March 16, 1949- Victor Garber. I first noticed him, as so many did, when he sang and danced his way through the film version hippy Jesus musical Godspell (1973) where Garber is sporting a large Afro. Less than a year later, I would be on stage in the musical and I would … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Elizabeth Taylor
February 27, 1932- Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher Burton Burton Warner Fortensky: “The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.” She came into my … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Kurt Cobain
February 20, 1967- Kurt Cobain: “I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.” I was living in Seattle when Grunge happened and young people around the globe embraced the “Seattle Sound” of fat sludgy guitar sounds, fuzz and feedback. I became aware that the … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Actor, Merle Oberon
February 19, 1911- Merle Oberon Estelle Merle O’Brien Thompson was probably born in India 105 years ago on this very day. Our lives intersected once. I have always been interested in the idea that her origins are so nebulous and rather queer: Who was her mother, the woman who … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Actor, Cesar Romero
February 15, 1907- Cesar Romero's most famous role was The Joker on the campy television series Batman (1966-69), or maybe Estaban de la Cruz in the brief run of Zorro (1957-59). Both of those were television shows but Romero was also a kind of minor star in … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Ellen DeGeneres
January 26, 1958- Ellen DeGeneres From a commencement speech delivered by DeGeneres at Tulane University, in her hometown of New Orleans: "I never really have a plan. My point is, by the time I was your age, I thought I knew who I was. But I had no idea. Like for example, … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Dolly Parton
January 19, 1946- Dolly Parton: “I’m not offended by dumb blonde jokes because I know I am not dumb. I also know I am not blond.” Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean was born on this very day, in rural Tennessee. I love Dolly Parton. I love her big voice, her big hair, and her big … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Eartha Kitt
January 17, 1927- Eartha Kitt had precisely the qualities that make a true Gay Icon: a history of anguish, abandonment & alienation, mixed with a campy & sexually audacious stage act with the necessary elements of artifice & aggrandizement. Plus, there is that unique, … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Comic Writer, Bruce Vilanch
November 23, 1948- I could not quite fathom the idea of Bruce Vilanch being hired by those homophobes Brett Ratner & Eddie Murphy to write the Academy Awards Ceremony in 2011. The Academy did the … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Actor, Cherry Jones
November 21, 1956- Cherry Jones is the epitome of the successful stage actor, & yet she is probably most famous for a TV series. In 2008, Jones joined the cast of the Fox series, 24, playing the … [Read more...]
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