Saturday, August 4, 2012
is getting a reading today in Topanga. I've wanted to be involved in Botanicum Seedlings for some time now so I'm excited to get an opportunity with this play. But first, brunch at The Inn o…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 11:15AMFriday, August 3, 2012
I pulled a nice article by Chicago playwright J. Nicole Brooks from Rogue Machine's Twitter feed. Here's a quoteThere’s room for all of our stories, past and present. Speaking of the past,…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 09:27PMWednesday, August 1, 2012
but inspired by this post. Also this one a little bit.One thing I appreciated about the talkback after my favorite Outfest documentary, The Prep School Negro, was the lone criticism director…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 12:47PMTuesday, July 31, 2012
got on my radar last week thanks to this post on the Advocate's website. It gives a video he posted on a website called WeHappyTrans, a wider audience; The Advocate's copy is more summary th…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 02:02PMSaturday, July 28, 2012
Chick-Fil-A. I do it happily and have for some time. Then again, even if I wasn't avoiding on principle, do you think I'm gonna haul my ass up to Sunset and Highland just for a dumb chicken …
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 09:36PMin and around Malibu every week for the past three weeks. Here are some pics of my most recent one, starting at the end of Corral Canyon Road. Modern Hiker calls it Castro Crest and Bulldog …
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 01:36PMWednesday, July 25, 2012
One of the best biographies I've ever read was one I picked up at City Lights Books last fall while I was in San Francisco. Secret Historian, by Justin Spring, tells the story of...well, let…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 02:44AMTuesday, July 24, 2012
I was considering taking a drive down to San Diego to see this show, extremely excited about the new Sheik / Sater musical with Moises Kaufman directing. After hearing about the casting cont…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 06:32PMI'd been contemplating seeing Dirty Projectors this Saturday at the Wiltern for some time, but I'm trying not to spend money and figured I might skip it. Then I downloaded the new album, Swi…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 11:19AMSaying that her sister was a very private person, Bear Ride said, "People did not know she had pancreatic cancer, that's going to be a huge shock. For 17 months, nobody knew -- and everyone …
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 02:02AMFriday, July 20, 2012
Last night I went to Queerer than Fiction, the documentary shorts program, to cap my Outfest 2012 experience. Another strong program, but one that stood out was actually one I'd seen before,…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 08:32AMWednesday, July 18, 2012
I teared up during the first scene of The Prep School Negro, and the waterworks were intermittent throughout the rest of it. As the standing ovation for the film's subject and director, Andr…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 03:41PMTen years ago this September I moved to Los Angeles here with a lot of excitement and no clue what I was doing out of the closet less than a year full of energy and anticipation eager to fin…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 02:58PMI just saw this on Twitter and thought I'd draw a little attention to it here.David Adjmi wrote a play parodying Three's Company, and he's now being bullied by a big law firm representing th…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 02:46PMTuesday, July 17, 2012
About halfway through last night's screening of Keep the Lights On, I thought to myself, "hey, this seems an awful lot like Bill Clegg."I bought a copy of his memoir, Portrait of an Addict a…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 03:22PMSunday morning I brought the spirit to DGA2 for a screening of My Best Day, starring one of my Arkansas favorites, Ashlie Atkinson. Check here for a trailer. It's a solid bit of modern small…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 02:55PMThis is an ad/interview, but I'm posting it because it shows Narcissister's live performance of her short, Every Woman, one of my favorites from the Platinum Shorts program.
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 02:36PMI finished my day at Outfest on Sunday with the Platinum Shorts program, a collection of experimental shorts at REDCAT. I was there mainly for the Matt Wolf short, I Remember: A Film About J…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 11:39AMSunday, July 15, 2012
I started my Outfest 2012 experience with an anniversary screening -- one of the three movies from the first Outfest 30 years ago was Queen of Sheba and the Atom Man, starring actor/poet/art…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 01:01PMFriday, July 13, 2012
and I'm going to try to see as much as I can and post about it all, as usual. This year I have an embarrassment of riches. Just for kicks I entered an Outfest contest and created a Pinterest…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 12:18PMOne of the things that's awesome about the evolution of Facebook since I began writing this blog is that now I just get awesome weird news items in my feed that I can pluck out and plaster u…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 02:32AMLATimes has a new piece about his exit, along with some of the other folks bailing on that mess. I love this quote from Baldessari:"When I heard about that disco show I had to read it twice.…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 02:21AMThursday, July 12, 2012
JW and I decided to cut to the chase and go right to the first movie that comes to mind when I think of Judy Davis, the under-appreciated Woody Allen movie Husbands and Wives.It seems more s…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 07:10PMFour members of the Board of Trustees dress down Jeffrey Deitch in a letter to the LATimes here.The celebrity-driven program that MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch promotes is not the answer.John…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 05:16PMThe Neil Patrick Harris concert Company is being released on DVD. Check it out.
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 01:12PMWednesday, July 11, 2012
are due to Steven Leigh Morris in the LAWeekly for his kind words. Hello to anyone visiting from that blog. If you do know me, thanks for checking things out again. If you don't know me, ch…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 06:47PMFrom the LATimes:L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art may not be well-endowed financially, but it’s getting ready to shake its booty nevertheless: An upcoming exhibition will examine the cu…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 02:24PMMike Daisey's back in the press at least a little bit, after inviting loads of web journalists (I can only assume Gawker's Adrian Chen was not on his list) to his revised remount of The Agon…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 05:11AMTuesday, July 10, 2012
film festival after finding her the highlight of the pleasant, forgettable To Rome With Love. While it is fun to see the grandfatherly Woody Allen deliver his own lines again, Davis steals p…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 12:32AMMonday, July 9, 2012
Since I'm dusting off FWL and trying to get back in the swing of things, I thought it might be fun to cover a few things I probably would've blogged about in the time the blog was so sorely …
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 06:16PM 
