February 8th: It’s YOUR Birthday, Bitch
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#QueerQuote: “Hair Has Always Been Important. ” – Diana Ross
Photo via YouTube
Diana Ross has had 70 hit singles with her work with The Supremes and as a solo artist. She has sold more than 150 million records worldwide. In 1988, Ross was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as member of The Supremes, alongside original members Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard. She was the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2007, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016. Although Ross is a 12-time Grammy Award nominee, she has never won one of their gold trophies, except for the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012.
Photo by Firooz Zahedi, via YouTube
July 12, 1979 will forever be known as the day Disco died. That night, Rock music fans filled Comiskey Park in Chicago to destroy and burn thousands of Disco records in a Disco Sucks Demolition. The genre became uncool, and artists found themselves avoiding it. The following year, Miss Ross pushed against the trend and released a Disco heavy self-titled album which included the infectious Upside Down and her boldest career single, I’m Coming Out.
2016, via YouTube
After attending a drag revue a NYC club called the GG Barnum Room featuring bunches of Diana Rosses, songwriter/producer Nile Rodgers wanted to embrace the fall of disco with a flamboyantly, rebellious anthem. He noted that the jam was influenced by the Disco Demolition Night, where he noticed that no African-American or LGBTQ people were in attendance, saying the infamous event was racist and homophobic towards the true fans of the genre. I’m Coming Out reached Number Five on the Billboard Hot 100 and became a very important song for those truly needing to come out of the closet. I’m Coming Out is now considered one of the Top Gay Anthems. On Notorious B.I.G.’s 1997 number-one hit, Mo Money Mo Problems features Ross’s vocal sampled from I’m Coming Out.
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Twitter Is Having a Field Day with Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones, my GOD, where do we even begin?
The legendary producer behind Michael Jackson‘s Thriller and albums from Frank Sinatra, Donna Summer, Little Richard and Ray Charles (to name just a few) gave a couple of no-holds barred and no-fucks given interviews to GQ and Vulture this past week that has whole world asking… “What is going on with Quincy?”
In these interviews, he said the Beatles were the worst musicians in the world, that he knew who killed JFK, and outed Marlon Brando and Richard Pryor‘s coke-fueled sexy-time relationship. And that’s just the beginning.
Of course Twitter has been having a field day with him. A few of my favorites “Crazy Quincy” memes below.
Quincy Jones: and that’s how time travel was invented
Interviewer: That’s incredible
Quincy Jones: What’s incredible is that Michael Jackson was actually a cartoon
Interviewer: What?
Quincy Jones: Where do you get your hair cut?
— natalie tran 🆈🅴🆂 (@natalietran) February 8, 2018
REPORTER: So Mr. Jones, is it okay if I record this interv—
QUINCY JONES: Little Richard faked the moon landing— Patrick Monahan (@pattymo) February 8, 2018
Quincy Jones: Miles Davis was a wonderful guy. Wonderful. Couldn’t play trumpet for shit, but he taught me the secret of teleportation.
Interviewer: Teleportation is impossible.
Quincy Jones (suddenly 20 feet away): Oh yeah?— TWlTTER DOT COM SLASH PIXELATED BOAT (@pixelatedboat) February 7, 2018
QUINCY JONES: Oh, it’s extremely possible.
INTERVIEWER: Says here you also invented time travel, but that’s impossible.— Jeff Hobbs (@jeffehobbs) February 7, 2018
“You want regular or sweet potato fries with that?”
QUINCY JONES: “You know who liked sweet potato fries?”
“Who?”
QUINCY JONES: “Paul Newman. Had some of them motherfuckers right after he killed a man. He was the Zodiac, my brother.”
“Wha-“
QUINCY JONES: “Regular fries.”
Quincy Jones: and that’s how time travel was invented
Interviewer: That’s incredible
Quincy Jones: What’s incredible is that Michael Jackson was actually a cartoon
Interviewer: What?
Quincy Jones: Where do you get your hair cut?
— natalie tran 🆈🅴🆂 (@natalietran) February 8, 2018
— Gentleman Doritos of Frito Landia (@jesseltaylor) February 8, 2018
Vulture: What has been your greatest accomp-
Quincy Jones: Elvis banged John Kennedy at Area 51! Do you like oysters? pic.twitter.com/2VWBSd0BsY— Daniel Franzese (@WhatsupDanny) February 8, 2018
“Who’s your favorite ball player?”
