MCN partners and comedy duo Ryan and Amy poke fun satire at one of the most over-ordered libations around in their new quirky, sexy and wet music video. Check it out below!
Body shots anyone?
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Jade Jolie
Alison Pollet
David Schwimmer
Gervase Peterson
k.d lang
Kate Linder
Lauren Velez
Marisol Nichols
Maxine Nightingale
Nelly
Peter Mullan
Queen Sofia of Spain
Randy Harrison
Sean Kanan
Shah Rukh Khan
Stefanie Powers
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Photograph by Matthew Murphy
November 2, 1961– k.d. lang:
“I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But at the same time, I don’t represent the entire gay community because it’s a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.”
Before there was George Michael, Ricky Martin, Melissa Etheridge, Rufus Wainwright, Frank Ocean, or even Sam Smith, there was an openly gay musician, k.d. lang. I like to keep it light but informative on The Wow Report with this #BornThisDay column. It is my little spot on that Internet thing intended to celebrate all things important to me: Art, Film, Theatre, Television, Design, Books, Food, Cocktails, Travel, Dogs, Friends and Lovers, plus, of course, the art form that moves me and transforms my life the most, Music. Among the musicians who have meant the most to me, lang may be the artist that speaks to me the most.
Her stunning, pitch perfect, unadorned voice, androgynous look (lang is the girl next door and the boy next door), along with her brilliant live performances, have fully engaged me and swept me away to new emotional heights for the past 30 years. She is in that small group of artists, along with Lyle Lovett and Bette Midler who I have seen in concert more than six times.
Genre jumping lang won the first of her five Grammy Awards with her third album, winning Best Female Country Vocal Performance for Absolute Torch And Twang (1989). She received her next Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for Constant Craving from her album Ingénue (1992), her bestselling album to date. I don’t know if you kids are aware, but constant craving has always been. She had a number one single from that album with Miss Chatelaine. That salsa-inspired track was ironic; Chatelaine was a women’s magazine who had named lang as its “Woman Of The Year” and the song’s much played video shows an exaggeratedly feminine lang surrounded by bright pastel colored bubbles reminiscent of the Lawrence Welk Show. The result is funny, sweet and sexy.
Born Kathryn Dawn Lang in Edmonton, Alberta, of English-Irish-Scottish-German-Russian Jewish-Icelandic-Sioux stock, she grew up in a small town on the Canadian prairie. In high school she became fascinated with the life and music of Country Music great Patsy Cline. She formed a Patsy Cline tribute band called The Reclines in 1983. They played Canadian country music bars for a few years. lang recorded an album that received airplay on Canadian country stations and won eight Juno Awards (the Canadian equivalent of a Grammy) and then she was off to Nashville.
She recorded a pair of delicious country albums, Angel With A Lariat (1987) with Dave Edmunds producing, and the torchy Shadowland (1988) produced by the legendary Owen Bradley, Patsy Cline’s original producer and mentor. But, the Country Music establishment was not digging lang, with her bravura singing style, kitschy cowgirl outfits and spiky hair. She received almost no airtime on American Country Music stations, although Shadowland made it in the Top Ten Albums on the Billboard Country Charts. lang:
“I was there in Nashville, a lesbian, a vegetarian, a Canadian, and trying to get in with this white, male, Christian society. They were like, ‘What the hell are you doing here, girl?”
After that, lang refused to be limited by any musical genre and she moved easily into recording her own brand of Pop, putting out 11 more studio albums, one soundtrack, one live album, three greatest hits albums, 41 singles, and bunches of cool collaborations with all sorts of other musicians.
How could I pick a cut that would be her best or my personal favorite? I know that every time she did Roy Orbison’s Crying in concert, every hair on my body would stand on end and my heart would soar. I am crazy for her album of covers about smoking, Drag (1997) and I still dig the stripped down pop sound of her third album All You Can Eat (1995).
Lang has continued to record and to slide into different genres: the lovely summer bon-bon Invincible Summer (2000), Hymns Of The 49th Parallel (2004) which featured cover versions of songs by fellow Canadian singer-songwriters.
lang did a track on Tony Bennett‘s Playin’ With My Friends: Bennett Sings The Blues (2001). The two musicians from two very different generations really hit it off which led the pair to team up for a collaborative album inspired by Louis Armstrong’s music, the Grammy Award winning A Wonderful World (2007). They seemed to have real affection for each other and true chemistry with the blend of their voices. Bennett called lang “The best singer since Judy Garland”.
