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#ArtDept: The Life and Work of Paul Thek

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On Fire Island 1968, photo courtesy of Hammer Museum

Paul Thek (1933 – 1988) was a painter, sculptor and installation artist. Once celebrated, he has slipped through the cracks of art history. He deserves our attention in the 21st century.

Born in Brooklyn, he studied at the Art Students League, Pratt Institute and Cooper Union. After graduating in 1954, Thek moved to Miami where he became partners with set designer Peter Harvey who designed for George Balanchine at New York City Ballet including the spectacular Jewels (1967). Harvey introduced Thek to the leading artists, composers and writers of the era, including Tennessee Williams.

During this time, he created some of his first drawings, including studies in charcoal and graphite, later followed by abstract watercolors and monochrome oil paintings. In 1957, Thek exhibited his works for the first time in a Miami gallery.

Miami 1957, via Wikimedia Commons

Diver, 1958, via Carnegie Museum of Art

After his return to New York in 1959, his artistic circle of friends included photographer Peter Hujar and writer Susan Sontag, both whom he had romantic relationships.

In the early 1960s, when American Abstract Expressionism reigned, Thek was modeling hyper-realistic images of meat, raw and bleeding, from beeswax. Gross, yet witty, they had the art world buzzing.

“Meat In Brillow Box” (1964), The Whitney

Then in 1967, Thek abruptly left for Europe and radically changed his art. Instead of sculpture, he created immense, collaborative, ephemeral environments from throwaway stuff: newspapers, candles, flowers, vegetables and fruit, eggs, and sand. When their time was up, these pieces were tossed in the garbage. Handsome Thek, with his long blond hair and considerable charm, was a bigly success in Europe. Galleries and museums courted him. He stayed for nine years.

Photo from UCLA, Hammer Museum via YouTube

Photo from UCLA, Hammer Museum via YouTube

In 1976, when he returned to NYC, he was shocked to find that almost no one remembered the work he had done in the 1960s or knew what he had been up to in Europe in the years since, or even cared. He had been away too long. The 1960s were finished.

He had a few Manhattan gallery shows and an exhibition at Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, but people stayed away. Depressed and angry, he painted quick, small pictures in his East Village walk-up, smoked a lot of pot, cruised parks and kept an obsessively confessional diary. To support himself, he worked as a checker in a grocery store and in a hospital washing floors.

Untitiled (1967), The Whitney

”Warrior’s Leg” (1967) the Hirshhorn Museum

Hand with Ring, 1968

Thek had so much going for him: talent, looks, energy and a peculiar imagination. He was only 54-years-old when he died of HIV/AIDS in 1988.

His memorial service at St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery wasn’t crowded, but his eulogists were Robert Wilson and Sontag, and that’s something. Sontag had dedicated her breakthrough book, Against Interpretation (1966) to Thek. In 1989 she would dedicate another, AIDS And Its Metaphors, to his memory.

Photo 1958 by Peter Harvey

Thek was the subject of a massive, moving and much-anticipated, well-attended retrospective in 2010 at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Today his work may be seen in numerous collections, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.; Hammer Museum, L.A. and the Whitney Museum.


#BornThisDay, Actor, Zelda Rubinstein

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In Teen Witch (1989), Trans World Entertainment via YouTube

May 8, 1933Zelda Rubenstein:

”I’m from Pennsylvania and we speak sort of correctly there. People identify me that way and they also easily identify me on the street because of my short stature. I get picked out in many ways and no way is a burden.”

The diminutive, 4-foot 3-inch character actor with the childlike voice, Zelda Rubinstein will forever be known for playing the indomitable ghost-purging psychic in Poltergeist (1982) and its unnecessary sequels Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986), and Poltergeist III (1988).

Yet, the Poltergeist films brought brief bravura turns by Rubinstein as Tangina, the clairvoyant summoned to scour a suburban home of spirits. ”This house is clean!” Tangina memorably declared after finishing her work. The Washington Post called Rubenstein’s performance one of the best of 1982.

She was a medical lab technician who became an actor in her late 40s. Rubinstein made her film debut in the hard to watch Under The Rainbow (1981) starring Chevy Chase, Carrie Fisher, Eve Arden, and little person Billy Barty. The plot is based on the 1938 gathering of little people in a Hollywood hotel to audition for roles as Munchkins in The Wizard Of Oz. Of her screen debut, Rubinstein wrote:

“It’s absolutely despicable. You’re not an actor if you’re just a person that fits into a cute costume. You’re a prop.

