Adler's antlers
"A touch of kitsch is like cayenne pepper" said Jonathan Adler, in reply to my attempt at reparation for an Apartment Therapy open thread's harsh views (some posters'--toward things deemed over the top or camp--not the site's editors!) of an Adler/Doonan residence which had appeared last year in the NY Times.
on the eve of his new SF shop ("My empire, expanding...or crumbling!" an endearingly modest) Adler chatted with fans after his husband Simon Doonan's reading from his "Nasty: My Family + Other Glamorous Varmints" reading's Q + A segment, in which i nattered about putting his writing in the august company of the mighty Cintra Wilson (whose website i beseech you to visit, the secret agenda of this post, which is also to adorn the heads of the dashing duo w/ the golden stag antlers featured within Wilson's hilarious "Unnatural Colors".
Somehow this ties in: "I hate people who think they're funny," gruffs Robert De Niro's ailing cop character in Flawless, re: a general tension toward things deemed precious (like blogging! oh dear "everybody's clever nowadays," to Oscillate Wildly...reel around blog mountain, still ill, a sick, irresistible compulsion, if this could be thought even slightly clever...everyone thinks they're clver nowadays one might adjust).
after a screening of this Flawless,last year at SF's Castro Theater, film-maker Joel Schumacher interviewed afterward,
recalling his beginning as a window dresser (like Doonan), and his participation as costume designer in the 1978 Woody Allen film "Interiors", this eventual director of many films including The Lost Boys and Flawless (Phillip S. Hoffman, fine as usual + at least a real drag artist, Jackie Beat, has more than a two second role). He spoke favorably not just of the gnarly trannies ("gowns, bomber jackets, combat boots") he'd admired throughout his life who inspired the film, but of "that touch of vulgarity which makes things interesting." Huzzah!
INTERIORS (movie)
on the eve of his new SF shop ("My empire, expanding...or crumbling!" an endearingly modest) Adler chatted with fans after his husband Simon Doonan's reading from his "Nasty: My Family + Other Glamorous Varmints" reading's Q + A segment, in which i nattered about putting his writing in the august company of the mighty Cintra Wilson (whose website i beseech you to visit, the secret agenda of this post, which is also to adorn the heads of the dashing duo w/ the golden stag antlers featured within Wilson's hilarious "Unnatural Colors".
Somehow this ties in: "I hate people who think they're funny," gruffs Robert De Niro's ailing cop character in Flawless, re: a general tension toward things deemed precious (like blogging! oh dear "everybody's clever nowadays," to Oscillate Wildly...reel around blog mountain, still ill, a sick, irresistible compulsion, if this could be thought even slightly clever...everyone thinks they're clver nowadays one might adjust).
after a screening of this Flawless,last year at SF's Castro Theater, film-maker Joel Schumacher interviewed afterward,
recalling his beginning as a window dresser (like Doonan), and his participation as costume designer in the 1978 Woody Allen film "Interiors", this eventual director of many films including The Lost Boys and Flawless (Phillip S. Hoffman, fine as usual + at least a real drag artist, Jackie Beat, has more than a two second role). He spoke favorably not just of the gnarly trannies ("gowns, bomber jackets, combat boots") he'd admired throughout his life who inspired the film, but of "that touch of vulgarity which makes things interesting." Huzzah!
INTERIORS (movie)
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