Just when I began to think of her as a tradition pop crooner, lang returned to a country sound with the lovely Watershed (2008) and the sassy Sing It Loud (2011).
The Husband loves her, my parental units love her, my Rock music loving friends love her, heterosexuals (not that there is anything wrong with that) love her, lesbians lover her, gay men love her.
For hair-raising virtuosity and for the glory of her voice I would have to point out her cover of Hallelujah by fellow Canadian Leonard Cohen. My personal favorite is gay songwriter Cole Porter’s So In Love from Red, Hot + Blue, the first in the series of compilation albums from the Red Hot Organization, an international organization dedicated to fighting HIV through pop culture. The organization’s name is taken from Porter’s Broadway musical, Red, Hot And Blue (1936). The album and accompanying videos are exceptional and lang’s amazing, disturbing video in the best. It breaks my heart.
The Vanity Fair cover from the August 1993 issue featured lang with supermodel Cindy Crawford. It was meant to be as controversial as lang’s career at the time. Herb Ritts photographed Crawford shaving lang who is dressed like a guy. Gender bending in the 1990s was still considered brave. Nowadays, who cares? According to the cover story, Lang got more grief from the country music industry over her decision to join PETA than for being gay.
lang claims that she was ready to retire from the music biz when suddenly she decided to go along with singer/songwriters Neko Case and Laura Veirs to form the super-group case/lang/veirs. The trio was formed after lang sent a one-line e-mail to Case and Veirs with the idea of recording together and they responded enthusiastically within 30 minutes.
lang and Veirs live in my town of Portland, Oregon. My people have spotted lang around town, walking her dog in the Pearl District with her pal, gay film director Gus Van Sant, or picking out fresh, local organic veggies at the Saturday Farmers’ Market. Maybe she plays on a ladies softball team and dates a therapist, I would not know. I seldom leave the house, but lang is invited for a meat-free dinner at my place anytime. Today we are celebrating lang’s birthday by listening to her music all day.
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Ruben snapping MC of the night, Shangela at the meet and greet
The place was SOLD OUT and the cast of Drag Brunch New York –also staged by Voss Events– got us warmed up for the main event. Shangela came out as Medea and stayed in that house dress all night. She chatted with stars after their performances. Shangela threw a little shade when she said Adore actually DID show up at the venue, took one look and said,
“I don’t belong here!“
She was teasing. But Phi Phi O’Hara was NOT when she stood firm and spoke (her) truth to power in asserting herself after her number. (Something about be who you gotta be) Photographer Ruben Natal-San Miguel and I had a bird’s eye view and he captured all of the madness from Alyssa Edwards (who entered through the crowd being carried), Coco Montrese (as Miss Nasty Jackson), Ginger Minj (who transformed from the Bride to Chucky), Katya (who got nasty herself with a crucifix), Roxxxy Andrews (all thick and caped and juicy and fab), Tatiana (who looked GORGEOUS and brought Katya to make out with) and finally Detox as the Bride of Frankenstein SLAYED and was ALIVE! Watch below.
For more #NightoftheLivingDrag pics & video check out Instagram.
(Photographs, Ruben Natal-San Miguel)
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The center hall
Photographer Michael Mundy, center with AD editor Margaret Russell, Carolina Irving and Niki Asti, outside The White House.
But my old pal, photographer Michael Mundy, got to, not just to see –but to photograph– the real thing for Architectural Digest. The private quarters were decorated by Michael S. Smith for the Obamas, and, now we’ll have a new POTUS in days, these pics give us full access to how stylishly they’ve been living the past 8 years. Mayer Rus writes,
Michelle and Barack Obama’s emendations to the White House speak volumes about the sea change in American culture the two have championed for the past eight years. Adorned with an unprecedented array of 20th- and 21st-century artworks, their private quarters remain an oasis of civility and, yes, refined taste in a political arena so often bereft of both.