QUINCY JONES: “Motherfucker, anyone but Michael Jordan. You know he killed his own dad, right? But we shouldn’t talk about that in public.”
“Sure, shifting gears—“
QUINCY JONES: “A mummy.”
“I’m sorry?”
QUINCY JONES: “I once fucked a mummy.”
— josh androsky
(@ShutUpAndrosky) February 8, 2018
(@ShutUpAndrosky) Who’s your favorite guitarist?
QUINCY JONES: I once saw Eric Clapton fuck a horse while Henry Kissinger watched. They were all hopped up on China White. That’s when Clapton dared him to bomb Cambodia. What’s your sign, man?
Uh.. Aries?
QUINCY JONES: Michael Bolton did 9/11.
— Sean O’Neal (@seanoneal) February 8, 2018
Interviewer: What’s the best album you’ve heard recently?
Quincy Jones: I once watched Garfield put on a leather diaper, then murder Andy Capp & brutally defile his corpse. Are you a Capricorn? You seem like a Capricorn. I’ve been inside a UFO.
— Gabrielle Moss (@Gaby_Moss) February 8, 2018
Interviews with Quincy Jones are wild bc he drops a bomb then just changes lanes.
QJ: Marilyn Monroe was a shapeshifter from Mars. Saw it myself one night in 1954. Turned into a lizard right in my caddy.
Interviewer: NO WAY.
QJ: Yup. You ever have tapas?
— Simply TC (Not From Concentrate) (@BienSur_JeTaime) February 8, 2018
Interviewer: “Breathes”
Quincy Jones: I made the iPhone, Elvis killed Michael Jackson, I was the person in Shaggy’s “It wasnt me”, I was the person on the other side of “Kiss me through the phone”
Interviewer: “wha-
Quincy Jones: I am Kyiles baby#QuincyJones
— Bryant (@Bryant45936766) February 8, 2018
(Photo: Pacific Coast News)
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RuPaul’s Drag Race Queens TAKE OVER America’s Next Top Model
Watch the preview for next week’s episode of America’s Next Top Model where Valentina, Katya, and Manila Luzon sissy onto the ANTM set! The model contestant’s photo shoot challenge is to pose alongside RuPaul’s Drag Race ROYALTY. Will they really outshine our Queens? MAYBE…………..doubtful (no shade. just t)
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The Third Episode RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 3 is NOW LIVE on WOWPresents Plus
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#BornThisDay: Actor, Mia Farrow
Time 100 Most Influential, via YouTube
February 9, 1945 – María de Lourdes Villiers Farrow:
“I get it now; I didn’t get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible… and enjoying everything in between.”
Gone is the romance that was so divine.
When I began to work on a #BornThisDay post about Mia Farrow, I considered leading with my opinion about her big controversy, then I came to realize that Farrow, so underrated as an actor, has lived a life filled with controversy. Where to start…
When most people hear her name, they think of her allegations against actor/ filmmaker Woody Allen. I feel that one accuser does not an abuser make, but maybe the conversation around their relationship is particularly hard for me because, as a pair, they are responsible for one of my top films of all time, The Purple Rose Of Cairo (1985), a movie so lovely and heartbreaking that I still can’t shake it 33 years later.
With Jeff Daniels in “The Purple Rose Of Cairo” (1985), via YouTube
Farrow was in a relationship with Allen from 1979 to 1992, for me, Allen’s most fertile filmmaking period. Farrow appeared in thirteen of his fourteen films during that era, including Zelig (1983), the nearly perfect Broadway Danny Rose (1984), Hannah And Her Sisters (1986), the wistful Radio Days (1987), the tragic comedy Crimes And Misdemeanors (1989), Alice (1990), and one of Allen’s most autobiographical movies, Husbands And Wives (1992).
But, instead of the controversy having to do with Allen, I am going to really dig my own critical grave by admitting that I have a thing for the 1973 film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The great novel has been adapted to a ballet, opera, and several stage versions, plus five versions,1926,1949, 2000 and the 2013 dud by Baz Luhrmann starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, and Tobey Maguire.
The 1973 film with Robert Redford and Farrow, directed by Jack Clayton from a screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola is my favorite version. It has that distant gossamer feeling, like we are witnessing a better time, distant memories, something lost. Redford and Farrow were never more beautiful than in this film. It was a hit at the box-office and an influence on fashion that year, with its scrumptious costumes designed by Theoni V. Aldredge (who won an Academy Award), with a little assistance from Ralph Lauren.
