If you missed the live feed of Randy and Fenton on Bring Your Own Doc yesterday, you can watch the whole thing here and now! They sit down with Ondi Timoner and talk about Party Monster, Becoming Chaz, In Vogue: The Editors Eye, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, and last but not least, they discuss The World According To Wonder! (Available on Amazon *wink*)
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Click over to TheLip.tv at 12PM to see our fearless leaders, Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey, discussing one of World of Wonder’s documentaries with Ondi Timoner who is a two time Grand Jury Prize winner at Sundance for her films Dig! and We Live in Public. If you can’t watch it live, no fear, we’ll post it here on the WOW Report later in the day!
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From The Hollywood Reporter: “Forget televised competitions. The real showdown is among the stars and execs scrambling to make their unscripted series stand out in an increasingly competitive landscape. For its 2013 Reality Heat List, The Hollywood Reporter ranks the 25 shows, creators, execs and characters that are winning the race. Entries were selected based on ratings, pop-culture and social-media impact, buzziness of talent and producers, greenlight and spinoff power and overall lasting imprint on the reality business between March 2012 and March 2013.” Among those who made the cut? RuPaul’s Drag Race and the upcoming Life with La Toya! Both World of Wonder productions, thank you very much! From the article: ”‘We’re the crack dealers of reality,’ says Fenton Bailey, co-founder of World of Wonder, the factory that churns out addictive fare like RuPaul’s competition show Drag Race, whose season-five premiere was the highest-rated in Logo history. Up next: Life With LaToya, debuting April 13 on OWN, peeks inside the world of Michael Jackson’s eccentric little sister. ‘We’re drawn to people who fly their freak colors high and proud,” adds Bailey. “And that’s not just gay. That’s everybody!’” CONDRAGULATIONS!
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In the current issue of Out magazine Natasha Vargas-Cooper visits with the World of Wonder founders, our fearsome leaders, Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, and over the course of four packed pages, all is revealed, including the answer to which one of the two is cuddlier. Her takeaway from the experience is summed up in the story’s headline: “Freakshow: World of Wonder Is Hollywood’s Nuttiest Production Company.” You’ll want to read it. Click here. (Photos: Jeff Minton)
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Looking GORGEOUS! From the article: “‘Everything I dreamed I could achieve I saw reflected in their eyes,’ RuPaul explains via telephone. ‘That was from the moment I met them in 1985. They got me. They didn’t even have to say they got me. I saw it in their eyes, and I trust them. We all come from the school of ‘the rest of the world will catch up.’ The fact the public doesn’t ‘get it’ now, don’t let that stop you. Do it anyway. And they had also just been through some hell with this record contract publishing deal, so I knew what to avoid when dealing with ‘The Man.’ RuPaul represents a quintessential example of how WOW’s Bailey and Barbato — who first met in NYU Graduate Film School, united by a mutual hunger for fame—have not only exalted pop culture and its icons, befriending and documenting them from an insider’s vantage point (e.g. Monica Lewinsky, Anna Nicole Smith, Tammy Faye Bakker), but have shaped it at the same time. Not only that, but with an unabashedly queer bent. ‘They love the eccentrics, the loonies, the colorful people who make the culture fun and slightly dangerous,’ says Michael Musto, a regular guest on Barbato and Bailey’s first outing, the weekly public access cable talk show The Flaunt It Club! TV, taped at storied nightclub, Limelight. ‘TV used to reflect the reality in clubs, but now it’s the reverse. Real life imitates RuPaul’s show, and everyone with a razor and some sequins goes out every night hoping to get discovered to be on it.”
To read the full article here.
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There is a great interview with Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey in the current issue of Frontiers magazine about our new book The World According to Wonder out now! If you’re in Southern California, you can pick up the latest copy with the Beekman Boys on the cover or you can click here to read the entire article. (via Frontiers)
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World of Wonder’s head honchos Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato posed in pumps at a studio in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen recently for the cover of Next magazine, out Friday. (via instagram)
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On a cold and windy night in New York City, Lauren Zalaznick hosted a warm and fuzzy drinks party to celebrate the release of The World According to Wonder.