RIP Sally Ride by Kyle

Saying 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 2:02am on July 24, 2012☆⚑

Outfest: The Devotion Project by Kyle

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 8:32am on July 20, 2012☆⚑

Outfest: Andre Lee by Kyle

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 3:41pm on July 18, 2012☆⚑

Journal Entry - 4/17 by Kyle

Ten 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 2:58pm on July 18, 2012☆⚑

Jon Robin Baitz on David Adjmi's 3-C by Kyle

I 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 2:46pm on July 18, 2012☆⚑

Outfest: Bill Clegg by Kyle

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 3:22pm on July 17, 2012☆⚑

Outfest: Ashlie Atkinson by Kyle

Sunday 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 2:55pm on July 17, 2012☆⚑

Outfest: Narcissister by Kyle

This 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 2:36pm on July 17, 2012☆⚑

Outfest: Joe Brainard by Kyle

I 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 11:39am on July 17, 2012☆⚑

Outfest: Taylor Mead by Kyle

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 1:01pm on July 15, 2012☆⚑

Outfest started on Thursday by Kyle

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 12:18pm on July 13, 2012☆⚑

The Chalk Art Riots of 2012! by Kyle

One 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 2:32am on July 13, 2012☆⚑

More on MOCA and Baldessari by Kyle

LATimes 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 2:21am on July 13, 2012☆⚑

Judy Davis Film Festival: Husbands and Wives by Kyle

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 7:10pm on July 12, 2012☆⚑

MOCA's blowing up by Kyle

Four 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 5:16pm on July 12, 2012☆⚑

This is great news by Kyle

The Neil Patrick Harris concert Company is being released on DVD. Check it out.

SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 1:12pm on July 12, 2012☆⚑

Thanks by Kyle

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 6:47pm on July 11, 2012☆⚑

MOCA Does Disco by Kyle

From 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 cultur…

SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 2:24pm on July 11, 2012☆⚑

Things I wish I'd blogged about, # 2: Mike Daisey by Kyle

Mike 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 5:11am on July 11, 2012☆⚑

I'm beginning a Judy Davis by Kyle

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 12:32am on July 10, 2012☆⚑

Things I wish I'd blogged about, part 1: Margaret by Kyle

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 6:16pm on July 9, 2012☆⚑

The Winter's Tale by Kyle

Independent Shakespeare Company's production of The Winter's Tale in Griffith Park is really worth it, especially since it's free. It's the first opportunity I've ever had to see a productio…

SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 3:19pm on July 9, 2012☆⚑

And another thing by Kyle

There's something else going on in this article that needs to be taken into consideration. See this quote:There's a myth in this country that playwriting is an unlimited resource. That the n…

SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 8:47pm on July 8, 2012☆⚑

Apparently by Kyle

new play development is cost-prohibitive for all of these small theaters, which McNulty (click here for the full article) points out in an attempt to give a bit of attention to the fact that…

SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 8:05pm on July 8, 2012☆⚑

Bitter Lemons by Kyle

addresses a complaint he read on Twitter that there isn't a producer of color in the Critic's Notebook article by dismissing the concern, but I don't think it's invalid to point that out. Ma…

SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 2:49pm on July 8, 2012☆⚑