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'Shirley Valentine' Extends At Fst
30 June 2009 5:54 PM, PDT | From BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news
Broadway Actress Susan Greenhill returns to Fst, where she recently played Haddie in York's ...and L.A. is Burning. She will play the role of Shirley Valentine. Greenhill has also appeared at Fst in Southern Comforts, Dinner With Friends, Fiction. Broadway: Crimes of the Heart. Off-Broadway: Primary-Stages, Actors Studio Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Urban Stages. Regional: The Clean House, Cincinnati Playhouse (Acclaim Award); Sideman, Philadelphia Company (Barrymore Award); We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!, Long Wharf Theatre; The Glass Menagerie, St. Louis Rep; The Importance of Being Earnest, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; Born Yesterday, Indiana Rep; Expectations, Stamford Center (with Eartha Kitt). Television & film: Chapelle Show, Law & Order, Clarissa Explains It All, Loving, Guiding Light, Pecker (directed by John Waters), High Stakes, Noon Blue Apples (Sundance Festival).
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Take a Vow of Celibacy for Celluloid!
28 June 2009 6:49 AM, PDT | From FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news
And if you're not needle averse... perhaps a tattoo of your favorite director.
I had totally forgotten about this roll call moment from John Waters' Cecil B Demented (2000) and I lurve it. Unfortunately the movie isn't as strong as its concept. It doesn't help that Melanie Griffith stars and doesn't seem to be in on the joke in the way Kathleen Turner was in Serial Mom. But it's Melanie Griffith, what can you do?
The highlight of the film: Alicia Witt as porn star Cherish. Around this time I really thought Witt was going to become a big star. But then she lost the Mary Jane role in Spider-Man and nothing ever seemed to fully ignite in that career. Runner up: Maggie Gyllenhaal (she sports the Kenneth Anger tattoo) as "Raven" slapping Melanie Griffith because Satan told her to. That's something I feel everyone should do when they're in a film with Melanie,
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NATHANIEL R
Johnny Be Cool
27 June 2009 11:48 PM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news
Nobody," John Waters once said, "is sick of Johnny Depp."
It's as true today as it was when Waters directed Depp in 1990's "Cry Baby," the film that diminished his hated TV teen-idol status with the help of Iggy Pop and Ricki Lake.
But Waters' statement doesn't go far enough: We can never get enough of Johnny Depp. The man who started out on a cheesy '80s cop show has grown up to become our most enduring emblem
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Katy Perry Takes Us Backstage In London
11 June 2009 10:59 PM, PDT | From MTV Music News | See recent MTV Music News news
Get a firsthand look at Katy's preshow rituals and sneaky crowd greeting.
Katy Perry backstage at London's O2 Empire club on Thursday
Photo: MTV News
What's the secret to Katy Perry's rather meteoric rise to fame? Apparently, it's Coca-Cola and Tylenol.
At least that's what we learned backstage at London's O2 Empire club, where she just completed a sold-out, two-night run. The scene in the dressing rooms was hectic — plenty of last-minute costume changes and makeup sessions — but Perry made it a point to complete one preshow ritual that she credits for putting her over the top.
"Every night, an hour before my show, I have some Coca-Cola and a Tylenol. And I don't know if it's good or bad, but I think it just messes with my mind, to let me know we're going to have a great show," she said. "It's probably not the greatest idea,
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"It Came From Kuchar" At Newfest This Weekend
5 June 2009 12:18 PM, PDT | From Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news
One of the best parts of SXSW this year was catching glimpses of legendary filmmaker George Kuchar, who, along with his brother Mike, is profiled in Jennifer Kroot's documentary It Came From Kuchar. The Kuchar Brother's wild, campy underground films were a major influence on a whole generation of filmmakers, some of whom -- John Waters, Atom Egoyan, Guy Maddin, Wayne Wang, Buck Henry -- are interviewed in the movie. The Kuchars were contemporaries of Andy Warhol and Kenneth Anger, but their films are much more funny-sexy-weird; they were obsessed with Hollywood melodrama and seemingly immune from any hipster aspirations or demimonde acceptance. To really understand the history of underground film, check out It Came From Kuchar this weekend...
