Colichon, ŸLiz Collins, ŸCindy Colon, ŸJ Compton, ŸMary Grace Concannon, ŸBraxton Congrove, ŸMichael Conlan, ŸBrendon Connors, ŸChristopher Conry, ŸMarcia Cooper, ŸYee Corallo, ŸCarlos Cordero, ŸBernat Cormand, ŸMarti Cormand, ŸJim Cornwell, ŸEdward J. Correia, ŸAlison Corrie, ŸAnne Corrsin, ŸRf Cote, ŸIngrid Coughlin, Marianne Coughlin, ŸStephen Cox, ŸEmma Coyle, ŸPeter Cramer, ŸDavid Craven, ŸFred Cray, ŸBrian Crede, ŸJayme Crimmins, ŸVanezza Cruz, ŸPal Csaba, ŸJanos Cseh, ŸMelanie Cuccioli, ŸRodney Cuellar, ŸBen Cueva,s ŸChristopher Cuffia, ŸLindsay Curran, ŸCybele ŸAllan Cyprys, ŸJoan D, ŸLisa D’Amico, ŸVincent D’Arata, ŸLegend D’oro, ŸNicholas D’Vachio, ŸDennis Dahill, ŸSteve Dalachinsky, ŸMoyra Davey, ŸJo David, ŸKristina Davis, ŸRobert Davis, ŸBen Davis, ŸKara Davis, ŸJulyan Davis, ŸA’alon Dawson, ŸKim de Garis, ŸLorenzo De Los Angeles, ŸAlyssa De Luccia, ŸRyan P. Dean, ŸBlase DeCelestino, ŸKaren Decher, ŸElisa Decker, ŸSteve DeFrank, ŸSandrine Delattre, ŸRobert Delrosa, ŸClaudia DeMonte, ŸJane Waggoner Deschner, ŸRebecca DeSimone, ŸRichard DesJardins, ŸElizabeth Deszcz, Alexandria Christine Deters, ŸBrian Dettmer, ŸPaden DeVita, ŸJohn Dewald, ŸFrancesco Di Benedetto, ŸShari Diamond, ŸCathy Diamond, ŸProkhorova Diana, ŸGustavo Diaz, ŸJames Diffin, ŸPurnell Diggs, ŸLydia Dildilian, ŸLesley Dill, ŸDanielle Dimston, ŸDemian Dineyazhi, ŸTimothy Dingman, ŸGeorge Dinhaupt,ŸRon Diorio, ŸPhilippe Divine, ŸErin Dodge, ŸRory Donaldson, ŸChristopher Donnelly, ŸNina Winberg Doran, ŸElissa Dorfman, ŸJohn Douglas, ŸKirsten Doyle, ŸMichael Doyle, ŸJD Dragan, ŸMary Louise Driscoll, ŸDeborah Druick, ŸSarah Dubow, ŸAbby DuBow, ŸGary Duehr, ŸMegan Duffy, ŸCarolyn Dunn, ŸChad Durgan, ŸJordan Eagles, ŸMartha Nilsson Edelheit, ŸJenn Edwards, ŸTiffany Edwards, ŸYorgos Efthymiadis, ŸFrank Egloff, ŸNicole Eisenman, Ÿ ŸChristopher Elmore, ŸVirginia Elwood, ŸMichael Endicott, ŸMia Enell, ŸAlysa-Beth Engel, ŸDiane Englander, ŸJoy Episalla, ŸMitch Epstein, ŸPatricia Erbelding, ŸEda Erdik, ŸSam Erenberg, ŸRobert Escalera, ŸGregg Evans, ŸJanice Everett, ŸAlesia Exum, ŸAnujan Ezhikode, ŸPatricia Fabricant, ŸJames K. 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January 9, 1900–  Richard Halliburton:

“Let those who wish have their respectability. I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous, and the romantic.”

As a kid, in my bookcase was a line of volumes titled The Book Of Marvels by Richard Halliburton. I loved them for the color plates of sexy shirtless, exotic men, and for the stories.

