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Calpernia Addams' girlfriend Andrea James reminds us on her blog that Transamerican Love Story will be having a car in the LA Pride parade on Sunday, June 8, beginning at 11AM. Sharing waving duties will be Addams, TLS host Alec Mapa, and one of Addams' bachelors, Jim Howley. Also, Addams will be joining comic Mapa in his show No Fats, Femmes, or Asians at The Village over Pride Weekend.

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Mikey Likes TV (http://www.mikeylikestv.com/reality-week-¡viva-hollywood-esta-loco/) and tonight he likes ¡Viva Hoillywood!.

A Real Queen

In launching her own YouTube channel, Jordan's smokin' hot Queen Rania invoked the name of World of Wonder. The channel is meant to encourage young people to help her tackle Muslim and Arab stereotypes. "In a world where it's so easy to connect to one another, we still remain very much disconnected. There's a whole world of wonder out there that we cannot appreciate with stereotypes," she said. (Source)

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Salon's "I Like to Watch" columnist Heather Havrilesky says of the Sleeping Dogs Channel on WOW TV:

"an online video site by the geniuses at World of Wonder productions. The site shows nothing but dogs sleeping, which makes it a little less interesting than, say, Dancing With the Stars and a little more interesting than CSI: Miami. What is it about watching dogs sleep that's so relaxing? Whether it's the heavy-lidded blinking of Chloe or the worried brow and paw licking of Stella, the Sleeping Dog Channel offers so many hours of commercial-free enjoyment that it's sure to make its creators rich, I tell you, rich as kings!"

(via MeeVee, which also has this today)

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Oops, we almost left out the Left Coast. We're throwing balls around today too.

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Toss your own balls around.

Shameless Plug/Press

Want to know more about World of Wonder's Storefront Gallery? Curious about World of Wonder in general? Want to know who the hell we are and where we came from? The LA Weekly's Lina Lecaro pays a visit in her "La Vida" column. Click here.

Get Out the Vote

Just as with airlines and local news shows, there are many choices for your queer-blog browsing, but the one we mop from the most is !!omg blog!! because it runs the gamut from kittens to cocks, puppies to penises. Which is a gamut we feel most comfortable running in. The site has made it to the Final Three in the Gay Bloggies and in this time of election frenzy and celebrity stumping we feel compelled to throw our support behind one of the candidates for the $2,500 prize. So we urge you to vote for OMG's Frank because, even though his sexy karaoke entry might not get him past Idol auditions, he's a sweet kid and his blog is always highly browseable – and he's a friend of WOW. It'd be nice if you clicked here and voted Thumbs Up for Frank, then voted Thumbs Down for the other two, like we did. Thanks for your time.

Clothes Whores/Shameless Plug

Today's Clothes Whores winner is What Perez Sez producer/director Glenn Gaylord, who hides a girlish giggle behind his hand while sporting the Cheeto-emblazoned JUST BRITNEY art show tee (NOT a day-glow turd, as some have suggested). Want your own Cheeto/turd tee? Get them while stock lasts at the World of Wonder online shop.

– Steven Corfe

Press

Excerpt from Lina Lecaro's 9/19/07 "Nightranger" column in the LA Weekly:

Before we start thinking about next year, though, there are the holidays to contend with. Our calendar is definitely marked for World of Wonder’s “Hollyween” exhibits curated by actor Daniel Franzese (the gay guy in Mean Girls) in October, and “Tit-mas” shows (curated by Lenora Claire of Golden Gals Gone Wild fame) in December. If last Friday night’s “Celebritism” opening, featuring works from fearless photog Austin Young, was any indication, these fetes are gonna be anything but “another night in Hollywood.” Tweaking icon worship with his vintage framed shots of Marilyn Monroe–esque creatures and nude poster-size images of local luminaries like Mario Diaz and female-to-male (partial) tranny Buck Angel — not to mention an interactive window display with assorted freaks in blond wigs and white Marilyn dresses — this show brought out a host of fabulous guests including America’s Next Top Model makeup artist Sutan, Angus Oblong (creator of The Oblongs cartoon), operatic drag queen Squeaky Blonde and self-proclaimed “21st-Century Renaissance Man” Kim Fowley. He not only gave us the scoop on the upcoming Runaways movie, Neon Angels — to be directed by video princess Floria Sigismondi — but gave us a glimpse of his androgynous character/alter ego the “Satan of Silver Lake” from his “mascara and madness epic” Dollboy. He even took off his pants at one point to reveal a dress underneath! Yikes. As for the Joan Jett/Cherie Curie–backed biopic, we wondered how the not-exactly-beloved Fowley might be portrayed. His answer? “An American Malcolm McLaren version of General George S. Patton.” Not that he cares. As writer and producer of many of the girl band’s tunes, he stands to make bank on the soundtrack.

