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Luke Yankee talks about his compelling memoir/play MARILYN, MOM & ME
Writer/director Luke Yankee had a childhood that reads like a screenplay of a Hollywood movie. His mother was the Academy Award-winning actress Eileen Heckart, who juggled her very successful Broadway/Hollywood career with her life as a wife and mother of three boys . In 1956, she was cast by triple Academy Award nominee Joshua Logan…
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Will & Grace co-head writer JON KINNALLY is ‘IM PRANCING AS FAST AS I CAN’ even though he says Madonna will always take her time
Very few of us know it BUT JON KINNALLY has been part of our gay lives for over 20 years. He was one of the Head Writers of the multi Emmy-winning WILL & GRACE, which really broke the mould when it came to producing authentic LGBTQA+ stories. on TV. With such a talented cast that…
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Rodney Rhoda Taylor talks about his memoir ‘A LIFE IN LETTERS’ and how he really wants to be a gay Carrie Bradshaw
Rodney Rhoda Taylor is a disarmingly honest (and very funny) queer writer who idolises Carrie Bradshaw for both her writing AND her shoe collection. Like so many gay men (and women) he grew up in a home that was hardly conducive to an adolescent coming to terms with his sexuality. So unable to share…
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Emmy Award Winner Rick Simone-Friedland ALWAYS wanted to play Tennessee William’s BLANCHE so his hubby waved his (writing) wand and …
This month NY sees the World Premiere of KIND STRANGER .. a memory play based on Tennessee Williams’ MEMOIRS. Adapted directly using the words and humor of one of the greatest American playwrights as the foundation, this is the latest project from Steven and Rick Simone-Friedland, a gay married couple. Written and adapted by Steven…
