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Ask the Flying Monkey! (November 16, 2009)

15 November 2009 9:20 PM, PST | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »

Have a question about gay male entertainment? Send it to aftereltonflyingmonkey@yahoo.com! (Please include your city and state and/or country.)

Q: I'm curious about Project Runway's Christopher Straub. The ring he wears suggests he has a husband / partner / significant other. What details might you know on this? Every time Heidi had him in tears, I found myself strongly torn between wanting to give him a hug and going all Cher on him. – LgH, Houston, TX, Usw, Earth

Christopher Straub

A: “I am married!” Straub tells the Flying Monkey. “Well, not legally, but Ronnie and I had a commitment ceremony two-and-a-half years ago. We've been together for over five years. He's a little scientist, and we really don't understand what each other does for a living.”

I asked what the two of them do for fun. “We like to travel, watch TV – I like reality shows and he »

- Brent Hartinger

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Assume Crash Positions For 'Boeing-Boeing' At Florida Rep

1 November 2009 12:03 PM, PST | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »

Assume Crash Positions for Boeing-boeing at Florida Rep!

Florida Repertory Theatre announced the opening of its High Flying 12th season with one of Broadway's hottest comedies, Boeing-Boeing.

Open now Boeing-Boeing tells the story of a swingin' American in Paris and the three beautiful stewardesses he calls fiancée, fiancée and fiancée.

"Boeing-Boeing is one of the funniest plays of all time, and we're very excited to kick our new season off with such a brilliant comedy," said Florida Rep Producing Artistic Director and Boeing-Boeing director, Robert Cacioppo. "Florida Rep is only one of eight or nine theatres in America fortunate enough to get the rights to produce Boeing-Boeing, so Southwest Florida audiences are very lucky."

Boeing-Boeing is a sidesplitting comedy that soars in the stratosphere, and is first-class entertainment that will have audiences unfastening their seat belts and rolling in the aisles. Set in 1960's Paris, it is the hilarious story of Bernard, »

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Bww TV: So V Featured Performer Day 7: Gregory Jbara

11 October 2009 1:05 PM, PDT | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »

Jbara originated the roles of 'Jackie Elliot' ('Dad') for the Broadway production of Billy Elliot, for which he won the Tony®, Outer Critics Circle, and Drama Desk Awards for Best/Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical, 'André Thibault' in the Broadway musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Drama Desk nomination), 'Squash Bernstein' in Victor/Victoria, starring Julie Andrews and the role of the dimwitted catcher,'Sohovik' in the Broadway revival of Damn Yankees! starring Bebe Neuwirth, Victor Garber and Jerry Lewis. Jbara was the second actor to star on Broadway as 'Billy Flynn' in the Tony Award winning revival of Chicago. Off-Broadway credits include 'Chick Clark' in Wonderful Town for City Center Encores!, the Broadway revival of Born Yesterday with Ed Asner and Madeline Kahn, Serious Money with Alec Baldwin and Kate Nelligan, Privates On Parade with Jim Dale and Simon Jones, Forever Plaid, Das Barbecu and Have I Got A Girl For You! »

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Bww TV: So V Featured Performer Day 7: Gregory Jbara

11 October 2009 5:05 AM, PDT | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »

Jbara originated the roles of 'Jackie Elliot' ('Dad') for the Broadway production of Billy Elliot, for which he won the Tony®, Outer Critics Circle, and Drama Desk Awards for Best/Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical, 'André Thibault' in the Broadway musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Drama Desk nomination), 'Squash Bernstein' in Victor/Victoria, starring Julie Andrews and the role of the dimwitted catcher,'Sohovik' in the Broadway revival of Damn Yankees! starring Bebe Neuwirth, Victor Garber and Jerry Lewis. Jbara was the second actor to star on Broadway as 'Billy Flynn' in the Tony Award winning revival of Chicago. Off-Broadway credits include 'Chick Clark' in Wonderful Town for City Center Encores!, the Broadway revival of Born Yesterday with Ed Asner and Madeline Kahn, Serious Money with Alec Baldwin and Kate Nelligan, Privates On Parade with Jim Dale and Simon Jones, Forever Plaid, Das Barbecu and Have I Got A Girl For You! »

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Link Widow

16 July 2009 11:21 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Final Girl on the Sorority Row movie poster. Too funny

Noh Way on Away We Go by way of Auntie Mame. Good stuff (though I disagree that Maggie Gyllenhaal's scene is the best in the movie. If anything it's the worst scene in the movie -- though well portrayed by Gyllenhaal -- betraying the movies ridiculous and ugly superiority complex towards half of the lives it happens to glance at)

Times an article on Skin's problems finding distribution (Reminder: that's the movie wherein Sophie Okonedo is a black girl with white parents in Apartheid era South Africa)

Movies Kick Ass revisits Judy Holliday's controversial Oscar win for Born Yesterday

Forces of Geek and a zillion other blogs have posted the new Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow photos from Iron Man 2. Straight boys confuse me so much sometimes. This comment isn't about Forces of Geek (who don't comment »

- NATHANIEL R

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Oscar Week: The Best Best Actresses

18 February 2009 5:22 PM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »

It's likely that the Oscar has gone to the wrong performance in the Best Actress category more times than it has for Best Actor. You won't find Bette Davis here for All About Eve, or Gloria Swanson for Sunset Boulevard; they were both beaten by Judy Holliday for Born Yesterday.

There's no Shirley Maclaine for The Apartment, no Sigourney Weaver for either good Alien performance, no Angela Bassett for What's Love Got to Do With It?, no Cate Blanchett for Elizabeth, and no Maria Falconetti in The Passion of Joan of Arc. Just think of how different this list would look only counting those oversights.

But here are our rankings of the best performances to ever win Best Actress. Debate away...

1 - Meryl Streep - Sophie's Choice (1981)

I'll make this really simple. There has never been a better female actor in film than Meryl Streep. Making the argument against it »

- Colin Boyd

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Will the Babe Factor help Kate Winslet in a close Oscars contest with Meryl Streep?

18 February 2009 8:44 AM, PST | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »

"It wasn't calculated! I swear! You must believe me!" Kate Winslet gasped to Gold Derby late last year as we discussed her recent photo shoot with Vanity Fair. That bawdy gig had been a perfect way for her to begin seducing Oscars' voters as she unveiled "Revolutionary Road" and "The Reader."

As every Oscarologist knows, voters have judged the lead and supporting actress races in recent years as if they were beauty pageants. Consider, for example, some of the gals who won best actress this past decade: Julia Roberts, Halle Berry, Nicole Kidman, Charlize Theron, Reese Witherspoon. Last year, when most Oscar pundits bet on 66-year-old Julie Christie ("Away From Her") to win, the younger, prettier contender pulled off an upset: Marion Cotillard ("La Vie en Rose").

Only two women over the age of 50 have nabbed an Oscar over the past 15 years: Judi Dench ("Shakespeare in Love," 1998) and Helen Mirren ("The Queen, »

- tomoneil

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2009 | 1999

7 articles from 2009

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