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Karen Black

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2012

    Scientology Sunday Funnies: Jake and Elwood Want Your Cash!

    Scientologists don't really have a Sunday service. They like to say that they do, because they crave mainstream acceptance. But unless Xenu rested after six days and L. Ron Hubbard just forgot to mention it, there's no reason for Scientologists to treat Sunday any differently than every other day of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2012

    Writers of the Future, Today! Scientology Gets Its Party On

    Oh my, do we have a treat for you today. For several weeks now, we've been reporting on the "L. Ron Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future" contest. For several years, certain writers have questioned the connection between the contest and Scientology, which owns and operates it. And recently ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2012

    Marty Rathbun is Big in the U.K., Still Waiting for Major U.S. Treatment

    This weekend's lengthy profile of Marty Rathbun by The Independent's Guy Adams really brought back a lot of memories for us. Last year, we brought you frequent coverage of the bizarre "Squirrel Busters" siege at Rathbun's house near Corpus Christi, Texas. For some five months, a strange spiritual s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2012

    Nancy Cartwright and Karen Black Announced For 'Writers of the Future' Gala -- a Direct Response to the Voice?

    Last week, we brought you several moments from Scientology's big L. Ron Hubbard birthday event that was held on March 10 in Clearwater, Florida. Here's another few minutes from that celebration that we alluded to earlier, during which church leader David Miscavige uses the church's "Writers of the F ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2011

    Hey, Scientology Celebrity, Here's Your Media Training Checksheet!

    Our readers send us the most wonderful things. By e-mail and snail mail, our far-flung correspondents put in our hands Scientology's tasteless fundraising mailers (which we use in our recurring Sunday Funnies posts), they send us over-the-top glossy Scientology magazines, and of course they send us ... More >>

  • Film

    November 9, 2011

    Letters from the Big Man

    Our readers send us the most wonderful things. By e-mail and snail mail, our far-flung correspondents put in our hands Scientology's tasteless fundraising mailers (which we use in our recurring Sunday Funnies posts), they send us over-the-top glossy Scientology magazines, and of course they send us ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2011

    Cher Was Almost a Transsexual!

    ​In a play! In the book Robert Altman, An Oral Biography, Cher remembers that Altman wanted her to play the transsexual Joanne in the 1981 play (and later movie) Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. But Cher didn't want to go there.

  • Film

    June 1, 2011

    Not a Picnic: Dennis Hopper's Family Drama Out of the Blue

    ​In a play! In the book Robert Altman, An Oral Biography, Cher remembers that Altman wanted her to play the transsexual Joanne in the 1981 play (and later movie) Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. But Cher didn't want to go there.

  • Voice Choices

    May 25, 2011

    Out of the Blue

    ​In a play! In the book Robert Altman, An Oral Biography, Cher remembers that Altman wanted her to play the transsexual Joanne in the 1981 play (and later movie) Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. But Cher didn't want to go there.

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2011

    Charlie Chaplin Classes Up the 1972 Oscars Ceremony

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 20, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 16 films in focus By Andrew Sarris The 44th annual festivities of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences began with a whimper and ended with a bang, demonstrating that, among other things, Oscar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2010

    Santos Party House, Shuttered Since Thursday Over Drug Charges, Will Reopen Tomorrow

    ​So says the beleaguered club's Twitter account, a statement confirmed by a club spokesman who tells us that, starting tomorrow, "we're officially allowed to be open." Closed Thursday night in a police raid over third party drug charges that date back to June, July, and August, Santos will hav ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2010

    Live: Hal Willner, Sonic Youth, Jeffrey Lewis, Lou Reed, and More Pay Tribute to Fugs Emeritus Tuli Kupferberg at St Ann's Warehouse

    A Benefit for Tuli Kupferberg St. Ann's Warehouse Friday, January 22 Nothing crystallizes the identity politics lurking somewhere near the core of pop music quite like benefit and tribute concerts, where donor acts reconstruct the beneficiary in their own image, often to revelatory - or, nearly a ... More >>

  • Film

    August 4, 2009

    William Lustig's 'Buried Treasures' at Anthology

    Presenting a '70s hit list where the results aren't pretty

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2009

    The Greatest Gay Icons of All Time

    Gay icon"These deeply personal, campy, and insightful essays illuminate the eternal bond between gay men and their fabulous diva icons," says the blurb on the back of a new book called My Diva. And you know it's true because that blurb was written by yours fucking truly! The book has 65 gay men bea ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    October 22, 2008

    KISSING ASS

    When butts and vaginas become one

  • Blogs

    September 5, 2008

    Art Parade Cancelled!

    When butts and vaginas become one

  • News

    June 24, 2008

    Scientology's Crushing Defeat

    A previously unpublished saga of an $8 million check

  • Art

    March 4, 2008

    Helping the Whitney Museum Expand the 2008 Biennial

    Art production fund, to the Armory!

  • Film

    May 8, 2007

    'Hollywood Dreams'

    Art production fund, to the Armory!

  • NYC Life

    January 16, 2007

    Pussy Control

    Julie Atlas Muz and Michael T let their freak flags fly, among other things

  • Film

    November 21, 2006

    A Critics' Duet on 'Nashville'

    From the 'Voice' archives: Remembering Robert Altman through the words of Voice critics past

  • NYC Life

    September 13, 2005

    Artsy Fartsy

    New Art Parade doesn't suck; Tommie Sunshine wants Revenge

  • NYC Life

    July 5, 2005

    Suck This

    The Cock go-goes on its way, leaves crusty trail of nostalgia

  • NYC Life

    August 24, 2004

    Bush Begone

    Anti-RNC parties bring back lewdness, courtesy of the First Amendment

  • NYC Life

    August 10, 2004

    Moonlighting

    James Iha and John Cameron Mitchell take a break from the daily grind

  • NYC Life

    May 4, 2004

    Destinations for Art-Loving Fashionistas

    James Iha and John Cameron Mitchell take a break from the daily grind

  • Film

    April 6, 2004

    Film

    James Iha and John Cameron Mitchell take a break from the daily grind

  • Film

    February 10, 2004

    Unbuttoned genes: Clones and their creator come of age

    James Iha and John Cameron Mitchell take a break from the daily grind

  • Film

    April 15, 2003

    Film

    James Iha and John Cameron Mitchell take a break from the daily grind

  • NYC Life

    September 24, 2002

    Runway Rundown

    James Iha and John Cameron Mitchell take a break from the daily grind

  • Music

    April 23, 2002

    Music

    James Iha and John Cameron Mitchell take a break from the daily grind

  • Art

    April 9, 2002

    Pudenda Agenda

    The Shaved-Vagina Monologues

  • Columns

    February 26, 2002

    NY Mirror

    The Shaved-Vagina Monologues

  • Music

    February 5, 2002

    Music

    The Shaved-Vagina Monologues

  • Film

    November 27, 2001

    Schlock Exchange

    The Shaved-Vagina Monologues

  • Columns

    July 24, 2001

    NY Mirror

    The Shaved-Vagina Monologues

  • Film

    May 30, 2000

    Queer and Present Danger

    The Shaved-Vagina Monologues

  • Film

    January 11, 2000
  • Film

    February 23, 1999

    Missing Links

    Hidekis '99

  • Music

    October 27, 1998

    Still Standing

    Hidekis '99

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