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Tag: Queer & Now
Of goop and Me(n)
I listen to The goop Podcast, when I need to nurture my feminine side. Whoomp, there it is. And I gotta say, the recent conversation between Gwyneth Paltrow and Gabrielle Union was such a “J’ai eu un flash” moment. Union spoke to so much to which I could relate. And it helped, simply listening to […]
Polk Street, 6.27.21
And don’t you forget it: Pride was a riot. Last year, COVID-19 could not cancel Pride, and the celebration went virtual, was illuminated – it carried on. Closer to the streets, the people got back to basics. Some of us called upon the spirit of Pride and the result, at least here in San Francisco, […]
A Voice Undeniable
History in the making is so much better than history repeating. Meet Lucia Lucas, a American transgender woman – Sacramento in the house! – and an international opera star, who became the first trans person ever to perform a principal role on an operatic stage in the United States of America, when she sang and […]
‘I Care a Lot’ x King of Cups
Rosamund Pike – with whom, I admit, I haven’t revisited since she oh-so-memorably Gone Girld her way to her first Academy Award nomination (I ought to check out A Private War and Radioactive, in which she portrays Marie Curie) – well, she’s back, playing hell-on-heels power caretaker/swindler or the elderly, Marla Grayson, in writer-director J […]
Will Smith Has a Lesson in Citizenship for Us
We have considered the 13TH; now, today, let’s learn about the Fourteenth Amendment of 1868. Hosted by One Strange Rock host with the most (and executive producer) Will Smith, Amend: The Fight for America is a new Netflix docu-series that zeroes in on the long slog, ever evolving…often lethal…, toward equal rights in the United […]
‘Two of Us’ x King of Cups
Et voilà, c’est le weekend…le moment parfait pour être à Deux – which means it’s the weekend, and you have to seek out and On Demand Filippo Meneghetti’s Two of Us, the Italian filmmaker’s debut as feature-film director and France’s entry into the Best International Feature Film race at the upcoming and oh-so-pandemical 93rd Academy […]
And Just Like That, Indeed
No wonder I had, legit, been cravin’ a cosmo…. When I got to this land, in the year 2000, Sex and the City was the toast of the town that HBO helped to go premium, even though Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) had just gone bad by cheating on Aidan with Mr. Big. Season 4 […]
A Man to Remember
And for his second effort as a director, actor/filmmaker Harry Macqueen (Hinterland) is going Supernova. With Oscar winner Colin Firth and Academy Award nominee Stanley Tucci. Mañana. The actors are portraying Sam and Tusker, respectively, a couple of 20 years, as they embark on a journey across England in their old camper van, visiting friends, […]
Hear Ye, Hear Ye: The Mother of the Blues
Meanwhile, coming to Netflix is Academy Award winner Viola Davis in a starry turn as Ma Rainey, the woman née Gertrude Pridgett in Georgia in 1886 o.k.a. the Mother of the Blues, in George C. Wolfe’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, an adaptation of the eponymous 1982 August Wilson play. Set in Chicago during a steamy […]
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