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...fine with strip-club stripping," says Katherine Valentine, the affable redhead who plays the stern Teutonic M.C. Miss Astrid in Manhattan's Va Va Voom Room burlesque show. "But stripping is a man giving money to a woman in exchange for a sexual feeling. The burlesque thing has very little to do with that." Michelle Carr, who founded Los Angeles' Velvet Hammer in 1995, puts it another way: "Go to a strip club, and everyone out of the gate looks exactly the same. What we get is a chance to express ourselves creatively...
Kennedy lives with her artist and designer husband Edwin Schlossberg and their three children in Manhattan. As the busy mother of Rose, 13, Tatiana, 12, and John, 9, she admits that it is sometimes hard to find time for writing. "Between my own children and my mother's and brother's affairs, I had a lot of family obligations over the last few years. These kinds of books, in a way, are part of that process." But she says she will never write the one book the publishing industry and the public long for - a memoir. "I can't ever...
...Gary Wilson, who recorded an album of eccentric funk tunes in his parents' basement in the '70s called "You Think You Really Know Me" that attracted a cult following. Wilson is now back on stage doing an imitation of his old self. At his sold-out show in Manhattan last week, Wilson sang the songs from that record with a well-oiled back-up band, dropped the name of the upstate New York town he recorded them in, and rolled around in flour as a tribute to his old, legendary habit of rolling around in flour. He played himself: Gary...
...upfronts! The one glorious week a year when the major networks unveil their fall schedules at grand self-celebrations around Manhattan, then throw lavish parties for the marketing executives they want to sucker into buying ads. Dozens of new TV programs are unveiled here each year -comedies, dramas, specials, reality shows. It's like Christmas all week -albeit a Christmas where you know 90% of your presents will suck, and most will end up, unloved and barely used, in the garbage scant weeks after they're opened...
...they want their favorite filmmakers to keep making favored films. And Allen has had skeins of terrific movies: Zelig, Broadway Danny Rose, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Hannah and Her Sisters and Radio Days in the mid-'80s and the lesser, still pleasing run of Husbands and Wives, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Bullets over Broadway and Mighty Aphrodite in the mid-'90s. So, as we near the mid-'00s, can we hope for another blossoming? It would be nice if the Woodman had one more return to top form--an invigorating dose of comic Viagra. --By Richard Corliss