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May 9
Jimmy Fallon and John Krasinski’s Romantic Love cannot be contained [The EDIT not shown on TV]
Mister Jimmy Fallon and John Krasinski thought it best to interpret their gay secret via song to the public. Even the band gets choked up as they’ve known all along the pain it has caused both of them to keep their everlasting love underwraps. And now….the world knows.
Posted by Michael Roman
May 9
Posted by Michael Roman
May 8
Quote of the Day: “Novel” aims from novelist Ames
I was told long ago never to deface a book, but I had to put an “X” beside this passage from Jonathan Ames‘s sometimes-winsome, frequently bittersweet, and thoroughly enjoyable 2004 novel, Wake Up, Sir!–courtesy of Ames’s protagonist, Alan Blair:
Posted by Mark Dundas Wood
May 8
“America’s Got Talent” Mel B, Klum, Mandel & other wind up auditions in Chicago
Mel B and Klum join “other judges” as the popular NBC reality competition series winds up auditions in Chicago.
That’s the press release I received.
You know your worth and popularity when you’re dubbed as one of “the others.” It’s not unlike the original Gilligan’s Island theme song where the Professor and Mary Ann were decidedly considered “second-
Posted by Michael Roman
May 8
Put your “funny papers” down and play “Password” with Betty White and Arlene Francis
This password is: not this.
Posted by Michael Roman
May 7
‘Muse’ and bonafide Rock Star Josiah Hawley FTW on NBC’s “The Voice” [TODAY SHOW VIDEO]
It’s coming down to the wire on The Voice, and Josiah Hawley is proving to be a skilled tightrope walker.
Forget the perfect hair, the mega-watt smile and corn-fed good looks. Wait, what the bleep am I thinking? Don’t forget any of that. Just know there’s much more. Much, much more. I know because I met the guy 100 years ago in 2011. The scene is South Beach, Miami. I’m in town for this or that and bring my camera along in case Next needed test shots done of their elite models. Two women show up. Where’s my guy? Turns out Joe Shmoe is replaced by a model named Josiah Hawley. But we’ll get to History later.
Posted by Michael Roman
May 7
“By the Way, Meet Vera Stark” — Goodman’s Chicago production is not to be missed [VIDEO]
Lynn Nottage, American playwright and Pulitzer Prize winner (Ruined), penned this play in which we witness the tremulous, torturous and hilarious life journey of an African-American actress by the name of Vera Stark. A production of the play is now running at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, though June 2.
“By the Way, Meet Vera Stark” originally debuted off-Broadway in 2011. It examines the ugly stereotypes black actors had to endure during the 1930s via the fictitious character, Vera Stark. Vera was invented by Nottage but, make no mistake, she is a composite — a mimeograph if you will — of every black actor (male and female) who tried to “make it” in Hollywood, but was relegated to bit parts as maids or worse because of their skin color and others’ social ignorance.
Dorothy Dandridge comes to mind.
Posted by Michael Roman
May 6
Life Behind Bars includes “Fan Mail” for plug-ugly killer Jodi Arias
Jodi Arias, 32, admitted to shooting ex-lover Travis Alexander, 30, to death.
After the nearly five-month trial, 12 members of the jury began deliberations Monday, May 6 in the Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix.
Posted by Michael Roman
May 5
IFC’s “Maron”: The ups and (mostly) downs of a not-so-lovable loser
On the debut episode of IFC’s half-hour comedy Maron, Dave Foley tells fellow comic Marc Maron, “You’re just not for everybody, all right? You’ve just got to accept that.”
Maron and Foley play fictionalized versions of themselves in the show. Maron’s “Marc” is a smart sourpuss of a comedian with a crummy life who has taken to podcasting, which he does out of the same garage where he once thought of committing suicide.
Maybe Foley’s “Dave” is correct: Maron is perhaps an acquired taste, but one that few people eventually acquire. Maron and Co. only barely whetted my appetite for more Maron with the debut installment.
Posted by Mark Dundas Wood
May 5
Here Comes Richie Havens
It was August 15, 1969 when Richie Havens played the first notes of what would become a three-day celebration called The Woodstock Music & Art Fair.
Posted by Michael Roman
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