The feedback to the first edition of Stargayzing’s 30 Stars of Hollywood’s Golden Era Who Are Still Alive feature was so positive—as of this writing it is the blog’s most highly read piece)—that I have prepared…
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Music For Dusting, the 1970s: A Gay Man’s Guide
In the early-1970s, my parents split up and my mom quickly reinvented herself as an Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore-style feminist. No longer satisfied with the limitations of 1950s-era definitions of women’s sex roles, my mother…
Extreme Carol Channing: “Jam Tomorrow, Jam Yesterday”
In 1985, disaster movie producer Irwin Allen (Towering Inferno, The Poseidon Adventure) had more highbrow aspirations and brought the world a two-part musical, TV-movie remake of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. The results were a different kind…
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…
Nancy Balbirer on Carol Channing: Larger Than Life
I finally had a chance to catch up with Carol Channing: Larger Than Life, a documentary as filled with warmth, humor, and good cheer as its illustrious subject. By some weird cosmic coincidence, I watched it by…
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.…
On Carol Channing, Corn, and Other (Urban) Legends: Including Her Recipe For German Pot Roast in Eating With the Stars
Oh Carol! Neil Sedaka may have been singing about Carole King in his top ten hit from 1959, but he might has well been singing about everybody’s favorite eternal chorine, Carol Channing. Betty White…
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