Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Lady Bunny


With her glitzy outfits, sky-high wigs, and false eyelashes long enough to embarrass even Tammy Faye Baker, multi-talented drag artiste Lady Bunny would turn heads even if looking glamorous was her only talent.

fungi genome cracked


Genome Discovery Will Help Combat Disease And Lead To New Drugs
An international consortium of researchers led by the University of Manchester has cracked the gene code behind a key family of fungi...

Thursday, December 22, 2005

Paul Morrissey's HEAT


The 1971 Heat was an early entry in filmmaker Paul Morrissey's tenure as the official director of movies coming out of Andy Warhol's so-called Factory. (Morrissey took the reins from Warhol himself, after the artist had made a number of celebrated underground films.) Factory star Joe Dallesandro plays the William Holden part in what is essentially an unofficial remake of Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard. As a former child star named Little Joe, Dallesandro's on-the-skids actor is bedding anyone who he thinks can help his career. Going nowhere, he becomes involved with an aging former star (Sylvia Miles), and while their relationship doesn't do much for his aspirations it contributes to Morrissey's unvarnished portrait of Hollywood hustling that certainly falls below the radar of Wilder's classic.


Meanwhile check out the first two in the trilogy FLESH and TRASH.

Thursday, December 15, 2005

Bea Arthur


Bea Arthur returns to San Francisco One More Time! She is known to audiences for her tough-talkin', no nonsense, somewhat sarcastic characters in the hit television series Maude and The Golden Girls . What many don't know about Ms. Arthur is her love for singing the classics and her long-running career as a stage performer. She is a woman who is not afraid to be powerful.

Sunday, December 11, 2005

Oh mighty ISIS


This is a treasure trove of 70s Saturday morning TV theme songs!
Meanwhile check out this excellent tribute those Saturday morning tv shows so many of us grew up with!

Rip Taylor


Grab some glitter and check out Rip Taylor's fabulous web site!
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