From How to Go to the Movies, by Quentin Crisp Miss West was a conspicuously round woman in a very square industry. Nevertheless, at the start of the 1930s, she took to Hollywood like…
Year: 2014
Blog posts
Dolly Parton: The Soundtrack Of My Life
Despite the increasingly snarky vibe of the formerly essential Entertainment Weekly, it still can suggest a flicker of its former cultural primacy when it drops the disaffected tone and uses its grown-up voice (don’t they know…
The Top-20 Films of the Summer of 2014: No, it’s Not You—the Movies Really Did Suck
The summer of 2014 may be remembered as a tipping point, the moment Hollywood studios turned their backs for good on people who actually care about film. This summer, the studios bombarded us with a deadening…
Stargayzing Guest Columnist Nancy Balbirer Remembers the Great Joan Rivers
By Nancy Balbirer Joan: The very first time I met Joan Rivers, she began to cry, after which, she pulled me into an embrace so warm, so full, so sincere, I frankly hoped it…
Guest Columnist Elisa Casas on Halston
Halston (few know his first name, Roy, or his last name, Frowick) was one of the most influential designers of all-time. A charismatic, over-the-top personality, master of promotion, and flamboyant spender who lived life…
Pia Zadora “Re-Loaded” (Plus, a Rare Close-Up of Ms. Zadora’s Foot)
One of the highlights of Stargayzing’s four-week “blogcation” came in early August when, at the recommendation of my friend James Gavin, he and I hightailed it down to New York’s Metropolitan Room to catch…
Robin Williams’ Star on Hollywood Boulevard: August 19, 2014
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“See You in September!'” Exhausted Munk Takes Break
I’m so happy to report that Stargayzing has doubled its readership in the last twelve months, thanks to loyal readers like you. Indeed, to use a prominent metaphor from Jerzy Kosinki’s Being There, keeping Stargayzing thriving…
Songs That Should Have Been Top-10 Hits, Volume 5
1. k.d. lang, “Sing it Loud” (2011) k.d. lang is simply one of the best singers currently breathing. An intrepid boundary-crosser and rule breaker, lang has struggled with record labels from the jump. Her…
Songwriter’s Forum: Shelly Peiken
Shelly Peiken is a multi-platinum Grammy nominated songwriter who is best known for her #1 hits, Christina Aguilera’s “What a Girl Wants” and “Come On Over Baby (All I Want is You).” She earned…
The Night Elton John Told Elaine Stritch, “This is ‘Your Song'”— and She Kept It
As Adam Feldman pointed out in his wonderful Time Out New York piece on Elaine Stritch, “Everyone who ever met Elaine Stritch—hell, anyone who ever saw her perform—has a Stritch story.” I would like…
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