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1950’s Pop singer Kay Starr dies aged 94
The American singer Kay Starr died yesterday aged 94 years old. Starr was a pop star in the 1950’s when glamour was an important element of a singer’s success. She had a string of hits including two that were at No 1 on the Billboard Charts for some weeks. When the 1960’s heralded in a…
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Balletboyz premieres ‘Young Men’ the movie
queerguru’s favorite all-male dance company BalletBoyz have made their very first full length feature film which will receive its World Premiere in the UK on BBC2 Channel nest week. ‘Young Men’ is about a group of young soldiers barely old enough to fight, as they experience the indiscriminate brutality of warfare. The film shot on location in Northern…
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Is It Even Worse In Europe
Long before the British graffiti artist and political activist Banksy chose to remain anonymous, there were the Guerrilla Girls. Formed in New York in 1985, they are a group of feminist, female artists devoted to fighting sexism and racism within the art world, and their mission of bringing gender and racial inequality in…
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Nocturnal Animals
It’s been seven years since fashion guru Tom Ford’s movie directing debut A Single Man picked up numerous awards but Ford was studiously ignored by the Academy of Motion Pictures. If the old Hollywood guard failed to take his first movie seriously, they can hardly do the same with Ford’s sophomore film that just premiered at…
