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EYES OF TAMMY FAYE
In
this affectionate documentary portrait of one of the
most “adored and reviled women of her time,”
The Eyes of Tammy Fayepromises to look behind
the hype and the mascara to investigate what really
happened when Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s PTL empire
came tumbling down. Narrated by RuPaul, Eyesfollows
Tammy Faye’s life from teen bride, to PTL super-Christian
and creator of the Christian theme park, Heritage USA,
to object of cruelty and “Christian” treachery.
Schheduled to start Aug. 11 at Landmark’s River
Oaks Theatre.
JOHN WATERS’ CINEMA TERRORISTS
The latest
from the ever-insane John Waters, Cecil B. DeMentedportrays
a young underground filmmaker (Stephen Dorff, pictured)
and his cult of fanatic followers who declare war on
bad cinema, and kidnap an A-list movie queen (played
by Melanie Griffith) and force her to star in their
radical outlaw film. Scheduled to start Aug. 18 at Landmark’s
River Oaks Theatre.
AUGUST
2,
9, 16, 23, 30 (Weds.)
HIV Testing. The
AIDS crisis is not over. Getting tested is critical.
The Montrose Clinic offers free confidential HIV testing
and counseling every Wednesday, 6-9 pm @ the Houston
Lesbian & Gay Community Center, 803 Hawthorne.
Center: 713/524-3818. Clinic: 713/830-3000.
7 (Mon.) Repeats
on Aug. 13, 16, 19, & 27
The Truth About Jane.
Fifteen-year-old Jane (Ellen Muth) lives the ideal life
in suburbia with her parents Janice (Stockard Channing)
and Robert (James Naughton) and her younger brother.
While Janice is an overprotective mother, she and Jane
are very close and honest with each other. Although
popular, Jane has always felt somewhat different than
her friends, and when she meets transfer student Taylor
during her first year of high school, her life irrevocably
changes. Jane and Taylor instantly become close friends,
and Jane feels a connection to Taylor that she’s
never had with her other friends. Janice is not thrilled
with her daughter’s closeness with Taylor, and
though Janice’s longtime friend Bobby (RuPaul Charles,
out of drag) is gay, the usually liberal, accepting
Janice is even less thrilled when Jane announces her
lesbianism. • To conclude: Taylor breaks up with
Jane; Jane confides in her English teacher; her English
teacher tells her she’s a lesbian; mom threatens
to expose the teacher’s sexuality to the school
board; and the teacher confronts the parents. •
Tune in for The Truth About Jane,August 7 at
8 p.m. on Lifetime Television (repeat dates: Sun., Aug.
13, 5 p.m.; Wed., Aug. 16, 8 p.m.; Sat., Aug. 19, 3
p.m.; and Sun., Aug. 27, 11 a.m.). • Click here
for an interview with Ellen Muth
and here for an interview with RuPaul
Charles. —Blase DiStefano
9 (Wed.)
Relationship Loss: Grieving,
Healing, Rebuilding. When the relationship
ends, there is pain, whether you left or your partner
left. What do you do now? Learn at this special Women’s
Network meeting with Lynn Waldmann, LMSW-ACP. Waldmann
studied & worked with Dr. Elizabeth Kübler-Ross,
conducting training seminars/workshops in the externalization
process with persons in crisis who were facing chronic
illness or death, family of origin issues, grief, or
trauma. 7–9 pm @ the Montrose Counseling Center,
701 Richmond. A donation of $3–$5 is requested,
but any woman is welcome regardless of her ability to
pay.
More info: 713/529-0037.
10–13 (Thu.–Sun.)
Grease. One of Broadway’s
longest-running musicals hits Houston’s Aerial
Theater, and with it comes two of the stars of Laverne
& Shirley: Cindy Williams (Shirley Feeney) and Eddie
Mekka (Carmine “the Big Ragu” Ragusa). Tickets:
at sfx.com or the Aerial Theater box office or charge
by phone at 713/629-3700.
11 & 12 (Fri.
