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17 articles from 2009
Exclusive! Wesley Eure of TV's "Land of the Lost" Comes Out
3 June 2009 10:01 PM, PDT | From AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news
For many gay and bisexual men of a certain age, the first inkling that they weren’t like other boys came on Saturday mornings from 1974 to 1976, in the form of a television show called The Land of the Lost. The show, about a father and his two children who were stranded in a mysterious land of dinosaurs, also featured vicious, but curiously slow-moving reptilian humanoids called Sleestak. Now the classic kids’ program by Sid and Marty Krofft, the producers of H.R. Pufnstuf and Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, has even been made into a feature film starring Will Ferrell, opening this Friday.
But it wasn’t just the gloriously campy-even-at-the-time nature of the show itself that appealed to gay boys. It was also the fact that it featured the role of Will, the Marshall’s handsome teenage son, played by an actor billed only as “Wesley,” but whose full name is Wesley Eure.
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dennis
Encore Westerns features Memorial Day John Wayne Marathon
23 May 2009 11:50 AM, PDT | From Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news
This Monday, May 25 is Memorial Day, and Encore Westerns channel has the most patriotic way to end your Memorial Day weekend---a marathon celebration of the life of an American Icon, John Wayne. Called "John Wayne's Life and Legacy," the 28-hour marathon of Wayne's films, beginning at 8p E/P, is interspersed with exclusive interviews featuring prominent people from politics and the entertainment industry. Check out a preview of President George H.W. Bush here: President Jimmy Carter: Senator John McCain: Encore Westerns List of movies below: The Undefeated at 8:00 p.m. - (John Wayne, Rock Hudson, Tony Aguilar) Rooster Cogburn at 10:05 p.m. - (John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Zerbe) Blue Steel at
April MacIntyre
Ask the Flying Monkey! (May 20, 2009)
20 May 2009 6:58 PM, PDT | From AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news
Have a question about gay male entertainment? Ask the Monkey! (Please include your city and state and/or country.)
Q: I was always under the impression that Dom DeLuise, like other 1970s B-level comic figures such as Paul Lynde, Rip Taylor, and Charles Nelson Reilly, was a not-very-closeted gay man. I was surprised, then, that when he died last week, there was no mention of that in any article I saw. I did read that he had a long marriage to a woman and several grown children (certainly not proof of heterosexuality, but nonetheless). Was I just misinformed? -- Thomasina, Alabama
A: You and the Flying Monkey both. I also always simply assumed DeLuise was gay, so I was as surprised as you were to read last week that he’d been married for 44 years and had three children.
That said – and I’m not necessarily saying anything about DeLuise,
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dennis
Gaga at the Gala
19 May 2009 4:18 PM, PDT | From Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news
Michelle Obama threw out the first ball for American Ballet Theatre's spring season, and with her powerful pitching arm it was little surprise that the seamed orb bounced off the Met's first ring and caromed off of Matthew Modine's head, disarranging his coif something fierce. But he laughed, we all laughed, because who says ballet has to be stuffy? Not me, who's been collecting ballerina trading cards since early manhood, apart from those two missing years when I was on my "vision quest." The lyric spring evening began on the Met balcony overlooking Lincoln Center, where an array of gowns and tuxedos occupied by socialites and celebrities greeted the gantlet of cameras and interviewers--gleaming notables whom I did my best to ID with the aid of my compact Leica binoculars. Kelly Ripa I recognized at a glance, of course; and could that be Lynda Carter?--it was, looking resplendent.
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New book 'outs' Griffin
6 May 2009 12:44 PM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news
A new tell-all book released this week outs late TV entrepreneur Merv Griffin, say reports. Griffin, who died last August from prostate cancer at the age of 82, is the subject of Merv Griffin: My Life In The Closet. According to the New York Post, the hardback claims that the Jeopardy creator lost his virginity to Judy Garland after she seduced him, and that he had homosexual encounters with the likes of Rock Hudson and Marlon Brando. Book author Darwin Porter revealed that he had a personal connection with the late talkshow host. He said: "I'm fascinated (more)
By Tim Parks
TCM Spotlight: Doris Day Collection - DVD Review
28 April 2009 8:38 AM, PDT | From Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news
TCM Spotlight: Doris Day Collection is a group of films from the pre Rock Hudson, Tony Randall, Cary Grant romantic romps. This collection showcases the many talents of Doris Day, as actress, singer, comedienne, dancer, a versatility that her later films didn.t always display. People are fond of the romantic romps, but now with this collection, fans are able to see the many facets of Doris Day. The first film in the collection is It.s A Great Feeling. Doris Day plays a young waitress from Gherkies Corner Wisconsin who has come to Los Angeles to break into show business. She is befriended by Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan who are trying to get backing for a new film, and
June L.
