via Alexandre Felipe Présente/YouTube January 20, 1943- Janis Joplin: "You know you've got it, if it makes you feel good." An indelible icon of the 1960s, and a sort of Gay Icon too, Janis Joplin had affairs with women, men, and Southern Comfort. She would cruise the … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Gay Icon, Eartha Kitt
Photo via YouTube screen-grab January 17, 1927 - Eartha Kitt: "I fall in love with Myself. And I want someone to share with me." Eartha Kitt has precisely the qualities that make for a true Gay Icon: A history of anguish, abandonment and alienation, mixed with a campy … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Gay Icon, Ethel Merman
In Girl Crazy, NY Public Library Archives January 16, 1908– Ethel Merman: "I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank." Jacob J. Lew, President Barack Obama's Treasury secretary, proposed the idea of putting Harriet Tubman, a former slave and … [Read more...]
#QueerQuote: “In 40 Years, the Computer Will Do Away With Work; Everyone Will be an Artist”. – Cecil Beaton in 1969
Cecil Beaton self-portrait, with his Rolleiflex reflected in a mirror of the Jain temple, Calcutta, Wikimedia Commons "After dinner at Dickie Buckle's, David talked of the coming of the Golden Age. He had read many philosophers and has thought a great deal. In the next 40 … [Read more...]
#MustWatch: “Who Killed Teddy Bear?” with Sal Mineo
Sal 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 … [Read more...]
Did Gay Keyboardist Billy Preston Save The Beatles From Breaking Up?
I cannot stop thinking about, and reliving moments from, The Beatles: Get Back (2021). The Husband and I watched the eight hours of this remarkable film achievement as director/producer Peter Jackson offered it: in three parts. We did two consecutive nights starting Monday, and … [Read more...]
Rooney Mara Tapped to Play Audrey Hepburn in New Biopic
Rooney Mara, star of Carol and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, has been tapped to play Audrey Hepburn in a new Apple Studios biopic. Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love, Suspira, Call Me By Your Name) is set to direct. Hepburn had a remarkable life. Born to Dutch nobility, she came of … [Read more...]
New Anna Nicole Smith Documentary in the Works at Netflix
A new documentary about model and reality TV pioneer Anna Nicole Smith will feature unreleased footage from an unaired documentary project. The new Netflix doc comes amid a reckoning of how women like Smith were treated by the media. Ursula Macfarlane is directing, and she is … [Read more...]
The History Making “In The Heat Of The Night”, Remembering Sidney Poitier (RIP)
Publicity Still from For The Love Of Ivy (1968) via Wikimedia Commons Sidney Poitier: “For the first 10 years of my life in the Bahamas there were no mirrors or glass, so I never had the chance to see a reflection of myself. I saw myself in a mirror in a Florida store … [Read more...]
#RIP: Film Historian & Oscar-Nominated Director, Peter Bogdanovich
Peter Bogdanovich at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco via Wikimedia Commons Peter Bogdanovich, an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, and director is gone at 82 years old. He leaves behind an extraordinary body of work, including his film The Last Picture Show (1971), … [Read more...]
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