But, it brought her a SAG card.

Her other films include Frances (1982), Sixteen Candles (1984), and Teen Witch (1989). On television she had a recurring role as the sheriff’s dispatcher Ginny Weedon in the CBS series Picket Fences (1992-94). She worked in guest roles on television series such as Shelly Duvall‘s Faerie Tale Theatre (1987), Tales From The Crypt (1987), and another Poltergeist project: Poltergeist: The Legacy (1996).

Rubinstein was a very public advocate of HIV/AIDS education and the Little People Rights. Little People was the term she preferred, and the one I use because most little people want to be referred to that way.

In 1981, she was one of the founders of Michael Dunn Memorial Repertory Theater in L.A., which gives challenging acting opportunities to little people. Michael Dunn was an actor who knocked down barriers for little people in showbiz. He played Dr. Loveless, a mad scientist, on the television series The Wild Wild West (1964-69) starring Robert Conrad who was not little in any way. In 1963, Dunn received the New York Critics’ Circle Award and was nominated for a Tony Award, for his performance in Edward Albee‘s stage adaptation of The Ballad Of The Sad Café, by Carson McCullers. Dunn received an Academy Award nomination for his role in Ship Of Fools (1965) directed by Stanley Kramer. Dunn died in 1973, at 38-years-old, under mysterious circumstances.

Rubinstein was born in Pittsburgh. She said:

 ”…the only one different in appearance in my family, I had a rough childhood, but I became very verbally facile. I learned to meet everyone head-on.”  

She studied Medical Technology at the University of Pittsburgh and UC Berkeley. At 47-years-old, Rubinstein abruptly changed careers:

”I had no idea what I would do next, but I knew it would involve advocacy for those people who were in danger of being disenfranchised. I wanted a platform to be visible as a person who is different, as a representative of several varieties of differences. This is the most effective way for me to carry a message saying, ‘Yes you can’. I took a look at these shoulders in the mirror and they’re pretty big. They can carry a lot of Sturm und Drang on them.”

“I had to do something creative. It was an internal feeling that I was sabotaging myself.”

“Poltergeist” (1982), MGM/UA via YouTube

As Tangina in director Tobe Hooper’s Poltergeist, co-written by Steven Spielberg, who also served as a producer, Rubinstein says: “Do y’all mind hanging back? You’re jamming my frequencies!” as she tours the house after the young daughter has been sucked into a blinding white light in her bedroom closet and disappeared. The role was written specifically for a little person. Spielberg:

“I thought it would be neat to show that someone’s size had nothing to do with her psychic powers Good things can come in small packages, and that’s certainly true of Zelda.”

Film critics agreed. The Los Angeles Times critic called Rubinstein’s Tangina: “the most original and reassuring character in the film”. The New Yorker’s Pauline Kael raved:

 “…the character gives the movie new life, and she makes a large chunk of it work. She emanates the eerie calm of someone who is used to dealing with tricky, deceiving ghosts.”

Rubinstein’s message to little people who want to be in showbiz:

“Become an actor and your world will get much bigger.”

She was an adult before she was at peace with her small size:

“I just decided it was a very interesting variation.”

Rubinstein said she was looking for a way to get involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS when she was approached to play the mother in the campaign L.A. CARES (Los Angeles Cooperative AIDS Risk-Reduction Education Service), which was launched in early 1985 at what is now known as the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center.

She played a mother pleading with an unseen son to “play safely” in videos made to be shown in gay bars, the sons appeared as bare-chested young men. The campaign featured Rubinstein’s “mother” character in a series of ads in newspapers, and on billboards and buses.

In one ad with the words “Don’t forget your rubbers” at the top, Rubinstein is seen wearing an apron and talking to her “son,” who is clad only in shorts and holding an umbrella. At the bottom, it says, “L.A. CARES . . . like a mother”.

She was one of the very first Hollywood celebrities to speak out on HIV/AIDS, risking her career, especially so shortly after her rise to fame. Later she admitted that her bravery did come with a price to her career. Rubenstein:

“I lost a friend to AIDS, one of the first public figures that died of AIDS. I knew it was not the kind of disease that would stay in anybody’s backyard. It would climb the fences, get over the fences into all of our homes. It was not limited to one group of people.”

