Where The Rubber Meets The Road: Old GLAAD vs. New GLAAD on the Issue of RuPaul
It came to me a few nights ago, as I was doing my weekly Internet radio talk show. I was expressing my frustration with the way GLAAD has been handling the issue of anti-transgender slurs being thrown...
View ArticleComing Out as a Public Figure
There are LGBT people everywhere. If society weren't so judgmental, you'd see many more of us. Granted, we wouldn't be a majority, but we'd be -- what do they say? -- about 10 percent of the...
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Only One Crowe at the NYC Premiere of Noah
It was time again to hit the red carpet last Wednesday, March 26 at NYC's famed Ziegfeld Theater for the premiere of Noah, the biblical epic directed by Darren Oronofsky. The film starred Jennifer...
View ArticleHow Music Transformed the Worst Guy in School: Me
Oprah didn't believe me at first. She thought I was still cheating. Who could blame her? Fox News had called me "The World's Greatest Cheater" just a year earlier. No, not that kind of cheating. I...
View ArticleMemories of Carl Sagan and Cosmos
I've watched the new incarnation of Cosmos with a sharp eye, for several reasons. When I was young, I was one of those who knew Carl Sagan, and I was materially influenced in my career path by him. I...
View ArticleShe's Back! Gaga Kicks Off Roseland's Last Dance
The lady was tardy to the party. An hour and twenty minutes to be exact. But when a resplendent Lady Gaga peeked in at the audience from a corner of the Roseland stage, all seemed to be forgiven....
View ArticleWhy How I Met Your Mother Missed the Mark on Love
Tonight, How I Met Your Mother aired its series finale. After nine epic (and occasionally not-so-epic) seasons, I was excited to see how it all would end. I was also nervous. A few weeks ago, the show...
View ArticleAisle View: New High School Musical
And here we have a raucous, bright and vulgar musical comedy about fun-loving, middle-American teens who bully each other, murder each other, attempt suicide, and finally blow up the high school....
View ArticleTalking Godzilla With an Old Nemesis
Nimoy. Gilliam. Gaiman. Many more. When it comes to interviews, I'm blessed with the best. But sometimes even I go slumming. For instance, take this piece (please): I'm trying to scoop everybody on the...
View ArticleDear RuPaul: Tell Transphobia to 'Sashay Away'
Dear RuPaul, To say I'm a fan of your show is putting it lightly. I think, at it's best, RuPaul's Drag Race isn't just the best gay-themed show on TV. It's a place where I feel at home, nestled...
View Article15 Minutes With Moby
I'm sitting in a little room with international recording artist Moby as a crowd gathers in the attached Hollywood art gallery, surveying the apocalypse-themed photo exhibit he has on display. There is...
View ArticleONE ON ONE: 5 Minutes With John Forte On What A 14-Year Prison Sentence...
John Forte is a highly acclaimed hip-hop writer, producer and performer who has released four solo albums and worked with the Fugees, Wyclef Jean and Herbie Hancock. Forte co-wrote and produced two...
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8 Crazy Hollywood Inventions That Actually Exist
By By Robin Farmanfarmaian, Vice President of Strategic Relations and Founding Executive Producer of the Exponential Medicine conference at Singularity University. Hollywood. They invent a lot of...
View Article'How I Met Your Mother' Meets the Mother and Loses Its Heart
I've watched How I Met Your Mother more or less consistently since the beginning. Not an episode has been bypassed, and I've rewatched many of the early seasons multiple times. At first I watched...
View ArticleSelena: Still Dreaming of You
On a warm march day in 1995, radio announcers broke the news that another rock n' roll tragedy had happened -- 23-year-old Queen of Tejano Music, Selena, had been shot and killed by her fan club...
View ArticleChoice of Entity
To navigate the shoals of the business side of the film industry, you must have a basic understanding of the different types of legal entities. Every transaction -- from the humblest to the noblest --...
View ArticleWho Will Grab Charlie White First -- Hollywood or Broadway?
Double dog dare you to watch that without smiling. It's as if Pharrell wrote that Happy song for Charlie White and Sharna Burgess to jive to it. The judges and hosts of Dancing With The Stars keep...
View ArticleA Note From My Parents to Reed Hastings
My folks are retired and live in Florida. All they do is watch T.V., so I thought I'd pass this note they wrote to Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO, along: Dear. Mr. Hastings: Just a note to say we love...
View ArticleSex! Violence! Religion! Cinema! (Not Another Biblical Epic, But Lars von...
The final minute of a Lars von Trier movie threatens to make or break every other frame of the preceding spectacle, to justify or condemn all that led up to the punch line. In the case of Breaking the...
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Ex-Seinfeld Writer Fred Stoller Gets Serious and Returns to Stand-up Comedy
Fred Stoller is one funny guy. He wrote the book on character acting (literally -- it's called Maybe We'll Have You Back: The Life of a Perennial TV Guest Star), and now he's returning to his roots as...
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