[DVD Review] TCM Spotlight: Doris Day Collection
21 April 2009 2:55 PM, PDT | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news
The TCM Spotlight Doris Day Collection, with its pretty in pink packaging, is not a bad start for those wanting to get familiar with one of America’s favorite sweethearts of the studio days. This is the fourth Doris Day box set released by Warner Home Video after two collections and a Doris Day/Rock Hudson set in 2007. To see Day’s best and more famous pictures like Pillow Talk (which earned her an Academy Award nod) and Teacher’s Pet, one must seek those earlier sets, but the advantage of this particular set is that it contains five of Doris Day’s earlier films, from within the first five years of her debut (save for The Tunnel of Love), so you’ll be able to follow her blooming success.
It’s a Great Feeling is the earliest film on the set. It was Day’s third film and her breakout role.
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Arya Ponto
[DVD Review] TCM Spotlight: Doris Day Collection
21 April 2009 2:55 PM, PDT | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news
The TCM Spotlight Doris Day Collection, with its pretty in pink packaging, is not a bad start for those wanting to get familiar with one of America’s favorite sweethearts of the studio days. This is the fourth Doris Day box set released by Warner Home Video after two collections and a Doris Day/Rock Hudson set in 2007. To see Day’s best and more famous pictures like Pillow Talk (which earned her an Academy Award nod) and Teacher’s Pet, one must seek those earlier sets, but the advantage of this particular set is that it contains five of Doris Day’s earlier films, from within the first five years of her debut (save for The Tunnel of Love), so you’ll be able to follow her blooming success.
It’s a Great Feeling is the earliest film on the set. It was Day’s third film and her breakout role.
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Arya Ponto
Hollywood 'Virgin' Reborn With 'Pillow Talk'
14 April 2009 5:42 AM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news
Oscar Levant once famously quipped, "I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin."
The dyspeptic actor-composer was referring to Day's unlikely rebirth as a born-again virgin, which made her the nation's No. 1 movie star at 37, after a decade in movies where she frequently played mothers.
The movie that did the trick was the immensely popular "Pillow Talk" -- out tomorrow in a 50th-anniversary edition -- the first of three sex comedies that teamed Day with her cinematic soul mate, Rock Hudson.
Day plays an interior decorator
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By LOU LUMENICK
This Week On DVD and Blu-ray: April 14, 2009
14 April 2009 1:50 AM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news
DVD Links: DVD News | Release Dates | New Dvds | Reviews | RSS Feed Wow, what a horrible week for DVD and Blu-ray releases. Sure, some people will be interested in picking up The Reader after it was nominated for Best Picture, beating out poor ol' Dark Knight. I had it at #10 on my Best of 2008 list and I would love to own a Blu-ray version for reasons I will soon tell you, but I think that is a film I will remain in the minority and I would never recommend anyone pick it up on a blind buy. So what does that leave you with? The Spirit? I know a few people will probably be interested in the Blu-ray edition of Pride and Prejudice and the other half might think about buying 8 Mile on Blu-ray, but all-in-all there is really nothing to suggest here. So, while you can still read my mini-capsules
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Brad Brevet
DVD Playhouse: April 2009
11 April 2009 11:58 AM, PDT | From The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news
DVD Playhouse—April 2009
By
Allen Gardner
Milk (Universal) Sean Penn deservedly captured his second Best Actor Oscar (and Dustin Lance Black a statuette for his original screenplay) in director Gus Van Sant’s portrait of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to hold public office in the U.S. Alternately heartbreaking, infuriating and very funny, a film that both captures a bygone era and is still very timely. Fine support from Josh Brolin, Victor Garber, James Franco and Emile Hirsch. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Three featurettes. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS 5.1 surround.
Slumdog Millionaire (20th Century Fox) The Best Picture of 2008 is a kinetic, clever audience-pleaser about a determined lad (Dev Patel) from the slums of Mumbai, who has his chance at literal and financial redemption as a contestant on India’s version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Best Director Danny Boyle dazzles
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Playing it Straight
7 April 2009 6:31 PM, PDT | From AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news
While Sean Penn’s recent Best Actor Oscar win for Milk helped bring Harvey Milk’s message to a wide audience — both from the increased visibility of the film and from Penn’s moving acceptance speech — the occasion marked another instance of a Hollywood tradition: a gay character played by a heterosexual actor.
