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May 4, 2012
Tanning Is The New Blackface!
New Jersey kook Patricia Krentcil has become the poster lady for too much time in the tanning booth. What's more, she allegedly brought her five-year-daughter in there too, resulting in charges of "second degree child endangerment," not to mention lord know what degree burns. (Krentcil pleaded not ... More >>
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March 15, 2012
Movie Stars Who Turned Down Legendary Roles
We all know about classic stuff like Cary Grant making sure they cast Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady instead of him, and Doris Day not tarnishing her image by doing The Graduate--a part that would have resulted in her still working today. But here are some other weird cinematic decisions, courtesy of ... More >>
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February 13, 2012
Isabella Rossellini Is The Queen Of The Bees
Screen and glamour icon Isabella Rossellini played a bee when she did those award-winning Green Pornos for the Sundance Channel, in which she personally enacted the mating rituals of the animal kingdom (while wearing the proper protection, I'm sure). Well, at her daughter Elettra Wiedemann's ... More >>
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January 18, 2012
Who Dubbed Which Stars' Voices In Movie Musicals?
Ever watch a star belt out a song in a movie musical and think, "Wow! I didn't know they could sing!"? Well, they couldn't! So many times, a perfectly nice-looking performer with lovely sounds emanating from their mouth is faking it like a drag queen doing Britney -- or even like Britney herself.
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January 9, 2012
Joan Crawford Was Cut From Rosemary's Baby!
Rutanya Alda--best known as Carol Ann in Mommie Dearest--just told me a remarkable story. Rutanya was Mia Farrow's stand-in for the 1968 suspense classic Rosemary's Baby.
Blogs
November 13, 2011
Free Fleshlights Given Out At Fleshbot Awards
A Fleshlight looks sort of like a flashlight, except it unscrews to reveal a simulated vagina that you ... well, as Joan Crawford said to Christina, "You figure it out!" And since Fleshlights sponsored the Fleshbot awards for sexy pop culture, held at the Highline Ballroom on Friday night, ... More >>
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August 8, 2011
Joan Crawford Accepts Oscar For Anne Bancroft
christies.comIn 1963, the Best Actress race at the Oscars boiled down to a heated battle between Bette Davis for Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? and Anne Bancroft for The Miracle Worker (though the other nominees, Katharine Hepburn, Lee Remick, and Geraldine Page, all gave sterling performanc ... More >>
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July 12, 2011
The 10 Best Bitchy Comments Of All Time
Who would know better than me? The 10 dissiest, wickedest, bitchiest sass-o-grams (whether in movies or in life) are as follows: 10) "She doesn't write, she types!" (Gore Vidal re popular author Jackie Susann) 9) "She looks like a truck driver in drag." (Truman Capote re the very same ... More >>
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July 11, 2011
Joan Crawford Rocks My Movie Club
The Eventi hotel offered my movie club another swanky get-together in their posh fifth-floor screening room--complete with snacks--so we seized it like the fine cineastes we are. And for a main course, we watched The Best of Everything, the 1959 soaper based on Rona Jaffe's best selling nove ... More >>
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June 17, 2011
Lucille Ball's Two Least Favorite TV Guest Stars
When Bette Davis dropped out of a guest role on The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show, they naturally got Tallulah Bankehead to fit the arm swiveling bill. Who was a mess. According to the new book, Lucille Ball FAQ, Tallu came to work intoxicated, crashed a production meeting, and when Lucy com ... More >>
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May 23, 2011
Interactive Mommie Dearest Comes To The Ziegfeld
When Mommie Dearest first screened in 1981, I called friends squealing, "It's the greatest movie ever made!" I sincerely felt the over-the-top flick--an inside look at Joan Crawford's bad mothering skills--worked on every level, from cautionary tale to fashion show to monster mashup, and any ... More >>
Columns
April 13, 2011
A Broadway Leading Lady With Real Balls
At age 76, the theater vet is a real doll in Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest
Blogs
April 13, 2011
Broadway's Top Cross-Dresser on the Tonys and Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford ate KFC! You'll learn that if you simply CLICK HERE for my hot interview with Brian Bedford, who's stirred up the Broadway season with his witty performance as Lady Bracknell in Wilde's The Importance Of Being Earnest. Yes, the theater season's grandest dame of all has real ba ... More >>
Film
March 23, 2011
Raising Cain in Todd Haynes's Mildred Pierce
Joan Crawford ate KFC! You'll learn that if you simply CLICK HERE for my hot interview with Brian Bedford, who's stirred up the Broadway season with his witty performance as Lady Bracknell in Wilde's The Importance Of Being Earnest. Yes, the theater season's grandest dame of all has real ba ... More >>
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March 15, 2011
Susan Lucci's Real-Life Soap Operatics Revealed
The worst thing that ever happened to Susan Lucci was finally winning the Emmy award in 1999. It suddenly made her less interesting than she was as a perennial bridesmaid, always longing for the validation of her peers. But she's still a legend--and really nice, despite the fact that her Al ... More >>
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March 10, 2011
HBO's Mildred Pierce: A Good Review!
Joan Crawford must be rolling because Todd Haynes has apparently done a solid job in adapting Mildred Pierce into a five-hour HBO miniseries that will premiere on March 27. Cultural critic Brendan Lemon liked Kate Winslet in the part--she's right for it, and has the time to flesh it out--and ... More >>
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January 6, 2011
Elizabeth Edwards Cut John Out Of Her Will!
