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BOB the Drag Queen & Entertainment Journalist Marc Malkin Join Us for This Week’s Top Ten Things That Make Us Go WOW! for Radio Andy on Sirius XM!

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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, Chief Creative Officer 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!

You can now WATCH us recording the WOW Report in our gallery storefront on Hollywood Boulevard, just across the street from Hollywood’s oldest restaurant Musso & Frank!

This week we have special guest host Marc Malkin filling in for Fenton, and we’re joined by season 8 winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race, BOB the Drag Queen! We air TODAY at 4PM EST on SiriusXM and again at 4PM PST (that’s 7PM EST). You can also catch it on the SiriusXM app!

Let’s get started…

10) Baby Driver Drives Us Wild 

We discuss the hit movie Baby Driver with Ansel Elgort and a slew of Hollywood heavyweights. Do you think it should get a sequel? Baby Driver is in theaters now.

9) Do We Really Need Another Spider Man?

I mean, we guess? The third reboot of the Spider-Man franchise in the past 15 years – Spider-Man: Homecoming – is better than we expected. What do you think? It’s in theaters now.

8) Andrew Garfield is Gay…ISH

Former Spider-Man star Andrew Garfield recently came under fire for saying that he was gay without the physical act of it. What do we think? Tune in to find out.

7) Macklemore Makes Video with His 100-Year-Old Grandma

Macklemore thought outside of the box when casting his newest video for “Glorious” – his 100-year-old grandmother! Check out the video.

6) Summer Read – King of Style: Dressing Michael Jackson

The King of Style: Dressing Michael Jackson is a fascinating look at the intersection of music and fashion, as well as an homage to Michael Jackson’s brilliant fusing of costume, personality, and performance to create his iconic image.” It’s available for purchase on Amazon.

5) “Praying”: The Emancipation of Kesha

After a nearly five year hiatus due to legal issues and nasty allegations with producer Dr. Luke, Kesha is back! She’s just released the single and video “Praying” from her upcoming album Rainbow.

4) Would You Buy the $35k Tesla?

Tesla is about to release their $35k Model S, but if you want one, you’re going to have to wait. There is a waiting list and the company says if you order now, you’ll get your Tesla in 2018!

3) Netflix Picks: Okja

Okja is a 2017 action-adventure film directed by Bong Joon-ho and co-written by Bong and Jon Ronson. The film stars an ensemble cast headed by South Korean child actress Ahn Seo-hyun, alongside Hollywood actors Tilda SwintonPaul DanoSteven YeunLily Collins, and Jake Gyllenhaal. It’s streaming on Netflix.

2) Emma Stone is Out as Billie Jean King

Emma Stone is on the cover of the latest issue of Out magazine to discuss her buzz-worthy role as tennis legend and queer icon Billie Jean King.

1) BOB the Drag Queen is a Suspiciously Large Woman

Season 8 winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race BOB the Drag Queen has her first stand-up comedy special airing Sunday, July 16 at 8PM on Logo!

Listen in at 4:00PM EST and again at 4:00 PST (7 PM EST) on SiriusXM! Or listen whenever you want on the SiriusXM App!

And be sure to give your ears the gift of THE WOW REPORT on Radio Andy SiriusXM EVERY Friday.

Do something this weekend that makes YOU go WOW!!!

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Watch This: ‘Narcos’ Season 3 Teaser Trailer Is Here!

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Fans of binge-watching (myself included) know the feeling of finishing a series’ season and having to wait for the next one. Ugh, it is the absolute worst! This time it’s with Netflix’s Narcos following the epic rise and fall of famed drug lord, Pablo Escobar in the 1980’s.

Luckily, the wait is almost over with Netflix releasing the all new teaser trailer PLUS the season 3 premiere date, airing on Netflix on September 1st!

Here’s Narcos’s season 3 synopsis:

“In a post-Pablo Escobar world, those final words spoken in the last season of the Netflix original series Narcos foreshadow the upcoming season’s pivot into the corrupt, powerful and wildly profitable world of Colombia’s Cali Cartel — the biggest drug lords you’ve probably never heard of. Now that the bloody hunt for Pablo Escobar has ended, the DEA turns its attention to the richest drug trafficking organization in the world: the Cali Cartel. Led by four powerful godfathers, this cartel operates much differently than Escobar’s, preferring to bribe government officials and keep its violent actions out of the headlines.”

 

Sadly, Boyd Holbrook (swoon) is leaving the Narcos behind. Pedro Pascal, of HBO‘s Game of Thrones fame, will be returning to hunt down the Cali Cartel. We can’t wait to see what season 3 has in store.

