Patrick talks CHITA & RITA...

Hi Kids,
I'm sure most of you have seen this before, but I wanted to share it with you again.
I was thinking of Chita today because I just found out that she is bringing her cabaret act to San Francisco at the Rrazz Room Sept 23 - Oct 5. I am so excited. My partner and I saw her last November at Fiensteins in NY. We were seated at the front table and Chita was of course wonderful. I saw her before the show in the lobby right before she was to go on. She said " Hey honey! ". She remembered me from when I have met her many times before in SF. The show was amazing and Rosie O'Donnell was even in the audience seated a few tables behind us with her partner and friends. Chita reached down and gave me a hug during her curtain call. After the show I had to meet Rosie. We gave each other a hug and kiss. It was great.

Sorry I went on. If anyone is in the area during that time maybe we can meet up. Also Rita Moreno is doing her cabaret at the same place in November. I can't wait to see that too. I'll share my stories of Rita another time.

Happy Labor Day Weekend.
xoxoxoxo Patrick

PS I'll think about you all on Sunday. I'm going to my favorite piano bar in SF "Martuni's" with some friends to sing and drink martinis. The last time I was there the bartenders pulled me up to sing "Cabaret" of course.
~ Patrick O Sanchez
" Nothing like a show to sober you up!"

Michael Jackson turns 50...

ELLEN inspires singer & Liza fan Louise Scott...

I've been keeping up to date with all the latest Liza info, busy girl!!
There is also another girl in my life right now. That is Ellen DeGeneres. I've always really really liked her but at the moment I'm going through a bit of a change mostly to do with the fact that I am so comfortable with myself now and proud of the fact that I'M GAY. If you haven't realised this, what took you so long? Yeah, so Ellen is my hero and lately after watching a lot of her, I've realised that this woman risked a whole lot just to be comfortable in herself and not live a lie anymore and I respect her a whole lot. She also inspires me to be proud and happy and gives me a great outlook for my future as a gay woman in society. So, to round it off, I totally love her!

Anyway, Hope everyone is well and happy and hope you all had a great summer.
Hi baby, I love you!!!

love, Louise
Louise Scott

Patti LaBelle live @ Brooklyn's Wingate Field, 8~25~08

Ellen and Portia's wedding day!

Ricky Martin Has Twins ... for Serious!

NEW YORK (Aug. 20) - There won't be much "livin' la vida loca" for Ricky Martin these days - he's now the father of twin boys.
The Latin superstar had the children via a surrogate mother, and the babies were born a few weeks ago, according to a statement from his representatives.

"The children, delivered via gestational surrogacy, are healthy and already under Ricky's full-time care," said the statement. "Ricky is elated to begin this new chapter in his life as a parent and will be spending the remainder of the year out of the public spotlight in order to spend time with his children."
A representative said there was no further information on the details of the children's birth.
Martin, 36, is a multiplatinum singer who is best known for English-language hits like "She Bangs!" and "Livin' la Vida Loca." In recent years, the Puerto Rican star has been active in charitable efforts, including the prevention of sexual exploitation of children.

Ellen and Portia Are Newlyweds

Aug. 17) - A toast is in order. Ellen and Portia have tied the knot.

DeGeneres and de Rossi were married Saturday evening at their home in Los Angeles. Their spokesperson confirmed the news to PEOPLE.
DeGeneres, 50, and de Rossi, 35, both wore Zac Posen and exchanged rings by Neil Lane during the Saturday ceremony. Their big day also featured arrangements by L.A. florist Mark's Garden.
The intimate ceremony was attended by 19 guests, including DeGeneres's mom Betty and de Rossi's mother Margaret Rogers, who witnessed the couple exchange handwritten vows. Get More Details on the Ceremony From PEOPLE
DeGeneres had announced the couple's plans on her talk show after California legalized gay marriage.

MADONNA turns 50

Madonna on freedom: “Freedom is a funny word because when we think we’re free, we’re not really. I think freedom is quite illusory….When I stop thinking about myself all the time and put other people before me on a regular basis, that’s real freedom. When I can love unconditionally…then that’s real freedom. So it’s something to strive for, but I’m not free.”

CONNIE FRANCIS PHOTO'S APRIL 2008 with MOE

Bryan says, "Love. LAUGH! Enjoy!!!!!

