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Jude Rogers on the DVD release of Paris is BurningIn 1990, the year Madonna struck a pose by summoning the spirits of Greta Garbo and Monroe, the word vogue became a verb as well as a noun. But while millions will remember the release of Madonna's multi-platinum single, far fewer will recall the cinematic release of Paris Is Burning, the documentary that presented the culture of vogueing and its emergence from the drag balls of late-80s Harlem for the first time. This month, the Sundance award-winner finally gets a UK DVD release, and reminds us that Madonna's huge hit had a much darker past.For starters, rather than being the simple act of recreating a magazine pose through the medium of dance, vogueing began life as a competitive sport. In the 80s, communities of impoverished black and Latino gay men formed 'houses' in homage to the fashion designers they admired, and members would dance against each other by posing like models - vogueing. Although drag balls were essentially beauty

There's a shot early on in Steve McQueen's Cannes-winning Hunger (yes, that's the British filmmaker's name) that doesn't seem like much at first - just a quietly observant detail. A man getting ready for his day's work is having breakfast, finishing his toast. He brushes a few crumbs from the table with his napkin.

The Amazing Race 14 actually has four openly gay cast members, although only one of them has been identified as gay on the show. Besides its three gay men--Mel White, Mike White (who's bisexual), and Luke Adams, this season also has a lesbian cast member, LaKisha 'Kisha' Hoffman.CBS confirmed to After Ellen that Kisha 'is openly gay,' and the site notes that 'there have only been a few openly gay or bisexual women' in the show's history and 'Kisha is the first openly gay woman of color to race on the series,' but '[h]er sexuality has not been mentioned on the show or in any Amazing Race press materials.'Kisha's sexual orientation was first revealed in an After Elton interview with Mel White, who was eliminated with his son Luke two episodes ago, in which he also said that Luke Adams wanted to be identified as gay on the show. After Luke 'found out that Mike and I were being billed as gay, he wanted to be billed as gay,' but a producer said--and this is Mel paraphrasing a conversati

Hulk Hogan said his comments to Rolling Stone magazine that he can 'totally understand' O.J. Simpson -- the former football great found liable for the deaths of his wife and another man -- are being misunderstood.

An 80-year-old's quick thinking foiled an armed robber's attempt to hold up an Omaha liquor store. Store owner Floyd Westbrook was closing up his Sugar Hill Package Liquor on Wednesday when a man wearing a ski mask and holding a gun ran in and demanded money....

A man whose private plane ran into a fence while taking off from a highway outside Great Bend suffered minor injuries. But his troubles may just be beginning. Authorities want to know why he was using a highway as a runway. The accident occurred Wednesday at...

An Orange County jury has convicted an eccentric former school board trustee known for espousing conspiracy theories of stealing a bottle of ketchup from a college dining area. The jury found Steve Rocco guilty of misdemeanor petty theft on Thursday after...

A 28-year-old man has been sentenced to three weeks in jail for urinating on a 66-year-old woman during a Continental Airlines flight last month from Los Angeles to Honolulu. Jerome Kenneth Kingzio, a resident of the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana...

If Man vs. Wild had any credibility left after the revelations that the show misrepresented the veracity of Bear Grylls' actions and the situations he was in, it may disappear fully after the show will use an entire episode to promote a movie. Will Ferrell will appear on 'a special episode' in early June to promote the June 5 release of his film Land of the Lost, and drink his own urine and eat reindeer eyeballs. Because of that, that shameless whoring could end up being rather entertaining. On the episode, 'Grylls takes Ferrell through the paces of real life survival in the ice-bound mountain and glacier ranges in the far north of Sweden,' according to the network. Among other things, they'll 'tandem-abseil off a helicopter, rappel down hundred foot frozen waterfalls and build a shelter to stay warm overnight in sub-zero temperatures' and 'drink their own urine and even bite into reindeer eyeballs.'Discovery brags that this is 'the most fully integrated [episode] to date in an ong

Imagination Players is joining the schools across America with a production of Meredith Willson's THE MUSIC MAN JUNIOR, taking the classic concept of 'let's put on a show' and reaching new academic heights and encouraging them to continue to 'trumpet' the arts and make more music in the future.