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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2013 Stories by Michael Musto

• The Audio Of Michelle Shocked's Remarks

  published Mar 21, 2013

  Have a listen and please let me know if it makes any of this mess any more illuminating. Thanks.... More >>

• Breakfast At Tiffany's On Broadway: Not A Full Meal

  published Mar 20, 2013

  Richard Greenberg's adaptation of Truman Capote's classic novella Breakfast at Tiffany's turns out to be earnest, talky, and rather lifeless despite its good intentions. Telling the story of a chirpy... More >>

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  Michelle Shocked Finally Speaks Out

  published Mar 20, 2013

  On Sunday night, reports came in that singer Michelle Shocked was ranting in concert that God hates gays and that gay marriage would cause the end of civilization. Aside from a few cryptic twitter re... More >>

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  If The Jurassic Park Dinosaurs Were Played By Humans...

  published Mar 20, 2013

  The dinos of Jurassic Park are coming back next month, this time in 3D, which makes me wonder: If they ever remade it with people as the creatures, who would get the rolesr Here are my incredibly help... More >>

• James Franco's Director Has No Regrets

  published Mar 20, 2013

  As you know, this week's column is a wildly informative tete-a-tete with Harmony Korine, the 40-year-old provocateur whose latest act of outrage is Spring Breakers, in which James Franco takes some v... More >>

• President Obama Wants You To Retweet His Tweet

  published Mar 20, 2013

  And it's a good one. It says: "RT if you stand with same-sex couples around the country fighting for the right to marry who they love."And it's attached to the above image. This is so amazing I bet... More >>

• Grammatical Mistake In Classic Motown Song

  published Mar 20, 2013

  With Motown The Musical in previews on Broadway, I'm reminded of one of my all-time favorite Supremes songs, "Reflections." Actually, it was the first song released under the new billing Diana Ross &... More >>

• Harmony Korine On James Franco's Artistic Fearlessness And Oral Skills

  published Mar 20, 2013

  If you think Oz The Great and Powerful is a scandal, wait till you see James Franco in Spring Breakers, in which he's Alien, a cornrowed, silver-toothed rapper/dealer who watches Scarface on heavy rot... More >>

• Debbie Gibson Gives Good Tweet

  published Mar 20, 2013

  My pal and fellow '80s survivor Debbie Gibson might not be an electric youth anymore--Who isr--but she's still got her head, and hat, on straight. Her tweets are fun and honest, especially when count... More >>

• Ann-Margret, Rita Moreno, and Julian Sands Join Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks Film

  published Mar 20, 2013

  That's what a source tells me. Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks was a 2003 Broadway play with Polly Bergen being taught to tango (and so on) by Mark Hamill while learning other valuable lessons. The p... More >>

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  Philip Roth: "Shame Isn't For Writers"

  published Mar 19, 2013

  With the publication of the best-selling onanism epic Portnoy's Complaint in 1969, people would randomly shout at author Philip Roth on the street, "Leave it alone!" They may have had a point, but Ro... More >>

• Broadway Publicist: Sigourney Weaver's Bio Gaffe Is My Fault

  published Mar 19, 2013

  As I wrote earlier today, Sigourney Weaver's Playbill bio for the hilarious Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike wrongly states that she won the Oscar for Aliens. Well, don't blame Siggy. The show's ... More >>

• Here Comes A Gay Reefer Madness Warning You Not To Do Tina!

  published Mar 19, 2013

  In the latest video of their Homewerq series, Mike Diamond and Matinga warn against the horrors of "PNP"--i.e. "Party 'n play"--as a prelude to a fist. "If you can only have sex on drugs, there's som... More >>

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  The Pain Of Being Someone Who Urges Celebs To Come Out

  published Mar 19, 2013

  It's not all thrills and glory, believe it or not. For years, I say: "Being gay is wonderful. There's nothing wrong with it. People should be proud to be gay. "And representation is so important. T... More >>

• Harmony Korine On James Franco's Artistic Fearlessness And Oral Skills

  published March 20, 2013

  Unflappable provocateur Harmony Korine penned the explosive teens-without-borders epic Kids in 1995 and later wrote equally... More >>

• Openly Lesbian Singer Responds To The Michelle Shocked Mess

  published Mar 19, 2013

  Washed-up, born again singer Michelle Shocked horrified her audience the other night with comments about how "God hates fags" and how she lives in fear of gay marriage. Well, an openly lesbian singer... More >>

• Sigourney Weaver's Bio Says She Won The Oscar!

  published Mar 19, 2013

  I'm sure it's just a typo or an editing mistake, but in her Playbill bio for the hilarious Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Sigourney Weaver claims to have won the Oscar for Aliens. That would be... More >>

• The 50 Hottest Jewish Men On Earth

  published Mar 19, 2013

  Circumcision has never been so sexy. This rundown chooses the 50 hottest, but I'll focus on the top eight, since--in the immortal words of Betty Buckley--eight is enough. They are: (8) Adam Garfie... More >>

• Michelle Shocked's Wiki Page Was Updated To Call Her A Bigot

  published Mar 18, 2013

  Born-again alt-folk singer made incendiary "God hates f*gs" remarks at a concert last night, which have incited her remaining fans and almost made her famous again. An angry activist type responded b... More >>

• The Best St. Patty's Party Of The Whole Weekend!

  published Mar 18, 2013

  It was the annual one thrown by the real St. Patty--celebrity photographer Patrick McMullan, who pulls together a group of monieds, zanies, and their admirers, for a night of schmoozing, boozing, and ... More >>

• Top 10 Reasons To Go To The Black Party Expo & Dirty Carnival

  published Mar 18, 2013

  I love when a publicist cooks up a list of reasons to do something. It makes things so much neater and more digestible, especially when we're dealing with the raunchy yet illuminating Black Party Expo... More >>

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  Michelle Shocked: "God Hates Fags!"

  published Mar 18, 2013

  It was the audience that was shocked at a Michelle Shocked concert last night when the born-again alt-folk singer went on a rant about how "God hates fags" and how she lives in fear of gay marriage.I'... More >>

• Best Celebrity Child's Comment Ever

  published Mar 18, 2013

  Rosie O'Donnell just tweeted about her daughter: "Last night vivi said--come here mom--look at this--when r u gonna look like this rosie o'donnellr" And Vivi pointed to the following movie still: L... More >>

• Examples Of How Pope Francis Hates The Gays

  published Mar 18, 2013

  Not that you needed it, but what the hell--I mean heck--let's run through them all at once, just so we can digest, flush, and then move on. Thanks to datalounge for posting some of Pope (Arlene) Fran... More >>

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  Sharon Needles Interview! Hail, Satan!

  published Mar 18, 2013

  Sharon Needles won the fourth season of RuPaul's Drag Race with a witchy mix of ghoulishness and girlishness. And she's back from the dead once again! The world's most fabulous corpse is hosting ren... More >>