LARISSA, NO LAST NAME PLEASE: The Coco Chanel of Rock and Roll (from patricia field.com ) Larissa was born in Russia to a furrier father and housewife mother, who became a corsetiere and dressmaker when finances demanded. The couple were political refugees after World War II and moved the family to Brussels, Belgium shortly thereafter, […]
If you’ve never seen one of Kalup Linzy’s campy send-ups of soap opera stars and music divas, you must! Riffing story lines from classic programs like As the World Turns and General Hospital, these video works splice together drag performances with footage from actual episodes in spoofs only a devoted soap fan could concoct. Linzy […]
Ok, anybody who keeps up with my facebook posts knows I looooove Rosie Perez. I always wish she’d get more work. I used to feel the same way about Forest Whitaker – and then he was everywhere. I used to fantasize about her starring in a film based on an adaption of a story I […]
This past fall, hundreds of Division I college athletes at five schools including every member of UCLA’s basketball team and most of its football team signed an NCPA petition to the NCAA calling for a set of reforms: using new TV revenues to improve compensation and create an “educational lockbox” that would reward players who […]
