Marlene Dietrich

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Clip Job: Marlene Dietrich on How To Stay Lovely

Lenelle Moïse's Friendship Drama, Expatriate

Pricks and Kicks in The Connection and The Judgement of Paris

Drugs! Sex! But not much shock in these two shows.

They Build Horses, Don't They?

Could be verse: Brad Pitt's beefcake Achilles is a heel in a streamlined, digitized Iliad

Setting a Trap

Could be verse: Brad Pitt's beefcake Achilles is a heel in a streamlined, digitized Iliad

History Lesson

Could be verse: Brad Pitt's beefcake Achilles is a heel in a streamlined, digitized Iliad

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Cinema Alfresco

The Wages of Original Sin

Cinema Alfresco

Berlin Babylon

Cinema Alfresco

Rubble Indemnities

Cinema Alfresco

Never Forget

Cinema Alfresco

Screen Test 2002

World's Hardest Movie Quiz

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World's Hardest Movie Quiz

Light Motifs

Blonde venus, blue angel: Applying a last touch of lipstick to a sultry creature of illusion

Cosmo Girl

Have legs, will travel: Ute Lemper offers a worldly cabaret

Not Yet Rated

Sly stalwarts, newly uncovered rarities in pre-Code series

Evoking a Particular Bohemia

Sly stalwarts, newly uncovered rarities in pre-Code series

Ziyi/Icon

Thrill of the still: How an image from Wong Kar-wai's art-house hit keeps you gazing

The Death of the Dumb Blond

Why peroxide rot is, like, officially over

The Great Escapes

Erotic obsession and cold, cruel truths about unrequited love

Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

The Spiegeltent returns with teak, velvet, and nipple glitter

The Agitators

From blacklisted in the U.S. to the Black Wave in Yugoslavia

GENDER- BENDER

An evening with boylesque babe La JohnJoseph

A Pre-VD Love Bomb with Diamanda Galás

An evening with boylesque babe La JohnJoseph

Pulp Nonfiction: Home to Licentious Libations and Big Boobs

An evening with boylesque babe La JohnJoseph

Getting It Together: The Best in Film Share Their Secrets

An evening with boylesque babe La JohnJoseph

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 >>

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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 >>

BET ON FRINGE

Hey, you never know

Gossip About Avatar, Fame, and Antichrist!

Fame, the musical is watered-down, unlike von Trier's Antichrist.

Lola

Fame, the musical is watered-down, unlike von Trier's Antichrist.

Gwyneth Paltrow as Dietrich?

​What next--Valerie Harper as Tallulah Bankhead? I am so kidding. I just wrote about Harper's appeal, which some queens who've seen her as Tallu are kvelling about. And I do think Gwynnie Paltrow was astonishing in Shakespeare in Love and deserves a shot at a juicy role like pants-wearing, N ... More >>

FOOT FETISH

Jackie Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe had more than JFK in common

George Steinbrenner, 1930-2010

​"What does it matter what you say about someone?" Marlene Dietrich says about Orson Welles at the end of Touch Of Evil. What, indeed? Except that now, at the end, we should say a few things about George Steinbrenner that even out the other things we remember all too well: the ridiculous outbu ... More >>

Richard M. Nixon, Cinephile

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 20, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 34 Film in Focus By Andrew Sarris President Richard M. Nixon may not be quite the cinephile his recent press notices would seem to suggest. Or so we are led to believe by a recent Variety follow-up to the ... More >>

LIFE-SIZE DIETRICH

See a whole new Marlene

The Devil Is a Woman

See a whole new Marlene

'Weimar Cinema' at MOMA: The New German Problem? Too Many Great Films.

See a whole new Marlene

Marlene Dietrich Listened to Records of Her Applause!

​Christmas 1962. Noel Coward was having a star-studded house party in wonderfully neutral Switzerland. After dinner, the double pianos were enchantingly taken over by Coward and Kay Thompson (you know, Liza's godmother; the fab woman who wrote Eloise and sang "Think Pink" in Funny Face).

Three Loves

​Christmas 1962. Noel Coward was having a star-studded house party in wonderfully neutral Switzerland. After dinner, the double pianos were enchantingly taken over by Coward and Kay Thompson (you know, Liza's godmother; the fab woman who wrote Eloise and sang "Think Pink" in Funny Face).

AMERICAN GOTHIC, REVISITED

Darkpop mainstays get a new incarnation

The 10 Best Female Outfits in Movie History

​ Who cares about the men? They always wear suits or sweaty T-shirts. But from the beginning of cinema, Hollywood's ladies have gotten swathed and feathered and dressed and undressed in ways that have made the fashion world rock with diversity and delight. My 10 all-time fave looks are:

The Blue Angel

​ Who cares about the men? They always wear suits or sweaty T-shirts. But from the beginning of cinema, Hollywood's ladies have gotten swathed and feathered and dressed and undressed in ways that have made the fashion world rock with diversity and delight. My 10 all-time fave looks are:

Dietrich's Legendary Schtup With JFK: I Have The Dirty Details

​Let's time travel to the 1960s, when sex was just as wonderfully dirty, but much more shameful about it. As you know, President John F. Kennedy slept with everything that wasn't nailed down, but one of his more glorious conquests was screen legend Marlene Dietrich, whom he romanced after inv ... More >>

GIRLS ON FILM

Experience the glamour of cinema

Who's The Greatest Drag King Ever In Movies?

Barbra Streisand, 'Yentl'​I gave the guys their turn at drag validation. Now let's go for the guys who happen to gals. Which of these screen ladies convinced you, intrigued you, and really grabbed you in their macho getups? By the way, in the above photo, Barbra's the one on the right.

Transgender And Drag At The Oscars! A Fabulous Pictorial!

​In Albert Nobbs, Glenn Close (above) convincingly plays a woman who dresses like a man in order to nab some employment in 19th Century Ireland. But it's the kind of stunt that can also nab you awards consideration.

"Which Cougar Swings Both Ways?" And Other Sizzling Blind Items

I provide the milk and cookies, you provide the names

"Dubbing Through The Decades" Video Expanded And Improved!

I recently posted a YouTube video of clips showing who dubbed the singing voices for various screen icons so they could sound as hot as they looked. It was eye- and ear-opening, a vastly entertaining glimpse into Hollywood magic-making that you cineastes adored. Well, by popular demand, the person ... More >>