During the first half of the 20th century, three names came to mind when considering the worlds of adventure and travel: Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, and Halliburton. Even now, nearly two decades into the next century, even young people have heard the first two figures, but do you known the story of Halliburton? He was known in his era as “Daring Dick!”

Like Theodore Roosevelt, Halliburton grew up small and sickly. He compensated by pushing himself to extremes for the rest of his life. He climbed The Matterhorn, he was the first known person to reach the top of Mount Fuji in the wintertime, and he shot the first aerial photo of Mount Everest.

In 1931, along with a copilot, he flew around the world in an open cockpit biplane named The Flying Carpet. He provided the first airplane flights to the Royal families of Iran and Iraq, the Rajah and his wife in India, and the chief of the Nyak tribe of Borneo, who paid him in shrunken heads.

Hungry for adventure, Halliburton broke local laws and customs where ever and whenever he traveled. He sneaked into Mecca, was jailed for photographing the guns at Gibraltar, and spent the night alone in the Taj Mahal, savoring the solitude at sunset and swimming in the pool by moonlight. He registered his body as a ship, the S.S. Halliburton so he could swim the full 48 miles of the Panama Canal, remaining the only person to ever do so. He retraced other travelers’ trips in tribute, swimming the Hellespont like his hero Lord Byron and crossing the Alps on an elephant like Hannibal did in 218 BC. He hid from the guards in Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia. He fought pirates off Macau, spent a month in Bali; sneaked onto trains in India, avoiding the railway inspectors; joined the French Foreign Legion in Algeria, mapped the road from Cairo to Damascus, and slept atop a pyramid in Egypt. In Mexico, he unhesitatingly plunged 30 feet into the Deep Well Of Death in the manner of the ancient Mayans. He ran barefoot from Marathon to Athens.

He broke rules and pushed against convention at home too. Halliburton had a hot and heavy affair with gay film star Ramón Novarro, and, brazenly, he commissioned 27-year old architect William Alexander to build his landmark cantilevered home in Laguna Beach, named Hangover House, reflecting his witty sensibility. The home had three bedrooms: one for himself, one for his boyfriend, journalist Paul Mooney, and one for their mutual boyfriend, the architect himself. Just three confirmed bachelors living in a thoroughly modern arrangement. The home is the inspiration for Heller House in Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead (1944).

Always careful to cultivate his public persona, Halliburton gave his narratives nameless, entirely fabricated, female love interests, yet he lingered over descriptions of male beauty in his stories, and his private letters are explicitly gay. Among his travel books are titles like The Royal Road To Romance (1925) and Seven League Boots (1935). He dedicated his first collection of adventure stories to his roommates at Princeton University, whose “sanity, consistency, and respectability” inspired him to take off.

Halliburton, in a letter to his father, wrote:

“Dad, you hit the wrong target when you write that you wish I were at Princeton living ‘in the even tenor of my way.’ I hate that expression and as far as I am able, I intend to avoid that condition. When impulse and spontaneity fail to make my ‘way’ as uneven as possible then I shall sit up nights inventing means of making life as conglomerate and vivid as possible. Those who live in the even tenor of their way simply exist until death ends their monotonous tranquility. No, there’s going to be no even tenor with me. The more uneven it is the happier I shall be. When my time comes to die, I’ll be able to die happy, for I will have done and seen and heard and experienced all the joy, pain, thrills, every emotion that any human ever had. I’ll be especially happy if I am spared a stupid, common death in bed. So, Dad, I’m afraid your wish will always come to naught, for my way is to be ever changing, but always swift, acute and leaping from peak to peak instead of following the rest of the herd, shackled in conventionalities, along the monotonous narrow path in the valley. The dead have reached perfection when it comes to even tenor!”

He pushed himself to the limit, traveling the globe, all the while writing about his exotic exploits in books that thrilled his readers living a less exciting life.

Halliburton:

“Realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days. Let those who wish have their respectability, I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you. Be afraid of nothing. The romantic… that was what I wanted.”