Will you be tuning in on September 1st?

[Image via Daniel Daza/Netflix]

 

 

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In Honor Of Island Hunters Season 4 Watch Part 1 Of Chris Krolow’s Funniest Moments!

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Island Hunters is coming back!

Season four of our HGTV show, Island Hunters, is returning this Sunday, July 16 at 10/9c for a TWO episode premiere and boy are they some goooood episodes.

Even if you can’t afford your own private island (YET!), let host Chris Krolow, of Private Islands Inc., take you on a journey to virgin islands, the Caribbean, Canada, and so many other AMAZING places.

Since we’re on the fourth season of the show, it turns out our host has some pretty HILARIOUS moments from the past episodes.

To help y’all get excited for the season four premiere on Sunday at 10/9c on HGTV, watch this video of Chris Krolow’s funniest jokes below.

Be sure to tune in to the two-episode premiere of Island Hunters this Sunday, July 16 at 10/9c on HGTV!

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ICYMI: Here’s The T, Stories That The WOW Report Thinks You’ve Gotta Read!

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July 15th: It’s YOUR Birthday, Bitch!

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#BornThisDay: Singer, Linda Ronstadt

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Photograph from Capitol Records

July 15, 1946– Linda Marie Ronstadt has been providing me with listening pleasure for 45 years, often taking a leading role on the soundtrack of my life, taking me through ups, downs, fears, and tears. Folk, Rock, Punk, Country, Broadway, Standards, Opera, Jazz, Traditional Mexican, Pure Pop, New Wave Tropical Latin, even Children’s Music, no matter the genre, I went along for the ride. She is the perfect artist for my eclectic tastes.

Ronstadt has been somewhat closed about her private life, but she has been known to speak out about politics as a liberal advocate, and she can be a bit of rabble rouser. In 2004, she was evicted from the Aladdin Theatre in Las Vegas for speaking out against the war in Iraq to a booing audience. She supports and campaigns for environmental issues and against the Conservative politics in Arizona where she resides in Tucson. Ronstadt has long championed Gay Rights and Marriage Equality:

“Homophobia is anti-family values. Period, end of story.”

Ronstadt has famously dated George LucasJim Carrey, and, of course, California Governor Jerry Brown, but she has never married.

Ronstadt with The Eagles and Jerry Brown 1976, Photograph by Chuck Pullin

 

While Ronstadt no longer sings, she can write. Her terrific, moving memoir, Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir (2013) was a New York Times Bestseller. Interestingly, she says nothing about that other great girl singer/songwriter Carly Simon, not a word. But, she still dishes a whole bunch. In the memoir she writes:

“Jerry Brown and I had a lot of fun for a number of years. He was smart and funny, not interested in drinking or drugs, and lived his life carefully, with a great deal of discipline.” She said she found him to be “a relief” from the musicians she hung around with. But she also added: “Neither of us ever suffered under the delusion that we would like to share each other’s lives. I would have found his life too restrictive, and he would have found mine entirely chaotic…Eventually we went our separate ways and embraced things that resonated with us as different individuals…We have always remained on excellent terms.”

“I’ll meet a guy and he’s real kind but isn’t inspired musically, and then you meet somebody else that’s just so inspired musically that he just takes your breath away, but he’s such a moron, such a maniac that you can’t get along with him. And then after that it’s the problem of finding someone that can stand you!”

Besides that amazing singing, Ronstadt also writes gorgeous music and her own songs have been recorded by other artists as diverse as Trisha Yearwood and Sarah Brightman. She has released over 30 studio albums and has made guest appearances on over 120 other albums, collaborating with a zany list of recording artists from Frank Zappa to Rosemary Clooney, including: Billy EckstineEmmylou HarrisThe Chieftains, Dolly PartonNeil YoungJD SoutherGram ParsonsBette MidlerThe Nitty Gritty Dirt BandEarl ScruggsThe EaglesAndrew GoldHoyt AxtonThe McGarrigle FamilyKarla BonoffJames TaylorWarren ZevonMaria MuldaurRandy Newman, and Nicolette Larson.

With the most remarkable set of pipes of my generation, Ronstadt remains the rarest of rarities, a chameleon like ability to blend her voice into the background or take center stage, yet remain dauntlessly distinctive. The voice is exceptional; like few others.