Rubinstein’s final credits rolled in L.A, in 2010. She was 76-years-old, taken by heart disease. She said that she had several missions in life and wasn’t afraid to use her celebrity to stand up for what she believed to be right. She was larger than life.

 

May 28th: It’s YOUR Birthday, Bitch!

#RealEstatePorn: What You Get in Manhattan vs. Merida, Mexico for $760,000

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Mason Majorada

Everyone knows Manhattan is expensive, it has been for a long time. No newsflash there. I lived on that island for 35+ years, until recently when I sold my 350 sq ft apartment (with 12 ft ceilings, one block from the Whitney Museum in the West Village, with a street entrance) for $595,000. I bought and renovated a 2,000 sq. ft former gas station 2 hours north of the city in the Catskills as my art studio, shop and gallery for 1/4 of that.

Right now I’m in Merida, Mexico on the Yucatan Peninsula (3 hours west of Cancun and a short flight from Miami or Mexico City) where a lot of expats have winter houses, so I thought a Manhattan/ Merida comparison would be fun. A real estate broker friend, Ross Schiering, just sold a spectacular house he designed and built, Mesón Mejorada, for $760,000, so that was my budget for a New York comparison. It is enormous with 4 bedrooms, a huge portico, master suite with a sitting room, giant closets, a shower for 6, and tree atrium facing the pool, pavilion, yard, roof terrace and more. (The downside with anything in Merida? All cash.)

For that $$ in the NYC you get a nice little one bedroom apartment in Soho. It’s sort of the difference between a used Kia Sportage verses a new Mercedes 450SL, but in the used Kia, you can get to MoMA in 10 minutes, in the Mercedes it takes 10 hours.

In NYC this is a one bedroom in SoHo on Thompson Street on a great block. It’s not a steal but it’s a competitive price for good apartment with a reasonable monthly maintenance of $900. (No photo of the bathroom, so it must not be so hot…)

I’m probably not getting a house in Merida anytime soon (prices are rising fast) but now you CAN get a fixer-upper colonial house in Centro for $60-100,000. You’ll need to put that much more into it for updated wiring, new kitchen bath and a pool. Here’s a newly renovated one I was in last night for a party that is $289,000.

And here’s an amazing one new to the market for $699,000. Have a look around to see what you can get in Merida for YOUR cash $$.

Thompson Street

Mesón Mejorada

Thompson Street

Mesón Mejorada

Thompson Street (The listing says; “Custom Kitchen Cabinetry, Open Kitchen”

Mesón Mejorada

Thompson Street

Mesón Mejorada

Thompson Street

Mesón Mejorada

Mesón Mejorada

Mesón Mejorada

Mesón Mejorada

Mesón Mejorada

Thompson Street

#QueerQuote: “Anything Worth Dying For… Is Certainly Worth Living For.” – Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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From “Funny or Die” via YouTube

 

Yes, it’s a day for BBQs and for many it’s the unofficial first day of summer (the Summer Solstice is still three weeks away), originally called Decoration Day, from the tradition of decorating graves with flowers, wreaths and flags, Memorial Day is a day for remembering Americans who have died in wars. It was first widely observed on May 30, 1868 to commemorate the sacrifices of Civil War soldiers.

During the first national commemoration, former Union General and Ohio Congressman James Garfield made a speech at Arlington National Cemetery, after which 5,000 participants helped to decorate the graves of the more than 20,000 Union and Confederate soldiers who were buried there.

This event was inspired by local observances of the day that had taken place in several towns throughout America in the three years after the Civil War. In 1873, New York was the first state to designate Memorial Day as a legal holiday. By the late 1800s, most communities observed Memorial Day, and several states declared it a legal holiday. After WW I, it became an occasion for honoring those who died in all of American wars.

In 1971, Congress passed the Uniform Monday Holiday Act and established that Memorial Day was to be commemorated on the last Monday of May. Several southern states, however, officially commemorate an additional, separate day for honoring the Confederate war dead, sometimes referred to as a Confederate Memorial Day, conveniently forgetting that they were traitors.

