Tagged With "gerard mr. fashion"
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Re: Miss Understood's Thailand 2003!
Last night went to Freeman, my favorite gay club here. They have an ever changing show 7 nights a week and every number is a group number. There's always a crowd. There's nothing like it at home. ******FREEMAN WEBSITE****** They do a lot of black girl numbers. Last night there was a "Shirley Bassey) and a "Diana Ross". They also do some numbers is severe fashion looks. One girl wcame out in black lipstick and and a sexy/gothy exaggerated black ruffly collar and did an Amanda Lear song. The...
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Re: Greer Lankton
this one is STUNNING. From what mr e told me, Larissa got all bothered because she assumed the doll was based on her! And it wasn't...
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Re: Greer Lankton
This image (posted by Chi Chi yesterday) has fascinated me all night, thank you so much for posting it Chi – [and Mr. e] there is something so beautiful, truly entrancing in the aging doll flesh of these pink and cheery burlesque dames. I would be happy I think to have been any of them in another life. Where are these dolls now? Does anyone know? D. also is overwhelmed by the detail in the wrinkly breasts, the difference in skin color doll to doll, the warm confidence that shines through, a...
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Re: Miss Understood's Thailand 2003!
Saw it. Everyone needs to. Really. Anyone reading this, if you haven't seen it, please go soon. People seem to think international travel is expensive. It's only expensive if you follow packages and agents. Get a Rough Guide or a Lonely Planet and you'll see how cheap it can be. I gag when I see the prices people pay for resorts like club Med. You can come here for a month with what they charge for a few days. Here's a trick for you: I met a woman on Koh Samui who had been living in a beach...
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Re: RIP, VIP
Never got to know this fella but he sounds like my kind of wheeler dealer: (***nytimes pay per view link removed 5/23/03) Colin de Land, a New York art dealer whose ambivalence about commercialism was reflected in an art gallery that sometimes resembled an anti-art gallery, if not a work of Conceptual Art, died on Sunday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital. He was 47. The cause was cancer, said Dennis Balk, an artist represented by Mr. de Land's gallery, American Fine Arts. With little...
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Re: Beams To Bobby Part 2
Crackers? Merlinator don't serve crackers, honey! lol. Gonna have to get some new party receipe books, seems we served the same thing more than once to the same crowd. need a new chef around here;-) In light of the goodness Mr. Miller, is now feeling, and the love that so sweetly surrounds him and helps in the healing process; Mr Miller looked around while sitting at the Cafe, and asked with a quizical face what's all the fuss about? 'Maybe I am wrong,' he said, 'but, it just doesn't seem...
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Re: East Side, West Side, All Around The Town
Wasn't sure where to post this as it doesn't exactly qualify under the "nightclub crackdown" forum. This little club sounds intriquing ....
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Re: East Side, West Side, All Around The Town
We knew it was coming. $500,000 for a condo in ugly-ass Williamsburg? Me thinks not.
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Re: Michael Moore
The important thing I think we seem to be forgetting is that if everyone else who received an award acted like Mr. Moore, seizing every potential opportunity to browbeat us with their personal political views, wouldn't it eventually erode and demean the purpose of the event and the achievements of all involved? Will we go away from this remembering which actor/director put a year or two of their life into some project or that Mr. Big Mouth got into a shouting contest with his peers? Sure...
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Re: Fashion, Sweetie
PETA has had no luck in its efforts to convince Anna Wintour to keep fur out of Vogue magazine by showing her hideous images of animals struggling in traps. So we're hoping to get her attention with a hideous image of ... herself. Just in time for Wintour's "Lifetime Achievement" Award at the Council of Fashion Designers of America's Fashion Awards on June 2, PETA is launching a new ad campaign featuring the most unflattering picture of the Vogue editor we could find, with the slogan, "Fur...