Ronstadt has received a total of 27 Grammy Award nominations and has won 11 statues in seven categories. Also on her awards shelf is an Emmy AwardGolden Globe and a Tony Award nomination. She was the first female in music history to have eight consecutive platinum albums.  Ronstadt’s Spanish language album, Canciones De Mi Padre (1987) remains the bestselling non-English language album in USA music history. Ronstadt was the first female solo artist to have two Top 40 singles at the same time with Blue Bayou and It’s So Easy (1977). She has an astonishing 24 compilations or Greatest Hits albums and she is the bestselling, most successful touring, and highest paid female recording artist of that crazy decade we call the 1970s.

I admire her own compositions, but for me, Ronstadt’s greatest talent is her work as an interpretive artist. I don’t know which recordings I love the most. Certainly the three albums with the great Nelson RiddleWhat’s New (1983), Lush Life (1984), and For Sentimental Reasons (1986), plus the pair of Trio albums (1987 & 1999) with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris, also the rockin’ Living In The USA (1978) and the punky Mad Love (1980), because they played constantly during the happiest time of my life. Her cover of Elvis Costello‘s Alison gave me the courage to sing the song in my performances and for my auditions.

On a summer afternoon in 2013, Ronstadt announced that she suffers from Parkinson’s Disease, which has robbed her ability to sing. She claims that she will no longer perform or record. She uses a walker or wheelchair to get around. Ronstadt:

“I wouldn’t have suspected that in a million, billion years. It’s hard to wash my hair, brush my teeth, and put my clothes on. It’s hard to get up and out of a chair. No one can sing with Parkinson’s Disease, no matter how hard you try.”

I cried when I heard this news.

When Ronstadt was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2014, Stevie NicksSheryl Crow, Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt and Carrie Underwood honored her by singing her tunes because Ronstadt was too ill to attend. I cried again.

On 2015, President Barack Obama honored Ronstadt with the National Medal Of Arts, our country’s highest honor. At the ceremony, he placed the medal around her neck, and whispered to her how as a kid he had a crush on her. He’s not alone.

In December 2016, a group of performers who know or have worked with her gathered for a Ronstadt tribute show at the Ace Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles, including Grace Potter, Brandy Clark, JD Souther, Lucius, Jackson Browne, Maria Muldaur, Aaron Neville, and Don Henley. 100 percent of money raised that evening went to The Michael J. Fox Parkinson’s Foundation.

A lifelong Democrat and of Mexican heritage, what do you think is the perfect Ronstadt song for our era: He’s No Good, Don’t Know Much, Livin’ The USA, Cry ‘Til My Tears Run Dry, Hurt So Bad? How about we settle on Lies?

Today in honor of her birthday, while composing this post, I am listening to What’s New with those sterling Nelson Riddle arrangements. I am feeling old, feeling wistful, feeling nostalgic for a better time, wistful over innocence lost. I love Ronstadt for being in my life and because, like me, as she expanded her horizons she also filled out a bit.

“Joy is never merely happiness, but a mixture of happiness, sadness, wonder, relief, and fear. It’s like a physical manifestation of a complex emotion. I wonder if they could measure what it is music does to your body.”

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#SorryWrongNumber: Furious Mom Texts 35 Year-Old Guy Instead of Her 18 Year-Old Daughter (It Doesn’t Go Well…)

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Apparently, this 35-year-old guy from Wisconsin was enjoying his day off from work recently when he got a text,

Hunny please grab milk and lunch meet on your way home.

Wrong number. No biggie, right? Wrong. Despite repeatedly trying to convince the pissed off Mom, she refused to believe she wasn’t texting her 18-year-old daughter, Jess. And things got heated. And hilarious.

Read on.

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Bob the Drag Queen, Lady Bunny, Deven Green, Unitard, Francesco Paladino &“Naked Comics” Are ALL Making Us Laugh Our Pants Off!

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Lots funny shows all over, in fact there are so many I decided to do a round up of some of my faves. I know most of these guys and have seen almost all perform (if not countless videos) So, I can personally vouch for them. Why not get off your couch and go see some live comedy. We all need to laugh to keep from crying, considering who is STILL in the White House. But if you can’t get off your ass, turn on Logo this Sunday to see Bob the Drag Queen‘s first comedy special, Suspiciously Large Woman, July, 16 at 8PM. (Get a taste below.)

Lady Bunny

Does this one need any introduction? Have you seen her one-woman show, Transjester, danced to her DJing or laughed your ass off at her latest video? If not, come out from under that rock and find her. Bunny is seemingly EVERYWHERE this summer.

