On my way home from APE today, I was so engrossed in reading new purchase Prison For Bitches: A Lady Gaga Fanzine that I missed my stop.
Dancing With The Stars is the modern-day replacement for the 1970s-era variety show.
It has it all: c-list celebrities, incredibly cheesy renditions of “current” songs, glitzy costumes in the Bob Mackie tradition, cornball humor, the anything-can-happen thrill of live television, and incomprehensible dance routines. The only difference is that elements that would have been subtextually coded as gay in the 70s are now openly commented upon, usually in a throwaway line from Tom Bergeron. The fact that DWTS does all this in the guise of a reality competition show while consistently remaining the highest-rated show of the week is stunning.
After over 900 episodes of the Law and Order franchise, I finally know what the distinctive “Chung Chung” sound is supposed to be. (We regularly put subtitles on when watching BBC America, even when it’s Law & Order: UK.)
Stephen Sondheim is silent over sitcom featuring hard-drinking composer
A forthcoming American television series written by [Sondheim’s] friend John Logan, The Miraculous Year, follows the life of a fictional Broadway composer, Terry Segal, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Sondheim.
The original script for the pilot episode is understood to have portrayed Segal as a homosexual, heavy-drinking Broadway composer, aged 44, who lives a self-destructive, cocaine-fuelled existence before having a heart attack.
Sondheim, who is homosexual, had a heart attack in 1979, when he was 49. He has admitted that he has a “large capacity for alcohol” and told his biographer, Meryle Secrest, that he took cocaine in the Seventies.I kept thinking about All That Jazz, which has a heterosexual, heavy-drinking Broadway choreographer in his 40s “who lives a self-destructive, cocaine-fuelled existence before having a heart attack.” The difference, I suppose, that Bob Fosse was telling his own story in that one.
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What Will Make You Happier: 40 Years of Therapy, Marriage, or a Vacation?. Apparently, it’s spending $20,000 on leisure.
