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  • Theater

    May 25, 2011

    Lucky Guy--an Old Story Tries Putting on the Glitz

    Willard Beckham's country musical shops secondhand

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2011

    Lucky Guy: My Plucky Review!

    ​Willard Beckham's off-Broadway musical Lucky Guy is set in a time before country music got all sexy and accessible--back when it it was about big hair, deep-fried twangs, and overemphatic two-stepping. I.e., it's pre-Shania Twain. But the biz was apparently just as cutthroat as now because ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2011

    Varla Jean Merman: Exclusive Interview!

    ​ Varla Jean Merman is a lucky guy -- I mean Varla Jean Merman is starring in Lucky Guy. It's an old-style camp musical with Varla and Leslie Jordan (above), dealing with people who put the trash back in Nashville dreams. Varla, by the way, is the drag character of Jeffrey Roberson, who kin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2011

    Awards For Male Hookers!

    Leslie Jordan​Hollywood studios regularly whore themselves out for Oscars, but the serious honors will go to actual prostitutes when The International Hookies are given away on March 18 at Roseland. I imagine there'll be trophies for Best Hourly Rate, Least Expensive Triple Penetration on a D ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2010

    Boy George's Immortal Sake Commercial With Leslie Jordan

    ​Pixieish Leslie Jordan (who was Beverly Leslie on Will & Grace) has a one-man off-Broadway show in which he talks about the horror of doing a sake commercial with Boy George in the Mojave desert. Jordan says he was outfitted with all kinds of suffocating prosthetics, lenses, and wigs in orde ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2010

    When Gays Make Other Gays Uncomfortable

    ​Let's talk some more about Leslie Jordan's fun one-man show, My Trip Down The Pink Carpet, at the Midtown Theater. The pint-sized pixie talks about growing up as an effeminate southern child and yet wanting to vomit every time effeminate, southern Truman Capote popped up on the TV screen and ... More >>

  • Columns

    April 20, 2010

    Anderson Cooper Vs. Dr. Death

    Fun with assisted suicide. Plus: Puffy Combs on the craft of acting?

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2010

    Lily Tomlin on Producing Leslie Jordan, Playing Staten Island

    ​If Lily Tomlin's beloved characters aged at all, Edith Ann, the precocious 5-year-old, might just fit in that oversize rocking chair. Though Tomlin's personifications haven't changed, the world they live in certainly has in the four decades she's been performing. This Saturday, April 17, the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2010

    Will & Grace Star Dated George Clooney!

    ​CLICK HERE for my new column in which Leslie Jordan, the Emmy winner who played Karen's prissy antagonist Beverly Leslie on W & G, tells me what to expect from his autobiographical theater piece. Leslie admits that he can't love in a healthy, grown-up way, so instead he has high-school-like ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2010

    This Week in The Voice: NYU's Snuff Film

    ​An undergraduate was killed during the making of a student film for NYU's highly-esteemed and well-regarded film program. What could've been done to prevent it? Why isn't anyone talking about it? And just how dodgy has NYU been over this? Village Voice staff writer Steven Thrasher investigate ... More >>

  • Columns

    April 6, 2010

    Will & Grace Star's Affair With George Clooney

    Chattering with Emmy winner Leslie Jordan, plus sounding off on Broadway.

  • Columns

    April 15, 2008

    '24' Star Won't Shave Her Privates!

    Direct hits on Abu Ghraib, some close shaves, and frank talk about that Foster parent

  • Columns

    August 22, 2006

    NY Mirror

    Direct hits on Abu Ghraib, some close shaves, and frank talk about that Foster parent

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