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Potter’s 1992 adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s book remains trance-inducingly strange, stuffed full of style and stars
After 31 years, Sally Potter’s Orlando is re-released, a dreamy, swoony reverie of shapeshifting sexual identity; “gender” isn’t the word used. It is the film that confirmed Tilda Swinton in the arthouse-icon status that Derek Jarman had given her. The movie concludes with a rapturous closeup on Swinton’s face: sublime, seraphic, enigmatic, while Jimmy Somerville serenades her from heaven, a cheeky falsetto cherub fluttering in the sky.
Potter adapted the 1928 novel by Virginia Woolf, a fantasy adventure inspired by her love affair with Vita Sackville-West; it was also inspired by Woolf’s slightly snobbish reverence for Sackville-West’s centuries-spanning aristocratic genealogy, and by their deliciously exciting patrician-bohemian disregard for bourgeois hetero-normality. With this film, Potter single-handedly upgraded this book from mere jeu d’ésprit, giving it literary canonical status and making...
After 31 years, Sally Potter’s Orlando is re-released, a dreamy, swoony reverie of shapeshifting sexual identity; “gender” isn’t the word used. It is the film that confirmed Tilda Swinton in the arthouse-icon status that Derek Jarman had given her. The movie concludes with a rapturous closeup on Swinton’s face: sublime, seraphic, enigmatic, while Jimmy Somerville serenades her from heaven, a cheeky falsetto cherub fluttering in the sky.
Potter adapted the 1928 novel by Virginia Woolf, a fantasy adventure inspired by her love affair with Vita Sackville-West; it was also inspired by Woolf’s slightly snobbish reverence for Sackville-West’s centuries-spanning aristocratic genealogy, and by their deliciously exciting patrician-bohemian disregard for bourgeois hetero-normality. With this film, Potter single-handedly upgraded this book from mere jeu d’ésprit, giving it literary canonical status and making...
- 3/9/2023
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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“Yes, baby I’m a homosexual,” sings Darren Hayes over the shimmering Eighties pulse of his first solo album in a decade. This may not seem like much of a newsflash from the man who’s been married to his partner, Richard Cullen, for 17 years. But in recent interviews, the former Savage Garden frontman has spoken tearfully about his most successful years being in the closet, then straight-washed by the music industry when he found the courage to come out.
Shooting the video for his last single, “Insatiable” (2012), he’d been told he looked “too gay”. Now 50, he found himself watching artists such as Troye Sivan and Lil Nas X “just arrive as their authentic selves”. He realised how angry he was that his hard-won self-expression had been “extinguished by men in suits”.
While the title of his new record, Homosexual, is a proud and simple reclamation of the word that once scared Hayes,...
Shooting the video for his last single, “Insatiable” (2012), he’d been told he looked “too gay”. Now 50, he found himself watching artists such as Troye Sivan and Lil Nas X “just arrive as their authentic selves”. He realised how angry he was that his hard-won self-expression had been “extinguished by men in suits”.
While the title of his new record, Homosexual, is a proud and simple reclamation of the word that once scared Hayes,...
- 10/6/2022
- by Helen Brown
- The Independent - Music
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Oliver Sim is the star and co-writer of Yann Gonzalez's Hideous, now showing exclusively on Mubi in the series Brief Encounters. In this three-part queer horror movie, Sim is the main guest on a talk show that soon slides into a surreal journey of love, shame, and blood. The film also features songs from Sim’s debut album, Hideous Bastard.In this conversation—filmed on location at the Castle Cinema in London—Sim talks about his cinematic influences, as well as his on-set collaborations with Gonzalez and Jimmy Somerville.
- 9/9/2022
- MUBI
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The xx’s Oliver Sim has released the affecting video for his new song “Hideous,” where he discloses for the first time that he has been living with HIV since he was a teenager. The song appears on his first solo album, Hideous Bastard. It arrives on Sep. 9 via Young.
The xx songwriter, bassist, and vocalist enlisted bandmate Jamie xx to produce the album inspired by Sim’s adoration of horror movies and deeply personal experiences. It features guest vocalist Jimmy Somerville, who has been a “powerful voice around HIV and AIDS for decades,...
The xx songwriter, bassist, and vocalist enlisted bandmate Jamie xx to produce the album inspired by Sim’s adoration of horror movies and deeply personal experiences. It features guest vocalist Jimmy Somerville, who has been a “powerful voice around HIV and AIDS for decades,...
- 5/23/2022
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
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Steve Bronski, a cofounding member of the British synth-pop trio Bronski Beat, died Thursday. The BBC reported his age as 61. No cause of death or other details were given.
