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Jazzmun
Jazzmun (born February 10, 1969) is the stage name of Jazzmun Nichala Crayton who is an American actress and nightclub performer, often working in the Los Angeles Area. Background Originally from San Diego, California, Jazzmun made her first national television appearance on the talent variety show '' Puttin' on the Hits'' in 1984, in which she split her body half in male drag and half in female drag, lip synching as a "duet." Finding work immediately after that appearance for her theatric and modeling talents, she moved to Los Angeles and secured an agent. Since then she has performed all over the world performing as either her stage character "Jazzmun"; her trademark Whitney Houston impersonation, which she performed as in the female stage revue ''La Cage''; or any number of other characters. In the late 1990s Jazzmun co-starred in the stage play ''Ask Any Girl'' as the character Mahogany Saint Ross, a name play-on-words to singer Diana Ross. Latina singer Gloria Estefan hir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punks (film)
''Punks'' is a 2000 film produced by Babyface, directed by Patrik-Ian Polk, and starring Rockmond Dunbar, Seth Gilliam, Renoly Santiago, Jazzmun, and Dwight Ewell. The film follows the trials and tribulations of a group of gay African American friends. While black gay life is explored in the film, universal aspects of friendship plays at the plot's forefront. The film's themes were later used for the 2005 Logo cable television series '' Noah's Arc''. The film was popular at film festivals but never had distribution due to rights issues with the Sister Sledge songs featured prominently in the story. It was shown on Logo on August 7, 2011. Otherwise it remains unavailable through home media but has occasional private screenings. Cast *Seth Gilliam as Marcus *Dwight Ewell as Hill *Renoly Santiago as Dante *Rockmond Dunbar as Darby * Jazzmun as Chris/Crystal * Rudolf Martin as Gilbert *Vanessa Estelle Williams as Jennifer * Devon Odessa as Felicity *Loretta Devine as Health Cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hellbent (2004 Film)
''Hellbent'' is a 2004 American slasher film written and directed by Paul Etheredge-Ouzts. ''Hellbent'' played the gay and lesbian film festival circuit throughout 2004 and 2005 before a limited theatrical release on September 16, 2005. The motion picture helped spark a wave of "gay slasher" films. Plot The night before Halloween, a gay couple are making out in a car when a bare-chested killer in a devil mask appears and decapitates them with a sickle. Halloween finds Eddie at his job as a police technician talking with his police officer sister. He distributes flyers about the murders and dresses in his father's police uniform for a Halloween costume. While distributing the flyers, he meets Jake in a tattoo shop. Eddie meets with his friends Chaz, Joey, and Tobey, and they head for the West Hollywood Halloween Carnival. They visit the murder scene, where the devil-masked killer appears. They taunt him because they think he is cruising them. Eddie and his friends enter the car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Little Bit Of Love (RuPaul Song)
"A Little Bit of Love" is a song and music video performed and produced by drag icon RuPaul and released on February 25, 1997. This was the second single released from the ''Foxy Lady'' album. The song was written by RuPaul and Joe Carrano and released through Rhino Records and features guest vocals by Vicki Sue Robinson. The song reached number twenty-eight on the Hot Dance Club Play chart in the US. The CD single contained six remixes: Welcome's Extended Original Mix, Moretta Electro-Funk Mix, Welcome's Sly Vocal Extended Mix, Hot Mix Version Mix, Moretta Love Beats Mix, and the Edge Factor Dub Mix. The single's music video depicted RuPaul along with female impersonator Jazzmun and transgender cabaret performer Candis Cayne as aliens out to conquer the world. The video received a GLAAD Media Award nomination for "Best Video of 1998." The clip, directed by Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey, was in included on RuPaul's ''Work It Girl'' compilation DVD. RuPaul performed the song tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puttin' On The Hits
''Puttin' on the Hits'' is an American syndicated music/variety competition show that was hosted and written by Allen Fawcett. The show featured amateur acts lip-synching to popular songs. The show aired on weekends from 1984 to 1988. The show's title is a reference (and spoof) to Irving Berlin's 1929 song & Taco's 1983 cover '' Puttin' on the Ritz''. Description The show grew out of lip synching contests developed by William "Randy" Wood, who by 1982 had realized that his contests had grown so popular nationally that he needed to stage them on a broader scale. The planning process eventually grew into ''Puttin' on the Hits'' with Chris Bearde and Dick Clark serving as executive producers. Clark's son, Richard A. Clark, produced with Wood serving as the consulting producer. MCA Television served as distributor. ''Puttin' on the Hits'' was taped in Hollywood, California at Universal City Studios. Contestants would often dress up in costumes and use props to make their act more o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrik-Ian Polk
Patrik-Ian Polk (born July 29, 1973 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi) is an American director, screenwriter, and producer. Polk, who is gay, is noted for his films and theatre work that explore the experiences and stories of African-American LGBT people. In 2016, Polk was included in the ''Los Angeles Times'' Diverse 100 list, which described him as "the man bringing black gay stories to screens large and small". Polk made his feature film directorial debut with '' Punks'' (2000), an independent film that he also wrote and produced. ''Punks'' had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2004, Polk created the television series '' Noah's Arc'', which made its debut on Logo in October 2005 and ran for two seasons. After the series' cancellation, Polk wrote, directed, and produced a film spin-off, '' Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom'', which was released theatrically in 2008. His subsequent feature films, '' The Skinny'', starring Jussie Smollett, and '' Blackbird'', starring M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