From the crowd to the art to the mortified Walk of Fame tourists who peeked into the party throughout the night, the Warholian gathering was as warped and wonderful as WOW’s TV productions. But the best (or worst?) is yet to come even before their holiday happenings, when the gallery presents “Just Britney” next Friday, September 28. The night of Spears-inspired art will include a sculpture of her likeness made out of bubblegum and artist Jamie Boling’s much-buzzed-about “Snake Charmer,” a 6-foot-by-10-foot painting of the poptart’s pantyless car-exit crotch shot (which apparently had to be covered when Barack Obama visited the Virginia gallery where it used to hang). Ya gotta see this one, y’all.

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August was the highest-rated month in [Oxygen's] seven-year history, due in large part to the second season of its Tori Spelling reality series "Tori & Dean: Inn Love" and a one-hour special featuring singer/actress Mandy Moore. – from today's Advertising Age

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That's Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey holding Matt Scott's XXL Golden Gals heads at World of Wonder's extraordinary "Golden Gals Gone Wild" show in August at the storefront gallery. The Luke Gilford photo accompanies a Paper magazine piece on what's currently cooking with the two, er, heads of WOW.

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The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman is spotlit on the IMDb homepage today, which we're told is a good thing. And clicking on it will take you here.

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"It's the funny little non sequiturs that are this show's best minor accomplishment," says the Boston Globe's Matthew Gilbert in reviewing the second-season premiere of The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman. Citing similarities to Sarah Silverman, Kathy Griffin, and Sandra Bernhard, he says the IFC show "should inspire a small grin from those of us with a taste for Hollywood's twisted ladies of irony... women who relish revealing La-La Land in all its naked absurdity." That would be the series' stars, the absurdly droll comic team of Laura Kightlinger and Nicholle Tom, whom he likens to both Lucy and Ethel and the girls of Absolutely Fabulous. (Full review)

WOW Announces the Opening of Its Storefront Art Gallery

Los Angeles, Aug 2 2007 – World of Wonder Productions founders Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato announced today the opening of ART IN AUGUST, a monthlong art exhibit co-curated by Steven Corfe and Thairin Smothers, inaugurating WOW's storefront gallery in the historic Shane Building on Hollywood Boulevard. Each week in August, World of Wonder will go full frontal on the Walk of Fame, exposing a hot new batch of artists.

Showcasing a different artist each week, ART IN AUGUST begins this Friday, August 3, with the celebrity portraits of Sham Ibrahim. On Saturday, August 11, Lenora Claire will show her collection of erotic paintings of TV’s Golden Girls in a show she calls Golden Gals Gone Wild. Homoerotically altered auction catalogues and scrapbooking by the SweaterQueens follow on Friday, August 17. Going out with a bang on Friday, August 24, the gallery will premiere the work of a very special and very controversial surprise guest artist, to be announced shortly.

Each of the four artists will have a separate opening reception broadcast live on the internet via www.ringmybell.tv, hosted by author and Club Kid extraordinaire James St. James, and archived at www.wowtv.tv. Gallery shows continue for a week with daytime hours, during which the works are available for purchase.

WOW's Storefront Gallery is located at 6650 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, California 90028. (All opening parties are from 8PM to midnight)

Friday August 3: Celebrity Portraits by Sham

Saturday August 11: Golden Gals Gone Wild curated by Lenora Claire

Friday August 17: SweaterQueens by prvtdncr and Bodega Vendetta

Friday August 24: Surprise guest artist

Two Things/Shameless Plug

And speaking of plugs, the Why I Hate LA contest we're running in conjunction with this Sunday's second-season opener (11:30PM, IFC) of The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman was picked up today by Fishbowl LA, and for that we thank Kate.

And TMZ took notice today of Lenora Claire and the portrait of booby Bea Arthur that will be the centerpiece of Claire's show at the World of Wonder storefront gallery, opening Saturday, August 11. She's collected a multitude paintings of the Golden Girls in various states of undress. The show is one of four being, um, mounted during our ART IN AUGUST storefront extravaganza.

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The WOW Report: "Crazy entertainment moments where you have to wonder who on earth thought that was a good idea." – The Metro, UK.

