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I Am Divine
''I Am Divine'' is a 2013 American documentary film produced and directed by Jeffrey Schwarz of the Los Angeles-based production company Automat Pictures. The documentary focuses on the American actor, singer and drag performer Divine (performer), Divine (October 19, 1945 – March 7, 1988), born Harris Glenn Milstead, a lifelong friend and collaborator of filmmaker John Waters. The film features extensive contemporary interviews with Waters, as well as Divine's mother Frances Milstead, and surviving members of the Dreamlanders. Participants * John Waters * Tab Hunter * Ricki Lake * Mink Stole * George Figgs * Bruce Vilanch * Lisa Jane Persky * David DeCoteau * Susan Lowe * Mary Vivian Pearce * Jackie Beat * Peaches Christ * Tammie Brown * Michael Musto * Holly Woodlawn ;Archive footage * Divine (performer), Harris Glenn Milstead/Divine * Edith Massey (actress), Edith Massey * David Lochary * Leo Ford * George Masters * Tally Brown * Van Smith Release ''I Am Divine'' Film premi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey Schwarz
Jeffrey Schwarz is an American Emmy Awards, Emmy Award-winning film producer, director, and editor. He is known for an extensive body of documentary work including ''Boulevard! A Hollywood Story'', ''The Fabulous Allan Carr'', ''Tab Hunter Confidential'', ''I Am Divine'', ''Vito (film), Vito'', ''Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon'' and ''Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story.'' Schwarz was born in New York City and is a graduate of State University of New York at Purchase, SUNY Purchase Film Department. His senior thesis documentary was ''Al Lewis in the Flesh'', a short film profiling actor Al Lewis (actor), Al Lewis, famous for playing Grampa on the television series ''The Munsters''. The film observes Lewis as he interacts with the public at his Bleecker Street restaurant, Grampa's Bella Gente. Schwarz' first job in the film industry was as an apprentice editor on ''The Celluloid Closet'', Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (filmmaker), Jeffrey Friedman's film adaptation of Vito ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tab Hunter
Tab Hunter (born Arthur Andrew Kelm; July 11, 1931 – July 8, 2018) was an American actor, singer, film producer, and author. Known for his blond, clean-cut good looks, Hunter starred in more than forty films. He was a Hollywood heartthrob of the 1950s and 1960s appearing on the covers of hundreds of film magazines. Hunter's film credits include ''Battle Cry'' (1955), ''The Girl He Left Behind'' (1956), ''Gunman's Walk'' (1958), and ''Damn Yankees'' (1958). Hunter also had a music career in the late 1950s; in 1957, he released a number one hit single " Young Love". Hunter's 2005 autobiography, ''Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star'', was a ''New York Times'' bestseller. Early life Arthur Andrew Kelm was born in Manhattan, New York City, the son of Gertrude () and Charles Kelm. Kelm's father was Jewish, and his mother was a Catholic German immigrant from Hamburg. He had an older brother, Walter. Kelm's father was reportedly abusive, and within a few years of his b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holly Woodlawn
Holly Woodlawn (October 26, 1946 – December 6, 2015) was a transgender Puerto Rican actress and Warhol superstar who appeared in the films ''Trash'' (1970) and '' Women in Revolt'' (1971). She is also known as the Holly in Lou Reed's hit glam rock song " Walk on the Wild Side". Early life Woodlawn was born in Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, to a German-American father who was a soldier in the U.S. Army, and Aminta Rodriguez, a native Puerto Rican, and grew up in Miami Beach, where she came out at a young age. She adopted the name Holly from the heroine of '' Breakfast at Tiffany's'', and in 1969 added the surname from a sign she saw on an episode of '' I Love Lucy''. After changing her name she began to falsely tell people she was the heiress to Woodlawn Cemetery. In 1962, at the age of fifteen, Woodlawn ran away from home, leaving Florida heading north. She recollected that "I hocked some jewelry and ... made it all the way to Georgia, where the money ran out and ... had to h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Musto
