This is FRESH AIR. Let's continue our 30th anniversary retrospective with Divine, the man who often starred in women's roles in John Waters' films.
This is FRESH AIR. Let's continue our weeklong 30th anniversary retrospective of interviews from our first couple of years.
Gay Men's Health Crisis will honor multitalented performer Kathy Najimy with the 2017 Howard Ashman Award for her contributions to the LGBT community and the fight against HIV/AIDS. Najimy has been an outspoken advocate for more than three decades and has promoted social justice throughout her career, which includes the films Sister Act and Hocus Pocus and Off-Broadway acts including Kathy & Mo.
The 71-year-old actor starred as the child-killing monster in the 1990 TV mini-series version of Stephen King's 1986 horror novel and despite his many memorable roles Curry is consistently approached by fans of his terrifying alter ego. Speaking to The Guardian newspaper, the English star - who played Dr. Frank-N-Furter in cult classic 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' - said: "I went out to dinner the other night, and I'm currently in a wheelchair because I had a stroke five years ago.
The best of Broadway dressed to impress yesterday as six-time Tony-winning costume designer William Ivey Long got his very own caricature at the legendary Sardi's. Long was joined by many of his friends for the special occasion and BroadwayWorld was on hand for the big day! World-renowned costumer William Ivey Long is one of the most decorated creative forces in live entertainment.
Tobe Hooper, 1943-2017: Tobe Hooper, the horror-movie pioneer whose low-budget sensation "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" took a buzz saw to audiences with its brutally frightful vision, died Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017, in the Sherman Oaks area of Los Angeles. It was reported as a natural death.
A new poster for Stranger Things Season 2 featuring Millie Bobby Brown's Eleven pays homage to 1984 horror film Firestarter. The poster, released Thursday on Twitter, features Brown's hair rising up similar to how a young Drew Barrymore's hair is seen in the poster to Firestarter.
It's impossible to ignore James Wan 's impact on the horror genre over the last decade and change. Saw put both Wan and "torture porn" on the map, Insidious revamped haunted house architectures, The Conjuring scared up record-breaking box office numbers - and that's to start.
Actors Amanda Seyfried, left, and Ethan Hawke pose for photographers upon arrival for the press conference of the film 'First Reformed' during the 74th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017. less Actors Amanda Seyfried, left, and Ethan Hawke pose for photographers upon arrival for the press conference of the film 'First Reformed' during the 74th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, ... more Actors Amanda Seyfried, left, and Ethan Hawke pose for photographers upon arrival for the press conference of the film 'First Reformed' during the 74th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017.