Halliburton starred in his own documentary films and he gave many public appearances and lectures. He was daring in the face of danger, enthralling his public, yet Halliburton not only kept his sexuality secret from his adoring fans, he went to great lengths to suggest otherwise, leading them to assume that his conquests continued in the bedroom and involved the ladies.

Halliburton wasn’t just gay; he was gay-gay. He had a special fondness for staying at YMCAs. He was smitten with Hollywood and was approached by Fox Studios in 1933 about making films based on his many adventures. He idolized Rudolph Valentino for his good-looks and he courted a special friendship with Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., also a world adventurer.

With the financial success of his books and popular speaking engagements, Halliburton Purchased a Chinese junk named The Sea Dragon and had it custom outfitted. In 1939, he and Mooney set out to sail it from Hong Kong to San Francisco for The Golden Gate International Exposition.  Halliburton:

“If any one of my readers wishes to be driven rapidly and violently insane, and doesn’t know how to go about it, let me make a suggestion: Try building a Chinese junk in a Chinese shipyard during a war with Japan. Nothing that can happen on our voyage to San Francisco can possibly upset me now.”

His last contact, somewhere near Midway Island, was by radio from The Sea Dragon:

“Southerly gales, squalls, lee rail under water, wet bunks, hard tack, bully beef, wish you were here, instead of me. I’m With Fabulous. Having a wonderful time! Wish you were here. Stop.”

Halliburton and Mooney vanished and were never seen again. They were both just 40-years-old.

The US Coast Guard in Honolulu declined to search for The Sea Dragon, possibly thinking his disappearance was just another of his well-known publicity stunts. In 1925, Halliburton had faked a drowning death, causing The NY Times to erroneously report his demise.

Nine weeks later, the US Navy finally sent a ship and four seaplanes to look; they found nothing. A year later the crew of an ocean liner spotted what appeared to The Sea Dragon’s rudder, but that was never confirmed.

Like Amelia Earhart, who had vanished two years earlier, Halliburton’s disappearance brought on all sorts of rumors. Unlike Earhart, the public lost interest in Halliburton when the harsh realities of WW II made the world seem less romantic and his adventures seem silly.

Hangover House was sold for $3.7 million in 2011, but never restored. It still sits on a cliff above the Pacific Ocean, a ghost house.

Richard Halliburton was both Indiana Jones and Auntie Mame. I believe his story is ready for a movie treatment with Ryan Gosling starring and with me as Paul Mooney.

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At the Golden Globes, Meryl Streep‘s eloquent among speech stunned everyone. She preached for a more empathic world delivering one of most moving, emotional speeches from ANY awards ceremony ever.

But I guess some people didn’t really “get” the part where Meryl begged for a more empathic community. Meghan McCain, 32 –Senator John McCain’s daughter tweeted,

“This Meryl speech is why Trump won. And if you people in Hollywood don’t start recognizing why and how — you will help get him re-elected.”

Billy Eichner, of Difficult People and Billy On The Street, shot back with with,

“She asked him to not make fun of disables people and advocated for the freedom of the press and the arts you fucking moron.”

McCain shot back,

“@billyeichner calling republicans like me ‘fucking morons’ is a great way for Hollywood to bridge the cultural divide. Enjoy your bubble.”

To which Billy replied,

“I rather live in a bubble than live with people who don’t feel a need to respect the disabled, freedom of speech & the arts”

@MeghanMcCain Oh & another message from my bubble-can u ask dad to give back the MILLIONS he’s received from the NRA? MERYL FUCKING STREEP!”

Billy went on to blast McCain and it might still be going on this AM. Now some might say Billy using the word “moron” was in poor taste, but but I think that’s the point, kids. McCain missed the original point and that one probably went over her head as well.

Of course, Emperor Cheeto had to get his two cents in calling Meryl one of

“the most overrated actresses in Hollywood”

blah, blah, blah.

Watch Meryl’s speech here if you haven’t seen it.

(T/Y Tad; via Hollywood Life)

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Host Jimmy Fallon‘s song and dance opening of the 74th Annual Golden Globes was an homage to La La Land and it ended up being a good call, as the film took home seven awards — a new record. The movie-musical beat the previous record for most Globes won by a One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (’75) and Midnight Express (’78), with six wins each.

