Arts, Culture and Entertainment in Montreal
A candid Q&A with pop icon Engelbert Humperdinck When I first interviewed Engelbert Humperdinck a decade ago, he was riding another wave of popularity after recording the song Lesbian Seagull for MTV’s 1996 adult cartoon film Beavis and Butt-Head Do America. The filmmakers liked that Engelbert – or ‘Enge, as in Stonehenge’ – has a sense of […]
“…I come up with a title for my book. I’ll call it Based on a True Story, because it comes to me that there’s no way of telling a true story. I mean a really true one, because of memory. It’s just no good.” -Norm MacDonald (from Based on a True Story: A Memoir) The […]
“I didn’t lose the weight in order to write a book. I didn’t train myself to eat healthy in order to share my techniques with the world. I didn’t do it because the trips to the hospital scared me skinny. I did it because I wanted to give myself a few more chances to die […]
By Richard Burnett for Curtains Up @bugsburnett Bette Midler thinks he’s divine, Cher thinks he’s strong enough and Barbra Streisand invited him to be her paparazzi decoy double on tour. That’s how fabulous a master female impersonator Eddie Edwards is. “I had no idea I could make a living doing this!” Edwards, half of the […]
by Andreas Kessaris for Curtians Up! “…this whole book is a story about storytelling – the story of an epic attempt by earnest human beings to tell a story and tell it brilliantly.” -Glen Berger Anyone who knows me well is aware that live theater is not my favorite form of entertainment. And that […]