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The unforgettable Jil Zarin, dressed in Dolce & Gabbana, opened the 21st Annual GLAAD Awards this weekend. Did you know that Real Housewives star is also an author? Her new book, “Secrets of a Jewish Mother,” is out next month
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One of our idols, Sandra Bernhard, took a moment to chat with HN about her work at the 21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards this weekend. We didn’t get to ask her all the questions we’d prepared, but we’re happy with the few quotes we got. BTW, Sandra is a huge twitterer — she updates at least once a day. If you are following anyone on twitter, Sandra should be on your list. All you Texans out there should rejoice! Lady Bernhard is headed your way for SXSW.
How do you balance the activist and the artist in your work?
Even when it’s not didactic or obvious, my work is always infused with political consciousness. So, for me it’s not a big conflict.
What’s tonight’s biggest take-away?
It’s really time for everybody to be on equal footing in this country regardless of their sexuality or gender. We gotta just get there in a hurry.
One of the best dressed men of the evening was Bryan Batt (Mad Men). And not only is he dashing in a three-piece, bespoke Zegna suit, he’s a total sweetheart. He spoke exclusively to HN about his new memoir, “She Ain’t Heavy, She’s My Mother” which drops on May 4, 2010.
You have a new memoir coming out! Can you tell us about your mom?
She’s amazing! We just found out yesterday, she’s been battling cancer, it’s kind of spread a little bit, and she’s about to start a new
Chemo. She’s 79. She just had a knee replacement earlier this fall. She’s amazing. She will not stop.She’s the energizer bunny. They’re going to have to drag her kicking and screaming. She’s one of these ladies that hair is always done all the time: the nails, the make up. Everything. She’s amazing. She’s a Steel Magnolia she’s Auntie Mame. She’s the sweetest thing. What I love about her the most she can tell someone they can go to hell in a way that they would say “Thank you very much” and then ask for directions.
No stranger to GLAAD, Bryan (yes, we’re on a first name basis now) hosted the GLAAD Media Awards in Advertising back in October 2009.
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HN caught up with the adorable Michael Urie (”Ugly Betty,” “The Tempermentals”) at the 21st Annual GLAAD Awards in New York City this weekend. “The Tempermentals” was nominated for “Outstanding New York Theater: Broadway & Off-Broadway,” and although the GLAAD Award went to “A Boy and His Soul” by Colman Domingo, Urie was gracious enough to talk exclusively to HN:
1. In the Internet age, how do you get guys excited about going to the theatre?
You go to the theatre to escape your Internet, to escape your phone and your twitter. Because it’s a place where you cannot have them. You have to turn them off, and if you do not, and if it rings, you will be shunned. The theatre is one of the last true arts. Performing arts is pure. It happens in front of you. You cannot get what we give you on a stage on your phone. The theatre, the world of dance, opera, live performance and music is your escape.
2. What’s been your favorite part of the whole ‘Tempermentals’ experience?
I think it’s that we keep moving. We’re now in our third venue. We did it for 40 people a night, and we did it for 99 people a night. Now we do it for 200 people a night, and we keep filling the house. It’s growing. And that’s a really nice feeling. It’s really nice. I knew it was good the first time I read it 6 years ago. So now that we’re doing it still and it’s still getting all this attention it’s very cool.
3. At HN we write a lot about being a gentleman. Not like a stuffy, Jane Austin one, but a modern one. What’s a good quality in a gentleman?
Table manners. Not in and old fashioned way, but in a keep your mouth closed when you’re eating way. Figure out what fork is for what, when you put your napkin in your lap. I think table manners are pretty important. The art of the table manner, I think that’s gentlemanly.
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Energy was high at the 21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards in new York City this weekend. One of the night’s biggest winners, ‘Sex and the City’ star, Cynthia Nixon, (Vito Russo Award honoree) who looked stunning BTW, said this to HN about this significance of her award:
“Vito Russo is a man we should all want to remember. Because life would be entirely different for gay people in America if it weren’t for him.”
Goddamn what a gorgeous suit! “Iron Man,” Robert Downey Jr arrived on the Oscar Red Carpet with one of the most stand-out looks of the entire Awards season—as far as men’s looks go. According to various sources, Downey Jr. wore Lanvin (hence the forget-me-not blue tie), Oliver Peoples Sheldrake glasses with custom blue lenses and high-tops (also Lanvin). We think he looked great and we really enjoyed the shape of the oversize tie and feel evoked by the casual footwear. Thoughts? Weigh in below.