His bandmate Jimmy Somerville described him as a “talented and very melodic man Working with him on songs and the one song that changed our lives and touched so many other lives, was a fun and exciting time. Thanks for the melody, Steve.”
Bronski, whose real name was Steven Forrest, formed the band with Somerville and Larry Steinbachek in 1983. They were militantly opposed to being “safe” gay musicians, and their records were embraced by the community eager to take a more activist stance at the dawn of the AIDS era.
He moved to London in 1983, and Bronski Beat played its first gig in autumn of that year.
Bronski Beat’s debut single, 1984’s “Smalltown Boy,” rose to No. 3 on the UK singles chart.
His bandmate Jimmy Somerville described him as a “talented and very melodic man Working with him on songs and the one song that changed our lives and touched so many other lives, was a fun and exciting time. Thanks for the melody, Steve.”
Bronski, whose real name was Steven Forrest, formed the band with Somerville and Larry Steinbachek in 1983. They were militantly opposed to being “safe” gay musicians, and their records were embraced by the community eager to take a more activist stance at the dawn of the AIDS era.
He moved to London in 1983, and Bronski Beat played its first gig in autumn of that year.
Bronski Beat’s debut single, 1984’s “Smalltown Boy,” rose to No. 3 on the UK singles chart.
- 12/11/2021
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
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Update 12/1: The Red Hot organization honored World AIDS Day with a 30th anniversary reissue of Red Hot + Blue, releasing a PBS NewsHour piece and a message from Dr. Anthony Fauci. “Today on World AIDS Day I want to commend the Red Hot (+Blue) Organization for 30 years of art and activism that have provided critically needed assistance in the fight against AIDS,” he said. “Thank you for raising awareness and millions of dollars, including the grant that helped establish our long time community activist partners The Treatment Action Group (Tag...
- 12/1/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
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Masked singer Orville Peck’s distinctive aesthetic plays around with masculinity, queer desire, and cowboy ruggedness, which he delivers in a romantic, trembling croon. Likewise, his productions such as “Dead of Night” tend toward the narcotic and spacious, like a nighttime drive in a David Lynch film. His newly released cover of Bronski Beat’s 1984 synth-pop hit “Smalltown Boy,” however, feels positively suffocating by comparison.
Rightfully recognized as a classic gay anthem, “Smalltown Boy” perfectly articulates that claustrophobia of a boy who flees the place where he grew up because...
Rightfully recognized as a classic gay anthem, “Smalltown Boy” perfectly articulates that claustrophobia of a boy who flees the place where he grew up because...
- 8/7/2020
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
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The director of Once, Begin Again and Sing Street talks to us about his new film, getting films noticed, and Hollywood...
Well, Sing Street is just great. The new movie from writer-director John Carney, it tells the story of a young Irish teenager by the name of Cosmo, who – long story short – sets up a band to impress a girl. Yet that sells a funny, nerdy and quite brilliant film short.
Director John Carney – off the back of Once and Begin Again – made the movie. And he spared us some time for a chat about it…
Huge congratulations on Sing Street, which is one of our favourite movies of the year. It’s interesting, though, that it opens opposite a not-very-good X-Men movie this week, and they’re going head to head!
Oh great! [Laughs] That’s like Bernie Sanders and Trump!
I did wonder how you felt about it!
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The director of Once, Begin Again and Sing Street talks to us about his new film, getting films noticed, and Hollywood...
Well, Sing Street is just great. The new movie from writer-director John Carney, it tells the story of a young Irish teenager by the name of Cosmo, who – long story short – sets up a band to impress a girl. Yet that sells a funny, nerdy and quite brilliant film short.
Director John Carney – off the back of Once and Begin Again – made the movie. And he spared us some time for a chat about it…
Huge congratulations on Sing Street, which is one of our favourite movies of the year. It’s interesting, though, that it opens opposite a not-very-good X-Men movie this week, and they’re going head to head!
Oh great! [Laughs] That’s like Bernie Sanders and Trump!
I did wonder how you felt about it!
- 5/18/2016
- Den of Geek
Here is last week’s caption pic winner. This week’s caption pic is at the bottom of the page.
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“Guys won’t stop trying to get syrup out of me.”
Thanks to dostka
Weekend Birthdays! Chris Pratt (above) is 35, Kris Allen is 29, Peter Paige is 45, Nicole Kidman is 47, Meryl Streep is 65, and Jimmy Somerville is 53.
HBO’s Looking will expand from eight to ten episodes for Season Two
Out singer-songwriter Ferras is the first artist signed to Katy Perry‘s new record label
This almost makes me wish I could see what a “vagician” does.
