Patty Duke

Oscar winners! Rock legends! Sperm donors! All in one room!

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Oscar winners! Rock Legends! Michael Jackson's Sperm Donor! All In One Room!

Well, one Oscar winner (Patty Duke) plus plenty of offbeat, appreciated stars of every medium there is, all converging at the Chiller Theatre autograph show out in Parsippany. It happened, and I was there, greeting them all for this week's column.

If Pink Married Bobby Seale...

She'd be Pink Panther. If Courtney Love married the Hertz Rent-a-car guy, she'd be Courtney Love Hertz. If Sandra Oh married Karen O, she'd be Sandra Oh-O.

My Favorite Child Stars Of All Time

Before you chime in with "But you forgot...": No, I didn't. These are my personal favorites. Feel free to tell me yours.

The Burrell Brothers Revisit Basement-Tape Days

In their house

Flamboyant Young Guy Impersonates Every Best Supporting Actress Winner In History

From Gale Sondergaard to Octavia Spencer. And he does them brilliantly, starting at about 39 seconds in. He does Fay Bainter, Shelley Winters, Shirley Jones, Rita Moreno, Patty Duke, Ruth Gordon, Estelle Parsons, Jennifer Hudson, Melissa Leo, Monique... He does them all.

The Best Catfights In Hollywood History

They're all in John DiLeo's new book Screen Savers II: My Grab Bag of Classic Movies, and not surprisingly, a bunch of them involve Susan Hayward. In fact, as anyone with any breeding knows, the above scene has Hayward as aging battleax Helen Lawson getting into a tussle with Patty Duke as pill-pop ... More >>

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.

An Oscar For a Mute Performance? Can Happen

A lot of oddsmakers are talking up Jean Dujardin for his silent turn in the mostly speechless The Artist. And Max Von Sydow is getting a supporting push for playing a traumatized man who communicates via facial expressions and note writing in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. But a friend of mine ... More >>

Birth of Psychoanalysis in A Dangerous Method; Last Days of the Brothel in House of Pleasures

Q&A: Darlene Love On Her Wig Collection, Her Pentecostal Past, And Phil Spector

by Andrew Hamlin Alan Hamlin​After singing lead on so many Phil Spector -produced standards--"He's A Rebel," "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home),""He's Sure The Boy I Love"--Darlene Love was recognized for her stellar pipes last month, when she was granted a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of ... More >>

George Takei Called Me!

​For our scheduled interview! He's doing public service announcements urging people to apply for social security benefits online--but before we went there, I had to tell him I loved his sardonic Spider-Man audition video that's making the rounds. "It's amazing how quickly things can go vira ... More >>

Geri Jewell Wore A Cock Ring

​Geri Jewell is the standup comedian with cerebral palsey who went on to fame on The Facts of Life (as Cousin Geri) and more recently on Deadwood. Well, I've gotten my paws on her memoirs, I'm Walking As Straight As I Can, and in it, Geri remembers wearing a leather cock ring as a bracelet in ... More >>

Was Margaret Cho Too Gay for Dancing With The Stars?

Talking with the stand-up rebel, followed by a heavy dose of—remember this?—nostalgia

Margaret Cho Fell During Dancing With the Stars

​CLICK HERE for my new column in which the renegade funny lady tells me about her Marie Osmond-like tumble on the show, which the cameras didn't catch. Also: The gay pride dance she did as millions watched in awe; The appendage she once wore, which The Enquirer was too squeamish to publish; ... More >>

Camp Flashback: Valley of the Dolls Casting Weirdness

​The 1967 campfest Valley of the Dolls is the ultimate glossy film about three show biz glamour girls who fall into a big bottle of pills. (They should remake it with Britney, Paris, and Lindsay.) Interestingly, the book's author, Jackie Susann, wanted Liza Minnelli to play the part of risin ... More >>

Ed Norton's Double Life

The master of the dual role on his new movie, Stone, and why critics don’t matter

Presenting The Top 19 Most Ridiculous Lines on Das Racist's Sit Down, Man

​Even casual observers of this blog know of our great esteem for Das Racist, and our great excitement at the release yesterday of their latest mixtape, Sit Down, Man, featuring guests from Diplo to El-P, Boi-1da to Devo Springsteen. Samples include "People Are Strange" and "Return to Innocence ... More >>

Indecision+the Bulletproof Lincolns

Equivocation and The Tempest Show a Weak Will; The Miracle Worker Works No Wonders

Who's The Best Child Star of All Time?

​Abigail Breslin made a spectacular child star at age 10 in the Oscar winning Little Miss Sunshine, and she's now onto a full-fledged career as an adolescent, making even more movies than La Streep and heading to Broadway in a Miracle Worker revival that could turn her into the new Patty Duke. ... More >>

Clip Job: Tallmer Knocked Out by Patty Duke

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMarch 22, 1962, Vol. VII, No. 22WowBy Jerry TallmerI am afraid this is going to be strong language -- if not so strong as some which it will arouse -- but I feel violated, dirtied by "ISLE OF CHILDREN," a slop-opera by Robert L. Joseph at the Cor ... More >>

Anthology Takes a Tour of the Bonnie and Clyde Director's America

(Arthur) Penn in the margins

Jessica Alba, Hayden Panettiere in Awful Get-Out-The-Vote Video

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