Wars Ranked by US Casualties:

  1. WW II (1941–45): 291,557
  2. American Civil War (1861–65): 214,938
  3. WW I (1917–18): 53,402
  4. Vietnam War (1955–1975): 47,424
  5. Korean War (1950–53): 33,686
  6. American Revolutionary War (1775–1783): 8,000
  7. Iraq War (2003-2011): 3,836
  8. War of 1812 (1812–15): 2,260
  9. War in Afghanistan: (2001-?): 1,833
  10. Mexican–American War: (1846–48): 1,733

Memorial Day is commemorated at Arlington National Cemetery each year with a ceremony in which a small American flag is placed on each grave. Traditionally, the President or Vice President lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. About 5,000 people attend the ceremony. Then, everyone goes home for a backyard BBQ.

Joseph Heller (1923 –1999) was an American writer who produced novels, short stories, plays and screenplays. He is best-known for the novel Catch-22 (1961) a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice. Considered one of the most significant novels of the 20th century, it is set during WWII, and follows the life of Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier. Most of the events in the book occur while the fictional 256th Squadron is based on the island of Pianosa, in the Mediterranean Sea the experiences of Yossarian and the other airmen in the camp, who attempt to maintain their sanity while fulfilling their service requirements so that they may return home.

In 1970, it was made into a rather confusing film, directed by Mike Nichols with a screenplay by Buck Henry (also in the cast), who worked on the script for two years, converting Heller’s complex novel to the medium of film. The terrific cast includes Alan Arkin, Bob Balaban, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel (his acting debut), Jack Gilford, Charles Grodin, Bob Newhart, Anthony Perkins, Paula Prentiss, Martin Sheen, Jon Voight, and Orson Welles.

Watch: Scissor Sisters JAKE SHEARS Debut Solo Album & Vid “Creep City”

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Scissor Sisters frontman Jake Shears will be your new, singular sensation!!! It’s been about six years since Shears took a hiatus from the super queer pop/rock/dance group; which had tons of dance floor hits, including the Grammy-nominated and chart-topping disco version of Comfortably NumbShady Love…and the MAMMOTH gay anthem Let’s Have a Kiki. Now, baby gurrrl is back…with a self-titled debut solo album coming out August 10th! Check out the vid below for first single Creep City, download it HERE, and pre-order Jake Shears HERE!!!

 

Jake Shears:

“I created the record that I wanted to hear, that I felt had been missing from my life. It took time, was handcrafted and is something that no one else could have made. These songs were cooked low and slow in the South, in Kentucky and New Orleans, with humor, heartbreak and horns. If it sounds expensive, that’s because it was. This is the sound of actual human beings, playing real instruments onto tape. It took two years to make and for months I slept in the studio, behind the old upright piano. Whenever I had any self-doubt, I reminded myself— this is exactly how all of my favorite records were made, with fingerprints, sweat and honesty. It’s a record about finding yourself, again.”

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#LGBTQ: Caitlyn Jenner Says Trump is “The Worst President We Have Ever Had” –But Pence She Can “Handle”

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Yes, sage political pundit Caitlyn Jenner says Trump

has been, for all LGBT issues, the worst president we have ever had.

To coin a phrase, “No shit, Sherlock!”

In a new profile for Broadly, Jenner says she regrets supporting Trump in the 2016 election.

I want him to know, politically I am disappointed, obviously. I don’t want our community to go backward. Just leave us alone; that’s all we want. Then maybe later down the line we can get somebody a little better.

As for VP Pence, the notoriously anti-gay politician, she can deal with him,

He did some really anti-LGBT community stuff. I know that. He’s also very Christian. He’s kinda like, from our standpoint, the real enemy. But that’s OK, I can handle that.

Jenner says she told Pence that she

pretty much vote[s] Republican. But I’m also trans. And I said, ‘I would love to share that conversation with you.’ And he looked me right in the eye and said, ‘You know what, I would love to do that.’

don’t know who in the Democratic Party… I would look at it. I don’t vote parties. I vote the person.“

Really? You don’t think you could look at Hillary or Gavin Newsom and say that? Well anyway, she’s not letting go of her Republican views just yet,

I think it’s good that I’m on the Republican side because the Republicans know that, and I have an immediate in with them to change their minds. The Republicans need the most work when it comes to our issues, I get that. I would rather work from the inside. I’m not the type of person who is going to stand on a street corner with a sign and jump up and down. No, I’m going to go have dinner with these people.

Oh, lady. Buy a clue, you’ve got the money. These graduates at Notre Dame walked out when Pence took the stage to make the commencement speech.

Teach the children? Vice versa.