“Because of Michael Smith, the private residence of the White House has not only reflected our taste but also upheld the proud history of this building. Above all, it has truly felt like a home for our family,” says Mrs. Obama in praise of the Los Angeles–based decorator, who has collaborated closely with the First Family during their tenure in Washington, D.C. Smith returns the compliment by describing his work as a response to the First Lady’s progressive spirit: “Mrs. Obama often talks about bringing new voices into the national conversation, and that idea informed many of the decisions we made,” he says. “We selected artists and designers who would never have appeared in the White House before.”
Smith was introduced to the Obamas by a mutual friend in Chicago following the 2008 election. “They were unbelievably charming, gracious, and thoughtful, and those qualities were reflected in the design of their home,” the decorator says. “It was very welcoming and comfortable, with books everywhere, and I immediately grasped the spirit of their family.”
With less than two months to make plans before the Obamas moved into the White House, Smith had to hustle. “The number one priority for the First Lady was getting Malia’s and Sasha’s rooms and her mother’s room set up,” explains Melissa Winter, who is the deputy assistant to the President and senior adviser to the First Lady. “The most important thing was ensuring the comfort and happiness of her family.”
Check out more pics and the full article here.
Can I brag for just a minute? Michael has photographed MY house too for, DVeight, the magazine about upstate New York he created with his wife, Nhi. You can see that story here. It used to be a barn, so it’s not exactly the WHITE house.
Dad with Sasha & Malia in the Treaty Room
The Treaty Room
The sitting room
The sitting room with a painting by Sean Scully
The Yellow Oval Room
The family dining room
The Old Family Dining Room
The Solarium on the White House roof
The Treaty Room entrance
(Photos, Michael Mundy; via Architectural Digest)
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Samantha Bee‘s Full Frontal has been going after Donald Trump criticizing every aspect of the man and his campaign. But she’s hit upon a conspiracy theory that explains a lot.
Donald Trump can’t read.
There’s a LOT of supporting evidence. “People ARE saying…”
Watch.
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Fashion Photo RuView is here for all your fashionistas of the world! Resident hosts Raja and Raven toot and boot RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 2 Reunion looks (because all nine of them queens looked too sickening to clean their act up!)
Check it out:
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At Mert Atlas and Marcus Pigott’s photo exhibit at the ever-so prestigious Phillips Auction House in London, Madonna had what appeared to be a drunken meltdown. The Material Girl clutched a glass of rosé while sitting on the wooden floor with her leg raised high in the air.
Via Viral Buzz Daily:
Surrounded by fellow guests, Madge put on a surprising show for the art-loving crowd.
The star dressed in a peaked leather cap adorned with pearls, which she matched with a leather jacket with pearls falling from the shoulders.
She wore skinny black jeans with ripped knees and teetering zebra print heels.
Madonna showed impressive flexibility with the height of her leg lift. She looked to having plenty of fun, smiling while gazing up at her extended foot.
The stunned art crowd stood around and took pictures, despite her bodyguards best efforts. Following that, Madonna propped herself up against the wall, possibly needing a rest from the drunken wallowing.’
Performance art perhaps?
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Our first look at the very first (stand-alone) female superhero movie is here and it. IS. GLORIOUS. We won’t give anything away, but everything about this trailer is giving us LIFE. June cannot come soon enough!
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They’ve judged the legendary second season of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, and now they’re just the best of squirrel friends! Last night in NYC, Todrick Hall hit the stage for the opening night of his debut on “Kinky Boots.” And Mama Ru was there to support her. Talk about #FriendGoals!
Check it out:
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Josh Flagg is known for selling property like a boss (and doing it all while looking fierce!) Meet Bobby Boyd, Flagg’s fiancé whom Flagg proposed to in Paris recently. Besides being the ultimate eye candy, check out this exclusive from Bravo ahead of tonight’s all new episode on Bravo at 9/8C.
Check it out:
And their love for one another is #RelationshipGoals:
A photo posted by Bobby Boyd (@bboydla) on
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Big Freedia took to her instagram last night to urge fans, parents, and teachers to educate youth on getting out and voting! She also endorsed Hillary Clinton (on top of making it known that if you’re a Clinton hater, YOU WILL BE BLOCKED!)