DJ Hamptons annual benefit Tea Dance tonight on Fire Island July 15th, 4-8PM
DJ Disco Sundays The Monster, NYC, July 16th, 6-10PM
Performing on July 22nd The Lodge, Boonsboro, Maryland
DJ Disco Sundays The Monster, NYC, July 23rd, 6-10PM

Freak Out

with Francesco Paladino & Nicky Sunshine
The night will feature a rotating list of performers and storytellers sharing secrets and tales through poetry, movement, music and more!

Wednesday, July 19th at 6:30PM
Stonewall Inn
New York City
Performances and Stories by:
Francesco Paladino
Nicky Sunshine
Trans Fran Cisco
Tom Ragü
Liah Alonso & Sonia De Luna
Colette McIntyre & Olivia Levine
and your host Chauncey Dandridge

$5 suggested donation in advance/$8 at door
21 and over/ proper ID required
2 drink minimum

Unitard

with Nora Burns, David Ilku & Mike Albo

These three have been raising hell on stage for nearly two decades with their hard core, kinky comedy. Their new show, Tard Core, is soothing salve for these raw times. So, bend over and take it on the Trump.

Art House
Provincetown
July 19-20

Tard Core
Joe’s Pub
New York City
July 26th, 7PM
Get tickets here.

Deven Green

You’ve seen Deven Green‘s Melania parodies Welcome To My Home and Welcome To My White House here on The Wow Report or portraying the satirical Betty Bowers – America’s Best Christian online. Deven sings her convivial mash-ups, sing-a-longs and audience requests solidify her title as “human jukebox.”

Mo’s Bar & Grill
San Diego
Fri, July 21, 2017
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM PDT
Get tickets here.

Sage Inn
Provincetown
July 24-26. 8pm. $25
Get tickets here.

Rose & Crown
Provincetown July 27 & 28. Noon. Cookies.
Hosted by Austin Tyler

Daniel Nardicio’s Comic Strip

An all naked comedy show
Starring Brad Loekle
(World’s Dumbest, Last Comic Standing)
and featuring
Jason Barker
Rachel Greene
Steve
April Bruckner

Plus a Naked Audience Joke Off!

Eastern Bloc
New York City
Saturday, July 29, 8PM
Get tickets here.

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#AttnQueens!: Vintage Patterns Wiki Has Over 83,000 Designs Online (Including Dior, YSL & Givenchy!)

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Yes, the Vintage Patterns Wiki has more than 83,500 patterns that are at least 25 years old. As a collaborative effort, the database is constantly being updated and organized, with any newly uploaded patterns dating prior to 1992. It is a resource featuring historical, visual guides with sample images of vintage sewing patterns. They can be used by enthusiasts and professional designers to see garment varieties, silhouettes, styles, and colors of different eras, not to mention by queens who know how to sew! Vintage dress mini-challenge!

Arranged by decade, garment type, designer – McCall’s, Vogue, Redbook, Butterick & Simplicity– feature names like Dior, YSL and Givenchy, as well as looks from movie stars like Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor. Browse away and get out your Singers!

(via My Modern Met)

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July 16th: It’s YOUR Birthday, Bitch!

#BornThisDay: Actor, Barbara Stanwyck

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July 16, 1907– Barbara Stanwyck:

“A star is only as good as her last picture.”

When queried about my favorite male and female stars of Hollywood’s First Golden Age, I have no hesitation in announcing Barbara Stanwyck as my female choice (with apologies to Irene Dunn and Myrna Loy).

1931, Warner Bros.

 

Stanwyck, born Ruby Catherine Stevens in Brooklyn, possessed an unusual beauty and a distinctive husky voice. She was an extremely versatile actor, moving easily between Melodramas, Thrillers, Westerns, and Screwball Comedies. The buzz in the industry has always been that she was wonderful to work with, professional, fun on the set, noted for being especially kind to the crew and the extras, and she never behaved like the big star that she was.

Stanwyck had a career that lasted six decades, with over 100 films, bringing film fans a strong, realistic screen presence. She was a favorite of directors Cecil B. DeMilleFritz Lang and Frank Capra. After a short but notable career as a stage actor in the late 1920s, she made 93 films before smartly turning to television with The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1961), The Big Valley (1966) and The Thorn Birds (1983), where she made-out with the very gay Richard Chamberlain.

As an actor Stanwyck could be, by turns, salty or sweet; vulnerable or tough; funny or tragic; but always totally unique and uncommonly intelligent. She brought madcap comedic glamour to The Lady Eve (1941), played a tough-minded feminist in the weepy Stella Dallas (1937), and a dangerous femme fatale in film noir classic Double Indemnity (1944). She could even sing and dance, appearing on stage in 1922 and 1923 versions of The Ziegfeld Follies.