The supporting cast includes a young, sleek Sam Waterston, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, Scott Wilson and Lois Chiles.
Farrow is excellent as Daisy Buchanan, full of vain flutter and the seductive instant intimacy of the careless rich. In some ways, her ethereal looks work against her; but she is ultimately believable as the kind of passive femme fatale who could inspire Gatsby to take on an epic re-invention. Redford underplays to a fault: and he sometimes makes Farrow seem like she is going too big in their scenes together. But, it is a tough task to portray American literature’s ultimate object of desire. Maybe Redford and Farrow should have switched roles.
The rights to the novel were purchased by Robert Evans in 1971 so that his wife Ali MacGraw could play Daisy. But, MacGraw left Evans for Steve McQueen, and Evans looked at Faye Dunaway, Candice Bergen, Natalie Wood, Katharine Ross, and Cybill Shepherd, before casting Farrow. Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson were considered for Gatsby, but Beatty wanted to direct Evans as Gatsby and Nicholson didn’t think that Farrow was right for Daisy. Farrow was pregnant during filming and she was shot wearing loose, flowing dresses and in tight close-ups.
Truman Capote was the original screenwriter, but he was replaced by Francis Ford Coppola, with some scenes re-written by Vladimir Nabokov. Coppola commented: ”Not that the director paid any attention to it. The script that I wrote did not get made.”
The film won two Academy Awards, for Best Costume Design and Best Music for Nelson Riddle. It also won three BAFTA Awards for Best Art Direction (John Box), Best Cinematography (Douglas Slocombe) and Best Costume Design. It won a Golden Globe Award for Karen Black and received nominations for both Dern and Waterston and won Most Promising Newcomer (!) for Waterston.
Farrow in “The Great Gatsby” (1974), photo by Paramount via YouTube
Okay, that controversy put aside, back to Farrow. She was born in sunny Los Angeles, the daughter of writer/director John Farrow and actor Maureen O’Sullivan (Jane in the Tarzan films starring Johnny Weissmuller). When her daughter became involved with Allen professionally and romantically, she appeared in Hannah And Her Sisters, playing Farrow’s mother.
John Farrow was an Australian man’s man who wrote and directed mostly war pictures, noir and westerns. 1933, while dancing at the Cocoanut Grove, he was arrested for breach of his visa, as part of a crackdown against illegal immigrants in the film industry. He was charged with making a false statement while entering the USA. Well connected, he was given a five-year probation before being acquitted of the charges in 1934.
Farrow had a bit part in her father’s film John Paul Jones (1959), but her career really began in 1963 in an Off-Broadway production of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance Of Earnest. In 1964, she became a huge television star, playing Alison Mackenzie in Peyton Place (1964 -1969), opposite Dorothy Malone as her mother. The series also launched the careers of young Ryan O’Neal, Barbara Parkins, and David Canary. I was only 10-years-old when it debuted, but I would watch transfixed with my mother.
After two years on Peyton Place, Farrow left to make movies and her character left the town without saying goodbye.
Farrow excelled at playing vulnerable characters. In her most famous role in Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby (1968), Farrow starred as a young married woman who moves into a new apartment and finds herself surrounded by Satanists and impregnated by the Prince of Darkness, and I don’t mean Stephen Miller. It is one of the greatest horror film of all time and features John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon (Oscar win), Maurice Evans, Ralph Bellamy, Patsy Kelly, and, in his film debut, Charles Grodin.
Polanski saw Rosemary as a robust, full-figured girl and he wanted Tuesday Weld or Sharon Tate for the role. Producer Robert Evans felt a bigger name was needed for the lead, and Farrow, with her role on Peyton Place and her surprise marriage to Frank Sinatra, was very famous.
Despite her waif-like appearance, Polanski agreed to cast her. Farrow’s look became an advantage as Rosemary becomes frailer as her pregnancy progresses.
When she took the role, Sinatra fumed. He had demanded Farrow quit her career when they got married, and she was served with divorce papers via a lawyer in front of the cast and crew of Rosemary’s Baby. To salvage her marriage, Farrow asked Evans to release her from her contract, but he persuaded her to remain with the project after showing her a rough cut and assuring her she would receive an Academy Award nomination for her performance. Farrow was not nominated.