All the paisley in the Tom Ford lookbook below made us think of Etro.
Antony Hegarty (of Antony and the Johnsons) is hosting rare screening of silent films by Charles Ludlam. The two films, “Museum of Wax,” and “The Sorrows of Dolores” (staring Ludlam himself) have almost never been screened. The film series producers have made a digital transfer of the films, and have arranged for the original intended composer, Peter Golub, to complete his score. You’d better get your ticket now, since the last screening with Justin Bond sold out immediately. ifccenter.com/series/queerartfilm/
The queerest film series in town moves to the IFC Center! Join us the last Monday of every month for these one-of-a-kind cinematic events, in which some of New York’s most unique and homosexual artists present and discuss the films that have most inspired them. Curated by Butt magazine contributing editor Adam Baran and filmmaker Ira Sachs, Queer/Art/Film is intimate, provocative, inspiring… and like nothing else out there.
I was about 16 years old when an English teacher from my high school gave me a tape of The Runaways after I recognized rhythym guitarist-vocalist Joan Jett on his t-shirt at a Patti Smith show. Up until the moment I pressed play I had taken it for granted that “Cherry Bomb” was a Bratmobile song. Little did I know that the song had actually been written almost two decades before by a teenage Jett and the band’s Svengali, producer and songwriter Kim Fowley. Though success had eluded the band in their native United States they left an indelible mark on rock history as one of the few all-female forces in the heady 70’s rock scene.
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Let’s be honest; it’s probably going to happen in the near future. We’re going to see J.D. Salinger’s masterpiece of teenage angst and rebellion translated (twisted?) onto the silver screen. With his passing earlier this week, I imagine producers are circling the estate with hopes of securing the movie rights for The Catcher in the Rye
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REVIEW | Just released for the first time ever on DVD, Robert Altman’s 1983 military drama “Streamers” was recently sent our way. The film, an adaptation of the play by David Rabe, while noteworthy in its own right, seems even more relevant now with last night’s promise from our President to finally work towards doing away with the disaster that is “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
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Here @ hN we really do have an unending love of award shows of all kinds. But if the Golden Globes and the SAG Awards are any indication of things to come at the Oscars, then we’re freaking out a little. With Oscar nominations a week away, here are a few reasons why…
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Pseudo-doc by artist Banksy, “Exit Through the Giftshop,” is set to premiere @ Sundance. Bucky Turco @ Animal NYC has all the details and photos here.
“Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing” a 7-minute film by Bruce Weber debuted today in Paris before the YSL Men’s show. True to Bruce Weber style, the film features several gorgeous male models, music by Weber’s “champion of soul,” Marvin Gaye, and includes a special digital-cameo by fashion photog and former pinup girl, Bunny Yeager.
The film begins with male models dancing shirtless. Weber does a voice over with French subtitles where he explains that many of his “new friends” always feel they must first ask someone else (a boyfriend, girlfriend, or grandmother) if they can be shot topless or nude. Weber’s response? “if you don’t want to be nude, wear a suit.”
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Whether you love her or hate her, you have to appreciate Kathy Griffin. Like so many before her, (Cher, Madonna, Margaret Cho) she has latched onto the gay community with the earnest hope that her time, money, and loud voice will help us on the road to “equality.” It would be just plain rude to ignore her completely, being the gentlemen that we are. That being said her newly released DVD of her Bravo special “She’ll Cut a Bitch” is just funny.
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We cannot tell a lie. We have an unhealthy obsession with James Franco. When we first heard news that he was staring in a new biopic about poet, activist, and icon, Allen Ginsberg, we almost peed our pants. Thank god for adult diapers. Here are a few teaser images from the new “Howl” film by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman—the dynamic duo behind Academy Award winning documentary “The Times of Harvey Milk.” The film (release date TBA) centers on a young Ginsberg, his famous poem “Howl,” and the landmark obscenity trial that followed in the 1950’s in San Francisco. Here’s what we know.
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Never has “Clueless” seemed more relevant than this past week. Check out the “Clueless” montage and full quote below.
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