(Photo, youTube; via Washington Blade)

Asia Argento READS Harvey Weinstein & His Enablers at Cannes –”This Festival Was His Hunting Ground” Watch

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Italian actress Asia Argento bravely took Harvey Weinstein and his enablers to task from the stage the Cannes Film Festival with the film industry and the world watching. (Check out Cate Blanchette‘s expression.). She was raped by Weinstein at 21 at Cannes…

I’ll make a prediction. Harvey Weinstein will never be welcomed at Cannes again…

Watch.


#OnThisGayDay: 1937, The Golden Gate Bridge Opens

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May 28, 1937The Golden Gate Bridge Opens

One of my favorite structures on our pretty spinning blue orb is, of course, the openly gay Golden Gate Bridge.

The bridge is a technical masterpiece and a structure of exceptional design artistry. When it opened to the public, the Golden Gate was the world’s longest and tallest suspension bridge. Above all, this masterly example of engineering is a magnificent monument set against an awesome, jaw-dropping backdrop.

Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge began in 1933. The bridge, which was designed by engineer Joseph Strauss (who also designed my city of Portland’s Burnside Bridge) with Charles Alton Ellis, was built to connect San Francisco with Marin County across the mile wide, three mile long channel known as Golden Gate Strait which connects San Francisco Bay with the Pacific Ocean.

1935, Redwood Empire Association via YouTube, photographer unknown

The building of the bridge was a colossal task. At the time most people did not believe it was technically possible to span the Golden Gate. Yet, despite the disbelief, resistance and a little problem they called The Great Depression, Strauss and Ellis were able to find sufficient support and financial backing to go ahead with the monumental project. It would take thousands of workers, four years and 35 million dollars to complete the structure. 21 men died in accidents during the construction.

The project provided a lot of jobs during a time of dreadful unemployment. Despite the economic promises touted by its supporters, the project met fierce resistance from many San Francisco business and civic leaders. Not only would the new bridge impede the shipping industry and mar the bay’s natural beauty, they argued, it wouldn’t survive the sort of earthquake that had crippled the city in 1906. Years of litigation followed as opponents sought to block the project.  But, it withstood the destructive Loma Pieta earthquake of 1989, and it has only been closed to traffic three times in its first 81 years because of weather conditions.

When it was built, the dimensions of the bridge defied all imagination. The total length of the bridge is 8,981 feet. The main span between the two enormous towers is 4,200 feet long, making the Golden Gate Bridge the world’s largest suspension bridge,  a record that would stand until 1964 when the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in NYC was completed.

The magnificent Art Deco towers are almost 740 feet tall. The six lanes of road are an amazing 220 feet above the water level. The bridge is supported by enormous cables, anchored in hundreds of bars locked into concrete blocks. The two cables are woven from 27,572 threads of steel with a total length that equals three times the earth’s circumference.

The Golden Gate Bridge has always been painted an orange vermilion, named International Orange, chosen by a group of gay color consultants from the city. It is not the same color of orange as POTUS, don’t worry. The distinctive color blends well with the span’s natural setting, a warm color consistent with the colors of the surrounding land and distinct from the cool colors of the sky and sea. It also provides enhanced visibility for passing ships, plus it is tasteful in a way orange can be when used well.

A revered and rugged group of 19 hot iron-workers, 38 cute painters, plus a chief bridge painter, battle wind, sea air, fog and the Folsom Street Fair, suspended high above the Golden Gate, to repair corroding steel and keep the bridge looking pretty.

The day before the official opening, 200,000 pedestrians made their way across the newly finished span. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced that the bridge was open via a White House telegraph.

Photograph from Library of Congress

On a lovely late summer day in September 1971, I walked across the Golden Gate Bridge. It was quite a challenge. It is a long trip, but it is a breathtaking one, literally. It was not nearly as cruisy a spot as I had hoped. Trying to pick-up a trick on a bridge is tricky. In certain conditions the bridge will sway almost 30 feet. This makes the bridge less pleasant to negotiate during strong winds or an earthquake. The views, however, are always amazing, even, or especially, in the fog.

It is claimed that it is the most photographed bridge on the planet.

A star in more than 50 films, The Golden Gate Bridge has a major role, playing itself, in my favorite Alfred Hitchcock flick, Vertigo (1958). In 2015, it was destroyed by a bitch of an earthquake in San Andreas and in 2016 it figured as a major character in Ant-Man.