With Sinatra 1968, via YouTube
Farrow stated that she was an “impossibly immature teenager” when she married Sinatra. They remained friends until Sinatra’s passing in 1998.
After Sinatra, she married composer/conductor Andre Previn in 1970; she was 25-years-old and he was 41. Previn was still married to songwriter Dory Previn when he began an affair with Farrow. When Farrow became pregnant, Previn divorced Dory. Farrow gave birth to twin sons in February 1970, and the Previn’s divorce became final in July 1970. Dory Previn wrote a scathing song, Beware Of Young Girls, about Farrow.
Previn and Farrow divorced in 1979. Farrow and Allen have one child together, and Allen also adopted two more children with her. They split in 1992 after Farrow discovered that Allen and her adopted daughter with Previn, were in a relationship. Allen and Farrow have been estranged since Allen and Soon-Yi Previn became a couple. They have been married now for 22-years. People need to get over it.
After their relationship ended, Farrow and Allen had a bitter custody battle that was played out in the press, with Farrow eventually winning sole custody of their children and Allen paying her $3 million. Besides her children with Previn and Allen, Farrow has also adopted 211 children on her own.
Farrow has lived with much tragedy. She lost a brother in a plane crash when he was 19-years-old, another brother, artist Patrick Farrow, was found dead in his NYC art gallery in 2009, and a third went to prison for sexually abusing young boys. Her adopted daughter, Tam Farrow, died after a lengthy illness at 19-years-old. In 2008, her adopted daughter, Lark Song Previn, died from HIV. In 2016, her 27-year-old adopted son Thaddeus Wilk Farrow took his own life.
Ronan Farrow, Photo by Mireya Acierto via YouTube
In October 2013, Farrow was back in the headlines when she said that Sinatra could possibly be the father of her openly gay son, Ronan Farrow, her only official biological child with Allen. She also claimed that Sinatra was the great love of her life, saying: “We never really split up”. Ronan is an investigative journalist and lawyer, who in late 2017, wrote series of articles for The New Yorker that exposed the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations. He tweeted:
”Listen, we are all possibly Frank Sinatra’s son.”
In 1992, Farrow said that her daughter Dylan Farrow, then seven-years-old, told Farrow that she had been sexually abused by Allen. In 2014, Dylan Farrow publicly renewed claims of sexual abuse against Allen. Allen has repeatedly denied the allegations.
Following the new allegations, her son Moses Farrow claimed Farrow had physically abused him. Moses also asserts that Farrow coached her children into believing stories she made up about Allen.
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February 9th: It’s YOUR Birthday, Bitch!
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#QueerQuote: ”I’m An Ice Skater. I’m All About The Glitter.” – Johnny Weir
NBC Sports via YouTube
Four years ago, while watching the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia on television, I thought I might be hallucinating when there on the screen were Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski all dressed up in the craziest outfits, giggling their way through some sort of skating commentary. I felt like I was off my rocker. It could not possibly be real. But real it was.
The two-time Olympian Weir spent each day of those Winter Olympics in Russia hurling fairy dust and sequins in Vladimir Putin’s homophobic face while doing commentary of the Figure Skating for NBC Sports. I really did think that I might be too high as this transcendent couple babbled on about flutzes, death spirals and camel-toes while providing the very best possible fashion show.
It seems nutty to me, but Figure Skating’s inherent gayness is rarely publicly discussed in the sports world or its commentary. It has been complicated long before Weir came on the scene. Who would have guessed that there were queer skaters?
Weir didn’t come out of the closet until he had left the sport. So, when Weir, who, at the time, was married to a man of Russian descent, was on television behaving as flamboyantly gay as he pleased in Sochi, his implied political message was as brave as it was fun.
When Weir competed in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver BC, he was made to endure many derogatory comments about his gayness and even the question of his gender. Some sports writers speculated that Weir did not receive a medal that year, even with excellent technical scores, because of his crazy costume and music choices, and his on the ice attitude. Weir responded:
”I’ve heard worse in bathrooms. I don’t want 50 years from now more young boys and girls to have to go through this sort of thing.”
Photo by Trae Patton/NBC, via YouTube
Last night, like magic, Lipinski and Weir were back on my television screen just as they are for one month, every four years, always in a different city. This year, that city is PyeongChang, South Korea, home of the 2018 Olympic Winter Games and a place where many athletes are hoping to make their dreams come true.