Check it out:
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Princess Diana‘s niece, socialite Lady Kitty Spencer, spoke to the Times of London about the problems of being young, beautiful, rich, and aristocratic. As the ambassador for the Centrepoint charity, revealed that she even envies some of the young homeless people the comes in contact with.
Explaining how they are usually very focused on the future, she said: ‘They know exactly what they want to do and what their talents are.
‘So for that I envy them. I do battle with what it is that I really want to set my mind to.’
To that end, Lady Spencer will be spending a night on the streets next month for Centrepoint’s annual sleep out with a group of friends, to learn how it feels to be homeless.
She admits that she’s struggling to figure out ‘what to do next’ as she concedes she could easily just live to post glamorous photos on Instagram. But she doesn’t want to look back and feel as if she could have done more to help others.
Via The Daily Mail:
When she’s not focused on her charity work, Kitty undoubtedly leads a charmed existence.
Her Instagram is a diary of parties, fashion shows and luxury holidays. She has one dainty foot in the party-hard London scene, via a close friendship with leggy Lady Violet Manners, 23, the Duke of Rutland’s daughter. These two and Violet’s younger sister Alice can be found in bars like Loulous in Mayfair, and at high-end parties around Europe. She’s been a regular on the front row at Paris and London fashion weeks and has been soaking up the sun in Cannes, Pisa and Florence.
Reactions to her comments on ONTD were rather priceless:
They know exactly what they want to do
find a home?
Not die?????
have a solid, nutritious meal?
get physical and mental health care?
Have a place that has actual plumbing?
not be looked down upon and outcasted by a majority of society?
assassinate the royal family & start a revolution?
Not be homeless?
To have 1/100 of whatever Kitty Spencer has?
They want to DANCE
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If you want to see Mrs. Kasha Davis of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 7 in her element check out her new one wo(man) show “There’s Always Time for a Cocktail” in a city near you!
Tonight, MKD hits San Francisco at Oasis Night Club!
In a couple weeks MKD will be in Rochester, New York! Tickets available HERE.
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Girls creator Lena Dunham released a pro-Hillary rap video on Funny or Die today – which means it was probably meant to be funny, althoooooooouuuuugh…. I guess you have to be a die-hard fan to get it.
Via HuffPo:
In the clip, Dunham raps about the inequality and sexism Clinton faces on a regular basis while prancing around in a red pantsuit. Things escalate quickly, though, and, before we know it, the Dunham has stripped down to a bikini-pantsuit hybrid to make the song all about herself.
Dunham explained her ideas behind the video ― which also stars Cynthia Erivo and Charlamagne tha God ― in an interview with Vulture, saying, “I liked the idea of a well-meaning, ridiculous white girl who thinks she’s helping the election by exposing her body and writing thoughtless rap music.”
“There are so many PSAs at this point, so it’s fun to take a step back and go, ‘How many of these are working?’” she added. “We should all be doing our part, but are they necessarily the smartest way that we can be going about it?”
Watch it below.
Ummm, her heart is in the right place, though, right?
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Sophia Coppola’s latest project The Beguiled has reportedly began production in Louisiana with Focus Features. Coppola’s signature brand of auteur, which includes writing the screenplay herself, is an adaptation of the novel under the same name by author Thomas Cullinan. Early rumors suggested Kirsten Dunst would be joining the project (their fourth collaboration!), and it was announced yesterday by We Are Movie Geeks that the gossip is indeed true. After an incredible year for Dunst on Fargo’s second season as Peggy Blumquist (which earned her a Critic’s Choice Award and an Emmy and Golden Globe nomination), she leads with an all star cast including Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, and Elle Fanning (their second collaboration).
Let’s look through their legendary cinematic partnership, shall we?
Coppola on Dunst: “Kirsten attracts light, you want to watch her.”
Dunst on Coppola: “She saw me as a woman before I did.”
That sixteen year old comment of course comes from Dunst playing the (iconic) dark rebel Lux Lisbon in the cult classic The Virgin Suicides.
Their second collaboration was the visual candy confection, Marie Antoinette (which Kiki totally should’ve been nominated for an Oscar, bbs):
Who could forget the audio masterpiece of this film?
