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Re: Todd Tomarrow
I am quite stunned by the sudden passing of my Blacklips confrere, Todd, AKA Lulu. She was a true original-- drop-dead gorgeous in drag, with an impeccable comedic timing which she really honed during her Blacklips tenure-- not to mention her wig-styling & makeup skills... Really one of the best-- if not THE best. I can still recall, with a smile, her portrayal of the dissipated and jovial Queen Louise XI in both "The Red Shoes" and "Hunch" (Blacklips version of The Hunchback Of Notra...
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Re: Your favorite Jackie theme?
i have so many favorie themes-i guess after 10 years we must of had over 500 themes-some i don't remember -and often i didn't see all the shows as i was at the door. sid lives was one of my favories with amanda lepores astounding performance-and johny tingle and jenny genocide as sid and nancy.the witches of the east village with clark,art and eve as the spice girls was a memorable moment.marties shoe dance always made me come off the door to watch the show!!! others i remember fondly bowie...
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Re: I'm from normal parents (The Pyramid Club Topic)
Like many of us, I have suppressed this haunting memory for way too long: well, does anyone want to remember Linda's first and last Lip-singing act? It was at Pyramid back in 1992, when she made a stunning Debutt, singing "strangers In the Night", yes the Sinatra version!! The audience fell silent, and the number was dead on arrival! linda has shunned any mention of this topic, however subtle... should this forum force her to finally confront her demons??
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Re: NYC Expatriates Topic
I'm kind of with Lux on this one. I love South Beach. I really do. I happen to love a white thong, half glimpsed under see-through white pants on a J-Lo bimbo butt with a Donatella head. And I love the Guido Meat Heads in baseball caps that follow them like sea gulls around a dead fish. It's hot! Yes, I was harassed by the police twice for not carrying an ID. (And yes, one time was at the beach at Five PM, rediculious! I had on a bathing suit!) The cops are pigs, so are the girls! So are the...
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Re: BURNING MAN
Dressy: I've got a huge book, two vids and scads of pictures on the subject if you're interested. Seems like a great excuse to spend time with your lovely acerbic self again anyway... Yeah, RV's are expensive, the Goblin's right about that, but they're so very worth it. Domes are dead essential too. My crew always has three or four of each and lots of supporting smaller structures. BTW - Gob, we used to be the notorious Fleshlab, but this it's the "Black Rock City Tours" camp, check them out...
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Re: 9/11/01 - The village signpost - please check in here
May all of our loved ones be alright. The news here in Australia is scary. There is talk of America going to war. Of thousands dead. I wish I could send blood from Australia. I have been up watching this since it began for me here at 11:30pm here/about. It's 7:30 am now. Desperate to reach loved ones in NYC. If you will, pray with me? Dear Goddess Dear God Dear any Deity who is listening; Protect those injured and awating help, may they or as many as is possible be found safe; Shine on those...
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Re: Miss Understood's Hi from Thailand
Raw meat, hanging dead ducks, shrimp with the legs and heads still on. Good, maybe next time we have a ritual baby sacrifice you won't be so squeemish!
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Re: Miss Understood's Hi from Thailand
aww. I want to see Wat...he sounds lovely. Man, it was so funny, cause tonight - I was sitting here in New York and watching tv and saw that "Drag Time" was on. I started freaking out, just as I did when I was wayy back in Michigan having big dreams about being "up there" with the "girls". All in all - it was different watching it this time. I have met alot of the guys in the film - like you...but I still got just excited. Being here and being in the nightlife and seeing everything hasn't...
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Re: DH and the Fishsticks
Love to the Fishsticks and big kiss to Debravation too. Knock em dead tonite!
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Re: DH and the Fishsticks
'Bout time we got you on the boards Debbie! Even if it was on Jackie Bigalow's dime. A bit "Helin Rhiannon-ish" but still great to hear from you. Knock 'em dead.
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Re: Can We Build a Less Prejudiced TG Sense of Community?
Well, my mind expanding Sweetie, this drop the bomb topic has been running around my already busy brain for days. I'm very happy to see people expressing themselves and shedding their experiences. (Stacy, welcome home honey, I've often wondered how you were doing.) A Transgendered Woman Is A Transgendered Woman Is A Transgendered Woman! A transgendered woman is not a man! A transgendered woman is not a woman! (Repeat chorus) Bobby Miller and I are friends. I love him as a human being and as...
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Re: Can We Build a Less Prejudiced TG Sense of Community?
I have been reading everyones posts with such enthusiasm and interest. I would like to share a few things with several of you: April: I know something of the feelings that you are going through about family and transitioning. I remember how much angst and fear that caused me. Once I knew there was no turning back for me any longer, I actually remember having thoughts of wishing my family dead so that I would be able to live. As insane as that sounds (and is) that's a good example of the...