The figure skating competition got underway Thursday night, broadcast live on NBC with Olympians-turned-analysts Lipinski and Weir all in glitter and hardly able to contain their excitement. I just love them.
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#WinterOlympics: Shirtless Rock-Hard Oiled-Up Olympian Pita Taufatofua of Tonga is Back! And in Freezing Cold PyeongChang
NBC Sports via YouTube
Hottie Pita Taufatofua goes shirtless at the Olympic Games, whether it be sun and sand, or snow and shine. Less than two years after totally grabbing our attention when he walked shirtless, oiled-up and confident into the opening ceremony of the Olympic Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, Taufatofua was showing off his perfect pecs again when he carried the Tongan flag into the opener of the Winter Games in PyeongChang on Friday.
NBC Sports via YouTube
Taufatofua competed in Taekwondo at the Summer Games in Rio. This year he is competing in cross-country skiing, despite being from Tonga, a tropical south Pacific island nation where it doesn’t snow.
A twist on the popular film Cool Runnings (1993), based on the true story of the Jamaica national bobsleigh team’s debut at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, tropical Taufatofua has qualified for the Cross Country Skiing event at the Winter Olympics.
Amazing because Taufatofua only saw snow for the first time in his life two years ago.
Taufatofua:
”After Rio I decided to find the hardest sport possible, because I needed a new challenge, and the hardest sport possible was cross country skiing. You know look at the conditions, it’s like freezing, it’s negative a million degrees, and then you’ve got to put your body through something really challenging.”
Always up for a challenge, Taufatofua left it until the very last day of the qualification period to reach the requirements for the Pyeongchang Games.
”The goal was to do it in one year. And we did it in one year. 20 years I sacrificed to become a summer Olympian, and one year to become a winter Olympian.”
NBC Sports via YouTube
Taufatofua is just the second Tongan to participate at a Winter Olympics:
”You know everyone looks at Tonga as this little dot in the Pacific. Not any more. Everyone’s going to know where Tonga is. For those that missed it in Rio, you guys are going to know where Tonga is now.”
Taufatofua began by practicing on roller blades in Tonga before training on snow slopes in New Zealand and Canada.
”This is only special if it inspires somebody else to become something bigger than themselves.”
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Chuckles & Awes END OF WEEK! EDITION
“I’m not mad at you I’m mad at the dirt.” -Mommie Dearest.
Broccoli is an ass. You are what you eat.
This shifty looking snake nect turtle is lit
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from NatureIsFuckingLit
Karen from finance … your makeup looks terrribbblllle.
The “you forgive me for anything?” face … “Even the poops you haven’t found yet ..”
Have a great weekend everybody!!!
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#Swooooon: MILK Slays on Perry Ellis Runway with New Seapunk Hairdo
After last night’s dramatic ouster, you might be worried that Milk was going to retreat to a dark corner and lick his wounds. But no. That’s not his style. Instead, Milk debuted a colorful new ‘do on the runway of American menswear brand Perry Ellis for its Fall ’18 for New York Fashion Week – and SLAYED. Social media did a collective swoon. “So hot” was the general consensus. Of course, we all knew that, but sometimes it just takes a turquoise haircut to remind us why we fell in love with a queen in the first place.
– hair : @piggyhuggums(via PAPER)
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The WOW Wrap Up: Olympic Cheetos, #METOO Sports Illustrated, and Johnny Weir Throws Shade
Welcome to The WOW Wrap, an update of some news that’ll make you go, WOW!
Cheetos Releases New Limited Edition Winter White Cheddar Curls for the 2018 Olympics
Cheetos has also joined forces with YouTuber Todrick Hall for the commercial, in which he performs and dances along to “Teach Me How to Curl,” a song inspired by Cali Swag District’s hit “Teach Me How to Dougie.” Pro football players Vernon Davis and LaDainian Tomlinson joined Hall in the clip to teach viewers how to perform the dance move “The Curl.”
(Via Youtube and USMAG)
Sports Illustrated Takes on Awkward Task of Releasing a #METOO swimsuit issue
“It’s about allowing women to exist in the world without being harassed or judged regardless of how they like to present themselves,” Day said. “That’s an underlying thread that exists throughout the Swimsuit Issue.”
“These are sexy photos,” she added. “At the end of the day, we’re always going to be sexy, no matter what is happening.”