Alicia Van Couvering
Even In The 00s, Girls Still Want To Have Fun
29 May 2009 7:07 AM, PDT | From cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news
I've never seen the 1985 movie Girls Just Want To Have Fun, but now that I've bothered looking it up, it looks like I have to-- Helen Hunt, Sarah Jessica Parker and Shannen Doherty in starring roles, and a rumored cameo by Robert Downey Jr.! Why would you remake a movie that serendipitously starred two future Oscar nominees and one fashion icon-to-be? Beats me, but Fox is trying it anyway, scheduling a remake of the very 80s movie with Michelle Morgan hired to rewrite the script. Variety says they'll be hanging on to the same plot about teenage girls who love to dance and want to be on the show Dance TV. On paper it very closely resembles the plot of Hairspray, minus the 60s setting and the fat acceptance and racial tension. I'm guessing that's mostly a coincidence, though, if only to not assume that John Waters somehow ripped this
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Nine cartoon characters that totally ping the gaydar
6 May 2009 11:54 AM, PDT | From AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news
*Note: This list originally ran on August 24th, 2007
It's a part of growing up gay, that moment you look back at your pop culture memories and start to see the characters in a new context, picking up signals you weren't equipped to notice before. Here are a few of our favorite (and gayest) cartoon characters.
The Smurfs
From: The Smurfs
True, the Smurfs were all gaga over Smurfette, but those little blue men couldn't have lived without any kind of romance before she arrived, it's hard not to ask the same questions about Smurf village that have been asked about Paradise Island.
Dr. Benton Quest and Race Bannon
From: Johnny Quest cartoons
The quintet that Johnny Quest traveled with certainly has felt like the kind of improvised family that's so familiar to gays and the way that Race and Benton took care of each other certainly suggested an affection based
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LyleMasaki
The Sandbox: Shake Your Money Maker
24 April 2009 10:39 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news
Console gaming changed forever in 1996, when Nintendo's N64 was released with a controller featuring an analog thumbstick. It was a design not seen since the days of the Atari 5200, and one that would not only be copied by each successive console, but that would also help usher in an age of 3D gaming that took full advantage of the new apparatus. And the N64's interactive legacy wouldn't end there -- an empty slot on the back of the controller would soon present Nintendo with the means to further revolutionize the medium. At first used only for memory cards, that vacant port realized its full potential on July 1, 1997, when the highly anticipated scrolling shooter "Star Fox 64" hit store shelves with an included Rumble Pack that, when plugged into the controller during gameplay, would shake in harmony with the on-screen action. The era of physical feedback from your entertainment had begun,
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Nick Schager
Pop! Quiz: What is birthday boy John Waters' single greatest contribution to the universe?
22 April 2009 1:25 PM, PDT | From AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news
This is a Pop! Quiz very dear to my heart, because I adore filmmaker/actor/artist John Waters, who turns 62 years filthy today.
Rather than just yell out the window and hope that he hears me, I thought that I'd open up a forum for folks to share their own favorite John Waters moments, as there are so many to choose from.
Would it be the enduring legacy of Divine? Would it be the onscreen eating of dog poop, or eggs in a playpen? Or maybe it's bringing the term "teabagging" to the mainstream ... or at least to the mainstream that matters. (snap!)
For me Waters' genius at its most distilled is a single line from his brilliantly black comedy Serial Mom that has no doubt spurred millions of crank calls globally (Dottie Hinkle, you know what you did...). But since I can't actually print it here, I'll settle for
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Shankman, Waters, and Just Not Getting It
13 April 2009 2:02 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
While I've made no secret of my distaste of musicals, there's a faction of them that really, really irks me most of all. In fact, if not for the ever-prevalent existence of these suckers, I'd be much more appreciative of the whole musical movement. That faction: Sanitized, Purelled musical remakes -- Hairspray being the prime example. If you want to celebrate a film, celebrate it. Don't lobotomize it.