''The 40-Year-Old Virgin'' is a 2005 American romantic comedy film directed by Judd Apatow, who produced the film with Clayton Townsend and Shauna Robertson. It features Steve Carell as the titular 40-year-old virgin Andy, an employee at an electronics store. Paul Rudd, Romany Malco, and Seth Rogen play co-workers who resolve to help him lose his virginity, and Catherine Keener stars as Andy's love interest, Trish. Watching Carell's performance in '' Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy'' (2004) inspired Apatow to cast him in the lead role for the film, and they wrote ''The 40-Year-Old Virgin'' together. It was based on a sketch Carell created with The Second City where a man aged 40 hides a secret. Filming took place in Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley, California, from January to April 2005. The film was released theatrically in the United States on August 19, 2005, through Universal Pictures, and grossed over $177 million worldwide on a $26 million budget. Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GLAAD
GLAAD (), an acronym of Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, is an American non-governmental media monitoring organization originally founded as a protest against defamatory coverage of gay and lesbian demographics and their portrayals in the media and entertainment industries; it has since included bisexual and transgender people. History Formed in New York City in 1985 to protest against what it saw as the ''New York Post''s defamatory and sensationalized AIDS coverage, GLAAD put pressure on media organizations to end what it saw as homophobic reporting. Initial meetings were held in the homes of several New York City activists as well as after-hours at the New York State Council on the Arts. The first reported meeting occurred on November 14, 1985. The founding group included film scholar Vito Russo; Gregory Kolovakos, then on the staff of the NYS Arts Council and who later became the first executive director; Darryl Yates Rist; Allen Barnett; and Jewelle Gom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ScreenCrush
Townsquare Media, Inc. (formerly Regent Communications until 2010) is an American radio network and media company based in Purchase, New York. The company started in radio and expanded into digital media toward the end of the 2000s, starting with the acquisition of the MOG Music Network. As of 2019, Townsquare was the third-largest AM–FM operator in the country, owning over 321 radio stations in 67 markets. History As Regent Communications Townsquare Media was established as Regent Communications by Terry Jacobs in 1994. Jacobs was formerly the CEO of Jacor Communications, a radio broadcasting company which he created in 1979. Bill Stakelin later shared chief status in the company with Jacobs, and the two established JS Communications, later selling Regent to Jacor in 1997. Stakelin and Jacobs resurrected the Regent name to replace JS, with approval by Jacor. Jacobs left the company in 2005. On October 27, 2008, Regent Broadcasting joined Radiolicious and began streaming o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dreamgirls (film)
''Dreamgirls'' is a 2006 American musical drama film written and directed by Bill Condon and jointly produced and released by DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures. Adapted from the 1981 Broadway musical of the same name, ''Dreamgirls'' is a film à clef, a work of fiction taking strong inspiration from the history of the Motown record label and one of its acts, the Supremes. The story follows the history and evolution of American R&B music during the 1960s and 1970s through the eyes of a Detroit girl group known as "The Dreams" and their manipulative record executive. The film adaptation stars Jamie Foxx, Beyoncé Knowles and Eddie Murphy, and also features Jennifer Hudson, Danny Glover, Anika Noni Rose and Keith Robinson. In addition to the original compositions by composer Henry Krieger and lyricist/librettist Tom Eyen, four new songs, composed by Krieger with various lyricists, were added for the film. The film marks the acting debut of Hudson, a former ''America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Studio 54
Studio 54 is a Broadway theater and a former disco nightclub at 254 West 54th Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Operated by the Roundabout Theatre Company, Studio 54 has 1,006 seats on two levels. The theater was designed by Eugene De Rosa for producer Fortune Gallo and opened in 1927 as the Gallo Opera House. The current Broadway theater is named after a nightclub on the same site, founded by Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager, which operated within the theater's space in the late 1970s and the 1980s. Plans for the Gallo Opera House announced in 1926, and it opened on November 8, 1927, as a legitimate theater and opera house for the San Carlo Grand Opera Company. The theater went bankrupt within two years and was renamed the New Yorker Theatre in 1930. The Casino de Paree nightclub operated at the theater from December 1933 to April 1935, and the theater briefly hosted the Palladium Music Hall in early 1936. The Federal Music Project t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Diego, California
San Diego ( , ; ) is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast of Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border. With a 2020 population of 1,386,932, it is the List of United States cities by population, eighth most populous city in the United States and the county seat, seat of San Diego County, the List of the most populous counties in the United States, fifth most populous county in the United States, with 3,338,330 estimated residents as of 2019. The city is known for its mild year-round climate, natural deep-water harbor, extensive beaches and parks, long association with the United States Navy, and recent emergence as a healthcare and biotechnology development center. San Diego is the List of municipalities in California, second largest city in the U.S. state, state of California, after Los Angeles. Historically home to the Kumeyaay people, San Diego is frequently referred to as the "Birthplace of California", as it was the first site vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wayans Brothers
''The Wayans Bros.'' is an American sitcom television series that aired on The WB from January 11, 1995, to May 20, 1999. The series starred real life brothers Shawn and Marlon Wayans. The series also starred John Witherspoon and Anna Maria Horsford (season 2 onward). Premise Shawn and Marlon Williams (Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans) are brothers who live in an apartment on 117th street in Harlem. Shawn owns a local newsstand, where he and his brother Marlon work on a daily basis. In the show's second season (in 1995), the newsstand and Pops' Joint, the restaurant owned by their father, John "Pops" Williams (John Witherspoon) were moved downtown into the fictional Neidermeyer Building, in Rockefeller Center, where Dee Baxter (Anna Maria Horsford (onwards from Season 2) works as a security guard. Season 2 transitions Many transitions were made in season 2: * Shawn's former girlfriend, Lisa Saunders (Lela Rochon), did not return for the rest of the series. * Monique (Paula Jai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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