Seattle Gay News
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Issue 09, Volume 41, March 1, 2013
by Chris Azzopardi SGN Contributing Writer
photos courtesy Focus Features
They say dreams come true, and you know the one where Tina Fey and Paul Rudd act (and shower) together on the big screen? It’s really happening. Two of the most charismatic, Gay-loved actors team up for Admission, about a college admissions officer (Fey) and her could-be-biological son, whom she meets through an old classmate (Rudd). “It’s a movie about chasing acceptance. That formal outward acceptance shouldn’t be valued as much. That’s the message: Just be who you are,” says Fey, a GLAAD winner for TV’s 30 Rock who re-
by Miryam Gordon SGN A&E Writer THESE STREETS HARLEY RUDINOFF PRODUCTIONS (at ACT Theatre) Through March 10
If you lived in the Capitol Hill area in the early ’90s, or went there a lot for your nightlife, you probably experienced many of the small grunge-rock bands that proliferated there. If that was your music – if you embraced it, loved it, lived it – a new theatrical retro-
counted her Gay musical-theater origins in her recent memoir, Bossypants. Rudd’s career path has been equally Queer. Besides Clueless, he starred as Jennifer Aniston’s Gay pal in The Object of My Affection – and that’s just the beginning of his homo happenings. “Yes, it’s true. It’s really true,” he says, reflecting on the increasingly Gay apex of his career at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City, seated next to Fey. What does he have to say about that important message of selflove and acceptance, then? Surely something Gay, right? In goofy see fey/rudd page 27
spective, These Streets, is everything you’ve been waiting for. These Streets means to fill in a void, giving belated recognition to dozens of women rockers who were ignored while all male-bands see these streets page 24
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by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer
(l to r) Mitch Ebert, Eden Schwartz, Fiia McGann, and Gretta Harley in These Streets
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dale and featuring vocalist China Forbes, will play the Redmond outdoor venue on August 4. TickJazz-pop-swing band Pink ets are now on sale at AXS.com. Martini has announced a summer THE SEARCH IS OVER performance at Marymoor Park, If you followed the film awards currently the site of Cirque du Soleil’s Amaluna. The Portland- circuit, which climaxed with the based ensemble, led by openly Gay musician Thomas Lauder- see music lounge page 29