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Re: Party Monster - Michael Alig
This subject is always so polarizing, and we've tried to steer clear of it ... While all of it was going on, we were being good little students and getting our education at Ohio University in the middle of nowhere. Zazoo did go to Limelight and Club USA in '92 (or ˜93) and had a blast. The Little Professor bookstore on campus carried "Project X" but that was the extent of our knowledge of the scene in NYC. When Chi Chi posted Michael Wilkinson's note above, we debated for over a week. When...
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Re: RIP, VIP
Widely publicized and with a NYMag article to come out Holly died last week. She had been my art dealer from 1974-1980. Everything the many NYTimes obits said about her and Grace Gluck's full biography is true. She treated artists like friends, supported many many talents, and went with her gut feelings no matter what the odds. My personal memory which I'll never forget was the crazy summer we drove up to Lake Placid with a stationwagon trunk full of white wine and returned with a...
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Re: Mondo Internet
..too many diet pills & a vat of coffee, and I can't stop linkng... anyways, this is dreamy & beautiful . I have no idea what it's about. be a dj with this toy. This is a shitty site for Jan Michael Vincent . I used to have the dirtiest dreams about him. Apparently, he isn't dead! Plastic Surgery Disaster Woman - maybe you're one of the 4 people on earth who hasn't seen this site - she's clearly deranged. Or maybe she looks so startled because she just realized what she's done to her...
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Re: Page
I heard at the Jackie party last night very upsetting news which was updated for us this morning by Antony. Page ingested "a large amount of poison" sometime yesterday I believe, and is now in Cabrini hospital. According to reports last night it was believed to be an OD rather than a suicide attempt. Antony tells me that she was moved to the hospice of Cabrini this morning. That is obviously not a good sign - a move to hospice generally means that a patient is terminal. JD was also told last...
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Re: Page
Linda Simpson emailed me with the news that Page Reynolds was declared brain dead prior to being moved to the hospice. I am saddened.
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Re: Adam Ant
Hey what about me? I'm a washed-up-80's-icon too you know! I was the opening act for WHAM! And yes, the rumors about me and Jason from Dead or Alive are TRUE! (I believe Anna Nicole may have even been a fly-on-the-wall @ Jackie one night). And as for Billy... He's a freak but not into boys.
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Re: David Wojnarowicz - Artist
Daddy-D: I promise not to dreg up emotions too often. And someday, you and Chi Chi will have to let me write a bit about your early exploits. This is something I look forward to. You know, one of the first conversations I had with Rose, maybe about four years ago, was about whether or not I could come in to Mother early one night just to interview her. She seemed to me to have stories untold of amazing interest (however since there was no place to publish such tales) I did not pursue the...
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Re: RIP, VIP
From: uravampire@mindspring.com Subject: [queerleft] Fwd: Harry Hay obituary - New York Times Is there going to be a NYC (or in other cities) memorial for Harry Hay, and more than mourning, as doing what Harry Hay had often done, which way forward for the queer movement? In May 2003 there will be a gathering of queer lefties in NYC at the Brecht Forum, to put the issue of queer liberation back in the heart of the socialist/anarchist/left movments and reconnect the queer community to the...
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Re: Burlesque Queen MISS KELLY WEBB Loses Everything in Tragic Thanksgiving Fire- PLEASE READ
They say one can't live on love alone but once again "they" are wrong! Many thoughts have been swooshing around my cranium since Thanksgiving night when I returned home after a lovely dinner at dear friends house to find I didn't really have an apartment left. The place was trashed (most likely electrical fire, no report yet) and my dear feline companion of nine years, Mr. Peebles, was dead. Since I lived alone I practically considered Mr. Peebles my hairy husband. If he was a person he...
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Re: AB FAB
Yes, Daddy, please take my place! This is the out I've been waiting for! My therapist and my agent have been saying for a while now that Deb and Glammy are just dead weight, and I should drop 'em. Well, I'm taking their advice. Look out, Hollywood! Jackie Bigalow's going solo! (BTW, can I borrow a dollar?)
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Re: I'm from normal parents (The Pyramid Club Topic)
But I remember Olympia, her name was Bernard. The most fun I had was at Pyramid, I met my closest compatriates there, Billy and Sister and Faye, and Madamme etc... I danced on the Bar with Connie Girl, Codie, Shannon,Mr Fashion, Wendy, and Ethel sweet Ethel.Hattie always yelled at me"Zoraya youre late" but I arrived painted and draped thank you. On monday nights Madamme, Dana (Dead-a) and Olympia would have their sewing circle in the basement, they would bead their costumes for Copa, make...
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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: Nightclub Disasters
The Granddaddy of all horrible club fires occurred in Boston at the Coconut Grove in 1942, killing 492 people. The fire was started by someone simply lighting a match in order to screw in a lightbulb. Most of the victims died from smoke inhalation, though locked exits were a factor. If such a tragedy can be caused by a match, how could anyone even dream of pyrotechnics? I have always been opposed to them, and still am to this day. Though fire-eating can be safer and more easily contained, it...
