RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 9’s premiere announcement is nothing short of SICKENING! As we count down the days to Friday, March 24th on VH1 at 8/7C, teaser videos of our new flock of frocked-out fashionistas are dropping and the latest one’s subject matter is: “What’s Your Spirit Animal?”
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Netflix just dropped the new trailer for the critically acclaimed comedy series “Grace & Frankie” with the infamous duo Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. And from the looks of the two and a half minute clip, the trouble-seeking twosome are back at it.
Check it out:
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The queen of chill, Rihanna, is up to something on her Instagram…after delivering an emotional speech to Harvard students when she recently accepted her Humanitarian award, she posted a picture from an upcoming Paper Magazine shoot…with SPIKY GREEN HAIR. Could these be a new music video in the works? Photo shoot? Either way, only Bad Gal Riri can pull this look off.
Check it out:
We. Are. Not. Worthy.
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From Nina Flowers to The Princess and MILK to Pearl, Laila McQueen from RuPaul’s Drag Race season 8 counts down her top 12 hottest RuPaul’s Drag Race studs to ever grace the main stage.
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Besides Lorde’s new “Green Lights” single (which we can’t get enough of at World of Wonder’s Headquarters), are you looking for new music to do your weekend chores to? Or some new jams to spin on your wheels while you run Sunday errands? May I suggest the spanish indie rock band Hinds?! Hailing from Madrid, these quartet is catchy, cool, and great for Spring.
Check them out:
I was recently introduced to them from Vogue’s feature and I heard “Chile Town” and I’ve been obsessed every since!
Hinds is a Spanish indie rock band from Madrid, formed in 2011, consisting of Carlotta Cosials (vocals, guitar), Ana Perrote (vocals, guitar), Ade Martin (bass, backing vocals) and Amber Grimbergen (drums) and they are about to go on tour!
Watch more of their videos here.
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Coming out can be an excruciating experience that can involve losing friends family or even your self-esteem. Instagram user thetravelinbum seeks to help those who are struggling with this process by having his followers “moon the world” as they come to accept theirselves.
The 24-year-old who conceived the popular Instagram account aimed to spin the typically stressful process of coming out into one that was therapeutic and inspiring — one that celebrated the exposure… right down to the crack. The Travelin’ Bum himself (who wishes to remain anonymous) tells Elite Daily, The nudity is something that makes light of what may be a difficult situation. The concept of nudity behind The Travelin’ Bum was to allow people to ‘free’ themselves from their secrets they have been holding in. [It allows] them to bare it all and be their true self, finally. (via Elite Daily)
Check out some of the hammy fannies below!
Cover/Top photo by Taylor Miller/ Buzzfeed
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“Sparks” by Hilary Duff is only a couple of years old, but I don’t think it ever got it’s due for some reason. So I’m posting it as my #ThrowbackThursday.
One of the writers and producers of the song is Christian “Bloodshy” Karlsson who is one half of Miike Snow (when performing) and Bloodshy & Avant (when producing). The duo have written songs for tons of people, but they’re responsible for Britney‘s “Toxic” and most of her album Blackout, so they’re legends IMHO. Hilary first released a version of the song’s video which is basically like a big commercial for Tinder, SO she released the “Fan Demanded Version.” It’s so good! Watch both!
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If Romy White had heard what a guest star on Friends said about Lisa Kudrow at the time, she’d sucker punch them in the face! While appearing on Watch What Happens LIVE, a fan phoned in to ask Kudrow what was the worst behavior a guest star portrayed when they were on the show. She describes a comment that one individual said to her and it will have you shook at how sexist it was, hunties.
Check it out:
“The worst behavior, off the top of my head?” she asked, after a fan called in to ask Kudrow what the worst behavior she’d seen from a guest star had been. “I rehearsed without makeup most of the week, and then on show night, I’m in hair and makeup, and I was told, ‘Oh wow, now you’re f—able.’ That’s bad behavior, I’d say.”
O.M.GAG?!
