Here is a fabulous interview with my friend, Leslie Jordan, in which he talks about his exciting new cable show, Sordid Lives: The Series , which also stars Olivia Newton-John, Rue McClanahan, Bonnie Bedelia, Anne Walker, and Beth Grant. I’ve seen the play more than once here in town, and the series looks every bit as hilarious.
Leslie plays the part of Earl “Brother Boy” Ingram, an institutionalized, cross-dressing Southern boy with a Tammy Wynette fixation who dolls himself up as the Country Music Queen in order to keep her memory alive. He’s positively brilliant in it and as far as I’m concerned, it’s his best work ever. He’s an absolute fucking scream.
Oddly enough, the best part of the interview is that despite the fact that Leslie is wearing a fur-lined, pink satin dressing gown, false eyelashes and a FULL face of make-up, this may very well be the BUTCHEST I have ever seen him. Go figure.
So, watch his interview and then be sure to watch his show, Sordid Lives: The Series, which will be airing on Logo Network beginning this week.
I wouldn’t miss it for the world.
Brother Boy Brings it Home
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Muffy Bolding is a mother/writer/actor/knitter/feminist/withered debutante who likes the smell of asparagus pee, and remains obsessed with the bathroom hygiene of her three children -- despite the fact that they are 23, 19, and 16. She is blissfully married to a cute Jewish boy who looks like Willie Wonka, but remains tragically in love with the dead poet, Ted Hughes. She has the mouth of a Teamster, and her patron saint is Rocco (pestilence relief.) Ms. Bolding lives in Southern California, where she enjoys typing words, making movies, and plucking the rings from the fingers of the dead. She was the co-creator and Editor-in-Chief of the award winning satire zine, Fresno Lampoon, and in between writing screenplays, carnival barking, and savagely threatening her trio of darling larvae with a wooden spoon, she currently publishes the zine, "Withered Debutante." More of her work can also be found in the anthology, "Mamaphonic: Balancing Motherhood and Other Creative Acts", the compilation zine, "Mamaphiles III: Coming Home", as well as in The Cortland Review and hipmama.com. She is currently writing and producing for film and television, and working on a book of essays entitled, "Inside A Chinese Dragon." She has slept around, but not nearly as much as she would have liked.
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