Funny what ages well. And what doesn’t.

Take Diana Ross, she of the one too many wine-coolers.

Her first movie was a moist Billie Holiday biop, and Diana, whose sizzle was being compared to the young Marilyn’s, was actually nominated for an Oscar. Today, you couldn’t pay Jeff Gannon to sit through the leaden Lady Sings the Blues.

It’s Mahogany, her second film, the one denounced as a vanity production and a bomb, that remains The Ultra-Sonic Diana Ross Experience. (more…)

Lets see, in last week’s opening episode of Deadwood, our favorite over-the-top HBO show, three new whores came to town, ceiling chips fell from the vigorous bed-banging the sheriff was giving the rich widow, and one guy got himself shot for pulling out his "johnson" (as the folksy barkeep put it) and pissing all over another.

Tonight we await the return of our favorite bull dagger dyke,Calamity Jane (played with lumbering, ham-handed brio by Robin Weigert.)

Deadwood is simply the wildest, wickedest roller-coaster ride through the American West since Debbie Does Dallas! By far the favorite form of address in the show for man or woman is "Hey, cocksucker."
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What musical numbers do you break into when nobody’s looking?

That was the burning question over at Data Lounge, an all-gay message board that discusses everything from who has the hottest abs on Survivor, Palau to how Martha Stewart was able to exit prison blonder than when she went in. ("I was expecting her to come out as white as Robert Blake," remarked one stunned poster.)

In a thread that numbered over 150 posts, the show-tune freak-outs tended to favor Evita’s balcony scene ("I am only a simple woman — who lives to serve Peron") and all things Rita Moreno from West Side Story:

"I go to the roof of my building," writes one poster. "I start out singing and dancing ‘America’ as Rita Moreno but I get so excited I switch into Chita Rivera doing ‘There’s Gotta Be Something Better Than This’ from Sweet Charity." (more…)

Well, apparently recut by Father Mel. Just in time for Easter!

Let us pray!