Yeah, Adam Shankman went wild throwing John Travolta in a female fat suit, but as we all know, that's merely a tiny shade of "perversity" in the Waters universe. In January, he mentioned not being able to do some of the wild "John Waters-y" sort of things in the upcoming sequel, but now he's described this whole project to a T. Straight from Collider: "John Waters wrote a treatment that was so insane. That was really a sequel to his version of
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Monika Bartyzel
John Waters Exposes Himself at the Gagosian
13 April 2009 12:50 PM, PDT | From Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news
A detail of John Waters's Rear Projection, 2009. Chromogenic color print. Walking into the white abyss of the Gagosian art gallery Saturday, April 11th, for the opening of an exhibit by eccentric Balitmore film director John Waters, I was nearly mauled by a throng of his flamboyant admirers, dressed like extras from the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Among the more conventionally attired were Randal Kleiser, Ricki Lake, Johnny Knoxville, Traci Lords, Jeremy Renner, Vincent and Shelly Fremont, Brett Reichman, Joe Dallesandro, Ed and Dan Ruscha, Kat Kramer, Mike Kelly, Patrick Painter and Greg Gorman. Waters’s latest collection, consisting of playfully displayed images and sculptures, is titled “Rear Projection,” a typically bawdy Watersian pun on the outdated filmmaking process wherein a foreground action is superimposed on a pre-filmed scene. (Think back to those old movies where the road is winding but charactes aren’t turning the wheel.) Like his films—which include Pink Flamingos,
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Hairspray 2 in 3-D?
13 April 2009 7:30 AM, PDT | From WorstPreviews.com | See recent Worst Previews news
Collider had the chance to speak to director Adam Shankman, who is currently promoting "17 Again," about the upcoming "Hairspray" sequel, which has been rumored to be ready for Summer of next year. "There are some really funny ideas, we don't have a writer for it yet," said Shankman. "But there are very funny ideas that me and Mark came up with. John Waters wrote a treatment that was so insane. That was really a sequel to his version of the movie. And Penny blew up the world at a certain point out of anger. It was this crazy thing. But we saw it as something to borrow from, so we took some of the less insane ideas. We are just hiring a writer now, and then we will get into it." When asked if he would consider doing the sequel in 3-D, Shankman said: "Yeah, that would be cool in
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Adam Shankman Interested in Making Hairspray 2 in 3-D?
13 April 2009 1:28 AM, PDT | From firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news
Our last update on Hairspray 2 was in January, from director Adam Shankman, who explained John Waters' had written a crazy script treatment that they were going to borrow ideas from. Thanks to Collider we have a new update from Shankman, but unfortunately (for those who are actually excited for this sequel), it doesn't seem to have moved too far along. "There are some really funny ideas, [but] we don't have a writer for it yet." New Line was hoping to have Hairspray 2 ready for release in July of 2010, but they probably won't make that date. However, the most interesting news is that Hairspray 2 may end up in 3-D. Shankman is producing Step Up 3-D, which is not only the third sequel in that series, but being shot in 3-D. "We were blown away with the tests we just did [for Step Up 3-D] and seeing the ...
Alex Billington
400 Screens, 400 Blows - Waters and Briggs
10 April 2009 3:35 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
400 Screens, 400 Blows is a weekly column that takes an in-depth look at the films playing below the radar, beneath the top ten, and on 400 screens or less.
Lately I've been dreaming of a TV show I'd like to see. Ever since Roger Ebert hired Richard Roeper to be the permanent replacement on his review show, I've dreamed of something a bit edgier and funnier -- you know, like when Ebert used to fight with Gene Siskel. Now the network suits have made things even worse with the two idiots they have on now (I mean, really! Could they be any worse?). Here's my idea: Joe Bob Briggs and John Waters. That's a show I would pay to see each week!
For the uninitiated, Joe Bob Briggs was the world's first and only "drive-in movie critic." He was nationally syndicated from the early 1980s to the late 1990s and he reviewed horror and trash movies,
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Jeffrey M. Anderson
"I can't go back and be a faux revolutionary"
7 April 2009 8:59 PM, PDT | From FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news
The Takeaway has been doing a fun series of interviews with John Waters, who has been sadly missing from the cinematic landscape. Only two films this whole decade? In this very short video he talks about the dire state of indie filmmaking. Sadly, financing for what was supposed to be his next film, Fruitcake (best title ever), fell through.
There's more interviews at The Takeaway featuring the bad taste auteur, chatting about everything from television's The Wire to Tina Turner to his own artwork. I love his "rear projection" piece. And he continues to make with the funny I think all my work is about humor... insider humor about the business. I try to celebrate the sadness regular people have for not being in showbusiness. Ha! There's only one John Waters.
