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Daniel Monks : a new queer filmmaker so worth watching

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Queerguru talked with DANIEL MONKS the delightful queer Australian writer and star of PULSE his rather wonderful movie, directed by STEVIE CRUZ-MARTIN that was loosely based on Daniel’s life and  was about to have its European Premiere at BFI FLARE London’s #LGBTQ Film Festival in 2018.

This debut feature film is one of the most provocative stories that tackles gender identity and presents its own very different sci-fi take on this issue that is both innovative and intriguing.  You can read our full review of the film  http://c3f.ab6.myftpupload.com/pulse/.

Now at last  the movie itself can be viewed in the US on VOD at http://darkstarpics.com/ or  via the HERE TV channel on Amazon Prime 

The interview was filmed by DEBBIESEARS at BFI SOUTHBANK for WWW.QUEERGURU.COM



The Day I Met LARRY KRAMER : R.I.P.

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Five years ago I got to film my very first interview.  Talk about starting at the very top as my guest was LARRY KRAMER the legendary outspoken gay activist, playwright, author, film producer, and public health advocate.  He was also a  personal hero of mine too.

Larry was in Provincetown with his husband the architectural designer David Webster for the screening on a new documentary of his life Larry Kramer in Love and Anger,  directed by his friend Jean Carlomusto.  Though very frail at the time he generously agreed to the interview that the crew of PTV filmed in his hosts garden.

I was as nervous as hell facing the great man that I had admired from afar for so long.  As a AIDS widower I was so indebted for his unceasing work at ACT UP  and GMHC to help all of us affected by that epidemic, and as gay man had been so utterly moved by reading The Normal Heart and Faggots.

I needn’t have worried Larry is the most generous of men and never let on if he recognised my total inexperience.  I remember distinctly the pleasure I had of making him laugh more than once, and making one of my camera crew cry. 

That afternoon will always forever stay  with me, and now that it has just been announced that Larry Kramer died today at the age of 84, I’m sharing this interview again to remember (to paraphrase writer/actor David Drake) The Day I Met Larry Kramer.  May He Rest In Peace  



Nick Adams singing & jumping for joy with The Skivvies

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When we recently posted our film of The Skivvies Summer 2019 Show with their special guests presented by Peregrine Theatre Ensemble in Provinceton, we had many requests asking to see more of the scantily clad Broadway actor/singer Nick Adams. Your wish is our command : here he is jumping and singing for joy

 

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Remembering DIANA DORS : the UK’s very own Marilyn Monroe

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Just after World War 2 London was badly in need of some  home grown glamour.  They found it in Diana Dors  an English film and television actress blonde bombshell promoted as the country’s own ‘Marilyn Monroe‘.  Like Monroe, Dors struggled o be accepted as a serious actress,  turned out to have terrible choice in men, and died way too soon.  

At the age of 16, Dors signed a  contract with the Rank Organisation, the nearest thing in the UK to a Hollywood Studio and they gave her small parts in films where her role was generally just to look sexy 

In 1952 Dors starred in  Lady Godiva Rides Again for Rank (a film which has uncredited appearances by Joan Collins) but Rank went Bankrupt. Her first husband Denis Hamilton then got her working in sex film-comedies and risqué modelling,  Hamilton. a close friend of London gangsters the infamous Kray Twins. went to great lengths to advance Dors’ career in British movies and he  drove up her  income  by literally pimping her out .

Most of her movies at that time were forgettable just like Monroe’s early one..  In 1956  Dors starred in  Yield to the Night  a crime drama for which she received some of the best reviews of her career and Hollywood finally noticed.

Still married to Hamilton she made 4 movies for RKO which all flopped and the highlight of her stay seems to been her (alleged ) affair with co star Rod Steiger.  

After her flops the Studio elected not to make the other two films in her contract, and so she headed back to the UK to divorce Hamilton and discover he had embezzled all her money and she was now completely broke.

To pay for the lawyers  she agreed to undertake a theatre-based cabaret tour titled “The Diana Dors Show”.  Her co-star was comedian Dickie Dawson later known as Richard Dawson  who would become her 2nd husbandBut first she dumped her then boyfriend who subsequently emptied her cash box at Harrods of £18,000 and sold his story to the tabloid press

She went back to the US with Dawson and dis cabaret work and had a 2nd go at Hollywood for a  few more unmemorable movies.  Then in 1966 another divorce and back in UK and declared  officially  bankrupt, and with her fame now waning Dors started playing small venues like Working Mens Clubs.

She got a few supporting roles in film such as Berserk!  with with Joan Crawford, and then the lead role in a TV sitcom, Queenie’s Castle  which lasted for three seasons. from 1970-72

With fewer and fewer roles Dors turned her life story into a cash flow through interviews and leaked tabloid stories before she turned to autobiography to generate retirement cash. In 1960 she wrote and published Swingin’ Dors and between 1978 and 1984, she published four autobiographical books under her own name: For Adults Only, Behind Closed Dors, Dors by Diana, and A. to Z. of Men.

She now had plenty of notoriety in her life to fill the books.  During her relationship with Hamilton and until a few months before her death, Dors regularly held ‘adult parties” at her home. There, a number of celebrities, amply supplied with alcohol and drugs, mixed with young starlets against a background of both softcore and hardcore porn film.  Also to add to her woes her third husband actor Alan Lake served 18 months in prison for a violent crime 

Dors was always a major gay icon : a combination of her glamour and brassiness ; the tragedy of her unfulfilled career : and her attraction to really bad men too.  Throughout her life she always displayed this optimism and vitality despite the tabloid press unceasing attempt to make everything about seems so unnecessarily tawdry. Towards the end when Dors did personal appearances in some Gay Clubs she knew she was fully accepted without any hesitation.  We could feel it felt like she was home.

Dors died of ovarian cancer  in 1984 just 52 years old.  Her final film appearance  in Steaming  (also Joseph Losey’s last film) was released the next year.  Alan Lake committed suicide just 5 months after Dor’s death.

 



Tom D’Angora talks about MELANGE the new must-see queer TV Soap

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On the day that MELANGE the gayest ever Soap Opera was launched on Logo YouTube Channel QUEERGURU talked with its creator Tom D’Angora  to get him to throw some shade about the new show dubbed ‘Gay Dynasty starring Morgan Fairchild#ScottEvans  #OmarShariffJr  Laith Ashley AlexNewell  PerezHilton.com  #DavidAGregory Mark Indelicato etc

P.S. You can see the Full Pilot below…

 

 

 



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