Race

This new crowd-pleaser biopic of African/American athletic hero Jesse Owens sees his troubled world through rose colored glasses (even the Nazis running the 1936 Olympics are not THAT bad ) as it fore-mostly focuses on his remarkable achievements of winning 4 Gold Medals, with the political ramifications taking second place.  The movie starts with the teenage Owens leaving Alabama and his … Continue reading

RACE The Movie, The Play

    Currently playing at  NY’s Soho Playhouse  is a biting, slapstick spoof of several popular Oscar-bait films. Winner of the New York Theater Festival’s Best Script and Best Actor awards (with both leads being nominated), Race: The Movie: The Play follows a white chauffeur named Wyatt Saveyer (Bret Raybould) who serves as the driver for … Continue reading

Rachel Maddow : A Biography of a shining star

If you are a Rachel Maddow fan and follow her show, you would expect this biography to be complimentary.  It does live up to that presumption.  Though there are no bombshells in the book, it does provide some insight into Maddow’s approach to her work and how it has evolved throughout her (still young) life. … Continue reading

Rachel Mason talks about CIRCUS OF BOOKS: the story of her family’s iconic gay porn bookstore

  For her sophomore feature filmmaker RACHEL MASON turned her cameras on to her own parents to tell their unlikely tale of running the most successful Adult Book Store in West Hollywood. It was part a journey of discovery for her too as growing up with her 3 siblings in this nice middle class Jewish household, the … Continue reading

Racial tensions ignite when a historically Black neighborhood in Palm Springs, California fights to remove a wall of trees that segregate the community.

    When we think of Palm Springs in California we have an image of a gay mecca that has developed a strong reputation as an LGBT-friendly destination. and is also a cheaper alternative to San Francisco or New York.  Since the 1980s/90s many LGBT people chose the desert city as a base for their … Continue reading

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