CULTURE: March 2008 Archives
Aren't feys cute when they're mad? They've even got high-pro homos pitching in...like Dan Savage and Army Maupy!
In other faggy puppet news – the Canadian superstar corporate crooner FEIST! has just announced that she will be using puppets in her next video. She’s joining forces with the ultra-Canadian Old Trout Puppet Workshop - the team that created puppets for the klassic film Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.Apparently Feist has always been a huge puppet lover...
this isn't Feist's first time working with puppets. The Grammy-nominated chanteuse once toured with Peaches as Bitch Lap Lap, a leotard-wearing rapper with a sock puppet.Who knew Feist had such a wild side?
Hello, Feyfriends. It's Friday and that, of course, means FAGGY PUPPET NEWS. Well this news isn't that faggy except the Miss Piggy part, but it is great: there's going to be a new Muppet movie, and it might not be quite as busted as the last three or four. Variety reports:
Disney has enlisted scribe-thesp Jason Segel and helmer Nick Stoller to create the next Muppet movie for the studio.
Segel and Stoller will write the script and Stoller will direct.
Segel, who graduated from Apatow-produced skeins "Freaks and Geeks" and "Undeclared" got his first sole writing credit on the Apatow-produced "Forgetting Sarah Marshall." Universal releases the pic, which Stoller directed, on April 18.
In "Sarah Marshall" Segel's character writes a "Dracula" musical performed by puppets. Those cloth creatures were custom-made by the Henson puppeteers, and the experience emboldened Segel to pitch his concept for a Muppets movie when he was invited in for a general meeting with exec Kristin Burr. Segel got a deal in the room and enlisted Stoller to co-write and direct the project.
Of course, no matter how much of an improvement it is, any new Muppet movie will undoubtedly be shitty because Kermit and Janice are dead and Miss Piggy is busy directing LOLfests like this one. I don't know if anyone except me saw the last muppet film, MUPPETS IN SPACE, but if you did, you will remember that the main characters were a puppet shrimp and a puppet Rasta.
(Via FunFriends)
Happy MADAME FRIDAY from us here at FeyFriends. Faggy puppet links all day! Well probably not really. But maybe! Whatever-- Bobo's post about Madame inspired me to repost this classic think piece from Blair Magazine: Madame vs. Lester vs. Lady Elaine Fairchild (from Mr. Rogers.) WHO WOULD WIN? As Blair's David Chlopecki notes:
Well to start off with it's not really a fair fight. It's two wealthy white women puppets versus a nappy, and thus presumably poor, black puppet. Yes, you may be outraged by this assumption but I am forced to raise it due to the fact that 1) Lester's' career is over, 2) I don't see any royalties coming in the near future, and 3) he's a minority.
This article made me LOL and LOL when I was in high school. Somehow it seems even more IMPORTANT now. Happy Madame Friday!
I had the tiniest bit of a crush on this Raul Esparza fellow from his small recurring role on "Pushing Daisies", as Olive Snook's unrequited suitor Alfredo Aldirisio, but when I stumbled upon his brilliant performance as Bobby, the lead character in Sondheim's notoriously difficult-but-amazing "Company," on PBS one night it escalated into a full-blown obsession.I don't know what it is about him. Maybe it's the fact that he's openly at least sorta maybe gay? Maybe it has something to do with the character he played...In "Company", chronic bachelor Bobby struggles with issues of fidelity and commitment while going through one-night stands like Kleenex, so he's intriguingly slippery and unattainable. Also, "Bobby" is just a real hot name. (Come to think, so is "Raul".)
In the end, I think the reason I think he's hot is...BECAUSE HE'S HOT. He looks like my old favorite Gerard Butler (or "Buttzla" to those in the know) but less muscley and a bit doughier.
Which means he meets all my criteria for perfection: hot + approachable/attainable. Sigh.
I put up a clip of him performing a song from "Company" after the button pressy thingy.
This epic, four-part fan-made movie ranks up with Ed Wood's best for infectiously energetic amateurishness. You'll laugh at its failings--inconsistent audio, cheesy special effects, less-than-convincingly-athletic-looking superheroes--but still stand in awe of its can-do spirit and epic ambitions.
Or at least Bmad will.
(You can watch parts 2, 3, and 4 here, here, and here).
(h/t PoeTV)