& Sat.)
HYPE. The Alley
Theatre has selected five plays by local teens to be
featured in its upcoming summer teen playwrights festival—HYPE
(Houston Young Playwrights Exchange). If you’re
looking for gay content, there’s not much of it;
but if you like theater and you appreciate talent, make
your reservations. The plays range in style & subject
matter from a free-form poetic discussion of racism
in America to a lighthearted parody of human evolution.
8 pm @ the Alley Theatre, 615 Texas Ave. Tickets: $5.
Reservations: 713/228-8421.
12 (Sat.)
Gay-ety in Gilda?
An evil South American casino owner (George Macready)
hires a young American as a trusted aide (Glenn Ford),
unaware that the aide and his sultry wife (Rita Hayworth)
are having a torrid affair. However, Ford said in an
interview that he and Macready “knew we were supposed
to be playing homosexuals.” In fact, one of the
lines between Ford and Macready in this 1946 film is,
“I was born the night you met me.” •
Gilda also contains the famous striptease dance to “Put
the Blame on Mame” that transformed Hayworth into
a Hollywood sex goddess and should be a staple in any
drag queen’s repetoire. • 7:30 p.m. @ the
Glassell School of Art’s Freed Auditorium, 5101
Montrose Blvd. Tickets are $5 ($4 MFAH members, seniors
[55+], & students with ID). Info during business
hours: 713/639-7531; after hours: 713/639-7300. —Blase
DiStefano
12 (Sat.)
Contemporary Photography Sale
& Benefit. Need (or want) a great photograph
for that blank space staring you in the face? Check
out photos from a slew of Texas photograhers, including
Tricia Moreau Sweeney (an OutSmart staff photographer)
and Theresa DiMenno (her photos have graced OutSmart’s
cover many times). Free admission. 10 am–6 pm @
Houston Center for Photography, 1441 W. Alabama, 713/529-4755.
12 (Sat.)
Marvin Hamlisch
has won every musical accolade there is—three Oscars,
four Grammys, three Emmys, a Tony, and three Golden
Globe awards. His Broadway show A Chorus Line earned
a Pulitzer Prize. But there’s even more to enjoy
about this performer. As a conductor, he has led the
great orchestras of the world; as a pianist, he delights
audiences as both an ensemble performer and soloist;
and as a live entertainer, he tells jokes, interjects
clever quips, and often astounds audiences with a game
of “rent-a-composer”—whereby he instantly
composes songs from outlandish titles shouted to him
by audience members. 8 pm at Cynthia Woods Mitchell
Pavilion, 2005 Lake Robbins Drive in the Woodlands.
Tickets ($14.75–$49.75) available at all Ticketmaster
locations; charge at 713/629-3700. More info: 281/363-3300.
12 (Sat.) &
27 (Sun.)
The Rainbow Fishing Club
has two 12-hour deep sea fishing trips from Galveston
scheduled in August. The club goes out on the 85-foot
New Buccaneer, which holds 100 passengers. The cost
is $65 ($30 for those not fishing); children under 13
who fish pay $40. The boat supplies all equipment and
bait, has a spacious sundeck, a grill and cook, and
an A/C cabin. No license is needed, and deckhands are
always around to help. Non-club members are welcome.
For a complimentary club newsletter & boat brochure,
call 713/523-6381. For more info on the trips, visit
www.galvestonpartyboatsinc.com.
13 (Sun.)
To Have and Have Not
is loosely based on Ernest Heminway’s novel about
a Caribbean charter-boat owner (Humphrey Bogart), a
beautiful woman (19-year-old Lauren Bacall in her screen
debut), and French resistance fighters during World
War II. An unhappily married Bogart and the young Bacall
fell in love on the set of this 1944 film directed by
Howard Hawks. 7 pm @ the Glassell School of Art’s
Freed Auditorium, 5101 Montrose Blvd. Tickets are $5
($4 MFAH members, seniors [55+], & students with
ID). Info during business hours: 713/639-7531; after
hours: 713/639-7300.
