The cinematic fascination with The Beat Generation continues regardless. Following on the heals of Walter Salles take on Jack Kerouac’s ‘On The Road’ which the Critics were quick to dismiss when it recently had a Limited Release in US theaters, we have this new movie which, set in the mid 1940’s is essentially a pre-quel to the movement that was … Continue reading
Dapper Brit actor Clive Owen is as cool as a cucumber playing a suave barmen that no women can resist (and men too?) in this short movie by award winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino (Oscar Winning The Great Beauty). This 15 minute tale is actually a promo for Campari which evidently is taken with more than a … Continue reading
As a a gay men of a certain age who personally survived the brunt of the AIDS pandemic but lost a husband and far too many friends, Canadian filmmaker Laurie Lynd’s excellent new documentary is way overdue. Like most people we had bought the story that the whole epidemic was started by a promiscuous … Continue reading
So more HGailday gaity So here’s even more holiday gaiety. This time its Bistro Award-winning Kim David Smith and his annual A Wery Weimar Christmas, at the Club Cumming in NY. Smith has been described by Broadway World as the “David Bowie of cabaret,” “slyly subversive” by the Wall Street … Continue reading
Award-winning Australian cabaret performer Kim David Smith has two major obsessions (well, that he admits too). Two M’s ….as in Kyle Minogue and the late great Marlene Deitrich. It’s mainly the latter that he shares the stage with in his smash hit show Mostly Marlene. He has actually been labeled the “male Marlene Dietrich” … Continue reading