Great movie week
Last weekend, Noel and I went to see The Devil Wears Prada. It’s a really fun film with a wonderful performance by Meryl Streep that straddles the line between authentic and scenery-chewing. But as it happened, there were whole stretches of the film I’ll have to see again because I got so excited by the fact that all the office lobby and exterior scene were filmed in the building where I work, The McGraw Hill-Rockefeller Center Building at 1221 Avenue of the Americas in midtown Manhattan. And a lot of the movie happens in those locations, so I spent scene after scene giggling and pointing...
Dada at Moma
Noel and I went to the new Museum of Modern Art for the first time together on Saturday to see the great new temporary exhibit of Dada art from the 1910’s and 20’s. I’ve always been drawn to Dadaism, mostly for its whimsy (see, for example, the Marcel Duchamp Bicycle Wheel to the left). But I’d never before realized how much class and young leftist outrage fueled the Dadaist movement. The whole the thing was moving in a way I had not expected.
Floating down Fifth
For the second time, on Sunday I rode in New York’s annual Gay Pride march on the Sirius OutQ float. Seeing a parade from a float is an unusual experience. The only floats or marching groups you get to see besides your own are the ones in front and behind you. So you completely miss the parade, from that point of view. On the other hand, you get to see the face of almost every single spectator, which is fantastic. Once upon a time, when I was much younger, I would position myself near the beginning of the Pride Parade route, watch all the floats...
Gay Games pressure
I’m a little crazed now because I’ve been given the responsbility for producing Sirius OutQ’s coverage of the Gay Games. We’re going to produce about a dozen hourly cut-ins every day of the Games covering every aspect, plus one or two news stories for OutQ News. Luckily, I’ll have at least two full-time people helping me on that project. Also, although I will be one of two comentators for the Games’s opening and closing ceremonies, the responsibility for producing those three-hour shows was handed off yesterday to John McMullen’s show producer, Kathy Sanchez. So the question is, why do I not feel particularly relieved? I’m...