18 & 19 (Fri.
& Sat.)
Grey Gardens. Mrs.
Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie (aunt &
first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis), live in
a world of their own behind the brambles that surround
their decaying 28-room East Hampton mansion known as
“Grey Gardens.” Mrs. Beale, aka “Big
Edie,” was a born aristocrat, sister of Jackie
O’s father. “Little Edie” was a model
& aspiring actress who put her New York life on
hold to care for her aging mother—and never went
back. In the wake of eviction threat headlines, Albert
& David Maysles filmed 50 hours of footage that
were edited into this 1976 epic verité account
of a relationship that Tennessee Williams would have
relished. As critic Janet Maslin wrote in 1998: “[L]ike
both Beales, Grey Gardens has grown more bizarre and
commanding with age.” 7:30 pm both nights @ the
Glassell School of Art’s Freed Auditorium, 5101
Montrose Blvd. Tickets are $5 ($4 MFAH members, seniors
[55+], & students with ID). Info during business
hours: 713/639-7531; after hours: 713/639-7300.
23 (Wed.)
Discover the “Quality”
of Your Life. Free lecture & group discussion
focusing on the qualities that will support your goals,
dreams, & relationships. Let go of “shoulds”
& “have to’s” and learn to listen
to the magic & wisdom of your heart. Light snacks
provided. 6-8:30 pm. Space limited to 20. For location/more
info: 713/664-4365.
23 (Wed.)
Recalling Childhood Sexual
Abuse: Fact or Fiction? An enlightening evening
for anyone who is interested in understanding more about
sexual abuse and its manifestations. 7–9 pm. $15.
Call Maria Minicucci for location/more info: 713/592-5262.
25 (Fri.)
Girls in Love. For
the hot summer months, Lesbian Film Night is screening
classic flicks frequently requested by the women who
attend the popular monthly programs. The August feature,
The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love,is director Maria Maggenti’s 1995 comedy about
two teenage girls (Laurel Holloman and Nicole Parker)
who meet and fall in love; one is from the proverbial
wrong side of the tracks. “Ive seen this movie
a couple of times and am always ready to watch it again,”
reports film-night organizer Jessica Wicks. “It’s
just delightful.” A potluck precedes the movie.
7 p.m. potluck and 8 p.m. movie @ the Houston Lesbian
& Gay Community Center, 803 Hawthorne. For more
information, call 713/524-3818 or visit Labrysgrl3@aol.com.
25 & 26 (Fri.
& Sat.)
Back-to-School Blues.
The improvisational Houston ComedySportz troupe, as
a proud result of public education, is giving a break
to all those who are still experiencing the joys of
educatiion. Whether you’re just beginning to climb
that ladder to graduation or you’ve made getting
an education a career of its own, you’ll want to
join them for some blues-bustin’ fun. 8 pm both
nights @ Lambert Hall, 1703 Heights Blvd. (at 17th Street).
Admission is $10 ($5 with a student ID). Reservations/more
info: 713/868-1444.
26 (Sat.)
From Submission to Surrender:
A Journey to Ecstasy. For all erotically adventurous
women, this is a provocative, innovative, & challenging
approach to freeing inhibitions, gaining personal &
sexual confidence, and enhancing gratification &
pleasure in all aspects of your life. 10 am–3 pm.
$75 includes lunch. Call Maria Minicucci for location/more
info: 713/592-5262.
27 (Sun.)
Poetry Night. Houston
poets Simone A. Cunningham and Angela Williamston, who
is also a media artist and organizer of the annual Cinema
Shorts: A Woman's Perspective film and video festival,
will read from recent work. An open-mike session for
other aspiring poets will follow. 7:30 pm @ the Houston
Lesbian & Gay Community Center, 803 Hawthorne, 713/524-3818.
27 (Sun.)