Blessings to All- Bryan

So here it is, the gorgeous cover art for "The Annie Lennox Collection

According to the press release, this is Annie's first solo retrospective (release date 9/15/08), and will feature two new songs: "Pattern of My Life" and "Shining Light." The other 12 tracks are all standard Annie classics from her 4 previous solo albums. It's nice to see the inclusion of "Love Song For A Vampire," but it's a total sin that the Oscar-winning "Into The West" has been left off. Oh, well. Full track list after the jump. [Source]

Lucille Ball~ (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989)

Lucille Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an iconic American comedienne, film, television, stage and radio actress, glamour girl, film executive, and star of the landmark sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy. Lucille Ball was one of the most popular stars in America during her lifetime and had one of Hollywood's longest careers.She was a movie star from the 1930s to the 1970s, and appeared on television for more than thirty years.
Ball received thirteen Emmy Award nominations and four wins.She was the recipient of the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1979, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kennedy Center Honors in 1986 and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Governors Award in 1989.
In 1929, Ball landed work as a model and later began her performing career on Broadway using the stage name "Diane Belmont". She appeared in many small movie roles in the 1930s as a contract player for RKO Radio Pictures. Ball was labeled as the "Queen of the B's" (referring to her many roles in B-films). In 1951, Ball was pivotal in the creation of the television series I Love Lucy. The show co-starred her then husband, Desi Arnaz as Ricky Ricardo and Vivian Vance and William Frawley as Ethel and Fred Mertz, the Ricardos' lovable landlords. After the show ended in 1960, Ball went on to star in two more successful television series: The Lucy Show, which ran on CBS from 1962 to 1968, and Here's Lucy from 1968 to 1974. Her last attempt at a television series was a 1986 show called Life With Lucy. The show proved to be a critical and commercial flop which was canceled less than two months into its run by ABC.
Ball met and eloped with Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz in 1940. On July 17, 1951, Ball gave birth to their first child, Lucie Desiree Arnaz. A year and a half later, Ball gave birth to their second child, Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV, known as Desi Arnaz, Jr. Ball and Arnaz divorced on May 4, 1960. On April 26, 1989, Ball died of a dissecting aortic aneurysm at age 77. At the time of her death, she had been married to her second husband, standup comedian and business partner Gary Morton, for twenty-eight years.

Patrick O Sanchez STEPPING OUT!

Gary remembers MARILYN...

I must say how much I loved Marilyn all my life. I have seen every movie at least 60 times and know some of the dialogue of some of them. She will never be replaced and can't ever be, she was unique and always will be. They have tried to imitate her but it can't be done and never will be. I have read every book, I have every thing on LP or CD and can't ever get enough. She was a talented comedienne and a wonderful dramatic actress much too underrated. The scren loved he I loved her, we all loved her. Thank god for film and music and pictures we can enjoy her forever!! I remember as a child taken to the Roxy theatre on 7th Ave to see Gentleman Prefer Blondes, to the Criterion to see her in Cinemascope for How To Marry a Millionaire which I adore, and when i saw her even in my own neighborhood in Niagara I sat with my mouth wide open. The ad read see the two wonders of the world Niagara Falls and M mmmmmmmmmmmm. She sure was something. I was on my way to the subway that hot August morning when I spied the headline on the front page MARILYN DEAD. I actually stopped dead in my tracks and couldnt move. She was larger than life very vulnerable and yet full of life up on that screen. I could go on, 7 Year Itch, Some Like it Hot etc etc. As Loreli Lee would say...THANKS EVAH SO!! all my love to you goddess and to all my friends. Gary S from TBA

Aug. 5, 1962: Sex goddess Marilyn Monroe is found dead in her Brentwood, Calif., home, the victim of an apparent suicide.

Katherine Hepburn~Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn

The out Hollywood biographer Bill Mann published a new biography of Katharine Hepburn late last year titled, Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn. In it Mann talks about, among other things, the boy who was Jimmy Hepburn. Who the hell is Jimmy Hepburn? Jimmy was the "true identity" of Katharine Hepburn.
According to Mann, as a child Hepburn created an identity she called Jimmy. This was who Hepburn truly believed herself to be - a boy named Jimmy Hepburn. Mann explains that Hepburn actually had 3 personalities: Jimmy, Kath, and Kate. Jimmy was her true self, Kath was the female she presented to her family, and Kate was the actress and Hollywood legend we all knew. It's some very interesting insight.