(Via PAPER)
These two — @JohnnyGWeir + @taralipinski are one of the best parts of the @Olympics — IT STARTS TONIGHT @nbcwashingtonpic.twitter.com/2ikeVVnWcn
— Tommy McFLY (@TommyMcFLY) February 9, 2018
Johnny Weir, Tara Lipinski Throw Enough Olympic Shade to Keep the Ice Frozen
Even before the Opening Ceremony, the Olympians-turned-analysts gave a chilly reception to many of the skaters performing in the early events.
Weir called one routine “the worst short program I’ve ever seen from Nathan Chen.”
Lipinsky was just as unfiltered, deeming the performance “disastrous.”
(Via HuffPost & Twitter)
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Floss! Question Authority! Date Porn Stars! – The Best (and Worst) Advice Bruce LaBruce Ever Received
Sleek mag sits down with radical queer filmmaker and all-around legend Bruce LaBruce to talk about the five best and worst pieces of advice he’s ever received.
Says the magazine:
Over the past 25 years, LaBruce’s work has been confronting (and often obliterating) prescriptive ideals of what’s “safe for work”, what’s politically correct, what can or can’t be erotic, and what’s “in bad taste”.
With a vast creative output which deeply penetrates our notions of sexuality, gender, arousal and taste, it should come as little surprise that many have offered their judgement and advice to LaBruce over the years — some solicited and useful, and some shockingly dumb. To celebrate the online release of [his new retrospective] “FAGGOTRY”, LaBruce shared with us the 5 best and worst pieces of advice he’s ever received. Coming into this week, we never thought it would end with Bruce LaBruce telling us to up our dental hygiene game, but the world is full of surprises.
Among the best pieces of advice he’s ever received?
Floss!
This is so banal! Lol. When I was a kid I never felt like I had the time to floss. Now I’m religious about it. I literally brought my gums back from the dead!
Question authority
One of my mentors, the late, great film critic Robin Wood, taught us this one main rule of thumb. I studied with Robin Wood all through university. He was a true iconoclast and radical thinker. When he came out as gay in his forties, he wrote an influential piece called “Responsibilities of the Gay Art Critic.” It rocked my world. But he always reminded us to question his authority as well!
Always be on time for your photo shoot.
Punks aren’t necessarily known for their timekeeping skills, but when I was a queer punk in the eighties we were very strict about being on time for our photo shoots or arriving at film sets. Priorities!
Among the worst:
Don’t date hustlers or porn stars
If there’s one thing I’ve learned it’s that hustlers and porn stars — the good ones — tend to have a very open sexuality that isn’t judgmental or boxed in. They’re more sexually liberated. So if you are lucky enough to date one, by all means! I know hustlers who are sexual healers. Most prostitutes will have sex with very old people. Of course it’s for money, but it also involves a sexual generosity. When there used to be actual hustler bars, there was often a sense of camaraderie and mentoring going on between the generations, along with the exchange of gifts and cash. From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs!
Behave.
Just don’t. But paradoxically, politeness and manners are important too. Figure out how to do both at once.
For more good and bad advice, read the whole article here.
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We Love How Much Leslie Jones Loves the Olympics
American treasure, Olympic hype-lady, SNL star; Leslie Jones made waves at the 2016 Summer Olympics with her live tweets of the games. To the point that NBC brought her on as a contributor.
For this year’s Winter Olympic games Jones did not disappoint.
Where y’all gone be tonight!! Cause I know where I’m gonna be! @Olympics pic.twitter.com/wMCD7OYp0N
— Leslie Jones
(@Lesdoggg) February 8, 2018
(@Lesdoggg) Shade was thrown…
Um this might not be the outfit I would pick to skate in. pic.twitter.com/IBOcJ6Wogl
— Leslie Jones
(@Lesdoggg) February 9, 2018
I’m sorry is the women better then men in skating. Cause back in the day you didn’t see all this falling. Johnny weir wouldn’t fall. pic.twitter.com/9PIndHJ7zh
— Leslie Jones
(@Lesdoggg) February 9, 2018
Skaters were judged…
I already like this dude. pic.twitter.com/61yVrS0Igj
— Leslie Jones
(@Lesdoggg) February 9, 2018
He has a career in the movie business if he want pic.twitter.com/1uANfRg7Jh
— Leslie Jones
(@Lesdoggg) February 9, 2018
The hype was there…
How I dive in my bed at night lmao!! pic.twitter.com/8ILajHGr5Z
— Leslie Jones
(@Lesdoggg) February 9, 2018
Bedazzled headsets!! Dope!! pic.twitter.com/tR0nZFzbZk
— Leslie Jones
(@Lesdoggg) February 9, 2018
I can’t wait to see what else she posts during this Olympic season. Keep on spillin’ T, Leslie Jones. America loves you!
