A Man’s Own Story
[Edmund] White shared his thoughts about his new book just prior to its April release at his home in the Chelsea section of Manhattan, where he has lived with Michael Carroll since 1995.
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Janis Ian: ‘Society’s Child,’ After All
On the release of her latest album Folk is the New Black, the singer-songwriter spoke with me in person for the G&LR.
MoreMargaret Cho Is a One-Woman Tornado
For this exclusive interview, I spoke with Cho in her new adopted hometown of Glendale, California.
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Was Lesbian Separatism Inevitable
This interview was conducted by the Editor via the Internet in January 2006.
MoreBack on the Beach
At the time of this interview, Albee … was at home in his art-filled loft in New York City’s Tribeca district. He’s an avid collector of modern painting (Kandinsky, Lipshitz, Arp) and African sculpture, whose minimalist and Cubist lines reflect his own unique style of communication.
MoreTim Kirkman: Storyteller of Human Complexity
Born in 1966, Kirkman gradated from North Carolina State and received an M.A. from the New School for Social Research in New York. He now spends his time between New York and Silverlake, a hip part of East Los Angeles. This in-person interview was conducted in LA last October.
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The ‘Down Low’ in Life and Legend
… A popular public speaker and national media commentator, Boykin was invited to be the featured speaker at this year’s annual dinner meeting of the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus. Soon thereafter, the following exchange was conducted in real time on the Internet.
MoreCraig Lucas: Playwright with a movie in him
PLAYWRIGHT Craig Lucas, who has written his share of screenplays, makes his film directorial debut in The Dying Gaul, a contemporary tale reminiscent of those past films about tragic figures bought and sold in Hollywood. Adapted by Lucas from his play of the same title, Peter Sarsgaard plays Robert, an aspiring Hollywood screenwriter whose personal life is spiraling downhill just as his professional life is on the way up. …
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Gregg Araki: Tackling the Tough Ones on Film
FILM DIRECTOR Gregg Araki was born in Los Angeles on Dec. 17, 1959. The only child of Japanese parents, he grew up in Santa Barbara, eventually earning a masters degree in film production from the USC School of Cinema/TV. He currently lives in Los Angeles. …
MoreOn the Making of Kinsey and Kinsey
… I interviewed Bill Condon by phone last April just before the DVD release of Kinsey. Highly recommended, the DVD includes many bonus features, including an informative documentary about the making of the movie, The Kinsey Report: Sex on Film.
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