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Sewers of Paris: I Don't Want to be Part of the Straight World (Ep 519 - Freaks/Alexis)
My guest this week is Alexis Langlois, director of the film Queens of Drama — a musical love story about two performers who enter a forbidden romance behind the scenes of a pop-star competition. Alexis has been making films with a troupe of irregulars for years, inspired by John Waters’ Dreamlanders
May 15, 2025 0 31
Bonus video! Julia Child's kitchen goofs (and creative saves)
Hello there! For my most recent YouTube video, I did some research into the early days of PBS (and its predecessor, NET), and came across a lot of fun Julia Child stuff that I didn't have room for in the final video. But I thought you'd get a kick out of a couple of clips in which she screws things
Nov 3, 2024 0
New Video! The Epic Stage to Screen Journey of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES and THE BIRD CAGE
Feb 19, 2023 0
Bonus Video! The one gay French hairdresser who inspired 30 years of imitators
Hello there! In this week's bonus video, we're taking a loooooong historical look back at a gay (or I guess gay-affected) French hairdresser whose appearance in a 1966 film inspired the femme drag star of La Cage Aux Folles and, in turn, Nathan Lane's character in The Birdcage. Also: I'd like to int
Jan 29, 2023 0 1
Sewers of Paris: Giving Myself Permission to Get a Little Bit Sexier
You might know my guest this week from his saucy art on Twitter, but there’s much more to his work than X-Men in Speedos. Josh Cornillon grew up reading sophisticated graphic novels in his native France, and those books infuse the writing and illustration that he does today.
Sep 15, 2022 0 1
Sewers of Paris: We're All Enjoying the Male Body (Ep 379 - International Male/Buck Jones)
My guest on this week's Sewers of Paris podcast left his old life behind to chase dreams of freedom with the love of his life. Buck Jones was working a corporate job with a homophobic boss when he and his then-boyfriend, now-husband sold their home and moved overseas to open a little café in Paris.
Mar 17, 2022 0 1
Cozy Pants 40: Voulez-Vous Poulet Avec Moi
We're doing the French Mistake on the Cozy Pants podcast this week, with James' attention still fixed solidly on Les Miserables, and mine on the tattered shreds of my high school French classes. We discuss the new extremely weird Death Stranding game, and also Outer Worlds, in which I play a tacitur
Nov 12, 2019 0 1
The First Time I Could be a Gay Person (Ep. 195 - Alien)
My guest this week is Nathaniel Atcheson, writer and director of the film Domain, which comes out this week. Like the movies that inspired him as a kid, Domain is a story about isolation and loneliness and coping with the fear of being life-threateningly disconnected from other people. That might so
Oct 4, 2018 0 11