Their third collaboration (which may come as a surprise for some) was The Bling Ring where Dunst makes a cameo:
Dunst will play Edwina Dabney and the synopsis is as follows: THE BEGUILED unfolds in a girls’ school in the state of Virginia in 1864. As the Civil War rages, The Miss Martha Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies has been sheltered from the outside world— until the day a wounded Union soldier is discovered nearby and taken in.
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It’s our FIRST giveaway for the fast-approaching 3rd annual RuPaul’s DragCon! It’s only 175 days away! Find out how you can win 2 VIP weekend passes to RuPaul’s DragCon on April 29 & 30, 2017 FOR FREE!
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Robert Mapplethorpe at 70. Hard to picture it. He seems eternally stuck in time as a young buck, a leather-clad sex god, a counterculture hero, and a permanent figure of ’70s and ’80s pop landscape. But, had he lived, he would be 70 years old today. And seventy is NOT REALLY that old anymore, either. He could conceivably still be producing relevant work. He could still be shocking the masses, and taking photography to new artistic levels. Crazy to think about! And what sad loss for all of us!
The WoW doc Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures explored his life with surgical precision. It’s playing at the DOC NYC this Saturday night, with upcoming screenings in Amsterdam (Nov 16, 18, 21, 22, and 24 at the International Documentary Film Festival) and Havana, Cuba (which should be REALLY FUN)(Dates to come).
It’s also been nominated for a Cinema Eye award and Critic’s Choice Award. GOOD LUCK!
If you haven’t had chance to check it out, here’s the trailer…
Robert Mapplethorpe emerged from the vibrant 1970s New York art scene where he bonded with Patti Smith and partnered with art collector Sam Wagstaff. Mapplethorpe’s photography spanned explicit gay sadomasochistic sex, but also stunning pictures of flowers. In 1989, the year he died of AIDS, he was denounced in Congress by Senator Jesse Helms. Filmmakers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato (The Eyes of Tammy Faye) don’t hold back in confronting Mapplethorpe’s personal complexities or public provocations. Courtesy of HBO Documentary Films.
Picos the groundbreaking photographer below.
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NYC nightlife star, fashion designer and hilarious queen Tobell Von Cartier has a new YouTube show Come On A My House…and it’s a TOOT! Watch her kiki with celebrities and up-and-comers, using her signature quick wit and southern charm…which is the comedic heart of the show. On this episode, Miss Tobell demonstrates multiple uses for your oil sheen hairspray (you thirsty?!?!), singer Sylvia Black performs live, and darling super stylist Ty-Ron Mayes, who was the stylist for cycles 20 & 21 of America’s Next Top Model, talks fashion. Check out what he has to say about working with super models Tyra Banks and Elle McPherson, legendary photographer Francesco Scavullo…and the ONLY Oprah Winfrey! Watch below!!!
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Brian Galindo at BuzzFeed has complied a fascinating list of movie actors who were up for some pretty iconic roles that eventually went to other stars. Can you imagine Tom Hanks as Jerry Maguire? Tom Cruise as Tony Stark/IronMan? Reese Witherspoon as Sidney Prescott in Scream? What about our beloved Macaulay Culkin as Jack Dawson in Titanic? That would have been a WHOLE OTHER MOVIE, huh? I’d love to see the lost screen test for THAT. Check out some of the lost roles, below.
1. Tom Hanks as Jerry Maguire
2. Katie Holmes as Annette Hargrove in Cruel Intentions
3. Leonardo DiCaprio as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in Spider-Man
4. Tom Cruise as Tony Stark/Iron Man in Iron Man
5. Helen Mirren as Ms. Weiss in Precious
6. Angelina Jolie as Alex Munday in Charlies Angel’s.
7. Reese Witherspoon as Sidney Prescott in Scream
8. Christina Applegate as Elle Woods in Legally Blonde
9. Denzel Washington as Detective David Mills in Seven
10. Johnny Depp as Ferris Bueller in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
11. Kirsten Dunst as Mia Thermopolis in The Princess Diaries
12. Mindy Kaling as Lillian Donovan in Bridesmaids
Check out more actors and their lost roles HERE.
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