#Craig Schulman

[libearyn]

The Lord Bless You and Keep You

“Now more than ever, I have learned that, when people die, they truly do live throughout those who love them.”                                  ~Caroline KennedyLet the peace of Christ keep you in tune with each other, in step with each other. None of this going off and doing your own thing. And cultivate thankfulness. Let the Word of Christ—the Message—have the run of the house. Give it plenty…

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The Computer has a point though.

deleted ds9 episode where eddington kidnaps sisko and forces him to participate in a 24/7 les mis role playing session in a holosuite but then dukat shows up and they get into a physical fight over who gets to be javert while sisko quietly leaves

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this les mis photo feat. the comments underneath it

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QUEER 2024

I'm disembodied.

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'Queer' Bounces Around 1950s Mexico City and Then Heads Down to the Jungle

'Queer' Bounces Around 1950s Mexico City and Then Heads Down to the Jungle

A still from the movie Queer, accompanying a review of the movie Queer (CREDIT: Yannis Drakoulidis/A24) Starring: Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Jason Schwartzman, Lesley Manville, Drew Droege, Henrique Zaga, Omar Apollo, Ariel Schulman, David Lowery Director: Luca Guadagnino Running Time: 135 Minutes Rating: R for Explicit Sex and Explicit Drug Use Release Date: November 27, 2024 (Theaters) What’s…

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John Updike vs. Gay Literature

On May 23, 1999, John Updike published a review of The Spell in The New Yorker magazine. Written by Alan Hollinghurst, the novel is another of his tales of the gay underworld, an attribute that clearly displeased Updike:

The novels of the English writer Alan Hollinghurst take some getting used to; they are relentlessly gay in their personnel, and after a while you begin to long for the chirp and swing and civilizing animation of a female character. Save for the briefly and reluctantly glimpsed sister or mother, there are none. Boredom swoops in without hetero clutter to obstruct its advent. Novels about heterosexual partnering, however frivolous and reducible to increments of selfishness, social accident, foolish overestimations, and inflamed physical detail, do involve the perpetuation of the species and the ancient, sacralized structures of the family. Perhaps the male homosexual, uncushioned as he is by society's circumambient encouragements to breed, feels the lonely human condition with a special bleakness: he must take it straight. (Full review)

The backlash, as The New York Observer reported, was almost immediate:

“It really feels like an attack,” said Angels in America playwright Tony Kushner. Writer and activist Larry Kramer circulated an e-mail alert among gay writers on May 31, with certain of Mr. Updike’s lines highlighted. Novelist Sarah Schulman, who is a lesbian, said she wrote a letter to The New Yorker “the second I read the piece. It was so outrageous.” Craig Lucas, the writer of the movie Longtime Companion, also wrote a letter. “What he basically wanted to do is turn up his nose to distasteful sex,” he said. “This coming from the author of Couples! The idea that heterosexual sex is ‘sacralized,’ in his absurd phrase.” Mr. Kushner thought Mr. Updike knew what he was doing. “I have a suspicion that he thought he was being cute and naughty.” Mr. Kushner said Mr. Updike’s review “represents a kind of genteel tradition of disdain for homosexuals,” that has long been present at the magazine, going back to E.B. White and James Thurber. So far, none of the letters have appeared in the magazine; New Yorker editor David Remnick didn’t return calls for comment. A New Yorker spokesman said, “It’s our understanding that Hollinghurst was not displeased by the review.”

Asked about the controversy, Updike seemed to miss the point of the criticism:

He said he had never read Mr. Hollinghurst before, and that when he did, this was his reaction. “As with all books that you are reviewing, you try to give your impression of the atmosphere within the book, which seemed kind of gloomy and pointless to me,” he said. “So I’ll just have to withstand whatever letters come.” It’s not like he wanted to make generalizations about homosexuality. “I’d be happy not to discuss it,” he said. “Hollinghurst made it kind of tough. It makes it the unavoidable topic of discussion. It’s all about it. And for me to avoid his own emphasis would certainly be not doing my reviewer’s job.”

Colm Tóibín, another notable gay author, further bashed Updike’s views on homosexuality:

If you look at it carefully, that view of his will eventually eat into his reputation. Because his own elaborately confident and super-developed heterosexuality is actually an impediment to the proper writing and it eats at his sentences at times and it eats at his books… If you start reading Updike very carefully you start reading the astonishing boasting about sexual life which I found much more offensive than he does Hollinghurst’s book.