Remember, kids: Love Can Build A Bridge.

 

 

#Shadenfreude: New Yorkers Boo Giuliani on His Birthday

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Well, this is a lovely way to start out the work week: A video of Yankee fans heartily booing “America’s Mayor”/Trump shill Rudy Giuliani. On his birthday. HA! Watch below.

Terrible, terrible man. And a wonderful comeuppance. Now let’s keep this up and boo him WHEREVER he goes. Let’s never give him a moments peace again. (via Jezebel; photo: Media Punch )

Condragulations to Laganja Estranja, Morgan McMichaels, Jaidynn Dior Fierce, Mayhem Miller, and Farrah Moan for their Triumphant Performance on Germany’s Next Top Model!

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Condragulations to the Drag Race superstars who appeared on Germany’s Next Top Model last week. Above: Our girls Laganja Estranja, Morgan McMichaels, and Jaidynn Dior Fierce on set with Rita Ora. Also there: the lovely Farrah Moan and the fabulous Mayhem Miller. Their appearance on Germany’s most popular TV show featured a choreographed number by Lajanja, and was performed in front of 8,000 people! So fab! Watch the commercial and Morgan’s Facebook post below!

Germany’s Next Topmodel Finale Extravaganza feat. Laganja Estranja, Morgan McMichaels, Mayhem Miller and Jaidynn Diore Fierce [Full Performance!] from r/rupaulsdragrace

The Voting for Season 10’s Miss Congeniality HAS OFFICIALLY BEGUN!

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Voting for the Season 10 sweetheart award has commenced! Let your voice be heard!

via VH1:

Which queen served 10s, 10s, 10s across the board? Cast your vote for Miss Congeniality and tell us who stole your heart with their Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve and Talent. Voting ends June 7th @ 12pm EST. The winning RuGirl will be announced during the Season 10 Reunion airing June 21st at 8pm on VH1!

Who’s it gonna be? Aquaria? Asia O’Hara? Blair St Clair? Dusty Ray Bottoms? Eureka O’Hara? Kalorie Karbdashian Williams? Kameron Michaels? Mayhem Miller? Miz Cracker? Monet X Change? Monique Heart? Vanessa Vanjie Mateo? The Vixen? or Yuhua Hamasaki? I know who I’M voting for!

Cast your vote HERE.

ABC Cancels Roseanne After Her Racist Twitter Tirade This Morning

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Sometimes, just sometimes, good triumphs over idiocy.

After Roseanne Barr went on a racist rant this morning referring to former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett as the offspring of the “Muslim Brotherhood & Planet of the Apes,” ABC has decided to pull the plug on the revival Roseanne.

“Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show,” ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey said in a statement.

Welcome news, albeit rather surprising, given the show was number one in the Neilson ratings and presumably making ABC/Disney a SHIT-TON of money.

via Variety:

The revival of the classic sitcom was set to air a 13-episode eleventh season this fall. The move represents a remarkable turn of events for the network, Barr, and a show that finished the season as the No. 1 scripted primetime television series in the 18-49 demo, according to Nielsen live-plus-same say numbers.

Just two weeks ago at ABC’s upfront presentation, Barr introduced Disney-ABC Television Group president Ben Sherwood, joking that he was “the guy responsible for most of my tweets.” Sherwood and Barr hugged onstage, and the the exec noted that ABC had not had television’s No. 1 show in 24 years. Dungey, during her portion of the presentation, bragged that “The premiere ratings even took us by surprise,” claiming that 1 in 10 Americans has seen the “Roseanne” revival premiere.

Roseanne, for her part, has apologized and said she’s leaving Twitter. Too little, too late, Missy.

says Sara Gilbert:

Roseann’e morning twitter rampage wasn’t confined to Valerie Jarrett, though. She also went full conspiracy theorist on Chelsea Clinton. (Photo: Pacific Coast News)

Casting News: Alaska to Star in Final “Sharknado” Film!

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When last we saw our hero Fin (Ian Ziering), in the final minutes of Sharknado 5: Global Swarming, he was seen wandering alone after the Earth was destroyed. Now, for the sixth and final movie, it is revealed  he must travel back in time to finally stop the Sharknado that started it all.