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The famous Queer Youtuber Davey Wavey recently sat down with Roman, a 95 year-old-man that shares his story of coming out gay at such a late age. Roman recalls knowing he was homosexual from a young age and the pressures of remaining in the closet for nine decades.
Wavey met Roman through his grandson Brandon Gross, who is currently making a story about his grandfather’s story called On My Way Out. The interview is humanistic in nature covering a gambit of topics from Roman’s 67-year marriage, acknowledgement of his homosexuality from a young age and his want to connect with a part of himself that was kept hidden for so long.
Via Huffington Post:
“I think there’s a lot to take from this video,” Wavey told The Huffington Post. “There’s a sense of history in understanding how far we’ve come, and the struggles that this man must have experienced. There’s gratitude for the LGBT people who marched and rallied and bleed and sweat so that today’s world is different ― and that fewer people feel compelled to live in the shadows or closets. But there’s also raw humanity. Whether you are queer or not, listening to Roman stirs something in all of us. And at a time when the world often feels divisive and divided, it’s good to be reminded of our common humanity.”
As for Roman, now that he’s out and proud, he told Wavey that he is certainly open to finding a boyfriend. When asked what kind of guy he’d be into, Roman said, “I don’t care! I don’t look at their face ― I look at their heart… I want to go to sleep [and] have somebody close to me. Not for any other reason but to be sure that someone cares.”
Check out the video:
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March 3, 1926– James Merrill:
He was a beautiful man who wrote beautiful, accessible poetry. His work was autobiographical in source and theme, but never actually confessional.
Merrill was the only child of Charles E. Merrill, one of the founders of financial services giant Merrill Lynch. His extremely wealthy family had estates in Southampton and Palm Beach, plus a penthouse at the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan. Poor little James never lived in one place for very long.
A public man and a giant figure in the world of finance, Charles Merrill worried about having a sissy son. When he discovered his son’s first lover, the Greek poet Kimon Friar, he hired a hooker to convert James to heterosexuality. Yet oddly, he was quite accepting and proud of his son’s poetry. His father published his son’s first book of stories and poems himself when Merrill was just 16 years old. He was taught German and French by his Prussian nanny. He had the money to go where he wanted, study where he wanted, and to meet the very best people.
Merrill graduated from Amherst College in 1947. His first book, First Poems, was officially published in 1951. In 1953, he met David Jackson, an artist and writer who would be Merrill’s partner for the next 40 years, even if they were anything but monogamous.
Jackson was thought of, as anyone would have been in his place, of being a gold-digger. Truman Capote once asked him:
“Tell me, David, how much do you get a throw?”
The special quality and luminescence of Merrill’s poems was noted from an early age. His verse is formal, but witty, with a depth of real feeling beneath a coy facade. His poetry meant a great deal to a lot of readers.
But early critics wrote that Merrill’s poetry was brittle, neurotic, and unworldly (like that’s a bad thing). Some of that had to do with the era’s pronounced homophobia and even class resentment.
Merrill was a big fan of the opera. He and Jackson would get stoned during intermission at the Met.
Both men had a longtime obsession with Merrill’s homemade Ouija Board, where they communicated with spirits on the other side, including famous dead poets.
Merrill (L) with Jackson
Merrill and Jackson would bring out the Ouija board after dinner along with the brandy. Their two decades of séances were the inspiration for Merrill’s famous epic 560 page poem The Changing Light At Sandover which won the 1983 National Book Critics Award. Merrill took the Ouija Board sessions seriously. They made him feel frightened, but exhilarated. He strongly believed in a spirit world, but he sometimes simply dismissed them as mere entertainment. I understand, having spent some time moving that planchette around on an Ouija board myself. There might be something to it.
Merrill lived in a pre and post-Stonewall world and he felt the new shifting backdrops of a life in the closet, Gay Liberation, and HIV/AIDS, with the slang, choices, and conditions for being a queer changing with the times.
Merrill had an enormous appetite for sexual encounters. He had many lovers. He also had many STDs. He was ultimately taken by complications from HIV. Even though he was fully out of the closet by then, he did not speak publicly about his diagnosis. Merrill:
“In my opinion there cannot be too much denial.”