Years later, Hollinghurst himself spoke about the review:

Well, it was deplorable in various ways, but I also remember being very amused by it. There was this person who had gone to rather extraordinary lengths in his details of heterosexual sex and for whom the analysis of sexual behavior seemed to be so fundamental to his work as a novelist. But who was giving the impression in this review that everything he knew about homosexuality he gleaned from my novels, like he had never come across it in real life at all. I thought it was absolutely extraordinary, therefore so absurd, the old way he put it about the animating chirp of the female presence or something that he so missed in my books. It was terribly silly. It showed that he had chosen to emphasize his own failure with this large and interesting aspect of human behavior.

[atropos-moth]

I picked up this 1988 Les Mis brochure at a used bookstore.

I was able to identify the production because I recognized that this small photo of Marius was Hugh Panaro

Les Mis - 1989 (1st National Tour)

Craig Schulman (Valjean), Herndon Lackey (Javert), Ann Crumb (Fantine), Renee Veneziale (Eponine), Hugh Panaro (Marius), Tamara Jenkins (Cosette), Joe Loccaro (Enjolras)

Cool find!

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#TriStar desarrolla película biográfica de #BoyGeorge con #JCLee como guionista √

TriStar ha elegido a J.C. Lee para escribir el guión de la película biográfica de Boy George, la que se encuentra actualmente en desarrollo.  Culture Club: Mikey Craig, Boy George, Jon Moss y Roy Hay. / Imagen cortesía Derek Ridgers La película será producida por la productora ganadora del Oscar Cathy Schulman, el representante de George Paul Kemsley, Jeremy M. Rosen y Kevin King Templeton…

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A victim of his own anger, the Kid is a Minneapolis musician on the rise with his band, the Revolution, escaping a tumultuous home life through music. While trying to avoid making the same mistakes as his truculent father, the Kid navigates the club scene and a rocky relationship with a captivating singer, Apollonia. But another musician, Morris, looks to steal the Kid’s spotlight — and his girl. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: The Kid: Prince Apollonia: Apollonia Kotero Morris: Morris Day Jerome: Jerome Benton Mother: Olga Karlatos Father: Clarence Williams III Billy: Billy Sparks Wendy: Wendy Melvoin Lisa: Lisa Coleman Bobby: Bobby Z Matt: Dr. Fink Mark: Brown Mark Jill: Jill Jones Susan: Susan Moonsie Brenda: Brenda Bennett Beautiful Babe: Sandra Claire Gershman Stage Hand: Alan Leeds “Jellybean” Johnson – The Time: Garry Johnson Jesse Johnson – The Time: Jesse Johnson Mark Cardenas – The Time: Marc Cardenas Jerry Hubbard – The Time: Gerald E. Hubbard Jr. Paul Peterson – The Time: Paul Peterson Taste M.C.: Israel Gordon …: Joel Thingvall Film Crew: Producer: Robert Cavallo First Assistant Director: Anthony Brand Director of Photography: Donald E. Thorin Supervising Sound Editor: Richard C. Franklin Additional Editor: Sonny Baskin Production Design: Ward Preston Set Decoration: Anne D. McCulley Stunt Coordinator: Al Jones Songs: Prince Executive In Charge Of Post Production: Anthony DiMarco Original Music Composer: Michel Colombier Production Manager: Mike Frankovich Jr. Writer: William Blinn Writer: Albert Magnoli Costume Design: Marie France Stunts: Ron Oliney Best Boy Electric: Peter Davidian Key Grip: Daniel R. Jordan Dolly Grip: Donald Schmitz Color Timer: Aubrey Head Makeup Supervisor: Richard Arrington Additional Editor: Mitchell Sinoway Assistant Sound Editor: Noah Blough Sound Editor: James Beshears Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Jim Cook Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Robert L. Harman Sound Editor: David Kern First Assistant Director: Britt Lomond Assistant Camera: Chris Squires Electrician: Jeffrey W. Petersen Script Supervisor: Kerry Lyn McKissick Additional Editor: Warren Chadwick Sound Editor: Marshall Winn Boom Operator: Douglas J. Schulman Sound Mixer: Bruce Bisenz Music Editor: Jim Harrison Producer: Steven Fargnoli Producer: Joseph Ruffalo Editor: Ken Robinson Casting: David Graham Best Boy Grip: Bill Fleming Sound Editor: Mike Dobie Stunt Double: Brad Orrison Key Makeup Artist: Lee Romanoff Additional Editor: Allan Schultz Lighting Artist: LeRoy Bennett Electrician: Edward R. Nedin Lighting Technician: Robert W. Peterson Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Neil Brody Props: Keane Bonath Construction Coordinator: Robert Scaife Camera Operator: Craig Denault Leadman: Howard McCormick Production Accountant: Jonathan Wolf Assistant Camera: Jack Lee Gary Casting: Peter Golden Location Manager: Kirk Hokanson Second Assistant Director: Don Wilkerson Makeup Artist: Susan Wenzel Stunts: Kathleen O’Haco Lighting Technician: Dean Hassen Lighting Technician: John Huddleston Lighting Technician: Dave Hetschiesch Production Coordinator: Maxine Davis Production Secretary: Jennifer Walton Property Master: Jim Johnson Props: Clare M.S. Fishman Costumer: Jimmell Mardome Costumer: Sonja Berlovitz Key Makeup Artist: Jayson Jeffreys Hairstylist: Earl Jones Hairstylist: Susan Caldwell Hairstylist: Todd Prost Electrician: Dennis A. Frank Electrician: Matt Rice Electrician: Bob Guthier Grip: Steve van Osdale Grip: Gerald Hoy Grip: Neal Dalen Grip: Craig Kinchel Grip: Joe Rice Unit Publicist: Bonnie Metzger Still Photographer: Robert Reiff Production Secretary: Geri Rosenberg Production Secretary: Barbara Sobocinski Production Secretary: Dona Lien Movie Reviews:

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Las 242 peliculas que he visto en 2023 (parte 2)

122. Martyrs (Pascal Laugier, 2008)

123. Of time and the city (Terence Davies, 2008)

124. Pandorum (Christian Alvart, 2009)

125. La casa del diablo (Ti West, 2009)

126. Catfish (Ariel Schulman y Henry Joost, 2010)

127. Rare exports: Un cuento gamberro de navidad (Jalmari Helander, 2010)

128. Final Destination 5 (Steven Quale, 2011)

129. Infierno blanco (Joe Carnahan, 2011)

130. La maldicion de Rookford (Nick Murphy, 2011)

131. Berberian sound studio (Peter Strickland, 2012)

132. Turistas (Ben Wheatley, 2012)

133. Across the river (Lorenzo Bianchini, 2013)

134. Colonia V (Jeff Renfroe, 2013)

135. Como todas las mañanas (Toni Nievas, 2013)

136. El Congreso (Ari Folman, 2013)

137. The Sacrament (Ti West, 2013)

138. Vivir en peligro (Paul Wright, 2013)

139. El sopar (Pere Portabella, 2014)

140. Lucy (Luc Besson, 2014)

141. Sueñan los androides (Ion de Sosa, 2014)

142. Uno tras otro (Hans Petter Moland, 2014)

143. Equals (Drake Doremus, 2015)

144. Dope (Rick Famuyiwa, 2015)

145. 13 horas: Los soldados secretos de Bengasi (Michael Bay, 2016)

146. El Caso Sloane (John Madden, 2016)

147. El Contable (Gavin O'Connor, 2016)

148. El Vacio (Jeremy Gillespie y Steven Kostanski, 2016)

149. Holy Hell (Will Allen, 2016)

150. La autopsia de Jane Doe (André Øvredal, 2016)

151. Maria (y los demas) (Nely Reguera, 2016)

152. Swiss Army Man (Dan Kwan y Daniel Scheinert, 2016)

153. Without Name (Lorcan Finnegan, 2016)

154. Brawl in Cell Block 99 (S Craig Zahler, 2017)

155. Caras y Lugares (Agnes Varda y JR, 2017)

156. Good Time: Viviendo al limite (Benny y Josh Safdie, 2017)

157. Hagazussa (Lukas Feigelfeld, 2017)

158. Secretos Oscuros (Michael Pearce, 2017)

159. Ghost in the shell. El alma de la maquina (Rupert Sanders, 2017)

160. The Cloverfield paradox (Julius Onah, 2018)

161. Illang: La brigada del lobo (Kim Ji-Woon, 2018).

162. Normandia al desnudo (Philippe Le Guay, 2018)

163. Al otro lado de la ley (S Craig Zahler, 2018)

164. Apuntes para una pelicula de atracos (Leon Siminiani, 2018)

165. El odio que das (George Tillman Jr, 2018)

166. 303 (Hans Weingartner, 2018)

167. El Convento (Payl Hyett, 2018)

168. La primera purga: La noche de las bestias (Gerard McMurray, 2018)

169. Mudo (Duncan Jones, 2018)

170. Noche de lobos (Jeremy Saulnier, 2018)

171. 6 en la sombra (Michael Bay, 2019)