In 1934, the Hayes Code, began to strictly enforce their morality on Hollywood to try and clean up the “indecency” from films. Everything from swearing and drug use to childbirth and interracial relationships were white washed from the movies. The Code encouraged happy endings. One of the films that initiated this puritanical policing was the gritty Night Nurse (1931), which features Stanwyck in lingerie, with attempts to murder children, and a dead Clark Gable. It is in regular rotation on TCM. You really should catch it.

I appreciated so many of her films, but one is special to me, certainly in my Top 10 Of All Time, Ball Of Fire (1941), where she plays opposite my male choice for favorite male star, Gary Cooper. I am also fond of her husband killer, Phyllis Dietrichson, in Double Indemnity; her magazine columnist caught up in a series of white lies in the holiday romantic comedy Christmas In Connecticut (1945); and the terrorized wife in Sorry, Wrong Number (1948).

An orphan at four-years-old, Stanwyck never went to high school. She began performing out of necessity when she was 14-years-old. Stanwyck invested her money smartly, eventually becoming one of the richest women in the USA.

“I knew that after 14 I’d have to earn my own living, but I was willing to do that… I’ve always been a little sorry for pampered people, and of course, they’re ‘very’ sorry for me.”

“I’ve known women who plodded through life, but the women I knew did their plodding on the pavement, not the soil. I know very little about the simple life. I’m a product of crowded places and jammed-up emotions, where right and wrong weren’t always clearly defined and life wasn’t always sweet, but it was life.”

Stanwyck married twice. The first time was to Broadway star Frank Fay who starred opposite her in the immensely successful play, Burlesque (1927). Their marriage was rough, to say the least. When he moved to Hollywood with Stanwyck, Fay, a vaudevillian, was unable to parlay his success on Broadway to the screen, while Stanwyck’s stardom was predestined. Fay was easily enraged and he would strike his young wife when he was drunk. Director William Wellman and writers Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell used their relationship for the basis for their screenplay of A Star Is Born (1937).

Stanwyck’s second marriage was to stunning leading man Robert Taylor. After appearing together in His Brother’s Wife (1936), Taylor and Stanwyck set up household together without the benefit of matrimony. An outraged Louis B. Mayer insisted on a wedding and put together a ceremony for the pair of popular stars in 1939. Their large ranch with horses and a rustic home on Mandeville Canyon Road in LA’s Brentwood section is still referred to as The Robert Taylor Ranch.

In 1950, when the Taylors divorced, the rumors swirled, especially because both actors were known for having affairs with people of the same sex. Although she rebuffed all questions about her sexuality or her marriages, most of Hollywood believed that neither Stanwyck nor either of her husbands was straight. It seems that she did have an affair with actor Robert Wagner, when he was just 22-years-old and Stanwyck was 45, so I suppose the bisexual label works best for her. Wagner writes very fondly of their time together in his memoir Piece Of My Heart (2008).

In my research, I don’t find many girls named as Stanwyck’s female lovers. She seems to have been both discreet and well-loved by those in an industry where discretion and affection are hard to come by. There were the usual suspects including Joan Crawford and Tallulah Bankhead, not all that impressive, after all, they both fucked me.

Wildly popular among her peers and with audiences, Stanwyck continued working into the early 1980s, but when she retired she became a recluse. A smoker since she was nine-years-old, pulmonary disease got her in early 1990. There was no funeral, according to her wishes. Her ashes were scattered over Lone Pine, California, where her popular television series The Big Valley and many of her Western films were made.

“Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid well for what I love doing.”

With Richard Chamberlain in The Thorn Birds (1983, ABC Television

 

Stanwyck was no fan of President Franklin Roosevelt. Her philosophy was that she had risen above her disadvantaged beginnings to achieve success, so others should be able to prosper without government assistance. I guess that part of Republicanism has not changed. In 1944, she became an original member of the Motion Picture Alliance For The Preservation of American Ideals (MPA). Their mission statement was: “To combat subversive methods used in the industry to undermine and change the American way of life”. The group opposed both Communist and Fascist influences in Hollywood. She publicly supported the investigations of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), and Robert Taylor testified as a friendly witness before the committee. Stanwyck wasn’t the only Conservative Republican from Hollywood’s Golden Age that I love despite their Republicanism: fun couple Randolph Scott and Cary Grant, Robert Young, William Holden, Ginger Rogers, James Stewart, Frank Capra, and her Double Indemnity co-star, Fred MacMurray were all staunch conservatives. Plus, Gary Cooper. That’s right, my two favorite movie stars were Republicans! What can you do? I mean, Ethel Merman was a Republican!

