George Michael has announced that he is planning to make a new album with a “gay collective” of artists in an effort to “correct the damage” his recent behavior had caused in “letting young gay kids down.” He told the U.K.’s NME, “For this album I’m going to be working with either gay or gay…
EPIX Tuesday, Aug. 23, 3:15 a.m. Both Ian McKellen and Lynn Redgrave were nominated for Oscars (and McKellen was robbed) for Bill Condon’s brilliant adaptation of Christopher Bram’s novel about the great and gay schlock director James Whale. Moving, artful and intense, the film is the last time Brendan Fraser did any good work. (He’s…
When Leonard Bernstein composed the music to the 1957 Broadway production of West Side Story, he solidified his place in musical theater history. Over 50 years later, his life and work is retold in Hershey Felder in Maestro: The Art of Leonard Bernstein, a one-man show at the Old Globe Theatre. This production is the…
As I learned during San Diego’s recent Pride weekend, the Art of Pride continues on throughout the year with a new exhibition of art every month and a reception at San Diego’s Pride offices on the second Saturday of the month, coinciding with North Park’s Ray at Night festivities. This month Art of Pride showcases…
U.S. audiences of the new Torchwood series were able to see the show’s bisexual captain, Jack Harkness played by openly gay actor John Barrowman, in a steamy guy-on-guy romp – even though the scene was cut out of the British airing, where the series is filmed. “You can get away with scenes like that on…
Jai Rodriguez says his feet hurt. He’s stepping into the role of Chita Parol, a hot Latin mama in Chico’s Angels 2: Love Boat Chicas, and the Queer Eye veteran is not used to wearing heels. “It’s such a challenge, the things I have to do in heels,” Rodriguez says of his current cross-dressing role….
What do you get when you replace the iconic Charlie’s Angels with three sassy Latin beauties in drag, put them on The Love Boat (with Charo, of course) and then kill off a character? You get Chico’s Angels 2: Love Boat Chicas, just one of four original full-length stage musicals starring Kay Sedia, Chita Parol…
MOVIE REVIEW: If your jaw dropped at how realistic, how life-like and creepy Gollum was when you first saw him in The Fellowship of the Ring ten years ago, it will fall open again and your mouth will dry out when you see Caesar, the super smart chimpanzee at the center of Rise of the…
Thursday, Aug. 11 Don’t feed the plants! Cygnet Theatre presents Little Shop of Horrors. This wildly inventive rock musical is based upon Roger Corman’s campy B-movie horror flick of the same name. Seymour, a hapless loser, makes a Faustian bargain with a mean, green, man-eating plant to provide fresh meat in exchange for money, fame…
As I wrote when the movie opened, “Cary Fukunaga’s Jane Eyre is smartly taut, with Moira Buffini’s screenplay restructuring the telling of the plot without losing any of its themes or power. Fukunaga also retains the beauty of Charlotte Bronte’s prose, not by using voice-over but by shooting the movie with literary precision: exquisitely detailed…
