Jesse Archer just can't get enough
from the City of Brotherly Love! The actor, screenwriter and
travel journalist will be returning to Philadelphia
for an exclusive book signing "You
Can Run: Gay, Glam and Gritty Travels in South America"
(Haworth Press, 2007) at Giovanni's Room,
345 S. 12th St.,
at 5:30-7:00 PM, on Thursday, August 9.
The handsome native Oregonian caught
wanderlust at an early age and has been traveling ever since, including living
aboard in Paris
and Buenos Aires
in addition to being bi-coastal residing in both Los Angeles and New York City.
Archer's book chronicles the two
intrepid years the author spent glittering through the rough and tough of South America with a
co-dependent ex-boyfriend, a prissy
Argentine, and a
hot pink wig. The writing fiend also contributes a popular monthly column in Out Magazine.
The multi-talented Archer recently
starred opposite Rising Star Award recipient, Charlie David, at the opening
night premiere of director Caspar Andreas' "A Four Letter Word,"
which he also co-screen wrote, on
July 12 at the 13th Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (PIGLFF)
2007 where he was in attendance. Archer previously worked with Andreas in first
queer feature, starring in "Slutty
Summer." The team of Andreas-Archer recently won a best screenwriting award at OutFest in Los Angeles.
The event is being held in conjunction with Where Magazine's publisher Laura
Burkhardt and BUCKmonkey's Thom
Cardwell and James Duggan, publishers of QUEERtimes.
For more information, call (215) 923-2960.
Are you sick of Perez Hilton yet?
Is he just
a media flash in the pan? Will
he become last year's news next year?
Perhaps. Perhaps not. It's hard to tell
with a self-proclaimed "Queen of All
Media." But you have to love that a queer
Cuban-American, far away in Miami, gathered the attention of the media and
the entertainment industries in New York City and Los Angeles, enough to have
achieved in a relatively short time possible "overexposure" in the mainstream media.
Yet one more unemployed (or
unemployable) actor, transplanted in Manhattan, after studying acting for a
while at the prestigious New York University, Perez started his now-famous, even infamous, celebrity gossip blog, Perezhilton.com,
as a whim, a hobby, for fun, in 2004.
Now he's become his own industry. His name recognition alone is the easily the envy of every public relations agency
on both coasts. (Perez himself claims that he doesn't actually have a
publicist. He says that he's too good at it and self-promotes as well as the
next person.)
He actually
"wished himself on 'The View' by
mentioning how much he love to be a guest on that day time hit show while he
was appearing, as a guest on another TV talk show. Most recently, Perez
had made appearances on "The View,"
on Victoria Beckham's reality special
on NBC, Kathy Griffin's reality TV
show on Bravo, "Nightline," and Gossip on VH1. And that was just a few
highlights during the month of July. The financial worth of that level of
national exposure is the wet dream of any topnotch entertainment publicist. But
in his hands, it's Perez just being, well, Perez
In the
fall, the no-longer 15-minutes-of-fame queer celebrity tell-all expert will
have a five-part series on VH1,
directed by queer filmmaker/TV director (and my personal long time friend) Glenn Gaylord of "Lez Be Friends," that
premiered last month at PIGLFF 2007 in our city.
"I'm doing things on my own terms,"
Perez told writer Mireya Navarro in The New York Times (Sunday, July 29,
SundayStyles), "I don't have to answer
to anyone but me."
Nowadays the 29-year-old Mario
Armandoi Lavandiers, Jr. (his real name),
the orange-haired pop cultural icon himself has clearly parlayed the art of
talking about celebrity into the success that he currently enjoys as a
"celebrity" expert.
"I'm like Madonna. I'm not afraid to
offend," Perez told the newspaper's interviewer. You'll want to stay tuned for future developments with Perez who,
Madonna-like, I have a feeling, will be back again and again as a recreation of
himself.
Hometown TV queer celebrity host
Butch , of
"In Bed with Butch,"
will be taping the premiere of his
eighth season with queer adult superstar Michael Lucas and guest pop
recording artist Ari Gold
on August 26 for air