Marilyn Monroe~slideshow (I Wanna Be Loved By You)

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Babs on Obama

By Liza Porteus Viana
Jul 29th 2008 9:35AM
Filed Under:eHillary Clinton, Democrats, Barack Obama, 2008 President

Barbra Streisand has granted Politico.com a pretty rare Q&A e-mail session, in which she talks about shifting her support from Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama for president, race in American in this year's elections, and why Hollywood celebs take so much heat for weighing in on politics.

Whether it's because she thinks she can sway some voters Obama's way or just because she wanted to put in her 2 cents, who knows, but here are a couple of the questions and answers, not all in their entirety. Check out Politico.com for the entire Q&A (Also posted on Babs' own Web site).

Oh, and yes, she has personally met and spoken with Obama the candidate (and no, she won't give the public details), and she would love to perform for him and the Democratic Party if asked. And she's closely following the U.S. Senate races this year, too.



Q. You strongly supported Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nomination. Was switching to Sen. Barack Obama difficult?

We had a very deep bench of Democratic Presidential candidates in the primary, and we were very lucky to finally have two capable, dynamic and intelligent candidates vying to be the nominee. Supporting Sen. Obama for President was an immediate decision for me after Sen. Clinton ended her bid for the Democratic nomination.


Q. What do you say to Hillary's fans that might be moving to vote for [John] McCain - a figure that's been estimated to be as high as 15 % of her supporters?
I would urge those voters to take a step back and realize that our country is at an extremely serious crossroad . . . There is too much at stake right now to elect another George W. Bush to the White House. And John McCain is just that. ...There is just no reason for Sen. Clinton's supporters not to back Sen. Obama.

Q. Which Clinton policies do you think Obama should embrace, and what role would you like to see her have in his administration should he be elected?

I would like to see him embrace her universal healthcare policy. But it is ultimately up to the two of them to decide whether she will be more effective as a leader in the Senate or if she should work in the Administration. She has years of experience in public service and her work serving the needs of children and poor and working class Americans is incredibly admirable.

Q. A lot of folks object to "Hollywood celebrities" participating in political discourse. Aside from pure disagreement over certain issues, why do you think there's such a backlash when you or other well-known performers speak your mind?

On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions. Also, the other side objects to the fact that we might be listened to.

Q. Do you have any friends or family members who are conservative and/or Republican?

(Yes, but) ... I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.

LIZ SMITH "The Marilyn/Kennedy SEX TAPE"