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Re: Pepper LeBeija
In The Cape Cod Times: ( from The New York Times) The performer who used the stage name Pepper LaBeija as a glamourous queen of The Harlem drag balls immortilized in the 1991 documentary "Paris Is Burning" died on May 14 at Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan. She, as she preferred to be called was 53. A woman who answered the telephone at her mother's home but who would not identify herself said the cause of the death was a heart attack. LaBeija ( pronounced La-BAY-zha) appeared proudly in...
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Re: RIP, VIP
Sandman Sims, 86, Tap Dancer and Fixture at the Apollo, Dies By DOUGLAS MARTIN (text from The NYtimes accuracy under scrutiny) Sandman Sims, the celebrated tap dancer and Apollo Theater legend, died on May 20 in the Bronx. He was 86, although he long maintained that his age was "a matter of opinion." For decades he was "executioner" at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, chasing unpopular acts off the stage on amateur nights, sometimes with a toy gun. He told disconsolate losers about how he...
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Re: Liquid Sky
Ann Magnuson and I were at the club when they were filming the "Me and My Rhythm Box/fashion show" scene. We were scoping out the place because we were doing a big Pulsallama show the next night. I remember we laughed our asses off! Really, we were literally crying with laughter. When that movie was being filmed, everyone in the downtown club scene was talking about it - well, actually making fun of it. Liquid Sky was a laughing stock. I'm so glad I didn't get that part. It would have been...
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Re: RIP, VIP
>thought this needed to be added to the sector<<BR> from the archival crypts @nytimes: Edith Bouvier Beale, 84, 'Little Edie,' Dies By DOUGLAS MARTIN (2002) Edith Bouvier Beale, once a successful model and aspiring actress who later lived a gothic life in Grey Gardens, a dilapidated 28-room house in East Hampton, N.Y., with her mother and dozens of cats, raccoons and opossums, was found dead in her small apartment in Bal Harbour, Fla., on Jan. 14. She was 84. Her nephew, Bouvier...
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Re: Internet Radio
Here's a few stations Ive been regularly enjoying. They are all very niche, and as so, Im not sure how many here would like them, but, whatever - For New Orleans music including obscure Zydeco, Mardi Gras Indians/Second Line, and French Cajun: Mr. Po Boy's Jambalaya Jam http://www.pocreations.com/indexwo.html (Then click link that says "New Orleans Radio") +++++++++++++ Baroque Plus Yup, nothing but Baroque - glorious if you like it and filled with rare nuggets and composers Id never even...
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Re: BEWITCHED
Not to stray too far from the BEWITCHED topic here but I actually got teary reading your post Randella. I am glad you got you harem pants. God I love reading these stories that validate so much of my early years, and tell me there were so many others like myself. Maybe if you had been put in a play group of little sissies, you could have found identification and commeraderie with little boys like yourself. Too progreesive for the early 70's I suppose. I remember wandering the aisles...
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Re: Party Monster - Michael Alig
When does this movie open in New York? Or is it already open? My ex-boyfriend out on the West Coast sent me this review of Party Monster earlier tonight: Now I'm really curious.
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Re: Swept Away part 2
His voice is like the Earth itself singing (or the male aspect of it anyway). Totally real! He had many of the then cutting edge counter culture singers on his television show in the 1960s like Bob Dylan (several times). I must admit it was AFTER Dylans motorcycle accident when he no longer had that edginess with an abandon that he had prior to it, but he was still way out there as far as Mr. and Mrs. Average American was concerned. Johnny Cash Came out strongly against the Vietnam war at a...
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Re: East Side, West Side, All Around The Town
The Meatpacking District has now been granted offical landmark status by the powers that be. But with everything that once made that neighborhood interesting either gone completely or stifled by the tidal wave of bottle service assholes, does the title really matter?
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Re: RIP, VIP
Johnny Cash, one of country music's most iconic figures, has died at the age of 71. Cash died at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, "due to complications from diabetes, which resulted in respiratory failure", said Lou Robin, his manager. The announcement shocked fans, who had been relieved to hear that Cash had been released from hospital on Tuesday after three weeks of treatment for an inflammation of the pancreas. Although Cash had been hospitalised frequently over the past several...