Penn, like Tom Hanks (Philadelphia [1993]) and William Hurt (Kiss of the Spider Woman [1985]) before him, was praised for his “bravery” for taking on the role and even — eek! — kissing another man.
Gay actors, on the other hand, get no such credit for playing gay roles; let’s not forget the year that Rupert Everett’s hilarious supporting turn in My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997) was ignored by the Academy, with the implication that queer thespians need merely show up to play queer characters, with no actual acting involved. (To add insult to injury, that same year saw
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dennis
Dellamorte reviews the Magnificent Obsession Criterion DVD -- Extreme is a Nice Way of Putting it
4 February 2009 | From Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news
You should get to know Douglas Sirk. He’s one of those great filmmakers, a German ex-pat who ran from the Reich and made his home in America. His first couple efforts are interesting, but when he came to Universal, he found a voice, a strange, beautiful voice that allowed him to apply his Brechtian influences to melodrama. And so you have these strange, powerful films like All that Heaven Allows, Tarnished Angels, Written on the Wind, and Magnificent Obsession. Obsession was the first of a string he did that have come to be viewed as both camp, and brilliant. John Waters absolutely loves Sirk, because he takes it so far, and you can at once laugh at the absurdity, but also get sucked into the high melodrama. Rock Hudson plays Bob Merrick, a wealthy playboy who spends his time wasting it. When he gets into a boating accident, the
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[DVD Review] Sidney Poitier Collection
2 February 2009 9:30 PM, PST | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news
Some might initially be disappointed by the lineup of the Sidney Poitier Collection. Most of Poitier's landmark films were released by United Artists or Columbia Pictures (In the Heat of the Night, A Raisin in the Sun, Lilies in the Field, The Defiant Ones, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, To Sir, With Love, etc.). And since this is a Warner Bros. package, one could feel inclined to pass it up and hope for a different set to be released in the future. But while two of the films included in this collection lack greatness, the other two belong in the library of any avid film lover, whether you like Poitier or not (but who doesn't?). And since all of these films were difficult (if not impossible) to find on DVD before now, it's worth the purchase. Reviews of the four films follow:
A dramatization of the real
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Matt Medlock
[DVD Review] Sidney Poitier Collection
2 February 2009 9:30 PM, PST | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news
Some might initially be disappointed by the lineup of the Sidney Poitier Collection. Most of Poitier's landmark films were released by United Artists or Columbia Pictures (In the Heat of the Night, A Raisin in the Sun, Lilies in the Field, The Defiant Ones, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, To Sir, With Love, etc.). And since this is a Warner Bros. package, one could feel inclined to pass it up and hope for a different set to be released in the future. But while two of the films included in this collection lack greatness, the other two belong in the library of any avid film lover, whether you like Poitier or not (but who doesn't?). And since all of these films were difficult (if not impossible) to find on DVD before now, it's worth the purchase. Reviews of the four films follow:
A dramatization of the real
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Matt Medlock
Old Troy Network
26 January 2009 11:21 PM, PST | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news
If he's remembered at all, early 1960s teen idol Troy Donahue (1936-2001) is perhaps best known today for being name-checked in the song "Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee" from "Grease."
The Zac Efron of his era and a one-time journalism major at Columbia University, Donahue rose to stardom opposite Dee in by far his most famous film, the romantic melodrama "A Summer Place" (1959).
Warner Bros. had signed Donahue for the TV series "Surfside Six" and utilized him as a big-screen replacement for another contract star,
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By LOU LUMENICK
Warners Premieres New Sidney Poitier Boxed Set On January 27
8 January 2009 4:20 AM, PST | From Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news
Warner Home Video has a belated holiday gift for Sidney Poitier fans: the release of a new four DVD boxed set that includes titles never before available on the DVD format. The films contained in the set are:
Edge of the City- Never before available on home video, this 1957 classic by director Martin Ritt stars Poitier and John Cassavetes as longshoremen who team to battle corruption and racism. The film was instrumental in launching Poitier as a leading man.
Something of Value- In another film released in 1957, Poitier co-stars with Rock Hudson in another racially-charged drama set in Kenya during the Mau Mau uprisings.
A Patch of Blue - This controversial and moving 1965 film cast Poitier as a social worker who has a love affair with a blind white girl - and has to cope with the racist rants of her trailer trash mother. Poitier gets fine support from Elizabeth Hartman and Shelly Winters.
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