The film won in every category it was nominated in. Damien Chazelle won the awards for screenplay and directing; Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone took home the awards for best actor and actress, respectively; composer Justin Hurwitz won for best score as well as best original song with lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul for City of Stars and it took home best picture as well.

Amy Schumer & Goldie Hawn did a funny presentation as did Kristen Wiig and Steve Carrell who introduced Best Animated Film (Zootopia) in the saddest/ most hilarious way recalling family tragedies related to their first animated films.

Hugh Laurie, in his acceptance speech, hit upon the theme of the night when he said he was happy he’d won at the last Golden Globes saying since it was sponsored by the Hollywood Foreign Press, they were losing on all fronts.

Overwhelmingly, the best moment of the night was Viola Davis moving introduction of Meryl, followed by Streep’s jaw-dropping speech, where she called our POTUS-elect out for making fun of a disabled person, without using Trump’s name. She ended by saying,

“As my friend Priness Leia once told me, ‘Take your broken hear and make it into art.“

You can check out her full speech here.

FULL LIST OF WINNERS:

Best Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical
La La Land
20th Century Women
Deadpool
Florence Foster Jenkins
Sing Street

Best Motion Picture, Drama
Moonlight
Hell or High Water
Lion
Manchester by the Sea
Hacksaw Ridge

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical
Ryan Gosling, La La Land
Colin Farrell, The Lobster
Hugh Grant, Florence Foster Jenkins
Jonah Hill, War Dogs
Ryan Reynolds, Deadpool

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
Joel Edgerton, Loving
Denzel Washington, Fences
Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge
Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical
Emma Stone, La La Land
Hailee Steinfeld, The Edge of Seventeen
Lily Collins, Rules Don’t Apply
Annette Bening, 20th Century Women
Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama
Isabelle Huppert, Elle
Amy Adams, Arrival
Jessica Chastain, Miss Sloane
Natalie Portman, Jackie
Ruth Negga, Loving

Best Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Nocturnal Animals
Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water
Dev Patel, Lion
Simon Helberg, Florence Foster Jenkins

Best Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Viola Davis, Fences
Naomie Harris, Moonlight
Nicole Kidman, Lion
Octavia Spencer, Hidden Figures
Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea

Best Director, Motion Picture
Damien Chazelle, La La Land
Tom Ford, Nocturnal Animals
Mel Gibson, Hacksaw Ridge
Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea

Best Foreign Film
Elle (France)
Divines (France)
Neruda (Chile)
The Salesman (Iran/France)
Tony Erdmann (Germany)

Best Animated Feature Film
Zootopia
Kubo and the Two Strings
My Life as a Zucchini
Moana
Sing

Best TV Series, Drama
The Crown
Westworld
Stranger Things
This Is Us
Game of Thrones

Best Comedy Series
Atlanta
Black-ish
Mozart in the Jungle
Transparent
Veep

Best TV Miniseries or Movie
The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
American Crime
The Night Of
The Night Manager
The Dresser

Best Performance by an Actor in a TV Series, Drama
Billy Bob Thornton, Goliath
Rami Malek, Mr. Robot
Matthew Rhys, The Americans
Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul
Liev Schrieber, Ray Donovan

Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series, Drama
Claire Foy, The Crown
Evan Rachel Wood, Westworld
Caitriona Balfe, Outlander
Keri Russell, The Americans
Winona Ryder, Stranger Things

Best Performance by an Actor in a TV Series, Comedy
Donald Glover, Atlanta
Anthony Anderson, Black-ish
Gael Garcia Bernal, Mozart in the Jungle
Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent
Nick Nolte, Graves

Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series, Comedy
Tracy Ellis Ross, Black-ish
Rachel Bloom, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Sarah Jessica Parker, Divorce
Issa Rae, Insecure
Gina Rodriguez, Jane the Virgin
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep

Best Performance by an Actor in a TV Miniseries or Movie
Tom Hiddleston, The Night Manager
Courtney B. Vance, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
Riz Ahmed, The Night Of
John Turturro, The Night Of
Bryan Cranston, All the Way

Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Miniseries or Movie
Sarah Paulson, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
Felicity Huffman, American Crime
Kerry Washington, Confirmation
Riley Keough, The Girlfriend Experience
Charlotte Rampling, London Sky

Best Performance by a Supporting Actor in TV
Hugh Laurie, The Night Manager
Sterling K. Brown, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
John Lithgow, The Crown
John Travolta, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
Christian Slater, Mr. Robot

Best Performance by Supporting Actress in TV
Olivia Colman, The Night Manager
Chrissy Metz, This Is Us
Lena Headey, Game of Thrones
Mandy Moore, This Is Us
Thandie Newton, Westworld

Best Screenplay, Motion Picture
La La Land
Arrival
Nocturnal Animals
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight
Hell or High Water

Best Original Score in a Motion Picture
Justin Hurwitz – La La Land
Nicholas Britell – Moonlight
Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka – Lion
Jóhann Jóhannsson – Arrival
Benjamin Wallfisch, Pharrell Williams, and Hans Zimmer – Hidden Figures

Best Original Song in Motion Picture
“City of Stars” (La La Land)
“How Far I’ll Go” (Moana)
“Gold” (Gold)
“Can’t Stop the Feeling” (Trolls)
“Faith” (Sing)

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Beautifully introduced by Viola Davis, Meryl Streep received the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes on Sunday night, and she slammed Donald Trump‘s “performance” in her acceptance speech.

Her voice very hoarse she said,

“Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners, and if you kick us all out, you’ll have nothing to watch except for football and mixed martial arts –which are not arts.“

She echoed Hugh Laurie‘s earlier comment about how the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is part of “the most vilified segments in American society right now” — Hollywood, foreigners and the press.

“But who are we, and what is Hollywood anyway? It’s just a bunch of people from other places.“

She named the birthplaces of fellow actors Sarah Paulson, Sarah Jessica Parker, Amy Adams, Natalie Portman, Ruth Negga, Viola Davis, Dev Patel and Ryan Reynolds and asked sarcastically,

“Where are their birth certificates?“

But the killer was when Streep then noted that one “performance” stood out this year: that of Donald Trump when he publicly mocked The New York Times‘ Serge Kovaleski, a disabled reporter.

“There was nothing good about it, but it did its job. It kind of broke my heart when I saw it, and I still can’t get it out my head because it wasn’t in a movie; it was in real life. That instinct to humiliate when it’s modeled by someone in a public platform, it filters down into everyone’s life because it gives permission for others to do the same.

Disrespect invites disrespect, violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose.“

She then called for the press to stand up to Trump —

“We need the principled press to hold power to account, to call them on the carpet for every outrage … We’re going to need them going forward and they’re going to need us to safeguard the truth.“

Streep concluded by quoting Carrie Fisher:

“As my friend, the dear departed Princess Leia, said to me once, ‘Take your broken heart, make it into art. Thank you.‘ “

Mic Drop. Watch.

At tonight's #GoldenGlobes we honor Hollywood legend Meryl Streep with the prestigious Cecil B. Demille Award. pic.twitter.com/dxpeCDNXY6

— Golden Globe Awards (@goldenglobes) January 9, 2017

(via THR)

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Amy Schumer & Goldie Hawn did a kooky presentation of the Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy Award last night at he Golden Globes, so you might have missed this. (I did.) Ryan Gosling snatched the Best Actor prize away from Ryan Reynolds, but Reynolds took his consolation in making out with seat mate, Andrew Garfield.

Deadpool smooching Spider-man must have made the nerd universe hard as Reynolds and Garfield locked lips in a kiss that was only captured in the background of a camera shot as Gosling took the stage. Those kooky kids. Two guys kissing? That’s CRAZY.

Watch.

(via Towleroad)

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Actor, writer, and Facebook talk show host (and WOWlebrity) Jeffery Self got engaged over the weekend to his partner Auggie in sunny Los Angeles. And it happened in the cutest way possible! The proposal involved oranges and champagne from Trader Joe’s after a long romantic hike. What more could you want?!