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Re: Jackie 60 FURTHER shows and updates
For those of you who don't read in Elsewhere, here are the details for our London show this Saturday September 20 at RETURN TO NY. We are doing some fab stuff using the CABARET MAGIQUE as the theme, and will time-travel from the 1880s to 1930s.. If you are a Jackie legend, email me for possible guest list. Here's the details: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 JACKIE 60 FURTHER IN LONDON Arthur Baker, Sean McLusky & Culturecide Promotions present RETURN TO NEW YORK @ THE GREAT EASTERN HOTEL,...
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Re: Fashion, Sweetie
September 15, 2003 Tell Us, Doctor, What Is It About Models? By GUY TREBAY New York Times In 1953, Dr. Edmund Bergler, a New York psychoanalyst trained at the Freud Clinic in Vienna, focused his analytic intelligence on understanding that most sadly neglected field of human pursuits: fashion. The result was a book, "Fashion and the Unconscious," a matchless addition to the literature both of homophobia and of claptrap. Dr. Bergler was not the first to suggest that the will to hoax womankind...
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Re: Fashion, Sweetie
This question really says it all , right Chi? I kept hearing it in my head all night after that party....yeesh.....but oh what fun it is to ride with Mr. "Queer Eye" Carson! Good to know he's an Opera fan!
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Re: Fashion, Sweetie
When even little old WonderBar is innundated with packs of jaw-grinding, Euro-Japanese-Russian fashionistas, cramming themselves into the tiny bathrooms three to four at a time, and led by a monsterous Liz Hurley look-alike, you know Fashion Week has become bigger than any of us, sweetie. And maybe it was the real Liz. What do I know anyway? [This message was edited by hatches on 09-16-03 at 05:40 PM.]
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Re: JC Leroy (as Terence put it)
When I lived in San Francisco, the hottest celeb guest to have at your party was the mayor. Which wasn't hard to do. At that time he was Mayor Alioto, with whom I shared a lawyer, as well as many moments with, in the law office's lounge, so it wouldn't have been hard at all. I remember thinking, "But why would I ever want to?" Who wants a mayor at your party? I also remember when Yoko Ono came to SF and announced she was moving there. Oh, the furor that ensued; finally a real life celebrity...
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Re: JC Leroy (as Terence put it)
Why did Courtney need to sit? Is she preggers again? Was she tipsy? Or was she wearing 8 inch stilettos? Those would be the only reasons I would let old Courts cop a squat on my stool. Kembra is just too nice. What could they have done if she had refused? Thrown her out? And St'an, though I do think Truman's "Answered Prayers" debacle was brilliantly mad and tragic, I would never wish the cursed Block upon anyone either. But those back pages of Interview have been littered with photos of...
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Re: RIP, VIP
I can't believe he's gone to his grave and I'm still owing him big time. Desperation never fails to iluminate. George Plimpton, Urbane and Witty Writer, Dies at 76 By RICHARD SEVERO Published: September 26, 2003 copy from NYTimes Web obit page Associated Press George Plimpton, the self-deprecating author of "Paper Lion" and a patron to Philip Roth and Jack Kerouac has died. He was 76. George Plimpton, the New York aristocrat and literary journalist whose exploits in editing and writing...
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Re: JC Leroy (as Terence put it)
S'tan-- Just catching up on this topic, and I very much enjoyed your analysis of the book on 9/20. It's one of the best I've read yet, and I really am keen on your feeling that the book has a "fermentive" effect. It's a great descriptor... Because, though I've read the book just once, I've played so many parts of it over and over in my mind (in a way somehow different than any other book I've read)...I do feel that the acrid sights, sounds, tastes and odors have, and continue to, ferment in...
