Carol Channing

Carol Channing: Larger Than Life

Alice Playten (1947–2011)

Remembering the veteran New York actress

Carol Channing Mistaken For a Drag Queen!

​At the Tribeca Film Festival on Friday, I caught Dori Berinstein's Carol Channing: Larger Than Life, a loving look at the saucer-eyed Broadway star's legend. I already wrote about a Tony winner being evicted from the room. But now let me tell you a couple of highlights from the movie itself ... More >>

Tony Winner Thrown Out Of Carol Channing Screening!

​As the lights were going down for tonight's Tribeca Film Festival screening of the doc Carol Channing: Larger Than Life, the entire theater heard a woman screaming "Security! Security! Come here!" Had a drag queen choked on an eyelash? Two burly guards who had been standing in the aisle wat ... More >>

Have Any Famous Friends on Facebook?

​ Part of the fun of having all those faux-friendships on Facebook is that you can constantly tell people stuff like, "My friend Rihanna said..." Naturally, you don't add that you've never actually met the woman! So here's my query: Do you have any famous FB friends, and did you go after th ... More >>

Carol Channing Wows 'Em at Gypsy of the Year

​She's still got it. Ninety-year-old Carol Channing was a wow at yesterday's Gypsy of the Year benefit, an all-star, multi-show revue which raises massive funds for Broadway Cares/Equity Fight AIDS. The event started with no fewer than 16 chorus boys dancing up a storm while singing a tribut ... More >>

How Do You Eat A Chipotle Burrito?

​I like Chipotle. (Or as some crazies call it, Capote.) It's fairly quick--except for crush hours--and reasonably priced, and the stuff they throw into your burrito looks pretty fresh. And you get to personally choose that stuff anyway, from tomatoes and salsa to Carol Channing's personal fa ... More >>

Cuisine Report: A Flea Grows in Brooklyn

​My old borough has gotten so uber-trendy that the Brooklyn Kitchen in Williambsburg is serving five-course meals consisting of nouvelle insects for only $85. The very pests that you swat away from your face in disgust are suddenly in your face for top dollar and big prestige, washed down wit ... More >>

Two Blondes Are Better Than One: On Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Eccentricities of a Blonde-Hair Girl

​My old borough has gotten so uber-trendy that the Brooklyn Kitchen in Williambsburg is serving five-course meals consisting of nouvelle insects for only $85. The very pests that you swat away from your face in disgust are suddenly in your face for top dollar and big prestige, washed down wit ... More >>

Free Porn at Gawker Party!

​At the birthday party for Gawker's Brian Moylan last Friday night at the Alphabetland club 40C, I could have sworn the birthday boy said, "There's corn on all the tables. Take as much as you want!" I was beside myself because, like inevitable SNL host Carol Channing, I happen to adore corn, ... More >>

When Stars Don't Get The Movie Version

​Supposedly there will be a movie made of the Broadway show Memphis, and I bet they don't use the stage cast. They hardly ever do! And I wish they would! Remember when they made a movie of Doubt two years ago and Cherry Jones didn't get the part?

Transsexual Lesbian Takes Hollywood!

Prodigal Sons director Kimberly Reed fills me in.

Oscar Winner Turned Away From Gay Beer Hall!

Academy Awards heads-up: Basterds and biopsies.

LAZY BOY

Get comfortable with David Greenspan

If Queen Latifah Married Samantha Bee...

​...she'd be Queen Bee! Yes, it's time for THAT fun little parlor game again, the one where you marry off two celebs that would make for a felicitously wacky new name. And so--with respects to my colleague Cindy Adams, who's perfected this sort of thing:

Gay Celebs Descend on Atlantic City!

Out and about, and then back here to walk in Nancy Sinatra's boots.

Celebrity Bathroom Stories

​Yes, even celebrities have to go to the toilet now and then, and proof of that is the fact that there are tons of famous stories about their wacky antics when they're in there. Well, two famous stories. And they're totally apocryphal.

Some Wonderful, Old, Gay Gossip

At the Tribeca Film Festival last week, I met one of my icons, Mart Crowley, who wrote The Boys in the Band, the landmark 1960s play about a bunch of East Side gays having a party that leads to fight, tears, and line dances. I pop up in a documentary about the importance of that work (It's called Ma ... More >>

Vodka Stinger's Top Five Broadway Videos

At the Tribeca Film Festival last week, I met one of my icons, Mart Crowley, who wrote The Boys in the Band, the landmark 1960s play about a bunch of East Side gays having a party that leads to fight, tears, and line dances. I pop up in a documentary about the importance of that work (It's called Ma ... More >>

Mario Lopez's Underwear Dis

Chattin' with Loretta Lynn and John Leguizamo; Carol Burnett in action; adventures of Nick Adams

Skipper'll Never Go Away Again: Carol Channing In Concert

Chattin' with Loretta Lynn and John Leguizamo; Carol Burnett in action; adventures of Nick Adams

File Under "Shows"

Recalling jazz's brief, obscure, but occasionally revelatory love affair with Broadway

Forbidden Broadway

Harry Connick Jr. has the Sinatra quality musical comedy needs

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Harry Connick Jr. has the Sinatra quality musical comedy needs

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Harry Connick Jr. has the Sinatra quality musical comedy needs

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Harry Connick Jr. has the Sinatra quality musical comedy needs

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Harry Connick Jr. has the Sinatra quality musical comedy needs

Noise of the Change

David Greenspan's Solo The Myopia Travels From Jewish Rapunzel to Warren G. Harding

Noise of the Change

David Greenspan's Solo The Myopia Travels From Jewish Rapunzel to Warren G. Harding

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David Greenspan's Solo The Myopia Travels From Jewish Rapunzel to Warren G. Harding

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David Greenspan's Solo The Myopia Travels From Jewish Rapunzel to Warren G. Harding

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David Greenspan's Solo The Myopia Travels From Jewish Rapunzel to Warren G. Harding

Device Squads

Currently on View: Puppets, Politics, Pianologue, and Peonage

The Price Is Blight

Currently on View: Puppets, Politics, Pianologue, and Peonage

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Currently on View: Puppets, Politics, Pianologue, and Peonage

The Gatsby of Gats

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