Helping him will be his super-fab supporting cast of Tara Reid, Tori Spelling, Dean McDermott, La Toya Jackson, Dee Snider, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Darrell Hammond, and SURPRISE, SURPRISE, our very own All-Stars 2 winner Alaska.

“Will Fin and the gang be able to set everything right and save the world once and for all?”

The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time premieres August 19 on SyFy. Watch the trailer below:

All New Episode of ‘Sell It Like Serhant’ Tonight! You Won’t Wanna Miss It

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It’s Tuesday night, which means there’s an all new episode of Sell It Like Serhant and Ryan Serhant is helping Commercial Real Estate Broker, Lisa. You’d think that all real estate is the same, but commercial is a whole new ball game.

Lisa wants to go change her struggling performance as a real estate broker and who better to learn from than one of the most successful brokers. Be sure to tune in to see if Lisa can do it and Ryan with his spectacular motivation skills!

Tune in to Sell It Like Serhant every Tuesday at 10/9c on Bravo!


The Transformations Episode with Abhora Is NOW On YouTube!

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Oh! Yes! Here we go! One of my favorite Transformation guests EVER! It’s the lovely and talented Abhora from season two of the Boulet Brother’s Dragula! She tried, bless her heart, to convince me she’s a big, evil monster – but actually I found her to be a little old marshmallow. A burned and crusty marshmallow but with a soft, gooey center. Watch her give me the full Abhora treatment, complete with Mickey Mouse ears, lopsided wig, and crazy, paper nose. FABULOUS! Watch the magic below….

Support Gia Gunn in Her Transition by Donating to Her Transition Surgery GoFundMe

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Gia Gunn, of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 6 has opened the doors to the world on her transition via social media. For the month of April Gia posted a photo a day on Instagram and an accompanying video on Youtube detailing a different aspect of her transition and explaining what has been going on in her life and how she has been affected.

As a continuation of her transition Gia has decided to get transition surgery, but she can’t do it without your help. She has launched a GoFundMe fundraiser to raise the funds to get her transition surgery. If you would like to continue to support Gia’s transition consider donating to her GoFundMe.

Help Gia achieve her goal by donating to her GoFundMe and follow her transition on social media via Instagram and Youtube.

 

Kim Kardashian Will Meet With President Trump to Discuss Prison Reform Because Why Not?

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Truly, we are living in the Upside Down.

It was reported today that world-renowned prison rights activist KimKardashian and her attorney will visit the White House where they will meet evil man-baby Jared Kushner to discuss prison reform. Because that is how the world works now, apparently. Afterwards, Kushner will then take her for a sit down with President Trump along with White House counsel. Kim will supposedly ask him to pardon 62-year-old great-grandmother, Alice Marie Johnson whoserving a life sentence without parole for a first-time drug offense.

via ONTD:

Kim came across Johnson’s story on Twitter earlier this year, then reached out to Ivanka, who then connected Kim to her husband Jared Kushner.

Jared and Ivanka plan to host Kim Kardashian for dinner at their home after her sit-down with 45.

Next up: Countess LuAnn tackles US tariffs that threaten planned trade talks with China.

(Photo: MediaPunch)

May 30th: It’s YOUR Birthday, Bitch!

Dua Lipa Under Fire for “Accessible” Fashion Line That Isn’t Really

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It was announced last week that pop star Dua Lipa (“New Rules”) will be working on four different fashion lines with the brand /Nyden, which is owned by H&M, the first of which will launch in the fall. She made the announcement on Twitter, saying

“My loves, I have some news for you. I’ve started designing a capsule collection with @WeAreNyden and I’m bringing four drops with the first one coming out this fall. I’m so excited for you to see these, can’t wait!”

She followed up her announcement with an Instagram post saying:

“My first love is music, but fashion also plays an important role in my life because I believe it’s so vital to self-expression,” Lipa wrote on Instagram. “I look for clothes that reflect strength and fearlessness, but also match up to today’s fast pace.”

“Would the collection be unisex?” one fan asked.

Lipa responded: “Yes what I’ve wanted to do with this collection is so that its universal and accessible for everyone.”

However, when asked if the collection included plus sizes, she responded in a now-deleted tweet with: “It goes up to a size 16 U.K..”

That’s a US 14, which fans had trouble considering “universal” and “accessible.”

Of course, there’s still time between now and the Fall launch to include some plus sized clothes, so lets hope she figures this thing out. (Photos: Pacific Coast News)

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