Talk about a graphic novel!

Blisteringly erotic gay comic released.

Walk Off the Earth cover Madonna's "Material Girl."

Most at the Met Ball ignored the "punk" theme. Who looked best?*

Jesus Luz goes shirtless for Junior.

Hot 97 DJ Mister Cee: "I am not gay."

Chris Pine would play gay.

In Minnesota, marriage equality advances.

Getting picked up by Ryan Gosling.

Air Force's Sexual Assault Prevention & Response Office head assaults woman.

NYC couple attacked in broad daylight near MSG.

Gay vs. lesbian with AARP as the weapon.

Use these self-publishing moms for inspiration to make bank.

Pat Robertson: Gays like murderers,  rapists, thieves.

ABBA museum. Suggested donation? "Money, Money, Money."

You know I'll be attending this:

Str8 ally Chris Kluwe dropped by the Minnesota Vikings.

Jimmy Wright's drawings of NYC's gay meat market.

Helen Mirren vs. drummers.

Fuck, yeah, Ryan Phillippe.

Pet Shop Boys compare new album to Madonna.

Christina Crawford on her mom's rumored affair with Marilyn.

A Portrait of James Dean: Joshua Tree, 1951 avail for digital download today.

Come back to the five and dime, Jimmy Peen, Jimmy Peen (#bulge).

*Dakota Fanning, Anne Hathaway, Madonna, Rooney Mara, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sarah Jessica Parker, Aubrey Plaza, Amanda Seyfried & Kerry Washington can all get it.

From here.

This looks like a hoot—BitchSlap! chronicles the decades-long feud between Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. Will there be a Madonna and Gaga version in 50 years, or will they have made up by then? (And will both still be on massive tours with crosses, tits and Gothic cathedrals?)

If you don't already know the amazing Dan-O-Rama, you should—his video montages are epic and epically entertaining. Dan just sent me his 4-DVD anthology, which he's selling for $49 until June 30—and you must consider buying this. It's got Madonna, Annette Funicello, Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe, Rock Hudson and even a little-known actress by the name of JOAN CRAWFORD.

Check it out and let me know what you think if you splurge.

With thanks to José: Rick Santorum is such an ignorant douchebag, anyone who supports him has earned my enmity...and Joan Crawford, who decided rolling over in her grave was too passive, is none too pleased either...

Turning 111 this past July with a smile on her face

Frederica Sagor Maas has died at the beyond-ripe old age of 111. She was famous as a film writer (she wrote Garbo's 1926 silent classic Flesh and the Devil, from which star Barbara Kent also just recently died) and memoirist.

See her hilariously trash-talking Joan Crawford here.

As fascinated as I've been of late with celebrities of yesteryear, I'd been researching oldest living film figures. Just yesterday, I discovered Maas was alive and looked up her memoir on eBay, thinking it would be a good follow-up to Baby Peggy's, which I recently finished. Having just discovered her, I wrote on my Facebook page a question I'm putting to you all as well.

I know there are no people left who were adults in silent movies, but: What is the oldest movie to have at least one surviving cast member? (I was thinking the 1921 short Her Circus Man or for full-length films Fool's Paradise from the same year, both of which featured Peggy. Which led me to ponder: Is no one alive who ever appeared in any films from the teens? And how many could be alive who ever appeared in a film from the '20s? Carla Laemmle is alive and kicking and appeared in 1925's The Phantom of the Opera.)

If you're not familiar with Dan-o-Rama (aka Dan Rucks) and his insane edits of camp classics, you should CLICK HERE and familiarize yourself. Then you should splurge on his latest offering. I still remember first seeing his Joan Crawford remix at Splash 20 years ago and being baffled that no one had done that sort of thing before Dan perfected it.

You can click on these scans to make them readable.

In honor of the upcoming one-woman show by Christina Crawford (the one that would have used nude home movies of Mommie Dearest Joan), I was going to post this amazing interview from After Dark (December 1978) with Christina. Done by someone who knew her mother well (famous columnist Radie Harris, pictured), it still seems to acknowledge that what Christina reported was probably true.

Sadly, the show opened and closed and "needs a lot more work," I was told. So since it is unlikely to pop up again anytime soon, I decided to post these today.

Whether you love Joan and think Christina is a cold, Scandinavian child, love Joan and yet believe Christina or some variation of those things, the piece is fascinating...

For the first time ever, something of Joan Crawford's performance on The Secret Storm—when she infamously filled in for her sick daughter, Christina—has come to light: Full audio! It's not as interesting as seeing footage, but it gives an indication that she seemed to know her lines despite some halting deliveries.

After the jump, you can hear Joan about 45 seconds into part two...

If you thought Mommie Dearest was Christina Crawford's ultimate act of revenge against her warped mother Joan, wait till you see her next one-woman show...which will include nude footage of her mother taken during an affair with a married man.

To Globe (October 10, 2011), Crawford says of the movies:

"I never knew that [the movies] existed before a year ago and never saw them before a month ago. I remembered her telling me about her married lover, Charles McCabe. However, I never saw photos of him, till the home movies..."

As for forgiving her abusive mom:

"Forgiveness is a two-way street, and she never took responsibility for her behavior."