In Honor of Her Birthday, Stargayzing Goes Chergayzing!
Cher! I have always had a thing for Cher—how could I not? The Cher of my childhood and adolescence was the apotheosis of glamour and L.A.-style fun, but without the eventual downward spiral that seemed to eventually…
Stargayzing Monthly Newsletter—May, 2013
Stargayzing’s Monthly Update – eepurl.com/zzd3j — David Munk (@stargayzingone) May 15, 2013
Painful Corners: The Time I Was a Cabaret Singer For One Night!
We all have skeletons in our closet, but mine is belting Stephen Schwartz’ West End Avenue in a cellar club on Bleecker Street. I suppose desire for fame and fortune, to “make it big,” is as…
“The Walking Dead” Family Tree: How the AMC’s Dead Yourself App Turned My Cousin Cheryl into a Regular Francis Bacon
So Ritchie has been trying to get me to watch AMC’s Walking Dead for a while. I told him I wasn’t interested in this whole zombie thing and that I don’t even understand why it’s…
“Always Wanted to be Like Clint Eastwood…”
I found this incredible mural in the Neve Tzedek area of Tel Aviv, which I learned is one of the older neighborhoods created when modern Tel Aviv began to be settled beyond the old town…
After Gloria Swanson by Edward Steichen, 1925
So I realized a few days ago that I am officially at the age where I need—nay I demand diffusion on the lens! Indeed, shooting through a veil resolves a myriad of problems, as any…
Everyone’s a Shopper: Me and My Jewish Mother Visit Masada
Prior to my trip to Israel, Masada was less of an actual historical and spiritual reality and more of a mediocre ABC miniseries from 1981 starring a bewigged Peter O’Toole in the post-Shogun cascade of…
So You Think You Can Dance Like Willy Moon? Or, Another Stressful Audition I Blew, “Yeah Yeah!”
The ad for the principal part in a Europe-only commercial for a major water brand said “full sleeve tattoos, must be a trained dancer.” It also said “35 and under.” It didn’t seem like a…