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It's good when people are on the same page. Literally. On page 67 of the LA Weekly, we found two WOW-related ads coincidentally side-by-side: the ad for WOW podcast star James St James' new book Freak Show – all pink, perky, and praised – sits next to the ad for Allison Margolin's law practice – and Margolin also happens to be the subject of a new WOW series, Allison Margolin: The Dopest Attorney in Town. But we have no association with that cellular healing and sacred transmission dude.

A Program(s) Note

Variety today announced three personality-based reality productions in the works at World of Wonder. That's us. "We've become big enough as a production company with the resources to be aggressive in finding real-life characters," said Randy Barbato, one of our two bosses here at WOW, the other being Fenton Bailey, who concurs. Allison Margolin: The Dopest Attorney in Town, will deal with a Los Angeles lawyer who specializes in medical-marijuana cases while working for her family's practice. Beauty School Dropout follows actor Jim J Bullock as he makes his way from beauty school to owner of a hair salon. And the eponymous star of Jeffree Star, the third show in production, is the internet's cross-dressing, pink-haired, singing and songwriting sensation, whom Bailey describes as a "digital polymath" and Cyndi Lauper will have as the opening act on her summer tour. (Variety)

Shameless Plug

Underwire, the blog annex of the magazine Wired, has discovered our edgy WOW TV, and like that it's "aimed at helping like-minded fans create their own branded networks online with options to give away or sell video downloads." Not to mention it has Madonna's very first live performance preserved forever.

GLAAD Tidings

We got a phone call from Sundance with the news that WOW's wonderful Jay Bakker series One Punk, Under God has been nominated for a GLAAD Media Award in the Outstanding Documentary category, up against some worthy contenders:

All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise (HBO)
Billie Jean King: Portrait of a Pioneer (HBO)
My Mums Used to Be Men (BBC America)
This Film Is Not Yet Rated (IFC Films)

(Complete list of nominations here)

Shameless Plug

Of course there were the Golden Globes last night; we watched them and so did a lot of other people, we hear. But far more respectable kudos were dispensed a few days earlier, on Saturday, in Las Vegas. And when the AVN awards were given out, World of Wonder scooped up the Best Mainstream Adult Release trophy. The prize-winning docuseries, Pornography: The Secret History of Civilization, is available here at WOW TV.tv. This is not our first Best Mainstream win at the AVNs.

One-Cent Post/Shameless Plug

Don't forget to watch episode 5 of the WOW's six-part docuseries One Punk, Under God tonight at 9PM on Sundance.

And Baby Makes Threesome

Variety reports today that the Independent Film Channel, known on the street as IFC, is "stretching its series legs" and developing some shows that aren't necessarily film-centric. One of them, though, is not only film-centric, but eccentric as well. It's Pornopolis, about a typical suburban family in which the parents happen to run a porn business. Hey, it happens. The soap-style series is being produced by World of Wonder and written by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, with Hysterical Blindness' Laura Cahill attached to the project. "We were intrigued by the fact that...people who make porn also have families and live in the suburbs," says Debbie DeMontreux, IFC's original programming VP. The WOW boys, who've long been huge fans of Laura Cahill's "classic" Hysterical Blindness script, are thrilled "to no end" to have her on board, says Barbato. "Pornopolis is a series we've tried to get off the ground for over eight years," he says "We even met with Kathie Lee Gifford many many years ago and discussed her playing the part of a former porn-star mother of three." Whoa.

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Thairin Smothers found this on Live Journal:

Is anyone else watching "One Punk Under God"? It's pretty fantastic and it's really cool to see someone who shares your beliefs looking like a sane person on national television. I love his tag: "Jesus is the Savior, not Christianity." It's the first time in several years that I've seen someone on TV that I can really identify with, not since Freaks and Geeks (both the Weir kids) or Real World: New Orleans (Matt, not Julie). But that's another post for another day...when I'm not paying for a one-hour connection. (thelpslayer)

Shameless Plug

Punk preacher Jay Bakker almost got hit by a bus Jaywalking in New York recently. Not really, but we want you to hit up the Sundance Channel tonight at 9 for the premiere of the WOW series One Punk, Under God. And if you like, you can read the reviews in the New York Times , the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Post, and watch a report on MTV.