If you want to know more about Barbara Stanwyck, and you really should, try Steel-True (2013) the massive, but engrossing, two volume bio by Victoria Wilson.

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#OhHoney!: Trixie Mattel’s Hilarious Impressions of Violet Chachki, Jinkx Monsoon, Kim Chi, Pearl, RuPaul & More. Watch

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Trixie Mattel is always imitating or mocking someone…. especially her own self.

Here’s a hilarious supercut of just a few, including her ever-popular, oft-repeated WeHo Gay (“OH, HONEY!”) as well as Violet Chachki, Derrick Barry, Shangela (“I don’t have a sugar daddy”), Gay Voldemort, Laganja Estranja (including bonus deathdrops), Jinkx Monsoon, Mrs. Kasha Davis, Drew Barrymore (Josie Grossie), Kim Chi, Pearl and of course, Mama Ru.

Watch.

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#EatMe!: LaWeekly’s SCATHING Restaurant Review Says –”Tao in Hollywood Is Worse Than We Imagined”

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I love a good bad restaurant review. The Guardian‘s Jay Rayner reviewed Le Cinq, at the Four Seasons Hôtel George V in Paris and it was genius. This review in LA Weekly titled

Tao in Hollywood Is Worse Than We Imagined

by Besha Rodell is not quite as funny, but pretty scathing nonetheless.

“How else to explain Tao? The outrageously over-the-top mini-chain that originated in New York has seen its Las Vegas outpost become the highest-grossing and most profitable restaurant in America, and its New York locations aren’t far behind.

Hollywood is an obvious place to try to re-create that dynamic, and I can attest to the fact that it’s working…

The dining area is arranged like a theater, with the bodhisattva statue where the stage or screen would be… To reach your table, you descend into the tiered room and get a seat either on one of those tiers or at the bottom, under the statue. You feel as though you’re being presented to the room, like a queen overseeing her (vaguely Buddhist?) kingdom. It’s unnerving and ego-stroking and impressive as hell.

Given how much thought and money have gone into the design, I expected the food to be expensive, decent, Americanized versions of Chinese and Japanese classics.”

Wrong.

“What I didn’t expect were dumpling skins so thick and glutinous that eating them was a little like biting into semi-coagulated library paste. I didn’t expect a mush of pad thai without a hint of tamarind or fish sauce or sweetness, bland and pale and gummy. I didn’t expect an uni hand roll to look like a rice ice cream cone with an uni garnish where the cherry on top might be — a mere smidge of urchin roe in the center of a few fistfuls of rice. Nor did I expect that uni to be the wan, dull-colored variety that you find in small-town, landlocked sushi bars, its creaminess turning to liquid, its oceanic pungent flavor edging on acridity.”

Surely the $34 orange chicken is good, right? No.

“The pieces of chicken were big, almost chicken tender–sized, perfectly sticky and glossy and unfathomably dry. Chewy as jerky. Moderately inedible.

The crab-heavy sushi rolls were unremarkable, at least the ones that hadn’t gone anywhere near a deep fryer — in which case they were as gloppy and silly as you’d expect.

And I was right on one count: The drinks are too sweet, by a gajillion sugarwatts, including safer bets such as the margarita and the Manhattan variation, here called a 58th Street. There’s almost nothing worth drinking on the wine list, unless it’s a $450 Krug kinda night.”

And speaking of expensive, you have to sign not just the CC slip but the actual bill. Huh?

“(In an odd step that seems to acknowledge the insanity of the cost or the drunkenness of the clientele or the volatile meeting of those factors, your waiter will ask that you sign your itemized bill — not just your credit card slip but also the bill itself — to concede that you did indeed order and receive the listed items. In case you wake up the next morning and cry foul? Who knows.)

Perhaps it’s unfair to pick on Tao. But I wanted to try to understand this very popular thing — surely there’s something to learn from Tao’s massive success.

I have stepped out of my bubble long enough to appraise Tao and to declare it bad in almost every way… I set out to understand Tao’s allure, to find the fun in Hollywood’s gaudiest glam, and have found myself only more bewildered — and more aware of the cultural schisms that separate us.”

In other words, save your money.

“To the tourist visiting Hollywood and looking for an outrageous experience, you deserve better. To the guy looking to impress a date, you deserve better. To Americans rich and poor and in between: We deserve better.