April 16, 2008


"SHE WAS our angel, the sweet angel of sex and the sugar of sex came up from her like the resonance of sound in the clearest grain of a violin. . Marilyn was deliverance, a very Stradivarius of sex, so gorgeous, forgiving, humorous, compliant and tender."So wrote Norman Mailer in his much derided, controversial and underrated 1973 biography of Marilyn Monroe.THE HOPE that there exists film of Marilyn Monroe having sex just won't die. In fact, it has recently regenerated in a big way. This hope is, in a way, a tribute to Monroe's arguable status as the supreme erotic symbol. Norman Mailer certainly thought she was!As such, she has to be seen . Doing it. Or doing something, at least, that couldn't be seen by millions, in Cinemascope and Technicolor. Before she became famous, Monroe posed nude for calendar art. If she did that, conventional wisdom wondered, surely she must have done "more."Credence to the fantasy of Marilyn en flagrante was provided by Arlene Hunter, a B-movie actress and stripper. Hunter starred in a solo short called "The Apple Knockers and the Coke," circa the late 1940s, which eventually came to be advertised - as much as such things could be back in the day - as "Marilyn Monroe's porno loop." It circulated during Monroe's lifetime and even more after the star's death in 1962. Miss Hunter bore only a passing resemblance to Marilyn, but it was enough. Many accepted the grainy black-and-white movie as the real thing. People - men especially - just wanted to believe it. And they still do want to believe it, no matter how sketchy the "evidence."So, now comes another tale - this time in front-page headlines - of another grainy black-and-white "Monroe sex film." The star - identified by "her famous mole" - is actively engaged with a man. This 15-minute piece of celluloid is something the FBI was actually interested in, and kept in its vaults for 55 years! Why? Because the agency's headman J. Edgar Hoover thought the fellow in the movie was JFK or RFK, both of whom were rumored to have had affairs with Monroe.Well, I don't doubt Hoover came across a porno with a woman who looked like Marilyn, with a partner who (he hoped!) was the philandering President Kennedy. Or, better yet, to Hoover's point of view, brother Bobby Kennedy, the arrogant, high-minded, crime-fighting attorney general. Hoover loathed both men. He must have, to have pursued this avenue.Yes, JFK was reckless - his amused approval of Marilyn's public "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" serenade was downright Clintonian. (Jackie declined the opportunity to watch Monroe perform in her semi-transparent gown, saying only, "How typical," when told of the plans.) But Kennedy wasn't crazy, nor was Monroe. Nobody was going to have sex on camera!As for Bobby, those who believe he fell into a brief, sympathetic affair with Marilyn, say it was uncharacteristic. (My own sources told me years ago, that with JFK it was more of a thrill thing for Marilyn, casual and fun - she wasn't the married person! But that the encounters with Bobby were serious; at least on her part.)AND IF this amateur porn film indeed "looks like it was made in the early '50s," then it couldn't be either Kennedy. Monroe, by every legitimate account, did not meet the brothers until 1961.Joe DiMaggio also figures in this new story. During his brief marriage to the actress, he attempted to "buy up" copies of the film. Please - that is the work of studio heads, not husbands. All Marilyn ever had to do was fess up to the 20th Century Fox PR department, and any such indiscretion would have been tracked down and destroyed. (Fox wanted her to deny she was the calendar nude, but Monroe accurately gauged the changing times and her own little-girl-lost appeal, told all, and became an international sensation.)The owner of this movie says he will continue to resist big bucks offers to release it. He says he "respects" the late Miss Monroe too much to ever do such a thing. Uh-huh. Next stop - YouTube.This story was welcome news to all the cable stations - a relief from the "bitter" Obama analyzing, which is currently consuming the cycles. The Monroe gossip played all night. Accompanying the sordid details, were newsreel clips of Marilyn. These candid glimpses of her, through the years - at press conferences, premieres, airports - were breathtaking. Her silent image, alternately joyful or wistful, transcended what was being said about her. You couldn't snicker at such luminosity. And that is the truth of Monroe's enduring appeal - she was and is a flower that blooms in the mud.(E-mail Liz Smith at MES3838@aol.com, or write to her c/o Tribune Media Services, 2225 Kenmore Ave., Suite 114, Buffalo, NY 14207.)©2008 TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES, INC.

Stranger's" is Bette at her finest...by Bradly Briggs

"Stranger's" is Bette at her finest and what a classic pairing with Gena who was at her finest...two great acting Diva's in one movie is always a treat and I was so happy when Bette won the Emmy Award for this moving performance...another latter day Davis tour-de-force is "A Piano For Mrs. Camino" and the range that Bette displays in this classic is stunning and I love her in "White Mama" which was around the same time...Bette was peak in all of these and a Grand Dame supporting role in "Little Gloria, Happy At Last" which was filmed not long before her stroke which she amazingly overcame and even continued making films after that devastating blow. Nobody compares to this incredible legend and it was fun seeing her this morning in "Gloria" with Glynis Johns, Angela Lansbury and Maureen Stapleton...all of these films should be on DVD as treasures such as these are never going to happen again...we marveled four hours this morning how great they use to make films and "Gloria"was just for TV and I think it was a mini-series. Best wishes to everyone and it is exciting that Liza continues to give these stunning live performances!!! Bradly

Ann~Margret...Best Actress Oscar nominated in "TOMMY" (1975)

Beautiful BRANDO!

Golden Girl "SOPHIA" Estelle Getty Dead at 84

Los Angeles (E! Online) - Television is mourning one of its Golden Girls.

Estelle Getty, the cantankerous octogenarian Sophia on the classic NBC sitcom, has died at the age of 84.
Getty, who suffered from dementia, passed away early this morning at her Los Angeles home surrounded by her family, acording to her son Carl Gettleman.
Donning a granny wig and oversize glasses to play a character 20 years older than herself, Getty won an Emmy and Golden Globe as the wisecracking oldest member of The Golden Girls, costarring with Bea Arthur, Betty White and Rue McClanahan.
The sitcom, which ran from 1985 to 1992, gave Getty her breakthrough role at age 61, after she struggled for years as a character actress.

LIZ SMITH at 80 with Charlie Rose (2005) for SHANNON

At 62-years-fabulous Helen Mirren really is the Queen -- of rockin' a red bikini. What a Dame!