Email Author Michael Musto

Awards

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "Why I Hate Being Gay! 62 Reasons!"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "Help! Blandness Has Taken Over Our Culture!"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 31, 2011

  "Fame Is Better Than Drugs And I Want To Mainline That Shit"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 22, 2010

  "Kicked in the Groin at Every Glittery Turn"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 18, 2010

  "Where's My Book?"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 29, 2010

  "Year in Review"

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2011 Stories by Michael Musto

• The Worst Photo of Amy Winehouse Ever

  published Jan 10, 2011

  No, I really mean ever! She's all boobalicious and dazed looking as she hangs--and I mean hangs--on the balcony of some dive lodging in Rio, where she's valiantly launching some comeback singing atta... More >>

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  Patti LuPone Is Great For 'Hello, Dolly!'

  published Jan 10, 2011

  Two-time Tony winner Patti LuPone is in talks to star in a revival of Hello, Dolly! and already the chatterati are concerned. "Does she have the warmth for the roler" some of them are nattering on va... More >>

• 2011 In Review!

  published Jan 10, 2011

  Why wait all the way till the end of the year for all those inevitable-2011-in-review storiesr As always, I'm wildly ahead of the curve and on top of the trend. So how has the year been so farr Wel... More >>

• Madonna and Her 24-Year-Old Boyfriend

  published Jan 07, 2011

  I won't even put his name because there'll probably be another one in a few months. But what do you think of this chronic "cougar" situation for the superstar singer/directorr Before you start throw... More >>

• Kathy Griffin and Camille Grammer: Out!

  published Jan 07, 2011

  Big reality show shakeups, people. Tart-tongued funny lady Kathy Griffin is calling it quits with her Bravo show My Life on The D-List after six seasons. Chatty Kathy never intended to be a reality ... More >>

• New York Magazine Documents My Food Intake!

  published Jan 07, 2011

  And it's not pretty, people. For a whole week, New York's "Grub Street" blog had me as their celebrity diet subject, tracking every morsel that went down my chute from Friday December 30 through Wedn... More >>

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  What "Turned Me Gay"r

  published Jan 07, 2011

  I reveal it in this saucy interview in the new Dirty Mag by Paul Bruno, who raided my photo files while probing my psyche. The answer may not please most conventionally-thinking people, but as always... More >>

• Melina Mercouri Was Hot For Greta Garbo

  published Jan 07, 2011

  In the '70s, Greek actress Melina Mercouri played the girlfriend of Alexis Smith in the rivetingly trashy Once Is Not Enough--a lesbian love affair that some say was based on one between Greta Garbo a... More >>

• Anyone Have a Lion Costumer

  published Jan 06, 2011

  I'm playing the part of the Lion in a Project Shaw reading of Androcles and the Lion, and I need something scary and animalistic to wear (aside from my usual ensembles, that is). This could be my big... More >>

• Elizabeth Edwards Cut John Out Of Her Will!

  published Jan 06, 2011

  Six days before her death, the jilted wife drew up a will that left everything to the kids, with no mention whatsoever of her philandering husband, John the con. This is the biggest "Duh" since Joan ... More >>

• James Franco: "Maybe I'm Just Gay"

  published Jan 06, 2011

  Is he the world's most gay-friendly straight man or the world's most straight-friendly gay manr Either way, James Franco is going to keep things murky just to drive us cuckoo-crazy over it. Says ew.... More >>

• Pop Tarts World Shutters Amidst A Mess of Spin Control

  published Jan 06, 2011

  Way back in September, I wrote a blog post called "Is Pop Tarts World Toastr" saying that the Pop Tarts retail store/cafe on West 42nd street was uninspired and about as empty as my wallet is after a ... More >>

• Ever See an Ordinary Looking Guy Become a Gorgeous Drag Queenr

  published Jan 06, 2011

  Have you ever witnessed an utterly drab looking guy who, after some whooshing and zhushing and contouring, suddenly turns into a stunning woman till the clock strikes 12r Not me, mind you! Every si... More >>

• Underage Club Employee in the Village!

  published Jan 05, 2011

  I ended up at a divey gay bar the other night--stretching, as usual--and at the peak of the evening, the onstage drag queen announced that the guy manning the door had just celebrated turning 21! Hap... More >>

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  Streisand In Talks To Do Gypsy!

  published Jan 05, 2011

  It's a gay man's wet dream. Singer, Oscar winner, star, and Donna Karan wearer Barbra Streisand is in negotiations to play the fiercely tunnel-visioned Mama Rose in a movie of Gypsy, according to The... More >>

• Octogenarian Showstopper Rules NYC!

  published Jan 05, 2011

  CLICK HERE for my column about how cabaret is the new Broadway, and the star of that genre is an 82-year-old wowapalooza named Marily Maye. A standards singer in the 1960s, Maye has entered a lovely ... More >>

• Spitzer's Madam Blasts Craigslist Movie

  published Jan 05, 2011

  Ex Madam Kristin Davis--who was a protest candidate for her ex-client Eliot Spitzer's gubernatorial position, running on a platform of decriminalizing prostitution--has a whole new position. She dete... More >>

• Justin Bieber Likes Michael Jackson

  published Jan 05, 2011

  And I bet Jackson would have loved him right back! Bieber is on the cover of the new Vanity Fair, and though I usually enjoy making wicked fun of the kid, I'm going to sit this one out because he say... More >>

• Getting Over Fear of Flying: I Think I've Done It!

  published Jan 05, 2011

  I generally spend entire flights either staring at my watch to see how many seconds are left or locking myself in the bathroom and pretending I'm anywhere else. But on my round-trip to Florida the ot... More >>

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  Lisa Edelstein From House At Her House

  published Jan 04, 2011

  I was at the forefront of trumpeting Lisa Edelstein back when she was a club regular calling herself Lisa E, in the Palladium days of creative partying and persuasive posing. And now, years later, ca... More >>

• I Dished Bloomberg and Snooki on Lawrence O'Donnell's Show

  published Jan 04, 2011

  During last week's blizzard, I was kooky-crazy enough to take my life in my hands and ride my freakin' bike! And I found it a kind of wet and wild adventure, almost like surfboarding (but with rats i... More >>

• Anyone Watching Oprah's OWN Channel Yetr

  published Jan 04, 2011

  I know it's just in the preliminary stages right now, but I tuned in last night just to be generous. And they were showing Enough Already! With Peter Walsh, a program in which an "organizational expe... More >>

• Octogenarian Showstopper Rules New York!

  published January 5, 2011

  With nightclubs at a sickening standstill and Broadway getting downright dangerous, the cabaret revival couldn't be better timed. I always... More >>

• Read My Year-End Essay Again!

  published Jan 04, 2011

  Come on, kids. Do it for mama, just one more time. CLICK HERE and savor the wit and wisdom of my year-end wrapup, which is as full of insight and innuendo as a gay fortune cookie, devoured on lots of... More >>

• Stop Saying "Happy New Year"!

  published Jan 04, 2011

  I know people mean well, but "Happy new year" is basically an empty, hollow, meaningless saying that everyone emits by instinct, like a terrible Tourettes-y verbal tic that you can't avoid uttering fo... More >>