Check out the adorable story here:

Wrote Self on Instagram:

So. Today. Augie and I went on the hike we did on our first real date and I bitched and moaned pretty much the whole two hours because I hate moving, as well as standing for that matter. Then. We got to the top and we took out the oranges he’d packed to snack on.

As I unwrapped mine I scoffed that there was “some metal shit inside mine”. In my head, I cursed Trader Joe’s and Joe himself, for this messy piece of fruit. Then I said “there’s a ring in here” then upon further realization I once again said “there’s a ring in here”.

Then I realized he was on a knee and then you can guess the rest. I shouted FUCK NO/Jumped off the mountain/and I’m now a ghost. Jk. I was overwhelmed, said duh, and then he handed me his orange to retrieve his matching ring. That is not a sexy euphemism. And just like that… I’m engaged to my best friend. Then as if this forced exercise turned romance weren’t great enough he pulls out a ten year old bottle of Dom and motherfucking CHEESE and we toast to the future.

And that was today. On Golden Globes Sunday no less and I’m rooting for you Annette and if you lose I call this off (not really/ it’s probably Emma’s year/ugh). Anyways. Apologies for my most self indulgent post in awhile and from the guy who hosts a Facebook live talk show from his bed, that’s quite a statement… but I’m happy and that’s aggressively rare.

Condragulations!!!

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Vivica A Fox showed her homophobic true colors last week on the on The Breakfast Club radio show when she strongly objected to the idea of gays coming out to see her strippers.

“Aw, hell no,” she said, then doubled down on that, saying: “Back all that up. No! NO!”

Now TMZ is reporting that her comments pissed off Jean-Claude LaMarre, the director and producer who made her male stripper reality show possible – and now he plans on cutting ties with her.

He tells TMZ … “The comments were out of order, and it does not represent our attitudes toward the LGBT community. All are welcomed.” He added, “Vivica speaks for herself not the business or the show.”

LaMarre will remain an Executive Producer on the reality show, and made it clear he wants Black Magic to succeed – he just doesn’t want to work with Vivica anymore.

(Photo: Pacific Coast News)

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Abigail Clancy
Al Goldstein
Alex Meraz
Cash Warren
Chris “Mac Daddy” Smith
Evan Handler
Frank Sinatra, Jr.
George Foreman
Gurinder Chadha
James Lapine
Jemaine Clement
Julie Moran
Lyle Menendez
Marina Hinds
Marc Malkin
Micah McCain
Pat Benatar
Rod Stewart
Saleisha Stowers
Sarah Shahi
Shawn Colvin
Trini Alvarado
William Sanderson

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January 10, 1939– Sal Mineo:

“I’ll never be mistaken for Pat Boone”

I remember seeing Sal Mineo on the evening of my birthday in 1971, on an episode of the television comedy My Three Sons. His character tries to convince college-age Robbie Douglas (played by Don Grady) to run away with him to live a life of freedom and adventure. I knew in my heart that Robbie liked boys, not girls, despite his marriage to Katie (Tina Cole), and I understood that Robbie might leave behind a life of being “normal” and give into the wild, passionate love of men for men. What I didn’t realize at the time was that Mineo was gay in real life, or that Grady knew it, and didn’t care.

Born in The Bronx in 1939, Salvatore Mineo, Jr. was just 16-years-old when he played Plato, the kid who develops a crush on James Dean’s Jim Stark in Nicholas Ray’s classic film Rebel Without A Cause (1955). He appeared in many films, usually playing ethnic and troubled youths, but Mineo’s career was dominated by that one role that eventually achieved mythic status. Mineo’s gayness was a fairly open secret even at the height of his Hollywood success. He had love affairs with Peter Lawford, James Dean, and with Ray while they were making his most famous film.

When James Dean died two weeks before the premiere of Rebel Without A Cause, he became a myth, leaving Mino to negotiate the tricky terrain of being gay and a teen idol in the 1950s.