His poetry never shied away from his life as a queer. Merrill won nearly every major American prize for poetry: two National Book Awards,Library Of Congress’s Bobbitt National Prize, Yale University’s Bollingen Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize.
Merrill and Jackson shared a famous, much written about house in the village of Stonington, Connecticut, and the couple spent part of each year in Athens. Greek themes, locales, and characters occupy a prominent place in Merrill’s poetry. Later, Athens was replaced by Jackson’s own 300 square foot home in Key West, a far cry from the houses he had grown-up in. Merrill’s poem Clearing The Title is about this cottage at 702 Elizabeth Street.
Though Merrill was very wealthy his entire life, he lived a rather modest life and he understood the financial situation of artists of all kinds. He founded the Ingram Merrill Foundation, a permanent endowment created for writers and visual artists.
As Merrill grew older, the polished and taut brilliance of his early poems changed to an informal, relaxed style, even though he had already been established in the 1970s as one of the finest poets of his generation.
Merrill served as a Chancellor of the Academy Of American Poets from 1979 until his passing. He contributed generously to literary causes, the arts, and PBS.
In his memoir A Different Person (1993), Merrill writes a very candid portrait of gay life in the 1950s, and about of his relationships with lovers past and imaginary, including writer Claude Fredericks, art dealer Robert Isaacson, and Jackson. At one point, Jackson and Merrill lived in a fairly long three-way relationship with actor Peter Hooten.
For over 30 years of Merrill, Jackson and friends used that special Ouija board for Merrill’s writing. The sessions brought many ghosts into their lives. But, near the end of his life, Merrill discouraged other people from ever using or playing with the Ouija board.
Merrill put down his pen for good in 1995, taken by complications from HIV, while vacationing in Arizona, where he had gone thinking the hot dry air would be good for his health, just a month before his 69th birthday.
If you want to know more, and you really should, try James Merrill: Life And Art (2015) by Langdon Hammer.
But nothing’s lost. Or else: all is translation
and every bit of us is lost in it
and in that loss a self-effacing tree
Color of context, imperceptibly
Rustling with its angel, turns the waste
To shade and fiber, milk and memory.
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From Hollywood Boulevard, it’s The WOW Report for Radio Andy on SiriusXM! That’s right WOWers, World of Wonder Co-Founder Fenton Bailey, Executive VP of Development Tom Campbell, and WOW Report Editor James St. James have collaborated with reality TV guru and friend of WOW, Andy Cohen, on a weekly Top Ten Countdown of the things from the past week that make us go…WOW!
It’s a pop-culture obsessed hour complete with colorful diatribes, opposing opinions, and a dissection-like discussion that will make your drive home from work more fabulous!
We air TODAY at 4PM EST on SiriusXM, and it will play again at 4PM PST (7PM EST). You can also catch it on the SiriusXM app! And this week is a little different, because we have WOWlebrity John Polly filling in this week for Fenton who is on assignment in Canada!
Let’s get started…
10) King Cobra
King Cobra – about the life and early career of gay porn star Brent Corrigan – is currently streaming on Netflix.
9) Hot Men’s of the Week: Oscar Edition
We chit-chat about the hottest men at this year’s Oscars ceremony.
8) Get Out
The Jordan Peele directed horror movie Get Out is currently the number one movie in the nation, and is open everywhere.
7) The Witness
The documentary The Witness – about the 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese – is currently streaming on Netflix.
6) Charo on Dancing with the Stars
WOWlebrity and international icon Charo has joined the cast of Dancing with the Stars! The show returns to ABC on March 20.
5) Kedi
Kedi – the documentary about the thousands of Turkish kitty cats who roam Istanbul freely – is in theaters now. Check your local listings.
4) Crashing
Judd Apatow’s new show Crashing airs Sundays at 10:30PM on HBO.
3) PWR BTTM
American queer punk duo PWR BTTM – whose new album Pageant drops March 12 – will be on Be$tie$ for Ca$h next Friday!
