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StlToday.com – Judith Newmark
Jim J. Bullock knows he ought to play Tracy’s mother Edna in “Hairspray.”
After all, a man always plays the mother. Divine, an enormous transvestite performer, played Edna in John Waters’ original, non-musical movie …
Middle East Times
A new reality TV show where eight men dress up and portray themselves as women will be aired in Turkey, but risks stirring controversy in this mainly Muslim country, the Turkish press reported on Thursday.
The program will be br…
Pittsburgh Tribune Review – Alice T. Carter – Theater Critic
Somewhere near the end of “I Am My Own Wife,” Charlotte von Mahlsdorf explains why she resisted touching up the furniture that she collected for her museum.
The nicks, cuts, wear spots …
Anchorage Daily News – Kristina Church – Daily News theatre reviewer
There are some times when you go to the theater and you just have a fantastic time, even as a reviewer. Friday night was such a night. It was impossible not to get swept up in the …
Channel4.com
Having raided the pop scrapheap, Nathan and Olivier have chosen their band. Now the boys have got just four weeks to record a single, make a pop video and play live to an audience of thousands.
It looks like an impossible challenge. …
San Francisco Bay Times – Sister Dana Van Iquity
Producers/directors John Catania and Charles Ignacio?s stunning documentary, The Lady In Question Is Charles Busch, begins its one-week run April 14 at the Castro Theatre. This fascinating mixture of …
blogcritics.org – Howard Dratch
A transvestite whore is dead in Venice. He/she was dressed, made-up and wearing red high heels. Commissario Brunetti of the Venetian police is sent to investigate in this formula mystery/police procedural by Donna Leo…
InsideBayArea.com – Eleni Economides, Staff Writer
NEWARK ? The story of slain Newark transgender teen Gwen Araujo has been told in court, on TV and in the newspapers. Now, it will appear in movie form.
The Lifetime channel, in conjunction with S…
Dallas Voice – John S. Hall – Contributing Writer
In high heels and falsies, trenchant memoir staggers along the wildly funny side
?I Am Not Myself These Days: A Memoir,? by Josh Kilmer-Purcell. (HarperPerennial 2006) 334 pp., $13.95.
Since O…
By Richard J. Novic, M.D.
Available at iUniverse.com & Amazon.com
Reviewed by Karen Webb AND Highly recommended by Jon
When it comes to the transgendered world, there have been a lot of autobiographical books by a lot of people, and I’ve read just…