Some clever person created the hashtag #TBT—Throw Back Thursday, which I’ve seen quite a bit on Twitter and would appear to be a cutesy way of describing my entire life in four characters. …
Year: 2013
Blog posts
Hermione Gingold Singing “I’d Be Surprisingly Good For You” from Evita, Plus: Eating With the Stars Features Her Recipe for Steak and Kidney Pudding, Which Would be Surprisingly Not Good For You
For those of you under the age of say 70 or 80, today’s Eating With the Stars subject may be a bit obscure, but I assure you that spending some time with the great Hermione…
Joni Mitchell’s House is a Very, Very, Very, Fine House
During my sit down interview on Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys, I shared my memories of meeting Elisa Casas in 1983. We lived across the hallway from each other at N.Y.U.’s Weinstein…
Quote of the Day: Lily Tomlin
“Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it” …
Daft Punk Tribute to Disco—Sans a Female Voice
The #DaftPunk R.A.M. collection is brilliant, but curious that a tribute 2 disco & L.A. pop was created without a single woman anywhere. — David Munk (@stargayzingone) June 1, 2013 …
Sending Warm Wishes to Valerie Harper, and a Recipe for Her Summer Squash in Eating With the Stars
Here’s the kind of cross marketing no one wants: your autobiography is published concurrent with the announcement of terminal illness and a projection of three months to live! As horrible as it sounds, that…
Stargayzing Mix Tape: The Most Unbelievable Cover Songs of All-Time! #7: Edith Massey’s Cover of the Four Seasons’ Big Girls Don’t Cry
7. Edith Massey, Big Girls Don’t Cry Edith Massey—a.k.a. “The Egg Lady”—shot to fame as one of director John Waters’ muses, perhaps most memorably as an obese, egg-obsessed, toothless woman with who lives in a…
A Five Minute Phoner with Jason Gould
When I last caught up with Jason for UK magazine All About Barbra, he had released his EP, and was nearing the end of his first American tour. On the cusp of the next phase…
David Munk Interviewed by the England’s Merry Band of Queer Misfits—The Ethel Mermaids
Several months ago I began to get to know a lovely lady in London called Corinna Tomrley. I think it was through Twitter, but it might have been Facebook—who can say with this much…
The Joan Collins Chronicles: Including Her Tutorial on How to Seat a Star
I have always been fascinated by Joan Collins. An actress, writer, OBE and diva nonpareil, Miss Collins was and always will be the very essence of a star. No matter the prevailing taste of…
Stargayzing Mix Tape: The Most Unbelievable Cover Songs of All-Time! #6: Robert Goulet’s Version of Helen Reddy’s Cover of Paul Williams’ You and Me Against the World
6. Robert Goulet, You and Me Against the World (1976) “Robert Goulet out, Steve McQueen in!” In addition to being name checked in Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love, one of the great songs in Marvin Hamlisch…
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