The Web Works in Mysterious Ways

After he watched John Norris report on the Revolution church on MTV News, the blogger at Tall Thought mentioned today that the church's Jay Bakker must win the award for best-dressed pastor so far. Earlier today, Queerty quoted from a passage about Jay Bakker's church welcoming homosexuals into the congregation which Frank, Dan, or Bradford found in an in-depth story about the pastor on Radar Online. Combine all that, add in the billboards, and all we have to do is tell you that the WOW series One Punk, Under God starts airing December 13 on the Sundance Channel.

The Screening of America

Good news! The WOW feature documentary, Children of God: Lost and Found, has been accepted for competition at the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, in January, screening on the 21st and 23rd. Directed by first-timer Noah Thomson, it's his first-person account of growing up in the evangelical cult and his search for others who made it out alive. It was edited by Mike Rysavy who, as talent and hard work would have it, has another WOW movie he edited screening at that other Park City festival, Sundance. Miss Navajo was written and directed by Billy Luther, who got the idea to shed some light on the annual Miss Navajo Nation Pageant from his mother, who won the crown in 1966. Fans of absorbing docs will be spending extra time on the Park City shuttle.

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Here's the 30-second spot for WOW's One Punk, Under God series that begins on Sundance Channel in December. (Watch)

Prognosis: Winner

It was announced yesterday at the Women in Cable Telecommunications Foundation Benefit gala at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, DC, that the WICT has honored WE Television with a Tribute Accolade in the Documentary/Biographical category for Tammy Faye: Death Defying, the 90-minute WOW documentary that follows the extraordinary Tammy Faye Messner over six months as she battles inoperable stage-4 cancer, from diagnosis through treatment to remission. “I’m glad that WE is showing the documentary now," says Messner, "because there are so many people out there facing diseases like cancer and AIDS and if my story can help them get through it then I want to do it no matter the outcome.” (More)

(Watch a clip from Tammy Faye: Death Defying)

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Variety reports that, beginning today, the Sundance Channel will be offering some of its documentary series on iTunes for purchase and download at $1.99 each. They include The Hill, The First Amendment, and the excellent The Staircase series. We mention this because, from December 5 to 12, the first episode of One Punk, Under God, WOW's stunning six-parter on alternative Christian preacher Jay Bakker, will be available as a free download. That's zero dollars and zero cents.

Snap!

Wonder why we're posting this photo of Mandy Moore strolling along a bucolic LA street? (via Celebrity Nation)

Shortstuff

We're big fans of John Cameron Mitchell. He sent a note telling us the latest about his much-anticipated full-on, no-holes-barred sex film Shortbus. "Hey all," he says, "JCM here, just wanted to give you a Shortbus heads-up. We've been doing a lot of work this summer getting trailers, posters, etc, together for our imminent and full release by the fantastic ThinkFilm. The theatrical (censored) trailer and the new uncensored trailer (woo hoo!) are now up on shortbusthemovie. (The full site with bells and whistles is coming soon courtesy of Crew Creative and Sean Belman.)" Here's the release schedule:

Sept 10 - North American premiere at Toronto Film Festival
Oct 4 - New York release at the Landmark Sunshine
Oct 6 - LA and SF release
Oct 13 through Nov - expands across North America

Shameless Plug

Our old colleague Matt DeNoto is in a musical sketch comedy group called Dynamite Kablammo and it's performing at Zombie Joe's Underground in North Hollywood tonight only. The act's been recommended in Huffington Post and many elsewheres, primarily because of such fare as their Pythonesque song "Everybody Hates." Worth a listen.

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Been wondering what the students from TransGeneration have been up to since you saw them last? Well, wonder no more, because Gabbie, Lucas, Raci, and TJ have reunited for TransGeneration Reunion, a special where-are-they-now episode airing tonight on Sundance at 10PM E/P. Check out the students' cool photo diaries on the Sundance website, with new boyfriends, surgery pics, and tranny picnics a-plenty.

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WOW's Ring My Bell and thisisaknife were recommended in The Guide section of London's Guardian on Saturday.

thisisaknife: Ring My Nuts

It had to happen eventually: this week, Donal phoned up Ring My Bell, and ended up having a 20 minute conversation with Andrea Lowell, mostly about nuts. Also in this week's show, our web-celeb points out an an inner truth about Donal's sexuality.

One Rung at a Time

So very difficult for so very many of us. Dresses seem so much easier to purchase. I'll be watching WOW's new series Getting on the Property Ladder on Channel Five (UK) at 8PM tonight and every Thursday for the next six weeks for tips on how to buy a first home, and stop lining the pockets of my landlord with gold. Really. When the sun's out I can see him from two miles away.

