LGBTQ news and entertainment
Laverne Cox, soon to star in the new TV version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, slowly gives viewers a big, wet kiss, leaving lip prints on the screen.
Of course, the red lips are a long familiar visage for Rocky Horror fans.
And the, we watch the lips change to rainbow in honor of Pride month.
Airing on Fox the week of Halloween, the TV musical is directed by Kenny Ortega (High School Musical) and also stars Adam Lambert as Eddie and the original “Frank-N-Furter,” Tim Curry, as The Narrator.
Entertainment Weekly has a first look at OITNB star Laverne Cox as the iconic “Dr. Frank-N-Furter” and Tony Award winner Ben Vereen as “Dr. Scott” from the upcoming remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show:
You may notice that this Frank has a somewhat different look, and that’s by design (the costumes for this Show are by Tony-winner William Ivey Long).
“We were on set and a reporter saw me and said I looked like the love child of Grace Jones and David Bowie. I said ‘That’s exactly right.’ I think we mix up the look more than they did in the original,” Cox explains.
“It’s inspired by the original but it’s really our own take. It’s way more elaborate and couture. [Director] Kenny Ortega had this vision that Frank was at this old theater and found these old burlesque costumes and is, like, using them and wearing them now but has altered them a bit.”
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A new legal drama for CBS – “Doubt” – will get a second chance at life as the network has ordered a reshoot of the pilot after recasting the lead with “Grey’s Anatomy” star, Katherine Heigl.
Returning in her original principal role is “Orange Is The New Black” star and transgender activist Laverne Cox.
Apparently, while the show was not picked up this past spring, the network asked for rewriting and various roles to be recast.
From Variety:
Original cast members Dulé Hill, Dreama Walker, Elliott Gould, Kobi Libii and “Orange Is the New Black’s” Laverne Cox will still star in the repiloting of “Doubt” with Cox playing Cameron Wirth, a trans Ivy League-educated lawyer who’s both competitive and compassionate.
Described as fierce and funny, Cameron’s own experience with injustice causes her to fight even harder for all of her clients.
My buddy Javi Morgado sends this clip and photos straight from Broadway Bares 2015 where the sexiest bodies on Broadway helped raise over $1.5 million for Broadway Cares.
Check out Laverne with the very sexy Casey Lee Ross, who plays “the Casting Director.”
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Laverne Cox wowed thousands of spectators tonight at Broadway Bares 25 raising more than $1.5 million for the organization nearest to my heart, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
Posted by Javi Morgado on Sunday, June 21, 2015
Updated with pics!
Click on the pics to enlarge. Thanks to Javi Morgado for sharing your front row view 🙂
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| Laverne Cox at Broadway Bares 25 |
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| Harvey Fierstein at Broadway Bares 25 |
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| Creator Jerry Mitchell, Laverne Cox, Harvey Fierstein and Bianco Del Rio |
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Laverne Cox, transgender actress from the hit Netflix show “Orange Is The New Black” covers this week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly.
Yay!
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Some stories you may have missed:
• Laverne Cox (Orange Is The New Black) will be the first transgender person to be immortalized at the famous Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum
• A straight couple in Australia plan to divorce if same-sex marriage is legalized in his country.
That’ll learn ’em.
• It seems McKinney resident Sean Toon, who stood up for the police officer who handcuffed a 14 year old girl over pool party chaos, might have had more to do with the incident that he has previously let on.
• There are 3,000 kids in Michigan waiting to be adopted and the state Senate just made that much more difficult.
• The new Netflix series Sense8 is pretty fab. And so is the handsome latin star Miguel Ángel Silvestrewho, who plays one of the show’s gay characters. Check out his teaser video below.
Orange Is The New Black star Laverne Cox, attending the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last night, spoke to MSNBC’s Janet Mock about Bruce Jenner’s coming out to the world as transgender:
“I spoke to Bruce today, and they were really pleased with the way things went last night.”
“I think a lot of people tuned in expecting to see a spectacle, and they tuned in and saw a profoundly nuanced, complicated, beautiful human being.”
“I thought ABC handled it really beautifully…I had spoken to Bruce several months back, and the same person I had spoken to on the phone, who really just loves their children so much and wants their family to be happy, was the person I saw on television last night.”
Cox was also celebrating her Daytime Emmy Award win the night before for Best Special Class Special as an executive producer of “Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word” for MTV.
How wonderful.
From People.com:
The actress has left a big impression on Hollywood (and America) in a very short amount of time.
Cox’s skillful performance as Sophia on Orange Is the New Black and her work advocating for transgender women make her one of our boldest beauties yet.
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| Laverne Cox cast in new CBS pilot, Doubt |
Transgender actress Laverne Cox continues breaking barriers as news arrives that she’s been cast in a new CBS network series, Doubt.
The Orange is the New Black actress will play a transgender Ivy League-educated attorney, described as “competitive as she is compassionate. She’s fierce, funny and the fact that she’s experienced injustice first hand makes her fight all the harder for her clients.”
The Doubt role was always conceived as a transgender character, and it’s tough to imagine a better catch for the part – Cox made the cover of Time magazine last year in a story about the transgender movement. While there have been plenty of transgender characters on broadcast TV shows in the past, they are often short-term parts or comedic roles.
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| Nightclub owner Victor Drai and actress Laverne Cox cut the red ribbon at official opening of Liaison Nightclub |
One history making original joined another this past Saturday night, as Emmy nominated actress and LGBT advocate Laverne Cox (Orange Is The New Black) hosted the official opening of Liaison Nightclub inside Bally’s Las Vegas – the first gay nightclub in a casino. Cox is the first transgender actress to be nominated for an Emmy Award.
Arriving at Liaison following her iHeart Radio Festival presentation, Cox effortlessly walked the red carpet in a stunning kelly green Stephen Mikhail dress accentuated by an Edie Parker clutch and lavish silver accessories including a neck piece by Haute Hippie and jewelry by Rue Gembon, Lulu Frost and Miriam Salat.
Other talent attending the evening included “Pin Up” star and Playboy’s former Playmate of the Year Claire Sinclair, “Absinthe” performer and “America’s Got Talent” finalist Butterscotch, cast members of the new Las Vegas burlesque revue show “Limelight,” cast from “Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding” and cast from “Legends,” to name a few.
Liaison Nightclub, the game-changing LGBT nightlife venue created by Victor Drai and set on the Las Vegas Strip at Bally’s, is a 7,000 square foot nightclub featuring sexy dark finishes of gold and black.
(All photos by Patrick Gray – Kabik Photo Group)
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| Laverne Cox joined by Liaison performers |
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| Liaison Nightclub gogo dancers |
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| Liaison Nightclub located inside Bally’s Las Vegas |