Michael Musto (born December 3, 1955) is an American journalist who has long been a prevalent presence in entertainment-related publications, as well as on websites and television shows. Musto is best known as a columnist for ''The Village Voice'', where he wrote the '' La Dolce Musto'' column of gossip, nightlife, reviews, interviews, and political observations. In 2021, he started writing articles about nightlife, movies, theater, NYC, and LGBTQ politics for the revived Village Voice, which returned as a print publication, with accompanying website. He is the author of the books ''Downtown'' and ''Manhattan on the Rocks'', as well as a compilation of selected columns published as ''La Dolce Musto: Writings By The World's Most Outrageous Columnist'' and a subsequent collection, ''Fork on the Left, Knife in the Back''. He currently writes about pop cultural and sociopolitical issues for the Daily Beast and pens a monthly gossip column called "Read Now, Cry Later" for Queerty.com. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tammie Brown
Tammie Brown is the stage name of Keith Glen Schubert (born September 15, 1980), an American drag performer, reality television personality, and recording artist. Brown was a fixture in the Southern California drag scene before appearing on the first season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' and '' RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars''. Early life Keith Glen Schubert was born to Constance Marie “Conie” Rowe and Keith H. Schubert at Corpus Christi Memorial Hospital on September 15, 1980, in Corpus Christi, Texas, but was raised in Fulton, Texas. He also lived in Mathis, Texas for a short time during junior high. He first started dressing in drag during high school, where he attended Rockport-Fulton High School, in theatre productions of '' Grease'' as Cha Cha and ''Into the Woods'' as Cinderella's Stepmother. He originally wanted his drag name to simply be "Glen Schubert", but after recommendations from fellow Texas drag queens to make up her own name, she decided to do so. During a three- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peaches Christ
Peaches Christ (stage name for Joshua Grannell) is an American underground drag performer, emcee, filmmaker, and actor. Peaches currently resides in San Francisco where her Backlash Production Company and Midnight Mass movie series are based. Grannell studied film at Penn State University, where his senior thesis film ''Jizzmopper: A Love Story'', about a janitor at an adult video store, won the audience award at the annual Penn State Student Film Festival. Grannell developed the Peaches Christ character during the production of this film. Her Midnight Mass road-show and Short Film Retrospective have been on tour and appeared in Seattle, Berkeley, New York City, Brussels, Belgium, and Lausanne, Switzerland. On September 7, 2007, the San Francisco de Young Museum hosted a "Decade of Peaches Christ Retrospective" called ''Cattychism'' featuring artistic contributions inspired by Peaches. The event included ten years of costume design by long-time collaborator Tria Connell and ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackie Beat
Jackie Beat (born July 24, 1963) is the drag persona of actor, singer, songwriter and screenwriter Kent Fuher. Beat has appeared in a number of independent feature films both in and out of drag, including '' Wigstock: The Movie'', '' Flawless'', and ''Adam & Steve'' (for which he also wrote and performed the song "Dance Off"). In television, Beat has appeared on ''Sex and the City'' and was a writer for the short-lived sketch comedy series ''Hype'' on The WB Television Network. Beat was a fixture on the New York City cabaret scene and performs sold-out Gay Pride and Christmas runs every year. She has performed at clubs such as Martinis Above Fourth in San Diego, CA; Executive Suite in Long Beach, CA; Hamburger Mary's in West Hollywood; Cavern Club in Silver Lake; Badlands in Sacramento, CA; Re-bar and Julia's Restaurant in Seattle, WA; and the Laurie Beechman Theatre in New York City. She has also appeared at Bob's Comedy Funhouse in Cardiff, Sheffield, Nottingham, Manchester, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Vivian Pearce
Mary Vivian Pearce (born November 9, 1947) is an American actress. She has worked primarily in the films of John Waters. Life and career Pearce is a childhood best friend of Waters and has appeared as an actress in all of his films. Because of her work with Waters, she is considered one of the Dreamlanders, Waters' ensemble of regular cast and crew members. Along with Mink Stole, she is one of only two actors to appear in all of his films to date. Pearce is always credited by her real name, but in her personal life, she is known as Bonnie. Her first film with Waters, in 1964, was a 17-minute independent short film called '' Hag in a Black Leather Jacket''. The film was never released. In the rest of Waters' films, she's played both main and bit parts. Her most famous roles were in Waters' ''Mondo Trasho'', ''Multiple Maniacs'', ''Pink Flamingos'', ''Female Trouble'' and ''Desperate Living''. However, as the years progressed, Pearce appeared less and less in Waters' films, usua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Lowe