Don’t we?”

Just look at the room. If the cocktails are strong enough, no one will remember the food, which is not even secondary.

Tao’s suf ‘n turf roll

(via LA Weekly)

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Island Hunters Season 4 Premieres TONIGHT! Watch Part 1 & 2 Of Host Chris Krolow’s Funniest Moments!

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Tonight is the night Island Hunters returns!

Can you even believe it?!? We’ve finally made it to July 16 and your patience is being rewarded. Island Hunters, hosted by Chris Krolow, is returning to HGTV at 10/9c with a TWO EPISODE premiere for season four.

If you’ve ever dreamed of owning your own private island, visiting your own private island, renting your own private island, basically anything having to do with private islands, this show is for you.

With it’s long awaited return finally happening tonight, we decided to put together a compilation of the CEO of Private Islands Inc, Chris Krolow our fearless host’s funniest moments and boy do they deliver.

Check out parts one and two of the funniest moments below as you wait for 10/9c tonight (post Game of Thrones, don’t worry!) to watch the premiere!

Now watch part two…

Be sure to tune in to the two-episode premiere of Island Hunters this Sunday, July 16 at 10/9c on HGTV!

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#RIP: “The Walking Dead” Stuntman, John Bernecker, Dies After Missing Safety Cushion

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Sad news. Variety is reporting that Walking Dead stuntman, John Bernecker, died from injuries after missing a safety cushion while filming a stunt for the series.

According to the Coweta County Sheriff’s Department report, shooting a stunt for the show’s eighth season, Bernecker was to fall off a balcony onto the cushion some 20 feet below, but missed and instead landed on the concrete. Assistant director Matthew Goodwin told police that Bernecker fell “just inches away” from the cushion after it appeared he did not

“get good separation from the balcony.”

Sources say Bernecker and an actor were rehearsing a fight scene that was supposed to end with a routine fall from the balcony, but he lost his footing and fell to a concrete floor.

AMC said late Friday,

“John Bernecker’s family has decided that he will be removed from life support, following organ donation. We are deeply saddened by this loss and our hearts and prayers are with John’s family, friends and colleagues during this extremely difficult time.”

Bernecker was a veteran stunt performer and fight choreographer. He had worked on projects such as Olympus Has Fallen, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Parts 1 and 2, and Logan, among many others. He is also listed as having worked on upcoming films like Marvel’s Black Panther and been an actor in several films, with small parts in Logan, The Last Witch Hunter, Goosebumps, and an episode of Season 1 of True Detective.

A SAG-AFTRA spokesperson said on Thursday the guild is investigating the accident. The spokesperson said,

“We have been informed of a serious injury to a SAG-AFTRA member on the set of ‘The Walking Dead’ and are investigating the situation. As always, the safety and security of our members and others on set is of crucial concern to us, and we are focused on this in our investigation. Our thoughts and prayers are with the performer and his family.”

The Atlanta office of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) confirmed to Variety that they have also launched their own investigation into the incident.

(Photo, YouTube; via Variety)

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#ArtDpt: “Barberini Faun”

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Barberini Faun, circa 220 B.C.

The sculpture was carved by an unknown Greek sculptor or it might could be a high quality Roman copy from a century later. The statue was found in the 1620s in the moat of the Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome, which had been gay ruler Hadrian’s (76-138) mausoleum, which at the time was being restored by Pope Urban VIII of the Barberini family. When it was discovered, the statue was heavily damaged; the right leg, parts of both hands, parts of the head and the tip of third leg were missing. It seems that when the Goths (led by Marilyn Manson) attacked Rome in 537, the defenders pushed the statues adorning Hadrian’s Mausoleum on to the invaders.

The statue has always had quite a reputation as risqué. Male nudity in Ancient Greek art was no biggie; however, the blatant sexuality of this piece makes it most interesting to modern day art lovers. His wantonly spread legs focus attention on his junk. Not all viewers have found it to be objectionable: the Barberini Faun was reproduced on a German ceramic company’s porcelain service in the 1830s. I wonder where they placed the spout?

The statue was housed in Rome’s Palazzo Barberini, until it was sold in 1799 to interior designer Vincenzo Pacetti. Pacetti offered it to various English and French clients, including Lucien Bonaparte. The Barberini family sued and won the statue back, but they eventually sold it to Ludwig II, Crown Prince Of Bavaria, who was gay beyond gay. Ludwig loved it so much, he had planned a special room for the statue in the Glyptothek Museum designed by the architect Leo von Klenze before the purchase was even finalized in 1827. The Glyptothek opened in 1830 to house Ludwig’s special sculpture collection. And that’s where it lives now. So, go see it when you are in Munich.

