This is Pride Month in NYC and the end of the month will mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising! Wowie wow, am I right? So I'm devoting the Fabulous Fridays this month to queer icons, starting with the incomparable pioneer, Quentin Crisp.
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Composer David Del Tredici died the other day at the age of 86. He won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1980 for "In Memory of a Summer Day," part one of Child Alice. He wrote many pieces inspired by A
The Best Actress winner for 2000 was Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich. That performance was a beguiling mixture of diva and mensch so instead I'm going to focus on two other Best Acrtess nominees tha