– Cat McShane

Gay Dwarfs and Handkerchiefs

Tune in tonight to reminisce with the poptastic videos that stole Britain's virginity again and again throughout the '80s. World of Wonder's Jacques Peretti journeys into the excess money, politics, and gender-bending sexapades that shaped a nation towards sacrificing its daughters to gay guys in lycra looking for fame. In an era when icons George Michael and Princess Diana shared the same haircut, and people swore themselves to celibacy or fucking themselves to death, exotic eroticism managed to disguise itself as MTV respectable remarkably well. A retrospective of brave bizarre hip thrusts.

Sex Pop: Sex in the 80s
Channel 4 UK - 11:05pm

– Becca Frankel

A Program Note

Shameless Plug

Enough with the Brokeback misery. It's time for a gay version of American Pie – with a flaky puff-pastry crust. Don't you think? Bill Coleman aka Peace Bisquit, music-supervising wiz on WOW's Party Monster and Inside Deep Throat, is adding the fluffy filling to just that sort of movie. He writes:

I'm currently music supervising a wonderful, irreverent, and hilarious new film called Another Gay Movie, by acclaimed director Todd Stephens (Edge of Seventeen, Gypsy 83). It's a colorful teen sexploitation spoof in the vein of contemporary classics American Pie and Clueless. Think Porky's meets Pretty in Pink with a few homages to The Brady Bunch and others thrown in, with a smart, sly, and raunchy gay teen twist. It will be released July 28th by TLA Releasing. We've also been picked as one of the premiere films at this year's prestigious Tribeca Film Festival.

Curtain Call

"Hey friends," writes busy photographer Patrick McMullan to his friends, "I'm excited to announce my limited-series shower curtain featuring one of my favorite images from my book So80s that I took in 1984 [at] Studio 54. The curtain can be bought (wholesale & retail) here." We assume the surviving women whose legs appear on the curtain will not have to shell out $40 to keep water off their bathmats.

Shameless Plug

The WOW Report heads up a list of the 10 "best gay(ish) blogs on the Web," chosen by Lenora Claire with Alexander Cho in their "Naked City" column on the Frontiers magazine site. It's an honor for this little fish to be noticed swimming alongside the likes of Go Fug Yourself, Towleroad, Fleshbot, Defamer, Margaret Cho, and the esteemed others in the snark-infested waters of the blogosphere. Thanks, guys.

Shameless Plug

We deserve a nice meaty treat. Or, better yet, a bite on our vagina. Reality Blurred has posted its five top reality shows of 2005, and WOW's Showdog Moms & Dads came in at number 3, just above number-4 Being Bobby Brown.

Bravo’s Showdog Moms and Dads. In the middle of the season, a random woman’s dog attacked a random guy in a park. From the driver’s seat of her van, that woman explained in broken English that even she was scared by her vicious dog. She said, “He bite me in my vagina. When I’m walking and he sees other dog, he right away, he jump on my vagina, because he get so crazy!” With peripheral cast members like her, plus an extremely strong, fanatically obsessed group of dog owners, is it any wonder that people watched attentively? The show was easily the best of the Moms and Dads series, and one of the best series of the year.

(Related) (See also)

WOW UK Update

Tonight sees WOW UK's documentary on artist Chuck Close Close Up screening on BBC1 at 10:40PM. Meanwhile, an exciting internet project is looming. As it's not up yet, I thought I'd titillate by putting up some web gems we're including:

You can find Seth "Family Guy" MacFarlane's first short film here, there's a strange video of a Japanese girl band and a wrestler there, and if you know and hate James Blunt you'll like this surreal parody.

I've got so many more, but for now, until someone tickles me, I'm keeping them all to myself.

– Tim Hancock

Shameless Plug

Apparently, Trio is again running 101 Rent Boys, WOW's 2000 documentary on the male hustlers who work LA's Santa Monica Boulevard. One hundred one of them, to be exact. Matt, who operates the Malcontent website, sent us a note saying he'd written a "little blurb" on the show, with clips. He liked it! Thanks, Matt.

Film Flam

An rousing panel of documentary directors is convening tonight at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to discuss the use and ethics of reenactments in documentary films. There'll be ample clips illustrating the varied ways reenactments have been used in history. Thomas Edison, for example, recreated the death of President McKinley's assassin for his Execution of Czolgosz, Robert Flaherty used indoor igloos on sets for Nanook of the North, and Errol Morris famously reenacted most of the incriminating scenes in The Thin Blue Line. The panel, moderated by The Decline of Western Civilization's Penelope Spheeris, includes Grizzly Man's Werner Herzog, Dogtown and Z-Boys' Stacy Peralta, and our own Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato.

