This is no shallow chauvinistic claim in this case but just the simply reality that no matter how skimpy the costumes Catherine Zeta Jones and her fellow dancers wore in Cell Block Tango in the movie Chicago (which won Zeta Jones an Oscar), there is simply no comparison with their performance than with this all-male version. From … Continue reading
About four years ago the sublime Joey Arias spent the whole summer performing at The Art House in Provincetown alongside Raven. My friends told me little about this NY phenomena but insisted as she was totally fabulous I should go see her Show. I am so pleased that I did as the moment, Joey opened … Continue reading
In 1986 Pee-wee Herman was at the height of his little-boy-trapped-in-a-man’s-body fame and his Christmas Special that year had a cast to die for. It included Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon, Grace Jones, k.d. lang, Dinah Shore, Little Richard, Cher, the Del Rubio Triplettes, Magic Johnson, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Joan Rivers, Charo, … Continue reading
Recently uploaded to YouTube is this wee gem of a video of Leigh Bowery shooting a shopping segment for the UK BBC TV’s ‘The Clothes Show’ in 1988. Bowery was a London-based performance artist, club promoter, and designer who created the legendary club Taboo which became the hang out of London’s alternative ‘artists’. Taboo was really ahead … Continue reading
To mark the 30th anniversary of Alex Cox cult movie ‘SID & NANCY’ Studio Canal are releasing a newly restored version. This is the biopic of Sid Vicious the bassist of the seminal punk band The Sex Pistols who ended up being arrested for the murder of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. Vicious was never convicted however as his … Continue reading