2) Michael Moore’s Ten Point Action Plan Against Trump
Click here for Michael Moore’s plan.
1) ???
So who or what is number 1? You’ll have to FIND OUT at 4:00PM EST and again at 4:00 PST (7 PM EST) on SiriusXM!
Thanks for tuning in! Be sure to give your ears the gift of THE WOW REPORT on Radio Andy SiriusXM EVERY Friday.
And remember, do something this weekend that makes YOU go WOW!!!
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Celine Dion has given us many gifts in life: the chest punch, singing ‘Feliz Navidad,’ and the backwards white suit to name a few…but when she stepped out in a timeless powder blue Christian Siriano frock for the LA premiere of the live action Beauty & The Beast. Brace yourselves and breath because the sleek, classic, dress was SO sickening, we here at the World of Wonder Headquarters can barely handle the pure gag of it all.
Check it out:
Looking like the goddamn Headmistress of Beauxbatons, she SLAYED the red carpet.
.@celinedion stole the show in @CSiriano at the #BeautyandtheBeast premiere in Hollywood: https://t.co/a4RDhNwPmX pic.twitter.com/0TeuuANnL8
— HELLO! Canada (@HelloCanada) March 3, 2017
.@EmmaWatson's reaction to meeting @celinedion = us
#beautypremiere pic.twitter.com/kSt6yczbJ4
— HELLO! Canada (@HelloCanada) March 3, 2017
Thanks @LUXURYLAW for making this amazing fashion moment happen! @celinedion stunning in a Siriano bow dress at #beautyandthebeast premiere pic.twitter.com/XTux143so6
— Christian Siriano (@CSiriano) March 3, 2017
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Even though the 1939 version of Wizard of Oz is filled with bright colors and a happy ending, its theme tends to lean on the gloomy side. Now, New Line is in early development on a horror film staged in the world of L. Frank Baum‘s The Wonderful Wizard of OZ universe.
The studio, a division of Warner Bros., has bought an untitled pitch by screenwriter Mike Van Waes. The project isn’t set up with a producer yet.
“The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” was published in 1900 and adapted into a successful musical in 1902. As with the 1939 movie starring Judy Garland, the story follows a girl named Dorothy in Kansas who lives on the prairie with her Aunt Em, Uncle Henry, and dog. A tornado carries Dorothy and Toto to a magical land to battle the Wicked Witch of the West.
(via Variety)
I wonder what dark and twisted worlds will be created out of the already perverse land of Oz!
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Now that the cast of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 9 was RUVEALED, we’ll be sharing our FAV Insta-picks from the new batch of girls that possess all the charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent. Today we are featured Charlie Hides!
Check out her 9 most sickening Insta-picks and make sure you follow her on her Instagram!
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Tori Spelling & Dean McDermott welcomed their FIFTH! child yesterday at 1:48 PM. Beau Dean McDermott weighed 5lbs, 10oz and was 18 inches long.
We are so excited to announce the birth of the newest member of the McDermott family! Please join us in welcoming Beau Dean McDermott. pic.twitter.com/xPCK25cBHV
— Tori Spelling (@Tori_Spelling) March 3, 2017
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We’re less than TWO months away from RuPaul’s DragCon 2017, hunties! If you’re a returning DragConner or just a shopping aficionado to boot, you’re NOT gonna wanna miss out on the opportunity to familiarize yourself with all our spectacular exhibitors before April 29th and 30th. You saw our love for 3rd Class Clothing yesterday, and today’s feature for RuPaul’s DragCon 2017 is: Chernobyl Show!
Check it out:
Chernobyl Show is mostly known for its sculpture-wearable-art pieces such as armor jackets, corsets, headpieces and accessories. Each piece is mainly made by Rhinestone, Vinyl and Resin. Every piece is carefully crafted and handmade, making them unique and customizable.
Chernobyl Show designs are created for confident, fierce and powerful characters who own theirselves and know how to make an entrance.
Jake Chernobyl invites you to his dark and edgy fantasy world inspired by his childhood Gods and Demons, Kings and Queens, Beasts and Creatures.