Susan Lowe (born Laura Susan Lowe on January 19, 1948 in Reidsville, North Carolina) is an American actress, educator and painter. She has appeared exclusively in the works of John Waters for most of her career, starring in ten of his films. About Lowe was born in Reidsville, North Carolina on January 19, 1948. She was a student at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in the 1960s, when she became friends with Divine and other Dreamlanders. Her first role with Waters was playing an asylum inmate in ''Mondo Trasho''. She continued to play small parts in many of his films, but played the lead role of Mole McHenry, the ultra-butch bleach blonde lesbian, in ''Desperate Living''. She has taught art history classes at MICA, Catonsville Community College, and University of Maryland. Personal life Lowe has been married twice, and has two children. Her first husband, surnamed McLean, was a drawing teacher at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), where Lowe had worked as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David DeCoteau
David DeCoteau (born January 5, 1962) is an American-Canadian film director and producer. Biography Early life David DeCoteau was born on January 5, 1962, in Portland, Oregon. Career He has worked professionally in the movie business since he was 18. He got his start through Roger Corman, who hired him in 1980 as a production assistant at New World Pictures. In 1986, DeCoteau directed and produced his first feature film for Charles Band. He is the founder of Rapid Heart Pictures, where his films include ''A Talking Cat!?!'' and the ''1313'' series. He has said of his working methods, "I always wanted to make what I could sell. So I just promised myself that I would not be set in my ways. If somebody said, ‘Look, we need a horror film, we need a creature feature, we need a Western, we need a period costume drama,’ I was able to put it together pretty quickly." DeCoteau has produced and directed more than ninety motion pictures over the past twenty-five years. He resides ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Jane Persky
Lisa Jane Persky (born May 5, 1955) is an American actress, journalist, author, artist, and photographer. She played supporting roles in the films ''The Great Santini'' (1979) ''Peggy Sue Got Married'' (1986) and '' When Harry Met Sally...'' (1989), and worked in the late 1970s as a writer and photojournalist for ''New York Rocker'' magazine. Early life and education After her parents' divorce, her father, Mordecai (Mort) Persky, married novelist Judith Rossner ('' Looking for Mr. Goodbar''), and her mother, Jane Holley Persky, married classical violinist Vladimir Weisman. Persky grew up in New York City's Greenwich Village at 87 Christopher Street, a building known for notable tenants such as H.M. Koutoukas and Yoko Ono. She attended P.S. 41 for elementary school then the High School of Art and Design, where she studied graphic design. Acting Immediately after she graduated from high school, Persky's neighbor Koutoukas, a playwright, told her that he had written a play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Vilanch
Bruce Gerald Vilanch (born November 23, 1948) is an American comedy writer, songwriter and actor. He is a two-time Emmy Award-winner. Vilanch is best known to the public for his four-year stint on ''Hollywood Squares'', as a celebrity participant; behind the scenes he was head writer for the show. In 2000, he performed off-Broadway in his self-penned one-man show, ''Bruce Vilanch: Almost Famous''. From 2000 to 2014, Vilanch was the head writer for the Oscars, after being an Oscar program co-writer for the previous ten years. He is a featured writer for the Tonys, Grammys, and Emmys. Early life and education Vilanch was born in New York City and raised in Paterson, New Jersey. When he was four days old, he was adopted by Jonas Vilanch, an optometrist, and his wife Henne, a housewife. Having her own theatrical aspirations, Vilanch's mother helped launch her son's show business career by getting him signed on with Lane Bryant's Charming Chub division as a chubby child model. Upon g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