Mineo was twice nominated for an Academy Award. He enjoyed success as a stage director and a recording artist, but he is mostly remembered for his performance in a single film and for the brutal murder that ended his life just as he was on the verge of reinventing himself and his career.

Except for his role as the aggressively girl-crazy Angelo Barrato in Rock, Pretty Baby (1957) opposite John Saxon, Mineo covertly chose homoerotic projects: His character mooned over a teen gang leader played by John Cassavetes in Crime In The Streets (1956), and fell head-over-heels for an ex-con played by James Whitmore in The Young Don’t Cry (1957). In the Disney Studio’s Western Tonka (1958), he portrayed a Native American boy who bonded with a horse rather than a girl.

In 1957, he began a musical career, but he didn’t have a hit, even with teen magazine attention. He was a good singer, and especially good-looking in a business where looks counted for a lot. He might have had a hit making career as a musician, except for those pesky rumors.

To prove that he was straight, he had to be seen at the Hollywood hot spots with pretty starlets, and he began showing off his gym body in his screen appearances. His characters became more heterosexual, even when the films have a gay element.

In The Gene Krupa Story (1959), Mineo plays real life drummer Gene Krupa who goes to NYC with his best buddy, Eddie, played teen idol James Darren, hoping to make it big in the Roaring Twenties Jazz scene. He gets a girlfriend, then a wife, but Eddie does not; he is content to be the third wheel, making do with an occasional dreamy look. When Krupa becomes the boy-toy of a sultry jazz club singer, it is the buddy, not the wife, who feels betrayed. As Krupa, Mineo exclaims: “Girls don’t mean anything to me!”

Both Eddie and the wife grow weary of Krupa’s self-destructive drinking and partying, and leave, then return for a reconciliation. But, it seems obvious that Krupa has the more passionate and permanent relationship with Eddie.

In the 1960s, Mineo put himself out there as a serious dramatic actor in films like Exodus (1960), The Longest Day (1962), and The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), but those rumors about his gayness kept him from getting the major starring roles, unless he played aggressively heterosexual characters and displayed his hot body in multiple shirtless, underwear, and nude shots, like he did in the demented Who Killed Teddy Bear (1965).  His muscles eased the suspicion of audiences who thought that gay men were wispy little things. I am a fan of his career cut short & the idea of Mineo as an early out of the closet A-list actor. I have a soft spot for Who Killed Teddy Bear?, one of the nuttiest films I have ever witnessed. Mineo plays the love interest of both Juliet Prowse and Elaine Stritch. It’s so weird, I hardly know how to describe it, but if you can find it, you simply must indulge in its strangeness.

After Stonewall and the rise of Gay Pride in the late 1960s, Mineo became increasingly comfortable with his own gayness, and he began to drop his straight façade. He came out of the closet, sort of, and he began looking for romance. He dated civilians and celebrities, before settling down with After Dark Magazine model Courtney Burr.

As he got older and matured in his acting, Mineo sought to explore his gayness in his life and his art. Although he appeared in several television productions and films, his last was Planet Of The Apes (1968), he found the theater world more supportive of his artistic aspirations and new sensibilities.

In 1969, he directed the Broadway and West Coast productions of Fortune And Men’s Eyes, John Herbert’s dramatic play about power roles and homosexuality at a prison. Mineo’s production was controversial for its use of male nudity and simulated sex.

In 1976, he was cast as a bisexual burglar in a Los Angeles production of James Kirkwood’s comedy P. S. Your Cat Is Dead. As he returned to his West Hollywood apartment from a rehearsal on February 12, 1976, he was stabbed to death. The murder remains cloaked in mystery. One suspect who initially confessed later recanted, but was nevertheless convicted. Over the years, Mineo’s friends and relatives have claimed that the authorities, eager to solve a high-profile murder case, charged the wrong man. Mineo was just 37-years-old when he was murdered.

I have a very odd connection to Sal Mineo. In 1976, I was an acquaintance of the man charged with his murder. This man had been pursuing one of my best friends. I was concerned for my buddy because this mystery man seemed especially troubling. Mineo’s murder was major news in Los Angeles that February morning in 1976. I had the chills when this creepy guy, who had been aggressively working on insinuating himself into the life of my pal, was charged with the young star’s demise.

