Tag Archives: show biz

Kathy Griffin: “Suck it, Jesus!”

As you may have heard by now, Kathy Griffin accepted her Creative Emmy Award a few days ago by saying at the podium, “A lot of people get up here and thank Jesus for helping them win this award, but I have to say nobody has been less helpful in getting me to this moment than Jesus. I don’t know …

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Rethinking Merv Griffin

Spurred by Michelangelo Signorile’s withering appraisal of Merv Griffin’s legacy as a closeted gay man, the Hollywood Reporter yesterday published a column posthumously outing Griffin, something the mainstream media had failed to do definitively, despite some making references to Griffin’s sexual harassment and gay palimony lawsuits. After reading Signorile’s post and stewing over it a couple a days, I appeared …

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HomoQuotable – Steve Schalchlin

“Gay people who are raised in a religious environment, a conservative religious environment are basically told, ‘You’re not good enough / you don’t belong here / you need to change / you need to be something else.’ And so, in a lot of our lives, we end up leaving the church and hating God or hating Religion or hating the …

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Broadway Friday

-The soundtrack to Hairspray has edged up to #2 on the Billboard Top 200, but Prince’s debut at #3 with Planet Earth will likely prevent any time at the top spot for Hairspray. – Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal have returned to the cast of Rent, reprising the roles they created. Rent is currently the seventh longest running show in …

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Big Voice Opens in SF August 1st

My pals Steve Schalchlin and Jim Brochu’s show, The Big Voice: God Or Merman?, a musical comedy about their 22-year marriage, opens in San Francisco at the New Conservatory Theatre on August 1st. The show had a great six month run in New York City, winning rave reviews from Variety and the New York Times. Our contemporary embrace of the …

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Broadway Friday

– Elaine Stritch will do a three week run beginning in January at the Carlyle Hotel in a show called Elaine Stritch At The Liberty….At The Carlyle. Tickets are $125 and you must order dinner – which, of course, is not included. – A revival of Sunday In The Park With George hits Broadway on February 21st. The Pulitzer Prize-winning …

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Broadway Friday

– This week the soundtrack for Hairspray enters the Billboard 200 at #20. Over on Hot Dance Club Play, Idina Menzel’s remix of Defying Gravity climbs to #7. The cast album for Wicked has been #1 for 73 weeks on Billboard’s Top Cast Albums chart. – A Broadway adaptation of the the classic Sidney Poitier film, Guess Who’s Coming To …

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Broadway Barks

Yesterday the Farmboyz and I headed down to Schubert Alley for Broadway Barks, the 9th annual pet adoptathon created and hosted by Mary Tyler Moore and Bernadette Peters and presented by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The casts and stars of virtually every Broadway show made appearances, from Xanadu’s studly Cheyenne Jackson (left) to Tony winners David Hyde Pierce, Beth Leavel, …

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Broadway Friday

– R&B singer Brian McKnight takes over the Billy Flynn role in Chicago on October 8th. – Xanadu broke box office records for the Helen Hayes theatre after receiving an extremely positive review from the New York Times. Olivia Newton-John attended Tuesday’s official opening. Gay hottie Cheyenne Jackson (United 93, All Shook Up) has temporarily stepped into the lead, replacing …

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Isaiah Washington: It’s Because I’m Black

Fired Grey’s Anatomy star Isaiah Washington is pulling out his race card, now claiming that he was canned from the hit show because he’s black. Saying, “Someone heard the booming voice of a black man and got really scared and that was the beginning of the end for me,” Washington says the real reason he got fired is because he …

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Beverly Sills Near Death

Legendary opera diva and gay icon Beverly Sills, 78, is reported to be near death from lung cancer. Sills is in a Manhattan hospital with her daughter at her side. While she retired from performing in 1980, Sills has continued to be a force on the NYC opera scene, becoming the chair of the Metropolitan Opera in 2002. Like many …

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Broadway Roundup

Tickets for the upcoming musical version of Young Frankenstein will be $120, a new plateau for regular seats. Casting has been announced: Dr. Frankenstein: Roger Bart (played in the movie by Gene Wilder), Elizabeth: Megan Mullally (Madeline Kahn), Inga: Sutton Foster (Terri Garr), Frau Blucher: Andrea Martin (Cloris Leachman). Wicked leads last week’s grosses at $1.4M. Xanadu appears to be …

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Cat Of The Year

Andrew Lloyd Webber has been writing a sequel to Phantom Of The Opera, called Phantom In Manhattan. However: “I was trying to write some new music; Otto got into the grand piano, jumped onto the computer and destroyed the entire score for the new Phantom in one fell swoop.” And Broadway was saved. Who’s a good kitty? You are! Yes, …

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The Ritz Returns

Here’s some exciting Broadway news: Terrence McNally’s 1975 hit play The Ritz is returning to Broadway in October, with Rosie Perez playing the role of Googie Gomez, which was originally played by Rita Moreno. I never saw the play, but the 1976 movie version is one of my favorite films of all time, one of those classic gay films that …

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2007 Tonyzzzzzz

Somehow I managed to keep my eyes open during last night’s soporific unhosted Tony Awards, which may have been the most boring telecast in Tonys history and that’s saying something. Bring back Hugh Jackman! The two big winners each nearly swept their respective categories, with Spring Awakening winning eight musical awards and The Coast Of Utopia taking seven Tonys, a …

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Charles Nelson Reilly, 76

Charles Nelson Reilly, the campiest creature ever to challenge Paul Lynde’s chiffon sash as TV’s first mean queen, died yesterday in Los Angeles at 76. Most probably know Reilly from his trademark evil snigger, which he delivered for many years on game shows such as Hollywood Squares and Match Game. However, Reilly’s fame first came many years earlier, in 1961, …

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Eight Shows A Week. Plus One.

Sunday, 11pm, Christopher Street, West Village I’m on my cellphone, leaning against a tree. A handsome young man comes running up the sidewalk at me. His jerky gait on the broken cement suggests he’s trying not to break his mother’s back. Or maybe trying TO break it, I can’t tell. He’s shouting something, but I can’t make it out with …

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Joey Oglesby Vs. Donnie Davies

Here’s the complete video behind the MTV News clip posted a couple of days ago. Homo aroma therapy! “Breathe out the homo!”

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Davies Article & MTV News

An article about the Donnie Davies phenomenon in today’s Window Media publications (Washington Blade, NY Blade, Southern Voice, etc) features an interview with me. In case you don’t get enough of me here. And here’s an MTV News story featuring a hot tub interview with Joey Oglesby and the folks behind the Donnie Davies campaign. There are two screenshots of …

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Mr. Deity

This weekend I was hipped to the latest YouTube phenom, Mr.Deity, a series of hilarious film shorts that skewer Christian dogma, starring a nelly, distracted Mr.Deity as director of the universe and his Smithers-ish assistant, Larry. And check out the super-hot faux-hawked Jesus that appears in Episode 2. .

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