I had ambitious notions about multiple pieces chronically my adventures in Hollywood, but it just hasn’t turned out that way. It’s actually a good thing because any truthful account of my weeks in L.A.…
Year: 2012
Blog posts
Notes from the West Coast: The Curious Metamorphosis of Jimmy Jimmy Coco, Spray Tanner to the Stars
When I last checked in with my friend Jimmy Snyder about six years back, he was a struggling actor and I was the president of a music publishing company. What a difference a few…
Mariah, Paula, & J-Lo: The Unholy 3
American Idol’s announcement that Mariah Carey would be replacing Jennifer Lopez shouldn’t have come as a surprise to anyone. More than an actual talent search, the show has essentially become a career rehab of…
Torch Song Elegy, Volume 2: How to Reduce Twentieth-Century Gay History to a Stereotype in Three Lines or Less
“Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy revisionist history!” Here we go again: another week, another assertion that gay men in their 30s and 40s are antiques and—even worse—cliches, cleaving to…
The “Ricky Martin Effect” (And 5 Suggestions on How to Avoid It When Posing with a Star)
The “Ricky Martin Effect” is a phenomenon that sometimes occurs in portrait photography when one person is obliged to stand next to another person who is preternaturally beautiful, handsome, and/or photogenic. The effect is a certainty…
Snapped by Songwriter Claude Kelly at the New Music Seminar
Now it’s an instagram effect. Back then we just called it a bad photography! STYLE. Met David Munk today. Crazy sleeve tattoo. Crazy clothing combo and a murse. Had to snap a pic.…
What Not To Wear When Going To Prison: or, How One Bad Decision and Three Loose Pills Sent Me To The Slammer For Three Days with Eyeliner and Crimped Hair, Part Two
To read the first part of this series: What Not To Wear When Going To Prison: or, How One Bad Decision and Three Loose Pills Sent Me To The Slammer For Three Days with…
What Not To Wear When Going To Prison: or, How One Bad Decision and 3 Loose Pills Sent Me To The Slammer For Three Days with Eyeliner and Crimped Hair, Part One
The residual trauma of my incarceration and its subsequent shame-based cover-up has, I believe, equipped me uniquely to advise my gay brothers on how to prepare for a visit to prison with a particular emphasis on what not to wear when one is, as the Mob Wives say, “going away.”
“The Men That Got Away”— How The Loss of a Generation Affected Our Ears and Our Hearts
“For the rest of us, here is Judy Garland singing “The Man That Got Away”, the Oscar-nominated mother-of-all-torch-songs, written by Harold Arlen and Ira Gershwin. If you’ve seen it before, watch it again with fresh eyes and if you’ve never seen it, here is the genius of Judy Garland, a performer without peer.”
Notes From The Honeycomb Hideout, Part Three: Jonathan’s Star Ascends, Becomes Local Celebrity; I Manifest Surprising Coping Skills
Notes From The Honeycomb Hideout is a series of pieces about my life as a child actor Notes From The Honeycomb Hideout, Part One Notes From The Honeycomb Hideout, Part Two In my last…
Eating With The Stars: Miss Patti LaBelle’s Best-Ever Barbecue Chicken With Bodacious Barbecue Sauce
I love Patti LaBelle for many reasons. In addition to her legendary musical gifts, she is also a fantastic person. And as anyone will tell you, she can cook too! With summer here, I…
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