Content via Twitter.
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Real News/Fake Puppets: The Effects of the New Drug WASP
Well, there’s a new drug that’s sweeping rural Tennessee called Wasp. It’s made out of crystalized wasp repellant and methamphetamine – but of course – and it’s effects are preeeeeeetty batshit crazy. Today, puppet Sarah explains to puppet James what you can expect from a WASP high (hint: theres nudity and feces-throwing involved). Watch below!
(t/y Tyler!)
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Kylie Jenner! Barbra Streisand! Lana Del Rey! ‘Celebrity Big Brother’! The Top Ten Things That Make Us Go WOW for Radio Andy!
With our fearless leader Fenton out on assignment, Tom steps in to host, and millennial producer Blake Jacobs sweats it out in FRONT of the camera! And James St. James is there, too!
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!
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’re counting down the top ten stories of 2017 that made us go WOW! We air TODAY at 3PM EST on SiriusXM, and again at 3PM PST (that’s 6PM EST). You can also catch the show on the SiriusXM app!
Let’s get started…
10) Netflix Pick: Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
We discuss the reboot of Bravo’s Queer Eye for the Straight Guy – which blessed us with WOWlebrity and RuPaul’s Drag Race judge Carson Kressley. Did we love it or hate it? Listen in to find out. The reboot is now streaming on Netflix.
Skip forward to Netflix Pick: Queer Eye for the Straight Guy @01:35
9) Hot Boy Band: PRETTYMUCH
James St. James has a new favorite boy band! Meet PRETTYMUCH, and listen in to find out how they got their name.
Skip forward to Hot Boy Band: PRETTYMUCH @09:18
8) Lana Del Rey Kidnapping!?!
Did you hear a crazed fan with a knife was apprehended outside of Lana Del Rey‘s concert at the Amway Center in Orlando because policed he believed he was going to attempt to abduct the pop chanteuse? Get the details.
Skip forward to Lana Del Rey Kidnapping!?! @15:21
7) Kristin Chenoweth LIVE!
Tom (and Michelle Visage!) recently saw the magnificent Kristin Chenoweth live in concert in Orange County. Listen in to find out what he thought of the show.
Skip forward to Kristin Chenoweth LIVE! @21:08
6) The Alienist on TNT
TNT has really stepped up their game! Including The Alienist – a period drama starring Dakota Fanning about pre-teen boy prostitution. Based on the 1994 book by Caleb Carr of the same name.
Skip forward to The Alienist on TNT @27:08
5) Kylie Gives Birth
The Kardashians have a new kast member – Kylie Jenner & Travis Scott’s little bundle of joy Stormi Webster.
Skip forward to Kylie Gives Birth @33:43
4) Gay Apocalypse? Ryan Murphy, Ben Platter & Babs TOGETHER!
Could the rumors be true? Is Ryan Murphy really developing a show with Barbra Streisand, Dear Evan Hansen‘s Ben Platter, and Gwyneth Paltrow?
Skip forward to Gay Apocalypse? Ryan Murphy, Ben Platter & Babs TOGETHER! @39:38
3) Saturday Morning TV with JSJ
James St. James took a Hulu trip down memory lane last Saturday watching Dark Shadows (the soap opera), The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and The Bionic Woman.
Skip forward to Saturday Morning TV with JSJ @43:57
2) Justin Timberlake’s Super Bowl Backlash
Have you noticed the backlash against Justin Timberlake‘s Super Bowl Performance? Listen in to see what we thought of it!
Skip forward to Justin Timberlake’s Super Bowl Backlash @50:02
1) Celebrity Big Brother
Did you guys watch Celebrity Big Brother? Are you obsessed!!!
Skip forward to Celebrity Big Brother @55:13
Resistor of the Week – Nancy Pelosi/Chris Long/The Wind
Listen in and find out why!
