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All posts by Randy Shulman

  • Skin Show

    Let's get this out of the way. For those of you who attend gay films to see an abundance of sex and nudity and are...

  • Disenchanted

    You know a romantic comedy is in trouble when the funniest line uttered is ''Hey there, I have Hepatitis C!'' It may not seem all...

  • Batting Zero

    Origin of the species: Bale as Batman Maybe I'm getting long in the tooth. Maybe I lack the inner-fanboy spirit. Maybe I've seen this same...

  • Pride in Pictures 2005

    The Capital Pride Parade was held Saturday, June 11, 2005. Parade participants included some fifty floats, bands and marching contingents, plus numerous local politicians and...

  • Wild Boys

    The one and only time I tried my hand at skateboarding was during the mid-seventies. I was a 16-year-old growing up in Ohio and a...

  • Fear Factor

    ''It's like this infectious elation,'' says SONiA of the feeling she gets performing at Gay Prides. ''It's just a beautiful thing.'' This being SONiA, of...

  • Chi Chi Confidential

    ''I've always loved porno,'' purrs Chi Chi LaRue in a seductive cigarette meets gravel voice. ''It started with straight porno, but I soon realized that...

  • Summer Movie Preview

    Spring is barely in the air these days when the summer movie maelstrom begins to peek over the horizon. In some ways that's not a...

  • Wax Works

    The only similarities that the new incarnation of House of Wax shares with its 1954 wellspring of inspiration that starred Vincent Price and was shot...

  • Martial Artistry

    I went into Kung Fu Hustle with a massive headache, one of those throb jobs that nearly debilitates you. I left, 95 minutes later, with...

  • Sinfully Delicious

    It should come as no surprise that Robert Rodriguez's production company is called Troublemaker Studios. The director, whose bracing, electrifying style of filmmaking appears to...

  • Stage Presence: Theatrical Bonds

    In 1999, Jeanette L. Buck -- a local filmmaker, playwright and director -- was accosted by a stranger in her home, brutally attacked and left...

  • Stage Presence: Motivating Fences

    ''I didn't audition for Troy because I didn't think I would be considered for Troy.'' Michael Sainte-Andress is referring to the leading character in Fences,...

  • Stage Presence: Gay Fruit of the Vine

    In 2003, Vincent Worthington, who had worked in theater since he was 14, was faced with an important decision. Keith Waters, founder and Artistic Director...

  • Artistic Scribe

    The minute Jon Robin Baitz mentions that he recently finished penning an episode of Alias, the interviewer's mind comes to a screeching halt. He stops...