Sex Beat
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009 - 3:11pm By Lauren WissotRace, the latest David Mamet play to open on Broadway, stars the effortlessly brazen James Spader. Spader, of course, has fashioned an entire career playing slick, sexy scoundrels whose looks allow them to get away with behavior a lesser nebbish...
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Monday, November 16, 2009 - 1:17pm By Lauren WissotOnce upon a time, there was an entity called community. It evolved out of the retro notion that people needed one another both to survive and thrive. It began with blood ties, since in the old days most of the support network around an individual...
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Monday, November 2, 2009 - 1:48pm By Lauren WissotMy most delectable Halloween treat last week was attending The New Guignol, an evening of short, ripped from the perverse-but-true headlines plays presented by The Blood Brothers and Nosedive Productions at my new haunt, The Brick Theater in...
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Monday, October 19, 2009 - 12:27pm By Lauren WissotTitus Andronicus is the first show in the "Grudge Match: DMT Vs. Shakespeare" series ("in which nearly all of the Bard's great works will be ruthlessly mutilated, bent, battered, cut to ribbons and otherwise manhandled," so...
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Monday, October 5, 2009 - 2:38pm By Lauren WissotIn Begging Naked Karen Gehres documents her friend Elise, a painter and sculptor and former Times Square stripper, as she succumbs to mental illness and homelessness. What struck me most about this little gem of a film was that it isn't just another...
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Monday, September 21, 2009 - 1:20pm By Lauren WissotI met Amsterdam-based director Jennifer Lyon Bell in person this past February at a Sunday brunch at Monkey Town, a performance space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn where we were both screening our CineKink Film Festival award winners. Her Matinée...
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Monday, September 7, 2009 - 1:28pm By Lauren WissotSummer in NYC is always the sexiest time of year, so to me it made hot and sweaty sense that following on the high heels of Shakespeare in the Park's Anne Hathaway Bard vehicle Twelfth Night, arrived The Bacchae, the Euripides tragedy directed by...
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Monday, August 24, 2009 - 4:23pm By Lauren WissotFor those who think, "Dog collars—they're not just for Fido anymore!" and prize Hitachi's Magic Wand over their microwaves, Emily Dubberley has been a household name in the U.K. for years. Since the prolific sex writer (eighteen...
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Monday, August 10, 2009 - 4:58pm By Lauren WissotAs a freelancer who writes almost exclusively for online film publications I often find myself wearing more than one mismatched hat. Sometimes I'm a critic picking apart larger than life images, and sometimes I'm a reporter picking the brain of a...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - 2:32pm By Lauren WissotNew York magazine recently ran an article by Mark Harris called "The Gay Generation Gap," in which he describes that chasm perhaps best summarized as the binary thinking of the old versus the non-thinking of the new. As Harris rightly...
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Monday, July 13, 2009 - 4:38pm By Lauren WissotWhat thrilled me most about the documentary Unraveling Michelle, which follows the ups, downs and in-betweens of MTF transsexual Michelle Ann Farrell as she transitions into her new life as a physically female being, has nothing to do with gender...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 6:13pm By Lauren WissotRecently I interviewed director Maria Beatty for the upcoming issue of Filmmaker magazine. Best known for the lesbian BDSM movies she's been creating for the past decade and a half, Beatty and I discussed the challenge that awaits every growing and...
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - 5:20pm By Lauren WissotFree love is in the air—and Hair. Forty years after the summer of ’69, the greatest tribal love-rock musical ever sung just won Best Revival of a Musical at the Tony Awards, while Pola Rapaport and Wolfgang Held’s documentary Hair...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - 11:53am By Lauren Wissot“Roy Cohn is not a homosexual. Roy Cohn is a heterosexual who fucks around with guys!" So proclaims Al Pacino as the notoriously ruthless McCarthyite in a clip from Mike Nichols' film version of Tony Kushner's Angels in...
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Monday, April 20, 2009 - 11:10am By Lauren WissotI always felt that yoga was something for closet perverts, not out-and-proud pervs like me. (Personally, I'm a Thai boxing enthusiast, martial arts being the Zen physical activities of choice among a heck of a lot of BDSM aficionados. But that's a...