7:30 tonight at AMPAS, 8949 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills. Tickets are $5 general, $3 Academy members and students.

(Photos: not the actual cop car or cop in The Thin Blue Line; American planes represent Japanese Zeros in John Ford's December 7th)

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WOW watcher Quartknee sent us this item with a word of congratulations. We really need a clipping service if we're to keep up with our press, we guess. Seems a study by IAG Research showed our Bravo series Showdog Moms & Dads to be one of three "most attentively watched reality shows on all channels." The other two were Project Greenlight and Blow Out. Eek! Blow Out? So now we're wondering if we deserve to be congratulated. But according to Bravo, who had all three shows on its network, they were “the top three reality series of the 2004-2005 broadcast season that had the highest measurement for program attentiveness (in which viewers are more likely to recall specific program details than any of the 250 primetime reality shows scheduled on broadcast and cable primetime among all measured viewers).”

Cover Girl

The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME), a professional organization for editors of consumer magazines and business publications that are edited, published, and sold in the US, has come out with its list of the Top 40 Magazine Covers of the Past 40 Years. And we're happy to note that the original Details, which this WOW Report editor co-founded back in 1982, has a place on that list, among the likes of Time and Esquire and Newsweek and Life and Vanity Fair. This particular cover was just one of many such artful collaborations that occurred between the mag's editor-in-chief, Annie Flanders, and art director, Lesley Vinson, during its heyday.

Shameless Plug

One of our favorite ex-colleagues here at WOW, Broni Masters (the Aussie gal who married Survivor's hunky FBI agent Brady Finta), will be making an appearance on the Arrested Development (which we know you watch) episode coming up on Monday. She'll be the one with the accent.

Press Release

World of Wonder Productions announced today the signing of Jay Bakker to a development deal. "Jay is fantastic and just what television needs," said Fenton Bailey. "Like his mother and his father, he is boldly reinventing the Christian message for a generation thirsting for spirituality. In his hands, spirituality is hot."

Jay Bakker, assistant pastor and administrator of Revolution Church, happily signs contract at the World of Wonder office. (Link)

Shameless Plug (and not for us)

Today's the day we welcome Queerty.com to the blogosphere. Let's hope QUEERTY doesn't turn out to be a TERQUEY, ha ha. Kidding. Good luck, gays, er, guys, er, gay guys.

Shameless Plug

Hey. Kids. While we're talking about ourselves (for a change), we should remind you that the Outfest screening of our TransGeneration is tomorrow, July 9, at 2PM at the Directors Guild of America. Tickets are still available at 213 480-7065 or www.outfest.org/fest2005 or at the Outfest box office at the DGA. Also don't forget to get tickets for the Tammy Faye: Death Defying screening next Saturday, July 16, at the DGA at 4:30PM. The WOW Report recommends you take plenty of Kleenex© to the screenings; both films are weepies.

Shameless Plug

Tonight, Tuesday, June 28, the WOW Report's resident musicologist and deejay, Bill Coleman (Peace Bisquit's Hi-Five), will be spinning with Kaz Gamble (of Cooler Kids and boygirL) at Monroe's, 8623 Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood. No cover. Also on the bill are boygirL (10PM), the LA premiere of Daisy Spurs (11PM), and Mynx (midnight).

The critics rave:
"LA-based duo boygirL is so sexy and infectious that you won't be able to deny it." – Amber Drea, Venus zine

"The Daisy Spurs are like the uber-sexy downtown version of OutKast on steroids. I would book the crunkadelic stage show any chance I could." – Larry Tee, Electroclash founder, legendary DJ, superstar

"Mynx is a ferocious musical creature...(who) has produced one of the most infectious and anthemic songs of the year, 'I'm So LA,' an electro-pop gem." – M Lavandeira, Vice magazine

(Photo: Daisy Spurs)

Talk of the Town

There was a terribly amusing piece by Shawn Hubler in this Sunday's LA Times, in the Calendar section, about New Yorkers trying to adjust to living in Los Angeles. (There are never stories about Angelinos trying to adjust to living in New York. Ever. Why is that?) The funniest comments were by comic Marc Maron and his wife, comic Mishna Wolff. Wolff said, "When I first moved to L.A., I bought an '84 Pontiac Fie