#QueerQuote: “We Know What Our Roles Are and We Are Happy With Them.” – Melanija Knavs

By Stephen Rutledge on April 26, 2019 7:11 am

Photo via YouTube She was #BornThisDay in 1970. Except for that brief moment with Pat Nixon, hers is the only First Lady vulva that I have ever seen. Although she comes off as sort of intelligent and people claim that she is pleasant enough, the First Lady apparently has … [Read more...]

#BornThisDay: Filmmaker, Douglas Sirk

By Stephen Rutledge on April 26, 2019 3:05 am

Sirk (C) with Rock Hudson, Jane Wyman and Agnes Moorehead on the set of Magnificent Obsession (1954), via YouTube April 26, 1897– Douglas Sirk was not gay, but the German born, yet thoroughly American filmmaker made a particular kind of melodrama that explored the … [Read more...]

Whitney Houston’s Rumored Ex-Girlfriend Robyn Crawford Is Coming Out with a Tell-All About Their Relationship

By James St. James on April 25, 2019 4:11 pm

I remember hearing whispers of Robyn and Whitney's relationship as far back as 1989, though at the time both denied any romantic entanglement. Since then, however, many friends and associates have come forward to confirm their relationship status– including[Read more...]

#GreatPerformances: Al Pacino as Roy Cohn in “Angels In America”

By Stephen Rutledge on April 25, 2019 11:52 am

HBO via YouTube HBO's six-hour film version of Angels In America with Mike Nichols directing Tony Kushner’s adaptation of his own play about love in the AIDS-plagued time of Ronald Reagan is epic but intimate. Al Pacino's performance as Trump's nasty mentor Roy Cohn, the … [Read more...]

#RIP: Actress Faye McKenzie, the Only Actress with a 100 Year (!!!!) Film Career

By James St. James on April 25, 2019 10:15 am

She's the hardest working actress you've probably never heard of. Gr8erDays pays tribute to the late Faye McKenzie, who got her start as an infant in silent movies in 1918, when she appeared … [Read more...]

That Time Marilyn Monroe Came to the Rescue of Ella Fitzgerald

By Stephen Rutledge on April 25, 2019 5:46 am

Photo from "Biography" via YouTube In 1947, Ella Fitzgerald joined Norman Granz's Jazz At The Philharmonic and toured the globe. Granz required promoters to ensure that there was no "colored" or "white" seating at the venues on the tour. He made certain that Fitzgerald … [Read more...]

April 25th: It’s YOUR Birthday, Bitch!

By Alex Bellamey on April 25, 2019 3:26 am

Still of Hank Azaria as Agador Spartacus in The Birdcage©MGM/UA Al Pacino Andy Bell [Read more...]

#BornThisDay: Artist, Cy Twombly

By Stephen Rutledge on April 25, 2019 3:05 am

Photo montage via YouTube April 25, 1938 - Cy Twombly: I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them. He was nicknamed "Cy" by his father, a pitcher for the Chicago White Sox, after Cy Young, another famous pitcher. … [Read more...]

#ArchitecturePorn: NYC’s Woolworth Building Was #BornThisDay in 1913

By Stephen Rutledge on April 24, 2019 11:50 am

The Woolworth Building (center) April 25, 1913- The Woolworth Building When I lived in New York City in the 1970s, I didn't know anyone who lived below 12th street. On occasion, I would go to the Financial District at 5pm and watch the Wall Street men in suits leaving work … [Read more...]

April 24th: It’s YOUR Birthday, Bitch!

By Alex Bellamey on April 24, 2019 3:06 am

Kelly Clarkson. 2018 CMT Music Awards held at Bridgestone Arena. (Credit Image: © Laura Farr/AdMedia via ZUMA Wire)[Photo via Avalon.red] Aidan Gillen Austin Nichols [Read more...]