Skip forward to Resistor of the Week – Nancy Pelosi/Chris Long/The Wind @1:00:09
Listen in at 3:00PM EST and again at 3:00 PST (6 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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HEY QWEEN Features Farrah Moan on the Talk Show and LOOK at HUH
Hey RuPaul’s Drag Race fans, are you up to date on Hey Qween’s new season? Episode two is here featuring the beautifully stunning Farrah Moan from RuPaul’s Drag Race season 9. Catch up with Farrah on T from season 9, dropping out of school and her fellow season 9 sisters.
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Farrah Moan is also featured on a new 2-part episode of LOOK at HUH. Farrah spills the T on several of her season 9 cast mates including RuPaul’s Drag Race season 9 champion Sasha Velour, Alexis Michelle, Shea Coulee, Derrick Barry, Christina Aguilera, Nina Bonina Brown, Kimora Blac, Farrah Fawcett, Cynthia Lee Fontaine, Valentina and her MySpace persona, CameronUgh.
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February 10th: It’s YOUR Birthday, Bitch!
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#RIPLOL: This Guy’s Obit Is the Funniest Thing You’ll Read All Day…
No, death is NOT funny, and normally obituaries aren’t either. (Did Terry Wayne Ward plan that his obit would make him famous?) After appearing on the Geisen Funeral Home website the internet cannot stop laughing. Here are some excerpts:
“Terry Wayne Ward, age 71, of DeMotte, IN, escaped this mortal realm on Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018, leaving behind 32 jars of Miracle Whip, 17 boxes of Hamburger Helper and multitudes of other random items that would prove helpful in the event of a zombie apocalypse.“
Apparently, Terry wasn’t a great student…
“Terry graduated from Thornridge High School in South Holland, IL, where only three of his teachers took an early retirement after having had him as a student.“
But he WAS gainfully employed …
“He retired from AT&T (formerly Ameritech, formerly formerly Indiana Bell) after 39 years of begrudging service, where he accumulated roughly 3,000 rolls of black electrical tape during the course of his career (which he used for everything from open wounds to “Don’t use this button” covers).“
He was, well, kinda basic…
“He despised “uppity foods” like hummus, which his family lovingly called “bean dip” for his benefit, which he loved consequently. He couldn’t give a damn about most material things, and automobiles were never to be purchased new. He never owned a personal cell phone and he had zero working knowledge of the Kardashians.“
And he was NOT up on current films…
“Terry died knowing that ‘The Blues Brothers’ was the best movie ever, (young) Clint Eastwood was the baddest-ass man on the planet, and hot sauce can be added to absolutely any food.“
But he was a fun guy, it seems…
“Memorial donations in Terry’s name can be made to your favorite charity or your favorite watering hole, where you are instructed to tie a few on and tell a few stories of the great Terry Ward.“
Yes, we all better get started on our obits to top this one.
RIP Terry.
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#WinterOlympics: You Can Add Belgium’s Jorik Hendrickx To the List of Out Gay Olympians…
LGBTQ Olympic hopefuls and fans are excited that Adam Rippon and Gus Kenworthy are the first two out American men competing in a Winter Games. But you can add Jorik Hendrickx, who is the only male figure skater on Team Belgium to the list of out gay men in Pyeongchang.
Hendrickx is a two-time national skating champion and made his Olympic debut in the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi. He came out in an interview with Zizo Belgium just this month. But Hendrickx says he wasn’t ready to come out in Sochi.
“When I wasn’t ready to talk about my homosexuality, I focused on the sport. My orientation is not a factor when I skate.”
Hendrickx’s was not alone on his trip to Pyeongchang. His younger sister, fellow figure skater Loena Hendrickx, qualified, too. Both started a fundraising campaign to help bring their parents to Pyeongchang to see them compete.
“Skaters do not get free tickets for their family members at this level. Please help our mom realize her dream to see us both perform.”
They raised over $5,500! Hendrickx says the 2018 Games are likely be his final Olympics.
”Above all, I want to perform well. I have improved, but also my competitors. If my performance is good in itself, then I am satisfied.”
Jorik hits the ice February 16 and 17 at 8PM on NBC.
Soohorang is a white tiger. The tiger is an animal closely related to Korean mythology, and is a symbol of trust, strength, and protection. #pyeongchang2018 #olympics #soohorang #teambelgium
#roomforimprovement #roadtopyeongchang #Eurofigure #Moscow #Russia
(Photos, Instagram; via NewNowNext)
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