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I had the great privilege of attending the US premiere of The Road , opening today in LA and NY, as part of the AFI Festival earlier this month. I also had the pleasure of sitting across the aisle from one of the film's stars, gorgeous Oscar- winner Charlize Theron, but that's another ...
Movies
The handsome and talented Scott Evans , a.k.a. Officer Oliver Fish on One Life to Live , graces the cover of Instinct Magazine's latest issue. Read the interview, wherein he says his mom's reaction to his coming out was “Oh, yeah. I knew when I gave birth to you”, here .
Television
One Life to Live
I knew next to nothing about George Handel's opera Tamerlano prior to attending LA Opera's company premiere of the composer's 1724 work on November 21. While I have a mixed reaction to the production, the opera's themes — musical and political — are timely and perhaps more pertinent now than ...
Movies
On November 22, I had the pleasure of joining the cast of Phoenix Rising Artists Collaborative as they presented their last night of Charles Busch's hilarious play, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom . All proceeds went to the Desert Mountain States Chapter of the Lymphoma and Leukemia Society, which ...
Movies
Tim Burton's latest flight of fancy Alice in Wonderland , starring his muse Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Alan Rickman as The Caterpillar ... Mia Wasikowska as Alice, Michael Sheen as The White Rabbit ... Anne Hathaway as The White Queen, Helena Bonham Carter as The Red Queen, Stephen ...
Movies
Alice in Wonderland
Tim Burton
Johnny Depp
Alan Rickman
Mia Wasikowska
Michael Sheen
Arizona’s Joe Marshall is taking New York by snowstorm this Christmas. Marshall was a fixture on Valley stages, but now he’s finding success Off Broadway after moving to New York City earlier this year. In June, he staged his play Dirty Secret s, and now, he is opening his newest show, The ...
Celebrities
I love every film by director Werner Herzog I've seen, starting with 1982's Fitzcarraldo and culminating most recently in his wonderful if sad Grizzly Man . I like Nicolas Cage a lot, especially when the actor is at his most histrionic in such offbeat movies as Peggy Sue Got Married , Raising ...
Celebrities
Up and Monsters, Inc. , the two Pixar favorites that made their Disney Blu-ray debuts last week, share more than just a production company and a director (Peter Docter). Taking a look at their main characters, one can see several similarities: The Unlikely Hero : Is there anything more ...
Movies
No Country for Old Men
Monsters, Inc.
In one corner, at the Pantages Theatre , is a nasty-wasty, green-furred creature intent on stealing holiday joy. In the other corner, better known as the Ahmanson Theatre , is a practically perfect if wind-dependent British nanny with magical powers. Their battle for theatre-goers’ dollars ...
Celebrities
Mary Poppins
If Old Joy mated with I Love You, Man , the spawn would be Humpday , the Sundance Festival Special Jury prize-winning film written and directed by Lynn Shelton making its debut on DVD tomorrow. The salacious, but slightly misleading, set-up is that two straight male friends decide to make an ...
Movies
Humpday
Forget the hyped-up artificiality of the Saw films. The real horror show is the home life endured by the title character in Lee Daniels’ bleak but ultimately hopeful drama Precious , based on Sapphire’s 1996 novel Push . Clareece “Precious” Jones ( Gabourey Sidibe , in a true breakout ...
Celebrities
Mo'Nique
Push
Walt Disney’s cinematic masterpiece Mary Poppins has enthralled viewers since its original release in 1964. Based on a series of books by P.L. Travers about a “practically perfect” nanny with seemingly supernatural powers, the movie was a box-office hit and won a number of Oscars including ...
Movies
Mary Poppins
Director-producer-writer Peter Rodger took an admirably ambitious project on when he decided to make Oh My God , a documentary opening today in Los Angeles and New York. Starting out in his native Australia, Rodger traversed 23 different countries and asked various people he encountered "What ...
Movies
For the past few months, the MD News Desk has been bringing you all the latest scoop on what's happening in the entertainment world a couple times of week. Well, in order to bring you the news as soon as it happens (or at least as soon as we hear about it), as of today the News Desk is moving ...
Movies
Mexican writer-director Fernando Eimbcke's 2004 feature film debut, Duck Season , won numerous film festival awards and made an impression on me personally. Eimbcke takes an unfortunate if not unusual route other filmmakers have traveled following a successful debut and gets self-indulgent ...
Movies
Keep up to date with all the latest from the entertainment world with the MD News Desk : Out in Film : - Ellen DeGeneres does O, the Oprah Magazine and Tom Ford does The Advocate . - Candis Cayne chats about Nip/Tuck and her upcoming reality show. - Will & Grace co-creator Max ...
Celebrities
Each holiday season brings a host of theatrical and DVD releases intended to contribute to movie fans’ yuletide cheer and/or inspire gift giving. Few of them, however, include GLBT characters or speak directly to GLBT viewers. There are exceptions though, chief among them The Family Stone, ...
Movies
Since his creation in 1919 by American pulp fiction author Johnston McCulley, the masked avenger known as Zorro has lived on in everything from comic books to cartoons to video games, even a stage musical. But it is his onscreen persona that has been the most enduring, including multiple ...
Celebrities
Disney Studios
Back in 1984 or so, in the heady days of Phoenix gay hot spot Hotbods, you could count on seeing a young guy decked out like Boy George , with an LP on his head for a hat and plenty of rag-cloth dreadlocks. Everyone called him “Trashdance”, and I don’t think anyone ever knew his real name. I ...