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Re: Miss Understood's Thailand 2003!
Vultures only eat the dead and almost dead. You're still typing. I tease because I love.
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Re: New Old New Wave? 1982-->2002
It's funny, when I started this topic almost a year ago, I didn't even know that there was already a marketing term for these up-and-coming electronic based groups...(Electroclash) Now a lot of magazines are already calling it "Dead." Well it may be old news in NYC, but it's catching on BIG in LA and London, and Chicago is starting to have bi-monthlies... And no one is doing nights at all in the smaller towns in the Midwest...So I'd guess it will hit before the end of the year here. (We're...
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Re: Lux and Ivy
Whatever happened to Bryan Gregory... ? Is he- a) went mental (which i heard) b) is dead (which I also heard) c) owns and runs an ice cream truck in Iowa (which i would prefer to believe) love, The Boy In The Bubble
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Re: Lux and Ivy
Bryan Gregory is dead. First Cramp to perish. Here's what Ivy herself had to say: http://members.tripod.com/nihilismontheprowl/punk/id14.htm
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Re: Lux and Ivy
Ahhh thanks for that..... sad... thought he really was charismatic... i once went round to a pals house in Liverpool(i was around 13 and in my school uniform)... and Bryan, Lux and Ivy where there... it was a huge turning point for me, just meeting them all for this fleeting moment. (FYI side note.. my pals flat mate at the time was Wayne Hussey ex Dead of Alive/ Misson UK) they had a big influence yet were not very recognized i think... ahhh poor lamb Bryan.
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Re: Pepper LeBeija
That Times piece is major. My mother (Angie Xtravaganza) would GAG to see her name in The Times like that. I hope she sees it. I also saw on the CNN clicker at the bottom of the tv screen... "Harlem Ball House legend Pepper LeBeija dead at 53 of heart attack". unbelievable. There are only a couple of the old girls left. They will be at Pepper's memorial I'm sure. I guess Candi LeBeija is the reigning queen now. I think that Miss Pepper's memorial is going to be June 12 at the Gay &...
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Re: 57 Varieties ( Club 57 Remembered)
You're not only drop dead cute in that photo, but you look H-O-T!!!!
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Re: RIP, VIP
Have been meaning to post about the death of Celia Cruz since Wednesday - what a tremendous spirit! Was so touched watching the footage of her body in Miami yesterday, where 75,000 turned out to pay their respects. She was reportedly wearing a blonde wig and a white gown.. Tomorrow (Monday) she returns to NY where 100,000 are expected, and Tuesday is her funeral mass at St. Patrick's and burial. The Queen is Dead - Long Live The Queen!
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Re: boy george
the finest thrift store chic that was, and my best attempt at copying the cover of the album...the rat you all refer to is a police cap with brooch applied dead center for glam effect, and the hideously colorful hanky was my attempt to tsjuz up the outfit!
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Re: boy george
now speaking of dead animals, Daddy what is that you are wearing around your neck?
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Re: My own private East Village
Don't miss this interesting tale of two latter-day bohemians here on the LES. Its great because the author - the brilliant C. Carr - points out that the EV has been declared dead for bohos at least once every decade, yet its still the only place we all choose to live (despite all the boho enclaves discussed elsewhere and the incredible rents.) I really like Rev Jen and have worked and demonstrated with her several times with the Dance Liberation Front and Legalize Dancing NYC, but I think...
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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: Party Monster - Michael Alig
I saw it today. I don't know what to think. It definitely wasn't bad, but I can't say it was good either. I thought MacAuley Culkin was irritating, if it was just Seth Green it would've been a much better movie. For those who know the story (or lived it), the only reason to see the movie was for the recreations of the club scene "back in the day", but as Z&S pointed out above those scenes are pretty much quick camera pans across a dark room with an indistinguishable glimpse at a few...
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Re: RIP, VIP
Definitely high on my list of genius American postwar songwriters, Warren Zevon succumbed to cancer on Sunday at age 56. Primarily a pianist, he idolized Stravinsky and Aaron Copeland. His best known songs include "Poor, Pitiful Me," and "The Werewolves Of London." Hard living and hard drinking, and often ignored by the music industry, he was also incredibly prolific and left an enormous catalogue of work, including the amazing, "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead." RIP, Warren.
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Re: RIP, VIP
John Ritter is dead at 55. As with the recent death of Gregory Hines, I was shocked to hear about this one. A versatile and funny talent.
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Re: Jackie 60 FURTHER in London Sept. 20
Seven my love - I never saw you again that nite - we hid out in Debbie's room after and had several of Lavina's delicious cigarettes... Are you in Bosnia now? I absolutely adore London, lifelong, and for whatever reason, the feeling seems mutual. Yes, the people don't clap, but they come up after with their eyes shining and tell you things like - "You are a credit to all womanhood." Though my fondest London memory wasnt the show at all, but hanging with Asbestos Pestle from The Beautiful...