172. Bait (Mark Jenkin, 2019)

173. Escape room: Sin salida (Adam Robitel, 2019)

174. Fyre (Chris Smith, 2019)

175. Sator (Jordan Graham, 2019)

176. Swallow (Carlo Mirabella-Davis, 2019)

177. Us (Jordan Peele, 2019)

178. Ventajas de viajar en tren (Aritz Moreno, 2019)

179. Bad Boys for Life (Adil El Arbi y Bilall Fallah, 2020)

180. El año del descubrimiento (Luis Lopez Carrasco, 2020)

181. Last and First Men (Johann Johannsonn, 2020)

182. Socias y Enemigas (Miguel Arteta, 2020)

183. Undergods (Chino Moya, 2020).

184. A tiempo completo (Eric Gravel, 2021)

185. Belle (Mamoru Hosoda, 2021)18

186. Black Phone (Scott Derrickson, 2021)

187. Candyman (Nia DaCosta, 2021)

188. Censor (Prano Bailey-Bond, 2021)

189. Destello Bravio (Ainhoa Rodriguez, 2021)

190. El Escuadron Suicida (James Gunn, 2021)

191. Eles transportan a morte (Samuel M. Delgado y Helena Girón, 2021)

192. Escape Room: La Pel·lícula (Hèctor Claramunt, 2021)

193. Espiritu Sagrado (Chema Garcia Ibarra, 2021)

194. Hellbender (John Adams, Zelda Adams y Toby Poser, 2021)

195. King Car (Renata Pinheiro, 2021).

196. La casa de las profundidades (Julien Maury y Alexandre Bustillo, 2021)

197. La Hija (Manuel Martin Cuenca, 2021)

198. Lamb (Valdimar Jóhannsson, 2021)

199. Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2021)

200. Malignant (James Wan, 2021)

201. The ice road (Jonathan Hensleigh, 2021)

202. The Medium (Banjong Pisanthanakun, 2021)

203. Tiempo (M night Shyamalan, 2021)

204. Tros (Pau Calpe, 2021)

205. You are not my mother (Kate Dolan, 2021)

206. Aftersun (Charlotte Wells, 2022)

207. Almas en pena de Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022)

208. Ambulance. Plan de huida (Michael Bay, 2022).

209. Argentina 1985 (Santiago Mitre, 2022)

210. As Bestas (Rodrigo Sorogoyen, 2022)

211. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Ryan Coogler, 2022)

212. Cangrejo Negro (Adam Berg, 2022)

213. Crimenes del futuro (David Cronenberg, 2022)

214. El agua (Elena López Riera, 2022)

215. El triangulo de la tristeza (Ruben Ostlund, 2022)

216. Emily, la estafadora (John Patton Ford, 2022)

217. En los margenes (Juan Diego Botto, 2022)

218. Enys Men (Mark Jenkin, 2022)

219. Eo (Jerzy Skolimowski, 2022)

220. Flux Gourmet (Peter Strickland, 2022)

221. La hija eterna (Joanna Hogg, 2022)

222. La paradoja de Antares (Luis Tinoco, 2022)

223. Men (Alex Garland, 2022)

224. Modelo 77 (Alberto Rodriguez, 2022)

225. Muertos muertos muertos (Halina Reijn, 2022)

226. O corpo aberto (Angeles Huerta, 2022)

227. Predator. La Presa (Dan Trachtenberg, 2022) 

228. Puñales por la espalda: El misterio de Glass Onion (Rian Johnson, 2022)

229. RRR (SS Rajamouli, 2022)

230. Suro (Mikel Gurrea, 2022)

231. Vesper (Kristina Buozyte y Bruno Samper, 2022)

232. You won’t be alone (Goran Stolevski, 2022)

233. X (Ti West, 2022)

234. Asteroid City (Wes Anderson, 2023)

235. Barbie (Greta Gerwig, 2023)

236. El banco de Dave (Chris Foggin, 2023)

237. Elemental (Peter Sohn, 2023)

238. Indiana Jones y el dial del destino (James Mangold, 2023)

239. Llaman a la puerta (M Night Shyamalan, 2023)

240. Mision Imposible: Sentencia Mortal - Parte 1 (Christopher McQuarrie, 2023)

241. Nadie te salvara (Brian Duffield, 2023)

242. The Creator (Gareth Edwards, 2023)

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In order: Anthony Warlow, Robert Cuccioli, Rob Evan, Sebastian Bach, Craig Schulman, Joseph Mahowald, Chuck Wagner, Ethan Freeman, Thomas Borchert, David Jakobs, Cho Seung Woo, Sergio Granados. Kevin Gray, Abel Fernando, and Constantine Maroulis.

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“At the End of the Day,” Broadway, 1996. Melba Moore as Fantine, Craig Schulman as Jean Valjean.

