>Queen started off the show with Adam Lambert as lead singer and rocked out the audience. It was fun and surprising and got the adrenaline pumping. Then Amy Poehler, Tina Fey and Maya Rudolph came out as our non-hosts and you kinda wish the Academy had asked them to stay all … [Read more...]
Fashion Photo RuView: The Oscars 2016
Raja and Raven 'Toot & Boot' the looks on the Oscars red carpet in a special episode of [Read more...]
#BlackHistoryMonth: Photographer Ruben Natal–San Miguel Celebrates with 29 Photos in 29 Days
Ruben Natal-San Miguel is a celebrated street and fine art photographer and a friend. Last Monday we went to the RuPaul's Drag Race season 8 premiere in New York and he shot all of the girls. Chi Chi Devayne managed to make the cut and into Ruben's tribute to Black History Month … [Read more...]
#Oscars16: Every Dress Worn By a Best Actress Winner Since 1929 (Minus a Few)
In 2014, the UK website Big Group wanted to explore the fashion aspect of the Oscars in depth and decided to create a poster that shows all the Best Actress Oscar Winners in order up to the that date. (Julianne Moore won last year.) They say, "Other than the pleasure of … [Read more...]
#Oscars16: Nate Silver’s Very Reliable FiveThirtyEight Predicts the Winners of Sunday’s Academy Awards
There's no way to ask the 7,000 Academy members what they're thinking. (Obviously not about diversity... ahem.) But 538.com still tries to predict who will win Sunday's Academy Awards. Here’s the gist of their methodology. Oscar nominees get points for being nominated for or … [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: Director, Dorothy Arzner
January 3, 1897- Dorothy Arzner: “Each day when I went to work at a studio, I took my pride & made a nice little ball of it & threw it right out the window. Portland’s own Todd Haynes has been promising a biopic of Dorothy Arzner since 2003. Her story has has yet to … [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, Tilda Swinton
November 5, 1960- Tilda Swinton. There are only a small handful of actors that compel me to watch a film just because they appear in it, but Katherine Mathilda Swinton Of Kimmerghame is certainly … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Director/Choreographer, Jerome Robbins
October 12, 1918- There is the famous anecdote about Jerome Robbins. I first heard it when I was a high school drama nerd. Robbins was known for dressing down his actors in rehearsal. He was … [Read more...]
