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Stephen Saban
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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)
James St. James
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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.
Blake Jacobs
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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)
Thairin Smothers
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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.
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Watch Randy and Fenton talking with Andy Cohen about The World According to Wonder on last night’s WWHL After Show!