Here’s the trailer for Love Is Strange, with John Lithgow and Alfred Molina as a newly married couple forced to live apart. It co-stars Marisa Tomei and Cheyenne Jackson.
Meghan McCain gets in bed with Joan Rivers to talk about The Normal Heart and marriage-equality.
Thanks to everyone for participating! The winner is …
“Guys won’t stop trying to get syrup out of me.”
Thanks to dostka
Weekend Birthdays! Chris Pratt (above) is 35, Kris Allen is 29, Peter Paige is 45, Nicole Kidman is 47, Meryl Streep is 65, and Jimmy Somerville is 53.
HBO’s Looking will expand from eight to ten episodes for Season Two
Out singer-songwriter Ferras is the first artist signed to Katy Perry‘s new record label
This almost makes me wish I could see what a “vagician” does.
Here’s the trailer for Love Is Strange, with John Lithgow and Alfred Molina as a newly married couple forced to live apart. It co-stars Marisa Tomei and Cheyenne Jackson.
Meghan McCain gets in bed with Joan Rivers to talk about The Normal Heart and marriage-equality.
- 6/20/2014
- by snicks
- The Backlot
Bronski Beat‘s “Smalltown Boy” is one of the most important moments in 80′s gay pop culture, and thirty years after its release, Jimmy Somerville has recorded a new version, which is just as haunting as the original.
I hope Smalltown Boy found his happiness.
The post Watch! Jimmy Somerville Resurrects “Smalltown Boy” Thirty Years Later appeared first on thebacklot.com.
I hope Smalltown Boy found his happiness.
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- 6/16/2014
- by snicks
- The Backlot
Here is last week’s caption pic winner. This week’s caption pic is at the bottom of the page.
“I know six things in this picture that will no longer be blue”
Thanks to David for this week’s winning caption!
Weekend Birthdays! Karl Urban (above) is 42, Harvey Fierstein is 62, Sandra Bernhard is 59, Michael Cera is 26, Nancy Sinatra is 74, Julianna Marguiles is 48, and Bonnie Tyler is 63. Pretty Boy In Underwear Guitar Swinging is a lost art. Thank you for preserving it, Bonnie.
Megan Mullally will join Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick on Broadway in Terrence McNally‘s It’s Only A Play.
Out director Bill Condon has been chosen to direct the live-action version of Beauty & The Beast. Thanks for nothing, Maleficent
Wanda Sykes will host this year’s Trevor Live, with musical guests including Rob Thomas, Jeremy Jordan and Cheyenne Jackson , and presenters Neil Patrick Harris, Lucy Liu and Ellen Page.
“I know six things in this picture that will no longer be blue”
Thanks to David for this week’s winning caption!
Weekend Birthdays! Karl Urban (above) is 42, Harvey Fierstein is 62, Sandra Bernhard is 59, Michael Cera is 26, Nancy Sinatra is 74, Julianna Marguiles is 48, and Bonnie Tyler is 63. Pretty Boy In Underwear Guitar Swinging is a lost art. Thank you for preserving it, Bonnie.
Megan Mullally will join Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick on Broadway in Terrence McNally‘s It’s Only A Play.
Out director Bill Condon has been chosen to direct the live-action version of Beauty & The Beast. Thanks for nothing, Maleficent
Wanda Sykes will host this year’s Trevor Live, with musical guests including Rob Thomas, Jeremy Jordan and Cheyenne Jackson , and presenters Neil Patrick Harris, Lucy Liu and Ellen Page.
- 6/6/2014
- by snicks
- The Backlot
Birthday shoutouts go to Chad Allen (above), who is 40, Kenny G is 58, Suze Orman is 63, Pete Wentz is 35, and Laurie Anderson is 67.
Unable to make a deal with any TV entity, The Daytime Emmy Awards will instead be livestreamed. The ceremony will be held on Jun 22nd.
Kellan Lutz and Malin Akerman will both be reprising their roles when The Comeback returns.
What Jenny McCarthy Needs to Learn From Jonah Hill: How to Say, ‘I F’d Up’
EW has a couple of pics of Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing in The Imitation Game. It comes out in November.
Jason Collins on how “It Got Better.”
Well, I guess One Million Moms will have to stick to lightly toasted white bread in the morning.
Being brave enough to be yourself. #LuckytoBe Original pic.twitter.com/kDlOblpfh5
— Lucky Charms (@LuckyCharms) June 5, 2014
This year’s Tony Nominee men pose at the...
Unable to make a deal with any TV entity, The Daytime Emmy Awards will instead be livestreamed. The ceremony will be held on Jun 22nd.