An intense performance from the original Broadway production in its ninth year. The Foreman and Factory Girl sound especially vicious and spiteful.

[thediaryofatheatrekid]

How I Know You: Jean Valjean in Les Miserables and The Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera (Part 1/4)

Captions explained below “Keep Reading.” If the person has a ^ next to them that means no picture is available of them in the production.

Andrew Varela- Broadway (u/s)/3rd US Tour (u/s)

Carlos Vittori- Argentina/Argentina

Christian Müller- Austria/Austria, Germany

Colm Wilkinson- West End, 1st UK Tour, Broadway, 3rd US Tour, 10th Anniversary Concert/Sydmonton, Canada

Craig Schulman- Broadway, 1st US Tour, 3rd US Tour/2nd US Tour

Damian Aleksander- Poland^/Poland

Dave Willetts- West End, Australia/West End, 1st UK Tour, 2nd UK Tour

David Shannon- West End/West End

Gary Barker- 2nd US Tour (u/s), 3rd US Tour/Broadway (u/s)

Gerónimo Rauch- West End, Spain/West End

[gatheringbones]

[“Karen remembered “this thing from ACT UP—‘A lesbian and a gay man sleeping together is still queer sex.’ That was the thing about ACT UP, it was a little bit different. It was ahead of its time … What was it like? I was new and I was nervous, and I wasn’t fully aware of my own bisexuality then. In a way it was like, I was very comfortable straight, and I’m very comfortable bisexual. But just as a pure lesbian I was a little bit awkward, I think, during that brief period when that’s what I tried to be. I think I even tried to be butch for a while, which totally I’m not … First, it was Alexis [Danzig] and John [Kelly], and then they broke up, and then it was Alexis and [BC Craig], and then [BC] started dating somebody else, and Suzanne [Huber]—I remember first she had this little boyfriend with the shaved head. And then she was with women, and then she was with John. It was like that. There was a lot of shifting around and a lot of romance. I had parties. I remember a lot of parties.”

One night Karen was at Cabaret Magique, “this nightclub—and this guy’s like, Is your name Karen? You were a lawyer for ACT UP, I know you, I know you. And it was Vincent Gagliostro, and he said this—and I cried when I got home. He said, You were my lawyer, you were my lawyer over and over again, and I watched you do that for years. And he says, And I knew you were doing that for love, and I never thanked you.”]

Let The Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP, New York, 1987-1993, by Sarah Schulman

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blu ray collection

13 Assassins dir. Takashi Miike Antibirth dir. Danny Perez Belladonna of Sadness dir. Eiichi Yamamoto Daughters of Darkness dir. Harry Kumel The Dark Crystal dir. Jim Henson El Topo dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky Enter the Void dir. Gaspar Noe Funeral Parade of Roses dir. Toshio Matsumoto Gutterballs dir. Ryan Nicholson Heart Attack dir. Dustin Wayd Mills High Tension dir. Alexandre Aja Hustle & Flow dir. Craig Brewer Jackass 3 dir. Jeff Tremaine La Femme Nikita dir. Luc Besson The Killing of a Sacred Deer dir. Yorgos Lanthimos Malignant dir. James Wan mother! dir. Darren Aranofsky Mother dir. Bong Joon-Ho My Neighbor Totoro dir. Hayao Miyazaki Only God Forgives dir. Nicolas Winding Refn Paranormal Activity dir. Oren Peli Paranormal Activity 2 dir. Tod Williams Paranormal Activity 3 dir. Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman Paranormal Activity 4 dir. Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones dir. Christopher Landon Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension dir. Gregory Plotkin Parasite dir. Bong Joon-Ho Paris, Je T'aime dir. so many people Perfect Blue dir. Satoshi Kon Possessor dir. Brandon Cronenberg Red Angel dir. Yasuzo Masumura Ringu dir. Hideo Nakata Run Lola Run dir. Tom Tykwer Sailor Suit Machine Gun dir. Shinji Somai Sex Murder Art dir. Jorg Buttgereit -Der Todesking -Nekromantik -Nekromantik 2 -Schramm The Shape of Water dir. Guillermo del Toro Sleep dir. Michael Venus West Side Story dir. Robert Wise

[behindthemirrorofmusic]

Chag Sameach!

Celebrating the first night of Shavuot and Jewish History month with a collage of the wonderful Jewish actors who have starred as Erik the Phantom of the Opera over the years. With Ethan Freeman being the first ever Jewish Phantom and Josh Pitterman the most recent. In-between are Paul Stanley, Cooper Grodin, Chris Mann, Craig Schulman and Paul A. Schaefer.

Gut Yontiff!