As many of you might know, Netflix, one of the better and few surviving online video rental places, recently added a four dollar charge if you wanted to be able to rent blu-ray discs. I immediately got rid of my blu-ray option on my account with them. Since then I have been watching standard DVD's on my rental list instead of the much prettier and ( Read more... )

While going through my usual new groups today I saw a notice about the passing of Jack Wrangler, an iconic gay and straight porn star from the 70's and 80's. He was always a very handsome man, nicely built and hung like a horse. I was quite surprised when I heard that he had married Margaret Whiting, a legendary cabaret singer, who was over 20 ( Read more... )

This afternoon I took a look for the first time in years at the film version of Boys in the Band. This film of the off-Broadway hit is a surprisingly good film. For years it has gotten a lot of crap from the gay community over it's dark and unhappy look at gay men in NYC back in the 60's. They get drunk, do drugs and drag each other over the coals ( Read more... )

Did anyone else see the story in the newspaper today about Marie Douglas-David, who is in the process of getting a divorce from her husband, George David, a former CEO of United Technologies Corp? Though she signed a postnuptial agreement to receive $43 million settlement in the divorce, she is saying that the amount is not enough. She is not ( Read more... )

Last night the Broadway in Charleston series brought the touring company of the new version of Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street to town. Now, if you've ever seen the stage version of Sweeney, you'll know that it's usually done with a large orchestra and cast. This version, based on the recent revival on Broadway, reconfigures the show ( Read more... )

Well, folks, a couple of weeks ago I made my latest trip to Las Vegas, mainly because I got a very good rate on a suite at the Luxor hotel and I had enough frequent flier miles to fly first class out and back. I had one little brush with a celebrity on my way out. One of my two stops was in Salt Lake City, where we had some delays due to snow and ( Read more... )

While playing around with the backgrounds on my laptop last night I ran across a delightful surprise. Among the many choices of wallpapers for the background that I could chose from was George Seurat's wonderful painting Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte ( Read more... )

Well, this year the Oscar nominations snuck up on me. I usually am aware ahead of time when the nominations are being announced, but for some reason this year I totally missed it. The list is interesting. Several of the films either have not come here to Charleston, or I just haven't gone to see them yet. A couple of the best picture nominees start ( Read more... )

I'm not a big fan of the reality television shows, though I do admit that I have on occasion watched American Idol, Dancing with the Stars and Survivor. Last night a new one premiered on ABC and I just had to take a look. It's called True Beauty and it takes 10 pretty people and judges them, not only on their looks, but on their inner character. ( Read more... )

I'm sitting here watching the last disc of season 2 of the wonderfully fun Sci-Fi Channel series,Eureka. One of the episodes has a supposed biohazard infecting the headquarters of General Dynamics. When everyone had supposedly left the building, heat signatures were detected in the morgue and the wonderful line quoted above is issued. AFter ( Read more... )