Kellan Lutz and Malin Akerman will both be reprising their roles when The Comeback returns.
What Jenny McCarthy Needs to Learn From Jonah Hill: How to Say, ‘I F’d Up’
EW has a couple of pics of Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing in The Imitation Game. It comes out in November.
Jason Collins on how “It Got Better.”
Well, I guess One Million Moms will have to stick to lightly toasted white bread in the morning.
Being brave enough to be yourself. #LuckytoBe Original pic.twitter.com/kDlOblpfh5
— Lucky Charms (@LuckyCharms) June 5, 2014
This year’s Tony Nominee men pose at the...
- 6/5/2014
- by snicks
- The Backlot
Birthday shoutouts go to Scott Wolf (above), who is 46, Jamie Dornan is 32, Russell Brand is 39, Angelina Jolie is 39, Noah Wyle is 43, and Sam Harris is 53. And a Happy Belated Birthday to our own chronomaxx!
Can this please be the death knell of Bieber‘s career?
It Shouldn’t Take Magic To Be Accepted, by E.J. Johnson
High school principal comes out as gay at school’s Pride Day
Here’s the new trailer for The Giver. I never read the book, and I’m interested what fans think?
Here’s a new 30-second ad from Hotwire featuring a gay couple. Has anyone seen it on TV yet? And if so, when and with what show?
Here’s the newest from Adam Barta (the man who brought us “It’s Tan Mom, Bitch”). This one is “See U Next Tuesday” and features Margaret Cho and Jujubee as Margaret Cho
Anderson Cooper...
Can this please be the death knell of Bieber‘s career?
It Shouldn’t Take Magic To Be Accepted, by E.J. Johnson
High school principal comes out as gay at school’s Pride Day
Here’s the new trailer for The Giver. I never read the book, and I’m interested what fans think?
Here’s a new 30-second ad from Hotwire featuring a gay couple. Has anyone seen it on TV yet? And if so, when and with what show?
Here’s the newest from Adam Barta (the man who brought us “It’s Tan Mom, Bitch”). This one is “See U Next Tuesday” and features Margaret Cho and Jujubee as Margaret Cho
Anderson Cooper...
- 6/4/2014
- by snicks
- The Backlot
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Birthday shoutouts go to James Purefoy (above, with Kevin McKidd), who is 50, Arianne Zucker is 40, and the faboo Suzi Quatro is 64.
White Collar boss talks show’s final season — and Matt Bomer‘s role in the finale
Here’s a list of “outdated” gay terms. Sorry, but I’m still going to use “Coming Out.”
Jonathan Rhys Meyers has joined the cast of Roland Emmerich‘s Stonewall, which will also include, I’m happy to say, Ron Perlman.
Psychotherapist Matthew Dempsey is back to talk about gay men and body image. This one isn’t nearly as snarkable as his previous self-help vids.
The Drama Desk Awards were handed out last night, and Neil Patrick Harris was a winner, along with such favorites as Bryan Cranston, Audra McDonald and Celia Keenan-Bolger
Adore Delano is in for a shock in “I Adore You.”
Ryan Lewis is adorable. But not many...
Birthday shoutouts go to James Purefoy (above, with Kevin McKidd), who is 50, Arianne Zucker is 40, and the faboo Suzi Quatro is 64.
White Collar boss talks show’s final season — and Matt Bomer‘s role in the finale
Here’s a list of “outdated” gay terms. Sorry, but I’m still going to use “Coming Out.”
Jonathan Rhys Meyers has joined the cast of Roland Emmerich‘s Stonewall, which will also include, I’m happy to say, Ron Perlman.
Psychotherapist Matthew Dempsey is back to talk about gay men and body image. This one isn’t nearly as snarkable as his previous self-help vids.
The Drama Desk Awards were handed out last night, and Neil Patrick Harris was a winner, along with such favorites as Bryan Cranston, Audra McDonald and Celia Keenan-Bolger
Adore Delano is in for a shock in “I Adore You.”
Ryan Lewis is adorable. But not many...
- 6/3/2014
- by snicks
- The Backlot
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Birthday shoutouts go to Dominic Cooper (above), who is 36, Justin Long is 36, Andy Cohen is 46, and Sally Kellerman is 77.
Speaking of, Andy Cohen Prepping I Slept With a Celebrity Reality Show, because of course he is.
Out Wrestler Darren Young Coming To GaymerX Convention
Meghan McCain has joined the Board Of Directors of GLAAD
Hair at the Hollywood Bowl: Kristen Bell, Amber Riley, Hunter Parrish lead cast. Yes, but will the nudity remain?