The 7th Annual Theater District
Open House is a free, fun-filled afternoon
of learning more about the arts. Activities include:
live performances; sneak previews of the 2000-2001 Theater
District seasons; behind-the-scenes tours of backstage,
seating, & dressing-room areas; question-&-answer
sessions with performers; costume stations, celebrity
storytelling, face painting, & puppet shows for
children; free food & drinks; and season ticket
information booths. 1–6 pm at the Alley Theatre,
Jones Hall, & the Wortham Theater Center. More info:
713/250-3670.
PLANNING AHEAD FOR
SEPTEMBER
8, 15–17 (Fri.,
Fri.–Sun.)
Tennis Tournament.
Sweetwater Country Club hosts the 2nd Annual “Serve
& Folley” Tennis Tournament to benefit the
Lone Star Chapter of the National Multiple Scelrosis
Society. The event invites open B & C men &
women tennis enthusiasts to participate. Teams will
be matched according to their skill levels, either 3.5,
4.0, or 4.5. The entry fee for the double elimination
tournament is $95 per doubles team or $50 per person,
which includes a commemorative T-shirt, goodie bag,
continental breakfast Saturday & Sunday, lunch Saturday,
and dinner & entertainment Saturday night. Registration
deadline is Friday, Sept. 8. The tournament is Sept.
15–17 @ Sweetwater Country Club, 4400 Palm Royale
Blvd. Info: 281/980-2255.
8–10 (Fri.–Sun.)
Houston Antique Dealers Association’s
(HADA) Annual Fall Show & Sale. Over
150 antique dealers will showcase the finest in antiques,
including antique furniture, silver, glass, porcelain,
primitives, Orientalia, jewelry, linens, lace, quilts,
artifacts, country, rugs, prints, maps, paintings, lighting,
clocks, china, stamps, dolls, coins, & more. Tickets,
good for all three days, are available for $8 at the
door. 10 am–6 pm on Friday & Saturday, noon–5
pm on Sunday. More info: 713/764-4232.
9 (Sat.)
Galveston ArtWalk
is an evening of the visual arts in historic downtown
Galveston. The event, held every six weeks, is free
and open to the public. 6–9 pm. The trolley will
provide free transportation during opening. Info: the
Galveston Arts Center at 409/763-2403.
14–16 (Thu.–Sat.)
Margaret Cho. “I’ve
slept with women, but I don’t think I’m gay
or straight. I think I’m just slutty.” If
you missed the hilarious comedian’s appearance
in Houston last year, now’s your chance to make
up for your indiscretion. 8:30 pm on Thursday, 8 pm
& 10:30 pm on Friday & Saturday (non-smoking
show is Saturday, 8 pm) @ Houston’s Laff Stop,
1952 W. Gray in the River Oaks Shopping Center, 713/524-2333.
PERFORMING ARTS
Ain’t Misbehavin’ is the bright,
sassy “Fats” Waller musical revue. Along with
Louis Armstrong, Waller was one of the first authentic
black superstars. Recreating the atmosphere of a sultry,
smoky, 1930s Harlem nightclub, this play fills the air
with great music. The wailing, stompin’ five-piece
band and the three females & two males singin’
& dancin’ bring to life Waller’s famous
songs. Through Aug. 31 @ the Great Caruso Dinner Theater,
10001 Westheimer near Gessner. Dinner & show: $29.95
(Wed., Thurs., & Sun.); $34.95 (Fri. & Sat.).
Reservations: 713/780-4900.
Buddy (The Buddy Holly Story).
The life & music of rock-’n’-roll
star Buddy Holly reverberate in this musical event,
presented by Theatre Under The Stars, Aug. 8–20
@ Wortham Center’s Brown Theater. Tickets ($16–$75)
by phone from Admission Network, 800/678-5440; in person
at TUTS TIX, 2600 SW Frwy @ Kirby; outlets (Sound Revolution,
Vinal Edge); Wortham box office, 510 Preston (11 am
to curtain on day of performance); online at www.tuts.com.
For Her Che-ild’s Sake
or Her First False Step is a comic “mellerdrammer”
in three acts. Cheer the hero, console the heroine,
boo and hiss the villain as you pelt him with popcorn!