His collections include BEAST WITHIN II COLLECTION ’16:
CAT WOMAN
BEAST WITHIN I COLLECTION
BEASTS
ALIENS
Visit their site to see the full collections here!
Yevgen Ivanov was born and raised in Odessa, Ukraine, a little port city with a wild mix of nationalities, cultures and architecture.
Don’t forget to follow on Facebook and Instagram!
RuPaul’s DragCon 2017 commences April 29th and 30th!
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Get your spoons full of sugar ready, Disney just released the first image of Emily Blunt as the reimagined Mary Poppins for their upcoming film Mary Poppins Returns!
The photo shows Poppins from behind on a leafy London street, complete with hat, stylish blue and purple coat, and of course the mixed-patterned handbag. All that’s missing appears to Mary’s broomstick alternative, her signature parrot-topped black umbrella.
Although as fans of the super-nanny know, the umbrella could well be stashed away in her bottomless bag which in the original stored a large plant and an ornate lamp among other eclectic items. The role was originated by Julie Andrews.
The latest version also boasts an all-star supporting cast including Lin-Manuel Miranda as Jack, a street lamplighter who could well be an updated version of Dick van Dyke’s lovable “chim chimney” sweep from the original, Meryl Streep as Poppins’ cousin Topsy, who wasn’t in the 1964 classic, and Colin Firth as William Weatherall Wilkins. Angela Lansbury will also appear.
The movie is set to reunite the director and producing team behind Disney’s hit musical “Into the Woods,” with Rob Marshall in the director’s chair and Marshall, John DeLuca and Marc Platt all down as producers.
The Mary Poppins sequel hits theaters Dec. 25, 2018. (via Variety)
Feed the birds, and check out the photo below!
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HEY QWEEN‘s ‘Drag Feed’ is back with news and updates everything drag. Join Mayhem Miller this week as she spills all the T across instagram, Alaska and the Hey Qween’s season premiere.
MONDAY: Hey Qween TV just released an exclusive sneak peak from their upcoming fifth season. Get ready for the T to be spilled, children!
TUESDAY: Mayhem Miller is back on HEY QWEEN’s ‘Drag Feed’ featuring Farrah Moan, India Ferrah, & Kalypso Bang on this installment of ‘Insta-Queens’.
THURSDAY: Thursday is ‘Meme Day’ on Drag Feed this week featuring Alaska an upcoming guess on HEY QWEEN’s 5 Season airing soon!
FRIDAY: This weeks installment of “Qweens Around the World” features the amazing pair DUO RAW.
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The queen of daytime realness, Ellen, spoke candidly about her new show she is developing “Ellen’s Game of Games” where she described to fans and viewers on what to expect for the busy host and the show’s content. And, how sickening that she gave a special shout out to RuPaul’s Drag Race.
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“I’m so excited to be hosting a huge prime-time game show for NBC. We’re pulling out all the stops—gigantic sets, hilarious games. It’s going to be like a combination of American Ninja Warrior, RuPaul’s Drag Race, and a water park. Okay, it’s nothing like that, but you should still watch,” DeGeneres said in a statement.
In quintessential game-show form, “Ellen’s Game of Games” will draw contestants from the audience and give them the opportunity to win some cash by . . . well, basically by being silly. Participants are expected to perform stunts and answer trivia questions, and—we can only assume—dance.
The show is expected to be lighthearted and fun (i.e., precisely what the viewing public could use right now), but—as with everything Ellen—it will likely make a point of being inclusive and engaging. In other words, an Ellen-hosted game show will be a nice reminder of all the quirky goodness that still manages to exist in the world.
“Ellen’s impact as a daytime icon is unprecedented, and we can’t wait to see her bring that amazing spirit to Game of Games,” Paul Telegdy, president of NBC Entertainment’s Alternative and Reality Group, said in a press release. “She is among the very best at engaging with her devoted audience and we are all in for a treat when her antics hit prime time.”
NBC has not yet announced when Ellen’s Game of Games will debut. In the meantime, here’s a taste of what’s to come:
Read more here.
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