My friend Michael Michaud is an expert on Mineo and his life and career, and the author of the terrific, highly readable Sal Mineo, A Biography (2010).

James Dean:

“Sal had the look of the angels…”

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It’s just too stupid to believe, really but it does lend credence to the old adage, “blind hatred”. This post on Facebook (I DO wish the names were there so this humiliation would be public) by a not-so-bright HATER of Obamacare –which as you might know is another name for the Affordable Care Act– shows their realization that he actually IS on Obamacare. You can’t make this shit up, kids.

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Carrie Fisher was, of course an actress and Hollywood royalty, but primarily, she was a writer. Her novel, Postcards from the Edge, the basis for the movie of the same name, detailed her drug use and her relationship with her famous mother, Debbie Reynolds. She was on tour with her most recent book, The Princess Diarist, when she had a heart attack and later died at age 60.

Her book Wishful Drinking, started as a one-woman show, and was later filmed for HBO by World of Wonder founders directors Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato. In it, Fisher digs into her relationship with the Star Wars franchise, which both made her a household name and as she jokingly wrote,

“ruined her life.“

One anecdote about shooting the first film involves Princess Leia’s signature white outfit and some world-creating by George Lucas.

“George comes up to me the first day of filming and he takes one look at the dress and says,

‘You can’t wear a bra under that dress.‘

So, I say, ‘Okay, I’ll bite. Why?‘

And he says, ‘Because. . . there’s no underwear in space.‘

Right! Of course! There are, however, gold bikinis in space; everyone knows that.”

In the recent HBO documentary, Bright Lights Starring Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher, you can hear Carrie telling a “well-supported” convention attendee dressed as Leia,

“Next time, no bra!“

Lucas did eventually tell Fisher his reasoning for why space is underwear-free, which led her to explaining about how she would eventually like to go,

“What happens is you go to space and you become weightless. So far so good, right? But then your body expands??? But your bra doesn’t—so you get strangled by your own bra.

Now I think that this would make for a fantastic obit—so I tell my younger friends that no matter how I go, I want it reported that I drowned in moonlight, strangled by my own bra.“

You can see Wishful Drinking & Bright Lights now on HBO.

(via Vanity Fair)

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Keith Olbermann is trying a different approach in communicating with Donald Trump supporters and said in a new video,

“So you support Donald Trump. I’m not going to yell. I’m not going to say you’re wrong.

I’m not going to talk about his policies. I’m not going to talk about his promises.

This is about him and you. So, let’s go in under the assumption that you’re smarter than I am, in which case you already know what my point is going to be.

So I have not been where you are right now, but close. There is something really, really wrong with him.“

He then ran down a list of Emperor Cheeto‘s bizarre tweets and statements from Trump including his strange, tone-deaf holiday greetings and tweets sucking up to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“Who defends a Russian dictator ahead of an American president? Any American president?

There’s something wrong with him. To pretend that there isn’t something wrong with him, you have to pretend really hard.

I wish it were not true, but we have elected a man who is not all there — and that cannot end happily for anybody.

His illness — and it is an illness — is putting you at risk and your family at risk and your kids and my family and everybody we know, the ones we like and the ones we don’t. Something bad will happen and whatever he does will make it worse and it will all be clear that he’s not healthy enough to be the president and they will have to remove him.”

He ended by saying he’s not asking for Agent Orange supporters to do anything or say anything to anyone, just admit to themselves that Trump is really not well and to keep in mind when they to remove him from office,

“they will probably have to do it in a hurry.

And as a Republican or as a conservative or as a Democrat or as an American or whichever way you describe yourself, it will be a lot easier and a lot safer for all of us if you have prepared yourself and you help them remove him — because he is not well.”

What he said. Watch.

His new "Apprentice" tweets confirm a sanity crisis is inevitable. Here's a video on it to send to a Trump supporter pic.twitter.com/8ADyBBuFi2

— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) January 6, 2017

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