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Brandon Wetherbee

The Filthy World Of John Waters

HuffingtonPost.com | Brandon Wetherbee | Posted 05.14.2013 | DC

John Waters will perform Wednesday in ...

Director Adam Shankman: Glee Has Helped Anti-Bullying Movement

Shira Lazar | Posted 02.02.2013 | Impact
Shira Lazar

In between star-studded rehearsals for Sunday's Trevor Live event at the Hollywood Palladium, director Adam Shankman stops by What's Trending to talk about which celebrities will perform at the annual benefit, directing many Glee and the importance of The Trevor Project's cause.

What Becomes a Hollywood Legend Most? Oscar 2013 Producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan Talk Money, Sex, and Power

Tomas Mournian | Posted 12.02.2012 | Gay Voices
Tomas Mournian

Meron and Zadan's partnership initially took shape in New York City at the Public Theater, where, working for producer Joe Papp, they adopted the legendary producer's forward-looking ethos of color-blind casting and championing minority writers.

Jackie Hoffman: Weird and Wonderful Kvetch Extraordinaire Takes Top Billing at 54 Below

Myra Chanin | Posted 08.15.2012 | Comedy
Myra Chanin

"The girls there were nasty and much thinner than me." Actually no one was aware of her talent until she was cast as a stripper in the high school production of Gypsy, "I wouldn't wear a bikini, so they electrified me and lit up my bra."

Lucas Kavner

Why An All-White Production Of 'Hairspray' Is Raising Eyebrows

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 02.01.2012 | Home

"Hairspray" is a musical based on the 1988 John Waters film of the same name. It takes place in Baltimore in the early 1960s and follows an overweight...

Nights On Earth: Conversations with Vince Mendoza and Elf's Matthew Sklar

Mike Ragogna | Posted 01.25.2012 | Entertainment
Mike Ragogna

According to Vince Mendoza, the idea of his latest record was partly to embrace the various musicians that he's met over the years and to invite his old friends to participate in his music.

Diane Keaton Reveals Five Year Battle With Bulimia

Posted 01.11.2012 | Fifty

Beloved actress Diane Keaton scribed a new memoir, Then Again, revealing that she suffered a five-year battle with bulimia in her 20s. Keaton was a st...

WATCH: John Waters Talks Contemporary Art

Posted 10.11.2011 | Arts

Recently, director and artist John Waters sat down to talk about contemporary art, what makes a great painting, and his films with blog "Big Think." I...

Astoria Characters: The Stand-Up Nanny

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 09.18.2011 | New York
Nancy Ruhling

When performer Jenn Wehrung got tired of serving people hamburgers and fries, she put down her tray and auditioned to be a nanny. She got the part and played it perfectly for three years.

'Hairspray' Star Now Works At A Shoe Store

aol.com | Posted 09.10.2011 | Celebrity

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Nikki Blonsky Now Working In... Shoe Store?

mediatakeout.com | Posted 09.09.2011 | Entertainment

Check out what our buddies at the Daily Mail are saying about actress Nikki Blonsky: The actress is working two-to-three days a week at the plush Ste...

Nick Jonas Becoming A Heart Throb, John Stamos Joins Him

Posted 07.24.2011 | Entertainment

Just as he once supplanted him in the Disney film and music universe, Nick Jonas is now set to take the heart throb baton from Zac Efron on stage, too...

WATCH: FILM: The 'Pope Of Filth' Dishes On Filth, Dead Art, And Levi Johnston

Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts

John Waters, among the most beloved and eclectic screenwriters of the current era, dishes to Big Think about everything from art to perverts and from ...

Transforming Fat Into Art

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
George Heymont

While Hollywood tends to use fat people for comic relief (or to show how much they suffer when dieting), several actors have used the struggle to control their weight as source material for live performance art.

Dreamgirls Gets a Facelift

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
George Heymont

From the very first beats of Henry Krieger's score, the new staging of Dreamgirls roars out of the opening gate and never slows down.

Nikki Blonsky: An Outsized Talent in Hollywood

Tamar Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Tamar Abrams

Sunday night, stars will strut on the red carpet showing off their sleek size 2 bodies. Although Nikki Blonsky, star of Hairspray and ABC Family's Hug...

John Waters On Colbert: 'Wouldn't You Rather Your Child Be A Drug Dealer Than A Drug Addict?' (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

John Waters, the quirky filmmaker famous for writing and directing "Hairspray," came on "The Colbert Report" last night to talk about his new book, "R...

Is Promises, Promises an Argument for Marriage Equality?

Karen Ocamb | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Karen Ocamb

In the wake of Prop 8, Promises, Promises is a laugh-out loud ode to heterosexual hypocrisy.

What If We Hadn't Cut Back On CFCs? A Scary World

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

WASHINGTON — Here's rare good news about an environmental crisis: We dodged disaster with the ozone layer. A NASA study about ozone-munching che...

Prop 8 (The Musical): Too Little, Too Late?

Scott Mendelson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Scott Mendelson

I can't help but wonder why this didn't pop up before the election. You know, when it might have actually made a difference.

"Hairspray" Sequel Set For 2010

Variety | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment

Get ready for another shot of "Hairspray." New Line Cinema has made a deal with "Hairspray" creator John Waters to write a treatment for a sequel to ...

Broadway Posts Record 07 Sales, Despite Strike Shut Down

Bloomberg | Philip Boroff | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Broadway revenue totaled more than $938 million in 2007, up 3.5 percent from 2006 despite a 19-day stagehands strike in November that shut down most s...

Guess The Celebrity Wig Wearer

DListed | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment

It's no secret that John Travolta wears a wig, but that thing is looking all sorts of beat lately. Can't Johnny call up Tyra Banks, so she can tell hi...