Ann Miller - "I'm Still Here": Her Hollywood Spirit Lives On! en Palm Springs el 12 de noviembre 2019 (After-Work Gay)

A Classic TV Holiday at QUADZ Palm Springs with Special Guests!

After-Work / Gay

Mar 26 de noviembre de 2019 17:00-20:30
QuadZ (Palm Springs) QuadZ US CA 92262 Palm Springs 200 S Indian Canyon Dr

An Evening of The Golden Girls & Cheesecake w/ Writer, Rick Copp

Mark your calendars for Tuesday, December 3rd, when The Filmmakers' Gallery Proudly Presents an evening celebrating The Golden Girls with Special Guest, Writer Rick Copp and also, "Golden Girls Forever: An Unauthorized Look Behind the Lanai" Author, Jim Colucci! Event Details: Video Pre-show from 4:30-5pm Video Presentation Main Show from 5-8:30pm Interviews with both Rick Copp and Jim Colucci at 8:00pm HAPPY HOUR DRINKS - ALL NIGHT LONG! *Special "Golden Girls Cheesecake" dessert for the celebration! Rick Copp joined the writing staff of The Golden Girls in 1988 as a staff writer in the show’s fourth season and then served as a story editor in the show’s fifth season. He went on to write for numerous television series including Wings, Dream On, Scooby Doo, Teen Titans, Secret Agent Man and Barbershop among many others. He co-wrote the hit Paramount feature film comedy The Brady Bunch Movie and was an uncredited scriptwriter on the Howard Stern film Private Parts. He also co-wrote, co-produced, and co-starred in the first original TV movie for Starz, The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space and co-created, co-produced and co-starred in the one hour action adventure series Team Knight Rider for Universal Television. He co-created two produced network television pilots Homewood P.I. starring Tony Danza, Anthony Anderson and Kaley Cuoco for CBS and Soccer Moms starring Gina Torres and Kristin Davis for ABC. He has also written TV series pilots for Nickelodeon, USA, Lifetime, Logo/MTV and FOX and has written movie scripts for Universal, Warner Brothers, Paramount, MGM and Jim Henson Productions. Recently he was a co-writer, co-producer and co-star on the popular web series Where the Bears Are which lasted seven seasons. As an author, Rick has written or co-written under the pen name Lee Hollis twenty mystery novels including the best-selling Hayley Powell Food & Cocktails Mysteries, the Poppy Harmon Mysteries and the Maya & Sandra Mysteries. Under his own name he has written four books and a graphic novel. Jim Colucci, TV journalist/author, was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for The Confirmed Bachelors: The Case of the Botox Bandit (2009), Betty White Lines (2010) and Flaming Screens (2013). He has been married to Author, Frank DeCaro("DRAG: Combing Through The Big Wigs of Show Business") since August 16, 2011. Aside from being the author of the 2016 book, "The Golden Girls Forever: An Unauthorized Look Behind the Lanai", Jim is the author of "The Q Guide to The Golden Girls," published by Alyson Books in September, 2006 and also author of the book "Will & Grace: Fabulously Uncensored," published by Time Inc. in September, 2004. ADDRESS: QUADZ Palm Springs 200 S. Indian Canyon Dr. Palm Springs, CA 92262 (760)778-4326 For more information, please contact us at: [email protected] -OR- Call our Filmmakers' Gallery Recorded Hotline and leave us a message. Thank you! Paul Belsito & Steven Roche The Filmmakers' Gallery Palm Springs, CA After-Work / Gay

Mar 3 de diciembre de 2019 17:00-20:30
QuadZ (Palm Springs) QuadZ US CA 92262 Palm Springs 200 S Indian Canyon Dr

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Oh By Gosh, By Jingle: A Retro Happy Holidays w/ Frank & Friends

After-Work / Gay

Mar 10 de diciembre de 2019 17:00-20:30
QuadZ (Palm Springs) QuadZ US CA 92262 Palm Springs 200 S Indian Canyon Dr

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My Name is Amy: The Artist Behind the Music

After-Work / Gay

Mar 7 de enero de 2020 17:00-20:30
QuadZ (Palm Springs) QuadZ US CA 92262 Palm Springs 200 S Indian Canyon Dr

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SHUT UP I'M TALKING!:Jason Stuart Career Retrospective Screening

NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RE-SCHEDULED TO JAN. 28th, 2020 to show the screening of Jason Stuart's Career Retrospective in its entirety - And also offer another meet & greet with Jason for book signing of his new book, "SHUT UP, I'M TALKING!" Join The Filmmakers' Gallery on Tuesday, January 28th from 5-8:30pm for an evening with Actor & Comedian, Jason Stuart- when we proudly present... "SHUT UP, I'M TALKING!" at QUADZ Video Bar in Palm Springs With: Special Guest Moderator, Jeffrey Patrick Olsen Jason Stuart's new book, "SHUT UP, I'M TALKING!" will be available to purchase for this fun and interactive book-signing, presentation and Q&A one-night-only at QUADZ Palm Springs! *Produced & Hosted by The Filmmakers' Gallery We will be both screening a career retrospective along with a conversation interview Co-hosted by Special Guest Moderator, Actor/Doctor, Jeffrey Patrick Olsen! This time around, we will be mixing it up for "CINEMATASTIC" with a screening presentation highlighting Jason's impressive Hollywood career in comedy, film and television and also showcase clips from his live comedy skits on stage; finally we will be ending the night with some live material Jason will be sharing with everyone in a one-on-one interview with moderator, Jeffrey Patrick Olsen....and who knows...maybe Jason will grace us even with some impromptu comedy to engage with the crowd! ADDRESS- QUADZ Palm Springs 200 S. Indian Canyon Dr. Palm Springs, CA 92262 (760)778-4326 For more information on this event, please e-mail us at: [email protected] -OR- Call & leave us a message at: (562)354-1490 JASON STUART BIO- After years of steady work in film and television, and approaching 150 credits on his IMDB page, actor and comedian Jason Stuart has achieved a pinnacle of success many actors only dream of. “For the last few years, people have started to approach me and say, ‘You’re that guy,’” he explains with his characteristic gravelly laugh. Indeed, with guest-starring and supporting credits in everything from Judd Apatow’s “Love” to “Sleepy Hollow” to “Tangerine” and “The Birth of a Nation,” Stuart has now established himself as one of those all-too-familiar faces who might just pop up anywhere, in any kind of role. It’s just the latest remarkable but true chapter in the career of Stuart, a longtime veteran of stand-up comedy, born in the Bronx and raised in the Fairfax district of Los Angeles. A self-described insecure Jewish kid who turned to theatre and performing to mask his emerging sexual identity - he jokes about going to see Barbra Streisand in “Funny Girl” as a youth and falling in love with Omar Sharif. His talent and determination got him some early professional work in films like “Kindergarten Cop,” “Vegas Vacation,” and TV shows like “Murder, She Wrote” and “The Drew Carey Show.” But by the early-90s, frustrated by years of living in the closet, Stuart chose to come out publicly on an episode of Geraldo Rivera’s talk show focused on “Unconventional Comedians.” That led to a wave of interest in Stuart as a “gay comedian,” giving his act new material and energy, and a purpose (his sexuality, as a Los Angeles Times article from 1995 states, is “a full-time job”). Today, Stuart marvels at how much has changed about the visibility of sexually diverse actors and celebrities, having experienced the transition from “closeted” to “gay” to “queer.” “That was such a negative word, ‘queer,’” he says. “It was a word ‘they’ would call you and it still takes some getting used to, but I can see how things are changing. And of course, I’m not just gay or queer, it’s just a part of who I am: I’m also a Jew, a man of a certain age, a lover, a friend and a son. But it’s always a part of who I am.” Just as his identity as a gay man has not fully defined his career, Stuart is also proud of how he has kept his reputation as a comedian while still flourishing as an actor. “I’ve always thought about myself as an actor first, comedian second,” he says. “When I think of what I want to do with the next phase of my career, I think about being a great character actor. I revered the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, his ability to always disappear into his characters, no matter the role. He was a character actor who happened to be a movie star.” A look at Stuart’s most recent work underscores this, notably playing a similar part – a detective in a crime drama – in two wildly different ways. In the action film “Abducted,” he plays a police sidekick – “My version of J. K. Simmons or Paul Giamatti,” he explains citing two more character actor role models. “I played him like my brother, who has been slightly irritated his entire life.” On the other side of the coin is the private detective character Stuart creates in Jon Dabach’s “Immortal,” a new thriller co-starring Samm Levine and Dylan Baker. “He’s much more powerful and intimidating.” For Stuart, one of the most significant moments in his recent career was being cast as Joseph Randall, one of the villainous plantation owners at the wrong end of a rebellion in Nate Parker’s searing historical drama, “The Birth of a Nation.” Being cast by Parker was a sign for Stuart that he had turned the corner from funny gay comic to established character actor. “I remember Nate saying to me that part of what he wanted was my activism,” he recalls. “He wanted advocates for different communities, and he knew that I’d represented not just the LGBTQ community, but I’ve worked on behalf of Black Lives Matter, the homeless, youth, and Jewish causes.” At the same time, taking on the role of an empowered racist in 1831 Virginia also allowed Stuart to reflect on his own evolving complex identity. “How can I be gay and Jewish and have white privilege?” he found himself wondering through working on Parker’s film. “It helped me establish this new part of my career, and it changed me as an actor and a human being,” he says of the experience. “To tell the history of this man, Nat Turner, who had the audacity, tenaciousness and self-esteem as a black man, in 1831, to stand up against his slave owners knowing he would be murdered. Is he mentally ill? A martyr? Touched by God? To be part of that story, to work with talented people like Nate Parker and Armie Hammer, was exactly what I wanted my career to be about.” These days, Stuart keeps his comedy chops polished through stand-up gigs all over the country as well as his speaking tour "Coming Out in Hollywood: Being out in the workplace". He continues to serve as the National Co-Chairman of the SAG-AFTRA LGBTQ Committee(which he created), and has a memoir about to be published from CCB Publishing (“Shut Up, I’m Talking!”) He’s also just completed a number of projects, including a new comedy web series “Smothered,” co-created with Mitch Hara; He also played the title role in the short “Hank” from director Hongyu Li and co-starring Jay Disney, about a gay couple who consider an open relationship, which continues to earn praise at numerous festivals, including winning the Best LGBTQ Short at this year’s Los Angeles International Film Festival. “It’s still a challenge to get the next great role,” he says of his passion for acting as a career. “When I was a kid there were three networks, the movies, and the theatre. Now there’s a hundred networks, movies that stream on your phones, and theatres, and TV, and pay-per-view, and social media…so how does someone know you?” he asks. For now, he’s happy enough to take on any role and thrive. “Someone recognized me from both ‘My Wife and Kids’ and ‘The Birth of a Nation,’ and they said, ‘You’re that guy! We used to love you, now we hate you because you play all these villains!’ I’m the guy who can do that – I’m ‘that guy!’” Cine / Gay

Mar 28 de enero de 2020 17:00-20:30
QuadZ (Palm Springs) QuadZ US CA 92262 Palm Springs 200 S Indian Canyon Dr

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