Towleroad has a gif bag of Josh Hartnett and Reeve Carney getting their snog on in Penny Dreadful. Here’s a tease.
Teens react to 90′s internet. Shut up, you brats!
Here’s the new trailer for the final season of True Blood. Still no Eric.
Brad Paisley doesn’t suffer fools.
Westboro Baptist Selfie!! Or west-Burro(ass) selfie. Hopefully they can hear the show out here. We'll play loud. pic.twitter.com/OrMhJjD8NE
— Brad Paisley...
Birthday shoutouts go to Dominic Cooper (above), who is 36, Justin Long is 36, Andy Cohen is 46, and Sally Kellerman is 77.
Speaking of, Andy Cohen Prepping I Slept With a Celebrity Reality Show, because of course he is.
Out Wrestler Darren Young Coming To GaymerX Convention
Meghan McCain has joined the Board Of Directors of GLAAD
Hair at the Hollywood Bowl: Kristen Bell, Amber Riley, Hunter Parrish lead cast. Yes, but will the nudity remain?
Towleroad has a gif bag of Josh Hartnett and Reeve Carney getting their snog on in Penny Dreadful. Here’s a tease.
Teens react to 90′s internet. Shut up, you brats!
Here’s the new trailer for the final season of True Blood. Still no Eric.
Brad Paisley doesn’t suffer fools.
Westboro Baptist Selfie!! Or west-Burro(ass) selfie. Hopefully they can hear the show out here. We'll play loud. pic.twitter.com/OrMhJjD8NE
— Brad Paisley...
- 6/2/2014
- by snicks
- The Backlot
Birthday shoutouts go to Matthew McConaughey (above) who is 44, Kathy Griffin is 53, Markie Post is 63, and Ralph Macchio is 52.
Samuel L. Jackson has been cast in the film adaptation of Stephen King‘s Cell (which has been in the planning stages since the novel debuted back in 2006). My colleague Brian Juergens informs me that the character Sam is playing, Tom McCourt, is gay in the book, so it’ll be interesting to see if they keep it, or de-gay him (but hey, if he needs tips on playing a de-gayed character, he can just ask his co-star John Cusack, who’s done it twice in his career). But I really hope they don’t, because it’s been far too long since I’ve heard a gay character say “motherf*ckin.”
A few months ago I posted Man Vs. Blur: The Ten Hottest Bear Grylls Pixelations, and lamented the fact...
Samuel L. Jackson has been cast in the film adaptation of Stephen King‘s Cell (which has been in the planning stages since the novel debuted back in 2006). My colleague Brian Juergens informs me that the character Sam is playing, Tom McCourt, is gay in the book, so it’ll be interesting to see if they keep it, or de-gay him (but hey, if he needs tips on playing a de-gayed character, he can just ask his co-star John Cusack, who’s done it twice in his career). But I really hope they don’t, because it’s been far too long since I’ve heard a gay character say “motherf*ckin.”
A few months ago I posted Man Vs. Blur: The Ten Hottest Bear Grylls Pixelations, and lamented the fact...
- 11/4/2013
- by snicks
- The Backlot
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Talk about good timing.
A Berlin street musician was given the surprise and performance of a lifetime by Scottish pop singer Jimmy Somerville. While playing the 1984 synth anthem “Smalltown Boy” by Bronski Beat, Somerville — who was the lead singer of the group — stops and joins in while walking his dog. The impromptu duet was captured on film by bystanders, including the reaction from the unnamed street musician when he realizes who he was just harmonizing with.
Watch the video below:...
A Berlin street musician was given the surprise and performance of a lifetime by Scottish pop singer Jimmy Somerville. While playing the 1984 synth anthem “Smalltown Boy” by Bronski Beat, Somerville — who was the lead singer of the group — stops and joins in while walking his dog. The impromptu duet was captured on film by bystanders, including the reaction from the unnamed street musician when he realizes who he was just harmonizing with.
Watch the video below:...
- 11/4/2013
- by Jake Perlman
- EW.com - PopWatch
Two films about young gay life reveal how the boxes we put ourselves in haven't gone away – they've just got smaller
'Are you a heterosexual?" the filmmaker asks. "Ooh no!" comes the reply, "I've got three kids and a husband!" The scene is a market in London's East End in the early 80s, the film Framed Youth: The Revenge of the Teenage Perverts.