Tickets $9 ($8 students/seniors); matinees $7. Through
Aug. 26 @ Theatre Suburbia, 1410 W. 43rd, 713/682-3525.
Godspell invites
you to share its celebration of the passion of Jesus
Christ that teaches people to love and have joy in their
hearts rather than to hate and have sadness in their
lives. It is a celebration of love and life, and this
A.D. Players production, set in a playground, is true
to the original off-Broadway hit. Through Aug. 13 @
Grace Theater, 2710 W. Alabama. Tickets are $18 with
discounts for groups, seniors, & students.
For reservations/more info: 713/526-2721.
Gypsy is the semi-biographical
musical romp through the life of the famous fan dancer,
Gypsy Rose Lee. Through Aug. 19 @ The Country Playhouse,
12802 Queensbury (Town & Country Village). For directions/ticket
info: 713/467-4497.
I Love You but You’re
Sitting on My Cat has the “Singing Fertle
Family” from Dumpster, Texas, falling on hard times.
The out-of-work kids have moved back home, the retired
parents are living on a fixed income, & now an unexpected
bill has created a financial emergency. But not to worry...Earl
has come up with a surefire method to win money by gambling,
so the whole gang is taking a bus trip to the glittering
casinos of Lake Charles, Louisiana. $15 admission &
reservations required; food & drink are available
throughout the show. Thursdays–Saturdays @ Radio
Music Theatre, 2623 Colquitt, 713/522-7722.
Killer Karaoke or Twenty Hundred
and One: A Space Oddity. Enter the glittering
& cutthroat arena of the professional karaoke singer
in Mystery Cafe Houston’s world premiere show!
Someone is stalking the contestants of the Gulf Coast
Regional Semi-Final Three Steps Before National Silver
Microphone Karaoke Competition, and it’s up to
you to find out who. Even if you feel that there is
enough pain & suffering in the world without karaoke,
Killer Karaoke provides enough fun, thrills, & sing-along-able
songs to keep you laughing & humming long after
the evening’s over! Every Friday & Saturday
night, 7:30 pm (8 pm curtain) @ Prima Pasta & Seafood,
2710 Richmond (‘tween Kirby & Buffalo Spdwy).
Tickets are $38.95 and include salad, choice of entree,
dessert, coffee, tea, milk, gratuity for dinner service
& tax, plus the show. Tickets: 713/944-CLUE (2583).
Rent is about being
young in New York, being brave and being scared, being
in love and being in trouble, having hope for today
and faith in tomorrow. The Tony Award-winning musical
runs Aug. 16-20 at Jones Hall. Tickets: ticketmaster.com
or 713/629-3700. Groups call 713/693-2692.
The Rocky Horror Show’s
remarkable power to excite audiences is legendary. So,
the Little Room Downstairs Theater presents the 25th
anniversary production of the cult classic (book, music,
& lyrics by Richard O’Brien). Broadway will
host Rocky again this fall...but Houston audiences will
see it first. It’s hot and it’s here at the
Little Room. • For this new and unique production
(it’s not the movie, folks!), the Little Room is
adding a twist to the garters and fishnets—fetishisms.
Whether it’s leather or lace, vinyl or latex; whether
it’s toes, tickling, or teasing, this Rocky will
get you in all the right places! • Through Aug.
26 @ The Little Room Downstairs, 2328 Bissonnet, between
Greenbriar & Kirby. Performances are Thursday–Monday
at 8 p.m. (Sundays at 7 p.m.). Tickets ($20) can be
charged by phone at 713/522-5737.
Tamalalia 2000.
Part
musical revue, part fashion show, part morality play,
T2000takes our heroine on her wildest ride yet,
courtesy of a discarded, old time machine. Actress Tamarie
Cooper rides the time-stream from the domestic bliss
of The Woodlands to the dawn of mankind, the not-so-distant
future, and finally, quite literally, to hell and back.