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NATHANIEL R
Archipelago of Blood Splatter
3 April 2009 12:21 PM, PDT | From Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news
Across the screen alerting us to Breaking News, CNN headlines: N.Y. Shooting: Multiple Victims Report: 12 killed, 29-40 hostages So, another homefront massacre, this one being given the full trumpeting blare on cable news because it's happening live and the fate of hostages hangs in the balance. But as Eric Boehlert documented and tabulated in the prophetically titled Rampage Nation: The press no longer cares about epic gun violence, the slaughtering of family members, ex-girlfriends, former coworkers, church members, schoolchildren, nursing home residents, and anyone else who happens to be within target range has been reduced to a one-day tragedy in the media, if that.* ...a deranged 28-year-old, Michael McLendon, armed with a pair of military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines taped together, went on a killing spree in southern Alabama. It began when McLendon shot and killed his mother and set her house on fire (with her inside
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No Right Turn Premiere Info and Trailer
27 March 2009 10:24 AM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news
When you think of film festivals, Copenhagen isn't necessarily the first place that comes to mind, but from April 16-26, 2009, it's the place to be for Cph:pix. Along with John Waters performing his stand-up show "This Filthy World - Dirtier & Filthier" on April 24, the fest will present over 170 films including No Right Turn, about which writer/director David Noel Bourke recently dropped us a line.
No Right Turn is generating quite a bit of buzz with praise from critics ranging from "a dark and witty neo fairytale" to "something utterly unique" to "a rare 10/10". What's it about? Here's a synopsis from the film's official site:
Nina is the voluptuously alluring girlfriend of Johnny, a charming but delusional crook. To escape from her weary life, she casually sleeps with an old friend, Teddy, but is fed up with her current lifestyle, especially the drunken dreams of Johnny. One night after an argument with Johnny,
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It Came From Kuchar Review, SXSW 2009
15 March 2009 9:44 AM, PDT | From Spout.com | See recent Spout news
When it comes to It Came From Kuchar, Jennifer M. Kroot’s deceptively breezy documentary about experimental filmmaker brothers George and Mike, I am without a doubt a member of the choir. George Kuchar was my independent study advisor when I was an undergraduate at the San Francisco Art Institute, and much of Kroot’s film documents his life and times at that alma mater of mine. George is seen clomping through the bayside, architectural masterpiece of a campus, slightly hunched, with appreciative students trailing off him like some kind of handycam-weilding, Bronx-accented, beautiful schlock-peddling pied piper. George isn’t the right professor for everyone — as John Waters puts it in the film, “I think some of his students are probably horrified and leave” — but for me, as a very, very serious studier of cinema who took my own attempts at filmmaking very, very seriously, George gave me a much-needed
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Karina Longworth
Signatures: Edith Massey
15 March 2009 2:04 AM, PDT | From FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news
Adam of Club Silencio here with another look at my favorite actresses and their distinguishing claims to fame.
She did know what she was doing. People thought she didn't. I remember when the Newsweek review came out of Polyester, it said that she either deserved the Oscar or a 24-hour nurse.
Unlike other actresses I've featured in "Signatures," Edith Massey's gifts were never based on her nuance or complexity. All the same she had a purity that was considerable to the impurity of her characters. In the hands of John Waters, performance is something else entirely, yet irrefutably perfect for his brand of cult comedy. Subversion is his specialty, and Edith never was a go-to glamour girl or bankable supporting lady. Snaggletoothed and eccentric, Edith was the most unassuming of comic geniuses. But give her a debutante gown, or a bra and crib, and she's happy to let her degradation deliver.
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Adam
Heathers: The Musical?
11 March 2009 10:52 PM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news
It's hard to think of a film that's done dark, satirical teen comedy better than Heathers, and now it looks like it's taking its little black tale to the stage ... as a musical no less. According to THR, the production is being developed by Andy Fickman, director of Race to Witch Mountain, who is making a return to his musical roots.
The trade reports: Fickman, who helmed the musical Reefer Madness, is working with Reefer partner Kevin Murphy, who is writing the Heathers lyrics and the book, and composer Larry O'Keefe, who earned a Tony nomination for best score for the Broadway version of Legally Blonde. The project has the blessing of [original screenwriter] Dan Waters, who controls the underlying rights to the material. Fickman said he sat down with Waters early on "to make sure we were on the same page" and that Waters has seen the readings.
"He understood that
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