The Greater London Council-funded documentary, a snapshot of young gay life, was screened again at this year's Lesbian and Gay film festival in London. It captures a very different era. The lo-fi VHS production, a soundtrack of Eurythmics and Soft Cell, the flimsy grasp of sexuality in, of all places, Dalston. Jimmy Somerville and Richard Coles make before-they-were-famous appearances. True, the unchanging signposts of the gay experience are there too: the gradual realisation that you are different, the coming out, and the finally finding people with whom you can be yourself.
'Are you a heterosexual?" the filmmaker asks. "Ooh no!" comes the reply, "I've got three kids and a husband!" The scene is a market in London's East End in the early 80s, the film Framed Youth: The Revenge of the Teenage Perverts.
The Greater London Council-funded documentary, a snapshot of young gay life, was screened again at this year's Lesbian and Gay film festival in London. It captures a very different era. The lo-fi VHS production, a soundtrack of Eurythmics and Soft Cell, the flimsy grasp of sexuality in, of all places, Dalston. Jimmy Somerville and Richard Coles make before-they-were-famous appearances. True, the unchanging signposts of the gay experience are there too: the gradual realisation that you are different, the coming out, and the finally finding people with whom you can be yourself.
- 3/22/2013
- by David Shariatmadari
- The Guardian - Film News
Here is last week's caption pic winner. This week's caption pic is at the bottom of the page.
Thanks to everyone for participating! The winner is ...
"Sven was proud of his strip-trivial-pursuit prowess."
Thanks to agent for this week's winning caption!
Weekend Birthdays! (Note: Birthday shoutouts are for out entertainers, allies, or for any celeb that seems to have a following on Ae). Steven Strait (above) is 26, Lindsay Wagner is 62, Bruce Campbell is 54, Jimmy Somerville is 51, and one of our most faboo allies, Cyndi Lauper is 59. What are your Cyndi faves? Here are mine: 10. "Girls Just Want To Have Fun," 9. "Who Let In The Rain," 8. "She Bop," 7. "I Drove All Night," 6. "The Goonies R Good Enough," 5. "Hole In My Heart (All The Way To China)," 4. "Time After Time," 3. "True Colors," 2. "Sally's Pigeons," 1. "All Through The Night."
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Thanks to everyone for participating! The winner is ...
"Sven was proud of his strip-trivial-pursuit prowess."
Thanks to agent for this week's winning caption!
Weekend Birthdays! (Note: Birthday shoutouts are for out entertainers, allies, or for any celeb that seems to have a following on Ae). Steven Strait (above) is 26, Lindsay Wagner is 62, Bruce Campbell is 54, Jimmy Somerville is 51, and one of our most faboo allies, Cyndi Lauper is 59. What are your Cyndi faves? Here are mine: 10. "Girls Just Want To Have Fun," 9. "Who Let In The Rain," 8. "She Bop," 7. "I Drove All Night," 6. "The Goonies R Good Enough," 5. "Hole In My Heart (All The Way To China)," 4. "Time After Time," 3. "True Colors," 2. "Sally's Pigeons," 1. "All Through The Night."
Please join me Saturday night at 8 Pm Et when I liveblog The Daytime Emmy Awards.
- 6/22/2012
- by snicks
- The Backlot
A pre-recap disclaimer: I loved "The First Time." I thought it was stunningly shot, as well as brilliantly written and acted. I thought the editing was genius, and its message was affirming of all the big, messy, crazy, gorgeous, sexy, confusing beautifulness of being young and on the brink of your future.
If you hated it, if you were coming here hoping for a lot of snark, this is not the recap you are looking for. I will try to be more cynical next week. I promise.
Also: If first love really could be like this, I'd happily climb into that time machine Blaine's building and go back and be young again.
We open with Artie rolling down the hallway, thinking it doesn't matter if you're "in prison like Gandhi, or stuck inside a woman's body like Chaz Bono, or in a wheelchair like me," when you find your calling,...
If you hated it, if you were coming here hoping for a lot of snark, this is not the recap you are looking for. I will try to be more cynical next week. I promise.
Also: If first love really could be like this, I'd happily climb into that time machine Blaine's building and go back and be young again.
We open with Artie rolling down the hallway, thinking it doesn't matter if you're "in prison like Gandhi, or stuck inside a woman's body like Chaz Bono, or in a wheelchair like me," when you find your calling,...
- 11/9/2011
- by Christie Keith
- The Backlot
![Travis Wall in All the Right Moves (2012)](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTU2MDQyOTUxOV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNjA5MzcxOA@@._V1_QL75_UY207_CR8,0,140,207_.jpg)
![Travis Wall in All the Right Moves (2012)](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTU2MDQyOTUxOV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNjA5MzcxOA@@._V1_QL75_UY207_CR8,0,140,207_.jpg)
Adam Rose / Fox Contestants perform on the June 30 broadcast of “So You Think You Can Dance?”
