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12/31/09
My most memorable moments volunteering as a production assistant (PA) on Girltrash: All Night Long: Standing in for Rose Rollins (The L Word), a tall and slender former model (I tip-toed out at 5 feet 2 inches); getting recruited with other PAs to jump and bump like groupies in a concert scene at a Hollywood club, and finally, passing out on the couch in the middle of a sorority house fight scene at about 3:30 a.m. with a fever of 102. Shooting on Girltrash: All Night Long resumes in January but my peepers are already privy to what’s gone into the making of POWER UP Films’ second feature. A raucous musical based on Angela Robinson’s web series Girltrash, it’s written by Robinson (D.E.B.S.) and directed by her...
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12/23/09
Actress Daniela Sea unknowingly persuaded me to volunteer nearly a hundred hours of my time—that’s pro bono—to help make a lesbian film. It all started when we were discussing a movie in which she appeared, The Itty Bitty Titty Committee, one of the best publicized LGBT films since the screen was made silver. Itty Bitty was not my favorite movie, but it was the first feature produced by POWER UP Films, the only nonprofit studio dedicated to promoting positive LGBT images. A great-looking film that has huge support in the industry and among audiences, it premiered on the LOGO channel this month. “It was like a communal effort,” gushes Sea, having nothing but good things to say about the gig and the group. “I...
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12/16/09
Glee and Modern Family are two of the too-few hits of the Fall TV season, and both are gay, gay, gay. I did a laptop recap thanks to hulu.com, which gives you a chance to catch missed episodes or see them again with an analytical eye. In one of the early episodes of Glee it’s unlikely that sweet, effeminate Kurt would’ve gotten past the butt-slap move to Beyonce’s “All the Single Ladies” among real football players, whom he was trying to get in sync. What was moving, however, was the part where he kicked the winning field goal and his dad, the flannel-wearing redneck in the stands, jumped for joy and screamed, “That’s my boy!” Has society evolved to the point where even a flaming...
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12/09/09
Dawdling around the bar, speculating about what I could be drinking if I weren’t on the job, I notice a woman across the room who seems out of place. Attractive and sophisticated, she has an air about her that somehow sets her apart from the Hollywood movers and schmoozers networking around her. My keen investigator eye tells me that she’s either shy or doesn’t know anyone. Since I’m drawn to strong silent types, and killing time while waiting for the ceremony portion of the ninth annual Power Premiere to begin, I approach. She’s musician Sharon Isbin, a Grammy-winning classical guitarist set to perform at the White House just a few days later and then with Orange County’s elite Pacific Symphony this month. I ask, "Girl, what...
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