Grace Kelly: TO CATCH A THIEF, THE SWAN

Grace Kelly on TCM: Part I Thanks to Kelly’s Oscar win, The Country Girl is interesting as a historical curiosity — it’s the sort of "gutsy" and "realistic" film adaptation of a respected stage play that was very popular among the filmgoing elite of the 1950s (e.
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News: Athletic Model Guild Goes Greek

Athletic Model Guild has announced the release of Days of Greek Gods. The DVD, which features 12 films from the infancy of beefcake, focuses on the work of prolific photographer and longtime AMG collaborator Richard Fontaine.
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Kenya : This Gay Couple Deserves Our Support, Not Condemnation

Nairobi — James Baldwin was one of the world's finest writers. He was also black and gay. In the 1950s and '60s, when he produced some of his best work, he could have been lynched for being both.
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Drag Memorabilia: Club 82

Bilerico readers are the best!

I posted a vintage shot of Finocchio's recently and was delighted by all the background history you provided.
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Thoughts on 'The Wizard of Oz' at 70

It's impossible to watch "The Wizard of Oz" today without feeling, within minutes, some kind of mystical connection to people you will never know.
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Yes, Sir! 1950s men's mag covers

Some kitschy delights from one of the most popular precursors to Playboy.  There's something in this selection to offend everyone.
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Pavegen taps pedestrians for power in East London (video)

When we were kids, we assumed that in the future everything would be powered by tiny nuclear fusion reactors: automobiles, toothbrushes, time machines (apparently we read a lot of sci-fi from the 1950s).
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Sophie Okonedo in SKIN: Black Daughter of White Parents

Sophie Okonedo in Skin Winner of four audience awards, including at the AFI Dallas and Santa Barbara film festivals, Skin tells the factually inspired (and quite curious) story of Sandra Laing (Hotel Rwanda’s Academy Award nominee Sophie Okonedo as an adult; Ella Ramangwane as child), the "black" daughter of "white" Afrikaner parents (veterans Sam Neill and Alice Krige), who until then — South Africa in the 1950s — had been unaware that they must have had some black ancestors.
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Gay neo-Nazi movie triumphs at Rome Film Festival

A Danish movie about a gay love affair between two members of a neo-Nazi group won top honours at the Rome Film Festival, while Helen Mirren won the best actress award.
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Opposite Color...Same Sex

by Jennifer VanascoFirst published in the Chicago Free Press on October 21, 2009

Let me tell you a story.
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Doc on Tab Hunter in the Works

Filmmaker Jeffery Schwartz is taking on a documentary version of famed 1950s actor Tab Hunter's autobiography.
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Gay History Month: Joan Nestle

Joan Nestle is the co-founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives. She is also a Lambda award-winning editor and writer.
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Gay History Month: Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns emerged as a major force in American contemporary art in the 1950s. He was a key figure in the transition from Modernism to Post-Modernism.
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Anne Frank Captured On Film

This is the only piece of film footage containing the legendary diarist Anne Frank in existence. It was unearthed and given to her father in the 1950s from his neighbors.
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What "Capitalism" Is Not

If I were to summarize message Michael Moore’s new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story in one sentence, it might be this: Capitalism is not a form of government.
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This Woman's Work

Talk about “desperate housewives.” This AlterNet article brings to mind something I’d noticed before.
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Dita Von Teese For Wonderbra

Here’s Dita Von Teese modelling her latest lingerie collection for Wonderbra. We like the 1940s and 1950s inspired sexy little pieces, but the Burlesque beauty just seems a tad overphotoshoped for the shoot.
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A River(s) Runs Through It

It's raining cats and dogs here in the city (hence why there's no action at the U.S. Open), so Scooter, Russell and I braved the torrential downpour to check out the Larry Rivers exhibition uptown at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery.
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Now: Commies!

The latest Drudge headline describes Putin and Chavez as "reds". Putin a commie? WND is accusing Valerie Jarrett of being a communist.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown apologises to Alan Turing

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has given an official government apology for the homophobic persecution of war-time code breaker, math and computer genius Alan Turing in the 1950s.
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