Adele’s new James Bond theme Skyfall was released today. I’m completely in a James Bond frame of mind, having just seen Dr. No and Goldfinger projected at the Landmark Loew’s Jersey City movie palace on…
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Movie Quote of the Day: From “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” (1971)
“Don’t forget about what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted…he lived happily ever after!”…
Joan Crawford’s 6 Minute Monologue on Hollywood Palace: “A House of Gingerbread and Bells!”
Hollywood Palace was an hour-long variety show that enjoyed a long run on ABC from 1964 through 1970 and a Sunday night mainstay when Joan showed up in October 1965 and let ’em have…
Notes From the West Coast: “L.A. Is My Lady,” Then and Now
“The music she moves to, is music that makes me a dancer I brought her my wildest of dreams, and she came up with the answer I leave behind a part of myself, whenever…
10 Forgotten Stars of The Hollywood Walk of Fame
Who are the forgotten stars of the Hollywood Walk of Fame? Though fame is evanescent for most who are unfortunate enough to experience it, a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame is, ostensibly, forever.…
Notes From the West Coast: Hollywood and Vine
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.…
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 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 One: Hatching the Plan
As a kid the number one question I was asked was “how’d you get on TV?” It all began in 1973 when, by a stroke of luck, my father came home from work…
The Worst Internship of All-Time, or Annie Liebowitz Hates Me
“Annie Liebowitz hates me!” So began my journal entry of May 9, 1986. I was just about to graduate from N.Y.U. and complete a semester-long internship with iconic filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, who was best…
The Streisand Effect: How an Iconic American Voice Helped Me Find My Own
The Streisand persona, a powerful tonic for all the world’s exceptional outcasts, was delineated by an biding belief that outsiders could achieve not only mainstream acceptance, but massive cultural impact. This coping mechanism appealed to me in commensurate proportion to my sadness, which is to say, extensively.
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