Directed and choreographed by Cooper, T2000features
an original score by Infernal Bridegroom Productions
composers Anthony Barilla and Chris Bakos and lyricist
Greg Stanley. This is Cooper’s fifth in what we
hope is an endless number of Tamalalia productions;
if you’ve never seen one, you gotta go. Through
Aug. 26 (Thursdays, Fridays, & Saturdays at 8 pm)
@ Stages Repertory Theatre, 3201 Allen Parkway. Tickets
are $10 for Thursday performances, $15 for Fridays &
Saturdays. Reservations: 713/52-STAGE. (Click here for
an interview with Tamarie Cooper.)
RADIO
After Hours (Radio)
Saturdays, midnight to 3 am. Featuring the QMZ (Queer
Music Zone) with Jimmy Carper. KPFT 90.1 FM.
Lesbian & Gay Voices
(Radio) Mondays, 8-10 pm. Features, news, music, interviews,
reviews, and commentary. KPFT 90.1 FM, 713/526-4000.
ART/PHOTOGRAPHY
Art Classes for People With
HIV: The Art League of Houston is offering
free art classes for people with HIV. The ongoing course
meets every Thursday & Friday from 1-4 pm at the
Art League, 1953 Montrose. Mixed media projects for
the artist and non-artist. Constructive art-making in
a relaxed atmosphere. Focus is on the healing power
of art. More info: 713/523-9530. The Museum of Fine
Arts Houston is offering free art classes for those
with HIV/AIDS. Patrick Palmer begins his 9th year offering
art instruction. Abstract painting, linoleum-cut greeting
cards, & ceramics are some of the media offerings
for the fall semester. Class is limited to 16. Everything
is free, even lunch! The classes meet at the Glassell
School of Art every Friday, 1-4 pm, 5101 Montrose Blvd.,
room 202. For more info: 713/639-7500 or 713/526-1118.
Clinging to Humanity: In Search
of Hope. The collection of poems and artwork
by Saul Balagura included in this exhibition is the
ultimate expression of compassion. Balagura is not a
survivor of the Holocaust, yet through his creative
process he transcends space & time to evoke the
thoughts & emotions of victims & survivors.
Through Aug. 27 @ the Holocaust Museum, 5401 Caroline,
713/942-8000.
DVDs. 2 DVD Installations
features two films presented as DVD projections: Eija-Liisa
Ahtila’s Consolation Service (1999, 23 minutes
& 40 seconds), and Ann-Sofi Sidén’s
QM, I think I call her QM (1997, 28 minutes). Consolation
elaborates on themes of endings & beginnings, present
& future, holding onto & letting go. QM brings
together QM, a mysterious mud-covered creature, and
Dr. Ruth Fielding, a troubled & increasingly paranoid
psychiatrist. Through Sept. 3 @ Contemporary Arts Museum,
5216 Montrose Blvd., 713/284-8250.
David Lozano, a
local artist, apparently keeps himself pretty busy,
what with TWO exhibitions that begin in August. You
can catch exhibition one (“Recent Works on Paper
and Canvas,” including the pictured painting) through
September 2 at Mo Mong restaurant, 1201 Westheimer (next
to Hollywood Video). Exhibition two, entitled “Super
Fabulous,” is a painted installation, which will
focus on patterns, lines, and colors associated with
stereotypical elements of masculinity and femininity.
Every square inch of wall space in the gallery at Houston
Community College will be painted with cropped images
of larger-than-life comic super heroes and patterns
commonly found in fabric or decorative elements. These
reference the recurring themes in David’s work,
such as the dualities of the natural and the unnatural
or of masculinity and femininity. The environment will
also celebrate the different, the “queer.”
Youths from H.A.T.C.H. will be assisting David in painting
the walls of the gallery during August. On August 31,
7–9 p.m., there will be an opening for the exhibition,
which will show through September 30 at the Art Gallery
in the Fine Arts Center at Houston Community College,
Central Campus, 3517 Austin St.
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