It’s down to seven couples now.
The judges give a lot more substantive feedback tonight, which is much more interesting than generalized shrieks and love, maybe because with fewer dancers there’s more time to talk to them? The music is much more varied, too, with numbers from David Bowie, Tito Puente, Eartha Kitt and Bronski Beat. There’s also a new choreographer,...
It’s down to seven couples now.
The judges give a lot more substantive feedback tonight, which is much more interesting than generalized shrieks and love, maybe because with fewer dancers there’s more time to talk to them? The music is much more varied, too, with numbers from David Bowie, Tito Puente, Eartha Kitt and Bronski Beat. There’s also a new choreographer,...
- 7/7/2011
- by Gwen Orel
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
There can’t be many who remember Ron Peck’s clubland spectacular and that’s hardly surprising, it’s atrocious. We can’t know with any certainty how human beings lived in the 1980′s but we can infer that the film’s meandering nature and the am-dram turns would have baffled them.
What, you may ask, is Empire State about? It’s easier to pose the question than to answer it. Ostensibly it’s the crime movie that Robert Altman would have made were he a soak; a character heavy, intersecting plot-fest in which events converge at the titular East End nightclub. Therein, flanked by walls that look like forensic experts have brushed them for traces of ejaculate, each character arc plays out, though not necessarily to any discernable conclusion.
There’s the lonely heart who’s come to meet a blind date, a boy who looks like the Geordie Flash Gordon,...
What, you may ask, is Empire State about? It’s easier to pose the question than to answer it. Ostensibly it’s the crime movie that Robert Altman would have made were he a soak; a character heavy, intersecting plot-fest in which events converge at the titular East End nightclub. Therein, flanked by walls that look like forensic experts have brushed them for traces of ejaculate, each character arc plays out, though not necessarily to any discernable conclusion.
There’s the lonely heart who’s come to meet a blind date, a boy who looks like the Geordie Flash Gordon,...
- 3/15/2011
- by Ed Whitfield
- Obsessed with Film
The fabulous Tilda Swinton is now a half century old young timeless -- old, young... these concepts are too limited when it comes to the greats. But fact: On November 5th, 1960 Tilda Swinton first came into the world. So a tribute is most definitely in order.
50 Appropriate Ways
to Celebrate Swintonian Greatness
Be a genius.Dye your hair white blonde... or bright red.Be colorful.Imagine you have deep Scottish roots.Create an eccentric personal film festival.Attend any film festival near you.Have tremendous commitment to your art. Exhibit tremendous loyalty to your friends.Watch a Derek Jarman film immediately. (This should have been first. Just pretend you did it first.)
Stand naked in front of the mirror with your goodies tucked. Say "Same person. No different at all. Just a different sex"That's right. Watch Orlando (1993) again. It's so good.Break the fourth wall with Jimmy Sommerville blasting behind you as soundtrack.
50 Appropriate Ways
to Celebrate Swintonian Greatness
Be a genius.Dye your hair white blonde... or bright red.Be colorful.Imagine you have deep Scottish roots.Create an eccentric personal film festival.Attend any film festival near you.Have tremendous commitment to your art. Exhibit tremendous loyalty to your friends.Watch a Derek Jarman film immediately. (This should have been first. Just pretend you did it first.)
Stand naked in front of the mirror with your goodies tucked. Say "Same person. No different at all. Just a different sex"That's right. Watch Orlando (1993) again. It's so good.Break the fourth wall with Jimmy Sommerville blasting behind you as soundtrack.
- 11/7/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Plus Lady Gaga channels Larry King on Larry King Live, Ireland pursues marriage equality, and Happy Birthday, Monte! The sweater completes the look.
Above you can see, well, I can't tell you what it is other than it's Wil Wheaton and John Scalzi. Deciding what it means is your job, because they're accepting fan fiction explaining the picture, the best of which joins an anthology to be published benefiting the Lupus Alliance of America. Anything is allowed except slash, and the winner gets paid. Do it because the picture is epic, and because despite what House says, sometimes it is lupus. Congratulations to Jane Lynch who married fiance Lara Embry yesterday at the Blue Heron Restaurant in Sunderland, Massachusettes. Sally Potter's film Orlando, originally released in 1992 and starring Tilda Swinton, Quentin Crisp, and Jimmy Somerville, is about to hit theaters for a second time. Based on the novel by Virginia Woolf,...