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Re: Swept Away part 2
SEPTEMBER 30--Madonna's new "Hollywood" video is a blatant visual rip-off of the work of a late French fashion photographer, according to a federal copyright lawsuit just filed against the pop superstar. The son of photographer Guy Bourdin alleges that Madonna's video is filled almost entirely with reenactments of his father's distinctively racy images (Bourdin died in 1991 at age 62). "It's one thing to draw inspiration; it's quite another to simply plagiarize the heart and soul of my...
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Re: Swept Away part 2
This is interesting. Where the line of "inspiration" and "ripoff" blur. Jean Baptiste Mondino was the director. So he might be the one who's idea it was. He is one of my favorite photographers actually. But she has made a career out of this. If Mr Bourdin wins there will be a LONG line of people , relatives of people and estates of dead people who will be next with lawsuits. But if he does not win , at least it shows the world her "genius". This Britney tag along is about as bad as it gets.
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Re: JC Leroy (as Terence put it)
Alas I have not seen the film version of American Psycho and so I can't comment on it. However your political take on it is very interesting, and an example of how time does things to movies and the way we interpret them and feel about them. Films that were flopped or received tepid enthusiasm from viewers initially can be hailed as classics twenty years later, etc. Sept 11th certainly cast much of the 90s in a different light than was possible for us to see before. And films are a whole...
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Re: East Side, West Side, All Around The Town
sorry honey, they're already here, crawling all over the place in packs of ten or more, drunk out of their ever living minds, screaming their putrid heads off all hours of any night, in their paltry rendition of american pie 'wild abandon' only to return the following morning to classes at Fordham U. (the Jesuit University). I heard tell that Mr. Christ died drinking for their sins. rb//nyc//bronx//bohemia
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Re: RIP, VIP
But for a few exceptions, I find the chronciling and passing of lessor knowns way more fascinating then the lives of generic stars of the day. Harold von Braunhut, Seller of Sea Monkeys, Dies at 77 By DOUGLAS MARTIN Published: December 21, 2003 Harold von Braunhut, who used comic book advertisements to sell whimsical mail-order inventions like Amazing Sea Monkeys, tiny shrimp that pop to life when water is added, died on Nov. 28 at his home in Indian Head, Md. He was 77. His wife, Yolanda,...
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Re: RIP, VIP
The great fashion photographer, Francesco Scavullo died yesterday in his New York home. His companion of thirty years, Sean Byrnes was at his side. He was 81 years old and his heart gave out. Francesco was an amazing person. So full of love and kindness and great humor. I knew him well in the seventies during the Studio 54 years and rarely saw him after. He worked in Manhattan all of his life. He shot every cover for thirty years of Cosmopolitan Magazine and used such great stylists as Make...
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Re: DAVID BOWIE
I enjoy Bowie's music a lot, but was more influenced by him as a 70s fashion icon than anything else. His brand of androgynous drag, over-the-top glam chic and ambiguous sexuality was one of the things that led me into the club world to begin with. His chic even translated to his film appearances like "The Hunger". So hot. Also, everyone loves to put down his 80s top-40 commercial pop stint, but personally I loved that period of his career as much as the rest of it. I would just as soon rock...
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Re: Fashion, Sweetie
All followers of the church of Vreeland, or latter-day saint Antonio... RUN to the new Michael Gallagher Gallery at 4th Avenue and 12th Street on the corner. Filled with original fashion illustrations including Charles James and Antonio, rare books, fashion photos and Weegee and EVERY back issue of Flaunt, Vogue etc. And, the most learned Walter Cessna (of STOP magazine fame) is the manager. http://www.gallaghersfashion.com
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Re: Fashion, Sweetie
Wow... Jimmy Scouse is modelling.... New fashions from Italian fashion label Etro
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Re: DAVID BOWIE
When discussing David Bowie, we must include the movie Labrynth. Tights, Tights and more TIGHTS. Everyone loves David Bowie in those tights. I remember being 13 or so and watching the movie for the first time. Mr. Bowie has a big chorus number with a shitload of singing muppets. I could not keep my eyes off of his bulge. I don't know if it was a good dance belt or good genes. If you have not seen the movie rush out and rent it. I purchased a shirt in the East Village in July that has a...