There is also a marble copy taken from a plaster cast of the original that is in the Louvre Museum.

A gilded copy is among many other replicas of classical sculptures at Tsar Peter T. Great’s summer palace, outside of St. Petersburg, Russia.

I think I’d like a copy for my garden. That would certainly get the neighbors’ attention.

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Should Floyd Mayweather Apologize (To the LGBTQ Community) For Calling Conner McGregor a “Faggot”?

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Fighter Floyd Mayweather, who condemned Manny Pacquiao’s homophobic comments and said he supported marriage equality, just called Conor McGregor a “faggot” on in London during a press conference ahead of their fight on August 26.

McGregor and Mayweather are on a world tour promoting the fight, have been coming fast and hard with the verbal blows. Mayweather said,

“Yeah, we gonna talk about this pussy. You punk, you faggot…”

McGregor flipped him off and told him to sit down. Mayweather’s representative excused the slur telling TMZ Sports,

“The reason Floyd called Conor the F word is because Conor called Floyd a monkey. Floyd has nothing against gays or lesbians at all… Floyd has them on his staff. Floyd has nothing but the utmost respect for gays and lesbians.”

The “monkey” comment supposedly happened off mic. Executive director of Athlete Ally, Hudson Taylor, condemned the use of the word, as well as the official response from Mayweather’s camp, which he called “equally troubling.”

“If Mayweather truly has the utmost respect for the LGBT community, he wouldn’t resort to using slurs that perpetuate anti-LGBT stigma and hate.

I feel that we should let people live their lives the way they want to live their lives.”

Mayweather said last year, after asked about Pacquiao’s remarks.

“I don’t have nothing against anyone. To each his own.”

McGregor has gotten flack too for his own choice of words, telling Mayweather to dance for him and calling him “boy.”

In response to claims that he was racist, McGregor said he couldn’t be racist, as he is

“half-black from the bellybutton down.”

That didn’t exactly squash the racism claims. Mayweather is among those who have criticized McGregor for his comments. Mayweather said,

“When I was young, I may have said some things that I shouldn’t have said, when I was young. But we live, we learn, and you don’t say those things after a certain age, because it’s all about growth and maturity.”

Two wrongs don’t make a right, as they say. We all understand racial slurs hurt. Well, so does “faggot”, just the same.

What do you think? Does Mayweather owe the LGBTQ community an apology? Does McGregor owe the African American community one?

(via LGBTQ Nation)

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This Anonymous Bucket List Has EVERY SINGLE THING You Want Accomplish in Summer ’17!

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This was posted by New York Magazine art critic, Jerry Saltz on Facebook. Apparently, this was found in an Urban Outfitters dressing room. Jerry says,

“It is a great drawing. A museum should buy it.”

That may be but some things seem inconsistent. It includes

• have sex
• give 2 blow jobs
• buy 7 bikinis
• have a lemonade stand with Zoe

Not sure how old this person is, but lemonade stand notwithstanding, the bikini/ blow job ratio is off, if you ask me but it’s not MY bucket list.

I suggest you make your own list. Enjoy the rest of the summer.

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#WTF?!: These Dreamlike Short Films Will Blow Your Mind! Watch

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Fernando Livschitz is a handsome young expert in special effects that are perfectly and proprietarily designed to fit the real world in seamless ways. His world has roller coasters zooming through the streets Buenos Aires, lines of airplanes taxiing through a busy intersections, and a thrill rides around the NYC skyline. Livschitz’s short films draw on his background as a photographer and designer. He has won national and international acclaim for his work and his films and photographs have been shown at major art galleries around the world.

His company is Black Sheep Films and clients have included Nissan, Colgate and Coca-Cola. He has a passion for music and mixing images with music. Livschitz has directed music videos for important bands in Latin America. His film Inception Park has received more than four million of views on Vimeo. It won him the Young Directors Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012.

Uplifting, dream-like and humorous, his work playfully transposes fantasy elements into meticulously captured contemporary backdrops, some iconic, others mundane, to charming, joyful, gorgeous and mind-boggling effect.

Livschitz,

“I try to put a smile on people’s faces. I believe it’s always possible to show the world and ideas in an alternative way, with magic and surprise. As a director, I like to express my point of view through creative thinking.”

You might know his work from his amazing opening shots for CBS’s The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.

 

 

 

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