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 Crawford's will!
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November 17, 2010
The Wire Hangers Incident Never Happened!
If you're gay and of a certain age, the iconic scene from Mommie Dearest where Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford shrieks at her daughter Christina, "No wire hangers!" has been ingrained into your being like Man Tan. Well, a new book about Joan by Donald Spoto says it's pure fiction. In Possesse ... More >>
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November 5, 2010
Trashing 'Trash' with Holly Woodlawn
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 10, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 50 Trashing 'Trash' with Holly Woodlawn By Arthur Bell The superstars surround David Susskind on the carpeted platform of the tv studio. The "Trash" contingent is there, all but Holly Woodlawn. Three min ... More >>
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October 5, 2010
Really Old Movie Gossip
*Joan Crawford had a lifelong sexual crush on her arch rival Bette Davis and once tried to seduce Marilyn Monroe, which promptly ended their friendship. *Bette Davis turned down Mildred Pierce, which turned out to be Crawford's Oscar role, jumpstarting her faded career.
Film
August 25, 2010
Emergo! Percepto! Illusion-o! The William Castle Circus Comes to Town
*Joan Crawford had a lifelong sexual crush on her arch rival Bette Davis and once tried to seduce Marilyn Monroe, which promptly ended their friendship. *Bette Davis turned down Mildred Pierce, which turned out to be Crawford's Oscar role, jumpstarting her faded career.
Blogs
July 6, 2010
"You Should Always Have Seafood Newburg in the Fridge ...
In case your husband brings some of his business associates home for dinner." That's what Joan Crawford always said, and except for hitting her kids on a regular basis, she was a hell of a hostess. Doesn't it sound like a good idea? Will there be room in the fridge? And what the fuck is s ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 2, 2010
FOOT FETISH
Jackie Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe had more than JFK in common
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February 9, 2010
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Jackie Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe had more than JFK in common
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January 12, 2010
How Old Are Sandra Bullock's Characters?
I'll answer that for you: They're all of indeterminate age. But sometimes they're supposed to be around 35, and that's amazing considering Sandra herself is reported to be anywhere between 45 and 49! In last year's All About Steve, no one mentioned her age, even as she dove on Bradley Coope ... More >>
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December 30, 2009
Joan Crawford vs. Mercedes McCambridge!
Want to hear about a really old bitch fight? Even older than Kanye and fill in the blank? I'm reading Ernest Borgnine's memoirs, in which the Oscar winner talks about having acted in the 1954 cult western Johnny Guitar. Says Ernie, "The real drama was all behind the camera. Joan Crawford ha ... More >>
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October 22, 2009
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:
Voice Choices
August 11, 2009
MAMA, PLEASE!
And you thought you were a freak in high school?
Voice Choices
July 22, 2009
Johnny Guitar
And you thought you were a freak in high school?
Blogs
June 3, 2009
The Campiest Movie Lines Evah!
Thanks to all my years spent watching hilarious works of cinema camp--some of them even intentionally funny--I've compiled my favorite lines, the kind that can only be uttered by over-the-hill divas in too much hair and makeup. My all-time faves: "So they drummed you out of Hollywood and you come ... More >>
Voice Choices
May 13, 2009
The Unknown
Thanks to all my years spent watching hilarious works of cinema camp--some of them even intentionally funny--I've compiled my favorite lines, the kind that can only be uttered by over-the-hill divas in too much hair and makeup. My all-time faves: "So they drummed you out of Hollywood and you come ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 18, 2009
Reunion in France
Thanks to all my years spent watching hilarious works of cinema camp--some of them even intentionally funny--I've compiled my favorite lines, the kind that can only be uttered by over-the-hill divas in too much hair and makeup. My all-time faves: "So they drummed you out of Hollywood and you come ... More >>
Blogs
March 5, 2009
Why Do So Many Churchgoers Like To Hate?
I haven't been to church since my voice changed, and that's mainly because Roman Catholicism teaches that gays should be loved and adored, but promptly sent to hell. I long ago figured I probably shouldn't be part of an institution that thinks I'm a second-class citizen. But beyond that hot-button ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 19, 2008
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
When children make you want to screen
Blogs
November 14, 2008
YouTube Treasure: Faye Dunaway as Mae West!
When children make you want to screen
Blogs
October 23, 2008
Performances That Should Have Been Nominated For an Oscar
When children make you want to screen
Voice Choices
August 27, 2008
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
When children make you want to screen
Blogs
July 21, 2008
Clip Job: Mrs. Tallmer Begins 'Voice Feminine'
When children make you want to screen
Blogs
April 9, 2008
Joan Crawford Was a Drunken Slag! No, Really!
When children make you want to screen
Film
March 4, 2008
Talking With Ira Sachs
Xecrets and lies with the director and screenwriter of Married Life
Voice Choices
March 4, 2008
MORE WIRE HANGERS
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August 12, 2003
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August 12, 2003
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July 29, 2003
Ladies First
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June 25, 2002
Star Trek
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December 19, 2000
The Heat Is Off
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April 20, 1999
Rag Time
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January 19, 1999
Boobism and Cubism
The trouble with the Met's latest fashion exhibit
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December 22, 1998
Home Ech
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May 19, 1998
NY Mirror
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