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Re: RIP, VIP
The timing of this is very strange - just saw that Helmut Newton died today. He was a huge influence on my late-Seventies and early Eighties look, and I have always adored his women. Shocking... I guess Heaven will be very well lit from now on...
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Re: RIP, VIP
Yikes, first Mr. Rogers. Now, Captain Kangaroo. What is this world coming to? Next, it'll probably be Pee Wee Herman....
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Re: AB FAB
I am suprised no one has mentioned the new season yet. It is hysterical - they are right back on track again. Funny, sharp and acerbic writing - the thing Ms. Saunders does best. Outlandish celebrity guest stars. I love "Titticaca Two-ways" getting a restraing order from Baby Spice or Patsy "working" in the shop, Jeremy (it's a lifestyle, a concept... Can't wait to see Saffy's labour and new baby - because mixed-raced babies are the fashion accessories of the season, sweetie! They are the...
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Re: Goin' To The Chapel: The Lesbian, Gay & T/S Marriage Topic
The situation outside San Francisco's City Hall escalates as gay marriage opponents begin passionate protests. San Francisco (which is both a city and a county) has now stepped up the battle with a lawsuit of its own against California state. What's fierce to me in all of this is how many of the local and even state officials, most of them heterosexual, are in favor of Mayor Newsom's decision. Even if all these gay marriages happening now are later invalidated, this historic event has begun...
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Re: Goin' To The Chapel: The Lesbian, Gay & T/S Marriage Topic
From NY times today... "Mr. Schwarzenegger said. 'In San Francisco it's a license for marriage of same sex... Maybe the next thing is another city that hands out licenses for assault weapons and someone else hands out licenses for selling drugs "” I mean, you can't do that. We have to stay within the law. There's a state law that says specific things, and if you want to challenge those laws, then you can go to the court.' "If Mr. Schwarzenegger's perspective on the law was not popular...
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Re: Goin' To The Chapel: The Lesbian, Gay & T/S Marriage Topic
A despicable election year trick, intended to drive a wedge between the queer community and our hetero neighbors. While depressing, this article is highly informative and I love the quoted reactions from DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe, the ACLU and others. And though the Democratic presidential candidates are not THAT much better, at least they are against a constitutional amendment and Kerry can boast that he voted against the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996.
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Re: Fashion, Sweetie
hey guys give me some of what your smoking!! BTW Johnny I saw a pic of you at some smashion show you looked great! Anything interesting to report from Fashion week?
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Re: Goin' To The Chapel: The Lesbian, Gay & T/S Marriage Topic
And the battle comes at last to our soil. I've always liked politicians like Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein and Barney Frank, but they've been in office for years and we've seen little action. Now they look like tired old buffalos next to the handful of mavericks like Mayor Newsome, Mayor Daley and New Paltz, New York's mayor, Jason West, who boldly go where no one has gone before. Rock on!
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Re: Goin' To The Chapel: The Lesbian, Gay & T/S Marriage Topic
Some disagree this is a civil rights issue, but... http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/03/national/03GEOR.html?th "In interviews with more than a dozen black legislators, most were reluctant to characterize their position as a stand against discrimination. Like many of those who oppose a constitutional ban, Representative Earnest Williams of Stone Mountain said comparisons between the struggle for black civil rights and the pursuit of gay marriage were disingenuous. " 'You just can't equate...
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Re: Goin' To The Chapel: The Lesbian, Gay & T/S Marriage Topic
Nicholas D. Kristof does it again: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/03/opinion/03KRIS.html?th "Long before President Bush's call for a 'constitutional amendment protecting marriage,' Representative Seaborn Roddenberry of Georgia proposed an amendment that he said would uphold the sanctity of marriage. "Mr. Roddenberry's proposed amendment, in December 1912, stated, 'Intermarriage between Negroes or persons of color and Caucasians . . . is forever prohibited.' He took this action, he said,...