Above you can see, well, I can't tell you what it is other than it's Wil Wheaton and John Scalzi. Deciding what it means is your job, because they're accepting fan fiction explaining the picture, the best of which joins an anthology to be published benefiting the Lupus Alliance of America. Anything is allowed except slash, and the winner gets paid. Do it because the picture is epic, and because despite what House says, sometimes it is lupus. Congratulations to Jane Lynch who married fiance Lara Embry yesterday at the Blue Heron Restaurant in Sunderland, Massachusettes. Sally Potter's film Orlando, originally released in 1992 and starring Tilda Swinton, Quentin Crisp, and Jimmy Somerville, is about to hit theaters for a second time. Based on the novel by Virginia Woolf,...
- 6/1/2010
- by lostinmiami
- The Backlot
HollywoodNews.com: Sally Potter’s “Orlando,” based on the novel by Virginia Woolf will be re-released in theaters. The film, which originally debuted in 1992, stars Tilda Swinton, Quentin Crisp, and Jimmy Somerville.
The film is a story of a journey through time, of someone who lives four hundred years, first as a man, then as a woman. Orlando is granted favors by Queen Elizabeth 1, but after her death he falls in love with a visiting princess on the Thames river. The princess leaves him behind, which prompts him to fulfill his destiny as an Ambassador in the deserts of central Asia. There during war, he changes sex and returns to London to face whether he wants to marry and have heirs or lose everything. She finally meets the man of her dreams, but decides to lose love and inheritance to find herself.
The film will open in select theaters in...
The film is a story of a journey through time, of someone who lives four hundred years, first as a man, then as a woman. Orlando is granted favors by Queen Elizabeth 1, but after her death he falls in love with a visiting princess on the Thames river. The princess leaves him behind, which prompts him to fulfill his destiny as an Ambassador in the deserts of central Asia. There during war, he changes sex and returns to London to face whether he wants to marry and have heirs or lose everything. She finally meets the man of her dreams, but decides to lose love and inheritance to find herself.
The film will open in select theaters in...
- 6/1/2010
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
This week! Do people have a right to be obnoxiously gay in public? What famous divas also have singing sisters? What popular songs are really gay duets? More!
Have a question about gay male entertainment or need life advice? Contact me here (and be sure and include your city and state and/or country!)
Q: I am curious about duets by mainstream artists with other men, specifically love songs, and more specifically overtly gay ones — or at least those that could be interpreted as such. I think back to RuPaul and Elton John’s remake of “Don’t Go Breakin’ My Heart” on his Duets album and how excited I was, novelty notwithstanding, that it was a duet between two men. I love the hell out of Robbie Williams because of his “Swing While You’re Winning” tribute album, because it has a straight-up gay duet with Rupert Everett and...
Have a question about gay male entertainment or need life advice? Contact me here (and be sure and include your city and state and/or country!)
Q: I am curious about duets by mainstream artists with other men, specifically love songs, and more specifically overtly gay ones — or at least those that could be interpreted as such. I think back to RuPaul and Elton John’s remake of “Don’t Go Breakin’ My Heart” on his Duets album and how excited I was, novelty notwithstanding, that it was a duet between two men. I love the hell out of Robbie Williams because of his “Swing While You’re Winning” tribute album, because it has a straight-up gay duet with Rupert Everett and...
- 6/1/2010
- by Brent Hartinger
- The Backlot
More familiar with life on the fringes of British cinema, director Sally Potter finds herself the subject of a BFI retrospective. But she has no interest in looking back
In the late 1980s, Sally Potter was scratching around for funding to make Orlando, the Virginia Woolf adaptation widely considered her finest film, as well as a formative moment in the career of its star, Tilda Swinton. Potter's friend, the visionary director Michael Powell, had secured her a 10-minute meeting with Martin Scorsese, in which she hoped to convince him to extend a helping hand to a fellow maverick.
"Tilda and I went with our producer to meet Scorsese in New York," says the 60-year-old Potter, seated at a table in her east London office. "We walked into his place and nearly fainted with admiration. He then proceeded to spend the entire 10 minutes talking about how incredibly difficult life was for...
In the late 1980s, Sally Potter was scratching around for funding to make Orlando, the Virginia Woolf adaptation widely considered her finest film, as well as a formative moment in the career of its star, Tilda Swinton. Potter's friend, the visionary director Michael Powell, had secured her a 10-minute meeting with Martin Scorsese, in which she hoped to convince him to extend a helping hand to a fellow maverick.
"Tilda and I went with our producer to meet Scorsese in New York," says the 60-year-old Potter, seated at a table in her east London office. "We walked into his place and nearly fainted with admiration. He then proceeded to spend the entire 10 minutes talking about how incredibly difficult life was for...
- 12/4/2009
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
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