5 articles from 2009
The Emmy Awards get good – no really
21 September 2009 8:00 AM, PDT
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Wait, what’s this? An award show that is actually fun? And award show that makes me laugh? An award show that doesn’t put me into a deep and catatonic sleep? Clearly, I’m in some sort of alternate universe. But no, instead it was the 61st annual Emmy Awards telecast last night.
The show honoring the best and brightest in television handed out lots of pointy-winged statuettes to deserving people. And from start to finish (Ok, there was a lull there during the reality/miniseries segments) it made for pretty damn good TV. A look at some of the night’s highlights.
Best Conspiracy: The supporting actress in a comedy nominees
At Amy Poehler's urging, the actresses all wore silly eyewear as their nominations were called out. All, that is, except for Vanessa Williams who gave a very Wilhelmina Slater scowl instead.
Best Reason to Wish You
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News: A Cry in New York, at Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors
4 June 2009 11:24 AM, PDT
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Fangoria's Weekend of Horror, happening this weekend in New York City, is a queer smorgashborg, Brian Juergens at AfterElton reports. One of the queer films premiering at the weekend bloody event is Alan Rowe Kelly's A Far Cry From Home.
Our own Michael Diebler caught a screener of Kelly's film, and says of it "...A Far Cry From Home is good. I realize I’m making a lot of criticisms, I’m just pointing out things that could make it better in the future. Kelly has a good piece of work here, and if you’re given the opportunity to see it, I recommend you take it. A Far Cry From Home is able to achieve some of the goals crucial to producing quality gay cinema, and while it has its flaws, it’s definitely a cinematic step in the right direction."
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Gay filmmakers and fans to invade NYC's Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors
3 June 2009 1:02 PM, PDT
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As the site's resident horror hound, I'm always on the lookout for queer horror stories to share that don't involve being forced to recap late-season episodes of Brothers & Sisters. (Zing!)
Enter Fangoria, the longest-running and most venerable horror publication, which for decades has been serving up scoops, reviews and musty must-see curiosities to genre fans everywhere. This weekend the mag is hosting its Weekend of Horrors in NYC (at the Javits Center) and it's giving gore-gore gays like me plenty of reasons to attend, the least of all being the premiere of A Far Cry From Home, a nasty hate-crime cautionary tale from queer filmmaker Alan Rowe Kelly.
Kelly and I have been friends for years (you may remember him from the Blood Work! True Blood vlog series) but we met professionally, at a horror film festival in San Francisco where we both had films showing. We've been tight ever since,
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Gay Of The Dead 12: Writer/director/actor Alan Rowe Kelly: Part 1
13 May 2009 3:35 AM, PDT
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I had never seen any of Alan Rowe Kelly’s films until he contacted me—literally moments after posting my first Gay Of The Dead blog. And yes, that is Alan in the photo to the left. Don’t worry, we’ll get to that later.
Kelly’s opening salvo to me was the grisly, intense and controversial A Far Cry From Home segment from the recently wrapped Gallery Of Fear anthology, which he co-wrote, co-directed and produced for his Southpaw Pictures. From there I jumped back to his first feature, I’LL Bury You Tomorrow, a loopy, sprawling, bloody feature that manages to wind storylines of seven main characters into one big crazy fest. After that, I popped in The Blood Shed, which starts off with a preteen kid being yanked in half and just gets more insane (see: awesome) from there.
After watching Kelly’s films and chatting
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"Brothers & Sisters" Episode 312 Recap: "Sibling Rivalry"
12 January 2009 7:31 PM, PST
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We open on … oh dear.
There seems to have been some sort of mistake, and my TiVO recorded Regis and Kelly. Which is not just a
simple case of DVR malfunction but more evidence of how much my TiVO hates me
and is actively trying to drive me insane. Why else would it constantly be
suggesting I try watching Ghost Whisperer?
It turns out that Kelly and the Reege have taken time out of
their busy schedule shilling for whatever bank Commerce is this week to offer
up a B&S cameo. Which makes it
exactly three-fifths less irritating than if it had been The View. I’m looking forward to the part where Kitty clamps her
hand over Kelly’s mouth, and Kelly says, “Put that away, dear. I don’t know
where inside your husband it’s been.”
Kitty is on TV hawking her crappy book that nobody will ever
read,
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