Bette was full-circle, from her bath days to singing for half-naked hedonists at Pride! (All images by Matthew Rettenmund)
The Pride Main Event at the Javits Center, held Friday-Saturday, June 28-29, is not exactly where you'd expect to find me — but had you looked early enough, you would've.
I'd never been to any kind of circuit party, but since this was the biggest one ever (11,000+ tickets sold) and was going to feature some interesting performances fairly early on, I went.
ABOVE: Hope floats.
ABOVE: (Very) Happy Boxing Day!
Ahead of a new Netflix documentary and an Oprah-run CBS special about his life, Quincy Jones granted a wide-ranging and no-fucks-given interview to Vulture, in which he took on plenty of sacred cows (the Beatles were lousy musicians, the Clintons keep secrets and were too influenced by Big Pharma, Oprah doesn't have the chops to be POTUS, Michael Jackson stole from Donna Summer, Cyndi Lauper was a diva on “We Are the World,” the Mob murdered JFK).
The gay shit is the juiciest ...
I'll never understand why people are so excited by Taylor Swift — she's always struck me as petty mean girl. I mean, bitchy songs about everyone who crosses her?
Now, her first new single in years, “Look What You Made Me Do” — which, creepily, is what domestic abusers often say — is a return to that theme, with some obvious Kimye references. I also don't like the sound of this one ...
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This is my “Senior Shorts” entry from 1987 ...
