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Lana Turner

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2012

    I've Been Through Two Foot Surgeries...

    And I'm here! I'm still here! My bunions had grown so unfashionably large that there was no footwear on earth that could pleasure my feet -- not even basketball sneakers -- so I had to break down and go for surgery. Twice.

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2011

    Live: Lana Del Rey Goes Offline, Plays Bowery Ballroom

    by Kathy Iandoli Kathy Iandoli​Lana Del Rey Bowery Ballroom Monday, December 5 Better than: Rewinding the DVR over and over again to hear "Video Games" on Gossip Girl. Two years ago, Lizzy Grant's song "Kill Kill," which inhaled Nancy Sinatra's "Bang Bang" and exhaled a more listener-frien ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2011

    Da Capo's Second-Best Music Writing 2011: 112 Of Last Year's Most Notable Music Stories

    The 2011 edition of Da Capo's annual anthology Best Music Writing— which this year was guest edited by The New Yorker classical writer and The Rest Is Noise author Alex Ross; Daphne Carr has been the series editor since 2006—contains 32 essays and is augmented by a a jumbo-sized "Other N ... More >>

  • Film

    November 9, 2011

    The Return of Mario Montez, Warhol Legend

    The 2011 edition of Da Capo's annual anthology Best Music Writing— which this year was guest edited by The New Yorker classical writer and The Rest Is Noise author Alex Ross; Daphne Carr has been the series editor since 2006—contains 32 essays and is augmented by a a jumbo-sized "Other N ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2011

    Madame X Marks The Spot

    A worn-out "gun-slinging hooker" is tried for murder and is nice enough to not tell her defense lawyer, "By the way, I'm your mother." That's the tear-duct-tickling plot of Madame X, the Gerard Alessandrini and Robert Hetzel entry at the New York Musical Theatre Festival, which proves to be an affe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2011

    "You Gotta Get A Gimmick" Rewritten By Me!

    I have a lot of free time, folks, so I've sat down and retooled "You Gotta Get a Gimmick" from Gypsy as if it were sung by Lana Turner, Rita Hayworth, and Ava Gardner to rising starlet Kim Novak back in the 1950s. Before you call the men with the white suits, check out this theater queen flight o ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 8, 2010

    The Postman Always Rings Twice

    I have a lot of free time, folks, so I've sat down and retooled "You Gotta Get a Gimmick" from Gypsy as if it were sung by Lana Turner, Rita Hayworth, and Ava Gardner to rising starlet Kim Novak back in the 1950s. Before you call the men with the white suits, check out this theater queen flight o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2010

    A Lana Turner/Cheryl Crane Photo Totem Pole

    ​With Hollywood sweater girl Lana Turner for a mama, Cheryl Crane was bound for a life of nonstop rollicking glamour, right? Wrong! Cheryl was continually raped by her stepfather, screen Tarzan Lex Barker, who loved giving her "rough baths" by day and sexually torturing her at night.

  • Voice Choices

    June 3, 2009

    More Milk Yvette

    ​With Hollywood sweater girl Lana Turner for a mama, Cheryl Crane was bound for a life of nonstop rollicking glamour, right? Wrong! Cheryl was continually raped by her stepfather, screen Tarzan Lex Barker, who loved giving her "rough baths" by day and sexually torturing her at night.

  • Film

    May 13, 2009

    Love Is a Battlefield in Postman Rethink, Jerichow

    ​With Hollywood sweater girl Lana Turner for a mama, Cheryl Crane was bound for a life of nonstop rollicking glamour, right? Wrong! Cheryl was continually raped by her stepfather, screen Tarzan Lex Barker, who loved giving her "rough baths" by day and sexually torturing her at night.

  • Film

    May 6, 2009

    Andy Warhol's Other Coast at MOMA

    ​With Hollywood sweater girl Lana Turner for a mama, Cheryl Crane was bound for a life of nonstop rollicking glamour, right? Wrong! Cheryl was continually raped by her stepfather, screen Tarzan Lex Barker, who loved giving her "rough baths" by day and sexually torturing her at night.

  • Art

    April 8, 2008

    David Leventhal's Massive Mini Attack

    The photographer's first publishing project, revisited

  • NYC Life

    October 30, 2007

    Perez Hilton: "I Like Food, Not Drugs!"

    Yet another Rhode trip. Then it's back to Manhattan for cock tales.

  • Film

    August 7, 2007

    Melodrama King

    Vincente Minnelli at Anthology, plus BAM hearts Asian cinema

  • Screens

    June 12, 2007

    From Mongolia or Outer Space?

    Idiosyncratic sci-fi films Sans Soleil and La Jetée hit DVD. Plus, good directors gone bad and bad directors gone worse.

  • Film

    October 24, 2006

    The Man Who Loved Women

    Gyno-centric director returns with a lighthearted ghost story

  • NYC Life

    November 1, 2005

    The Death of the Dumb Blond

    Why peroxide rot is, like, officially over

  • Film

    March 15, 2005

    In This World

    Rappers in Cuba, pilgrims in Mecca, killer fish in Tanzania, James Carville in Bolivia

  • Art

    February 10, 2004

    Still Waters

    As a photographer, the filmmaker continues to make deliciously perverse 'little movies'

  • Film

    January 27, 2004

    Supersize Me

    Sundance docs: Board youth, iMacs, Big Macs and big mouths—who in Tarnation is next

  • Books

    November 11, 2003

    Daily Andy

    Warhol as soap star in Steven Watson's fresh factory history

  • Film

    May 6, 2003

    Micro Cosmos

    Slovenia's New Beginnings

  • Film

    December 17, 2002

    Sales Pitches

    Slovenia's New Beginnings

  • Art

    November 19, 2002

    The Lovely Bones

    Slovenia's New Beginnings

  • News

    October 29, 2002

    Heaven Sent

    Todd Haynes and Julianne Moore Reopen Douglas Sirk's Melodrama Fakebook

  • News

    February 8, 2000

    Show People

    Behind the Scenes With the Drama Queens

  • Film

    September 29, 1998

    Double Exposure

    Behind the Scenes With the Drama Queens

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