There is a great chance that regardless of your demographic profile you are familiar with Leon Russell’s A Song For You, one of the really towering copyrights of the last 40 years. Aside from…
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Stargayzing Screening Room: What We’ve Been Watching Lately, Volume 1
1. The Fuller Brush Girl (1950) Lloyd Bacon’s slight but amiable comedy is most notable for the opportunity to see the great Lucille Ball in one of her last film roles before she commenced…
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…
Movie Quote of the Day: Roller Boogie (1979)
Terry Barkley (Linda Blair): Daddy, I need to ask you a favor. Lillian Barkley (Beverly Garland): [coming into the room] Well, as long as it’s not about skating, or disco music. Ritchie bought me an…
Stargayzing’s Opinion on Three Trending Topics: or, a Blatant Attempt to Be Relevant
Dear Stargayzers: In a completely transparent and crass attempt to boost the readership of #Stargayzing by joining the army of self-referential hashtag harpies, here are my thoughts on three trending topics including #MichelleObama’sbangs, #Lance Armstrong’slies,…
No Doubt’s Gwen Stefani: “The Indians Said That She Was White By Law!”
I’m always grateful for anything that makes me even think about Half-Breed, Cher’s number one hit from 1973, let alone gives me a valid reason to write an entire paragraph about the old toe tapper,…
“Sit On it and Rotate, AAAAY!”
It is with great humility and a certain degree of shame that I admit I own not one, not two or three, but four books about “The Fonz” and Henry Winkler (including one called…
Breath of Fire: My (mis)Adventures in Bikram Yoga Class: or, Sixty Minutes In Hades
In addition to being my Diva of Dermatology (Park Avenue Skin Solutions), Lauren Abramowitz is a dear friend whose yoga practice has, in recent years, truly transformed her life. As an enthusiastic proponent of…
The Beat Goes On: The Story of a Boy and His (Sonny) and Cher: Part Two
On Sunday the 17th of October, with some measure of disbelief and my customary elan, I celebrated the 35th anniversary of my Cher show, the full-scale cellar drag extravaganza that I produced, directed and starred…
The Beat Goes On: The Story of a Boy and His Cher, Part One
“After a nuclear holocaust, all that will be left are cockroaches and Cher.” Unattributed quote, late 1990s What is so fucking hard about writing a few paragraphs about Cher? I am embarrassed to…
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