Martin Shkreli Ordered to Jail for Asking Followers to Yank Hillary Clinton’s Hair

The “Pharma Bro” was out on $5 million bail until a judge revoked it over his Facebook post.

www.advocate.com/crime/2017/9/13/martin-shkreli-ordered-jail-asking-followers-yank-hillary-clintons-hair

Festival Preview: Glenn Close is Spectacular as ‘The Wife’

Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce are happily married, or not, in THE WIFE.

Reporting from the Toronto Film Festival to share with you a heads up on Glenn Close’s next possible Oscar bid “The Wife”

Joan Castleman (Glenn Close) is a long-suffering wife who would bristle at that very description. She’s married to a famous novelist Joe Castleman (Jonathan Pryce) and their homophonic names are no coincidence. The silver-haired couple have been together for nearly half a century and are inseparable if not quite interchangeable.

As THE WIFE begins we learn that Joe has just been named the Nobel prize winner in literature and the couple are to travel to Stockholm together for the ceremony. They’re so happy they actually jump on their bed in a singularly charming scene. This slow burn starts out playful but it deepens as it goes thanks to Close’s brilliant star turn…

Close’s own daughter Annie Starke plays The Wife as a young college student

When the cracks in the happy marriage facade begin to show you see what Björn Runge, a Swedish director making his first English language film, and Glenn Close are up to in their concise adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s bestseller.

All the principle characters in Joe’s orbit also happen to be writers and resent him, if not quite his enormous success, for different reasons: his son David (Max Irons) never gets the encouragement he needs, his wife Joan was a promising writer who set her own career aside when she married him, and then there’s Nathaniel (Christian Slater) who’s been trailing the family for years trying to get permission to write Joe’s biography.

The interpersonal dynamics and face-offs are the savory meat of the film. To my personal astonishment Glenn Close restricts herself to chewing on it rather than the scenery! Put simply it’s the best work she’s done in over 20 years.

Close’s opacity as an actress, the unknowability of that glacial face, has often been disguised by her sheer volume and ferocity in so many gorgon roles. Here in Joan’s quieter less sinister register, she’s spectacular. You constantly attempt to figure Joan out but Joan will not have it. She prefers to remain a mystery, hiding her true feelings from everyone, including possibly herself. Her mercurial moods will shift within scenes — just when you expect her to double down on anger she’ll throw compassion at you, and vice versa keeping you off balance. At one point in a brilliantly acted private ‘date’ with that would-be biographer, she says “I’m shy” with something like mock flirtation. It sounds like a lie, but it’s actually the truth of this mesmerizing character.

The film isn’t quite as coy as Close, eventually revealing its hand. Joan Castleman and her poker face would not approve. But that, in a nutshell, is the satisfying friction of the film, a star vehicle wherein the star keeps threatening to jump from her own limo.

The Wife currently has no firm release date but if it wins distribution by the end of the year, expect a Best Actress campaign for Glenn Close.

The post Festival Preview: Glenn Close is Spectacular as ‘The Wife’ appeared first on Towleroad.

Festival Preview: Glenn Close is Spectacular as ‘The Wife’

Nico Tortorella: I don’t identify as polyamorist “so I can just go out and f*** whatever I want”
“It’s more about the ability to emotionally connect with people outside of my primary partner.”

www.queerty.com/nico-tortorella-dont-identify-polyamorist-can-just-go-f-whatever-want-20170913?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29

NEW MUSIC: Tori Amos, Twin Peaks Soundtracks, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

This week in New Music: Tori Amos is back in top, top form on Native Invader; two soundtracks for Twin Peaks will haunt you for decades; and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart do away with any notions of not being a pop band.

Tori Amos – Native Invader

On her 18th studio album Native Invader, Queen Tori Amos is concerned with the environment, her Native American heritage, her mother’s health issues and the shitty state America has found itself in since electing the Idiot in Chief.

She is also, it appears, concerned with getting back to work proper on one of her best albums in many years.

For me, Scarlet’s Walk was the last time Amos really, really got it right. Here, from the opening bars of the sprawling piano ballad “Reindeer King” she is on fire for 61 minutes.

There are some almost-duds to be had. “Cloud Riders” is a low point. However, the clear winners far outweigh the almost-rans: “Broken Arrow” is a classic Amos piano semi-ballad; the previously reviewed “Up the Creek” is an unsettling mix of classic rock, sweeping strings and electronica; “Breakway” and “Bang” are pure genius Amos of old.

Twin Peaks Limited Event Series Soundtracks

Did you love it? Did you? Or did you think it was an ending so up in the air that you felt cheated? Or did you find that up in the air ending to be the perfect fuck-me full stop to an epic 27 year journey? If you’re a massive fan of Twin Peaks (as I am) you are probably still ingesting what the hell just happened. Forget about it though – you’ll never have an answer, it’s all in your mind and the two albums of soundtracks will be there to haunt you for the rest of your days.

The Limited Event Series Soundtrack includes the tracks performed at the Roadhouse. If you’ve already watched every episode a few times, most of these tracks will feel like home. All of these songs fit so perfectly into the Twin Peaks universe because David Lynch is absolutely responsible for each and every detail of each and every Roadhouse performance. Standouts? “Tarifa” by Sharon Van Etten? “She’s Gone Away” which featured in That Episode. The brilliant “No Stars” by Rebekah Del Rio.

Then there’s the second part which includes mostly instrumental soundtracks from the series including a number of new atmospheric pieces by Angelo Badalamenti who scored the original series and Fire Walk With Me. There’s much to love here, and much to make you cower behind the sofa.

“Accidental/Farewell Theme” is Evil Bob/Laura’s birth(?) scene. “The Chair” is the most traditional Twin Peaks instrumental and featured heavily in the series. “Thernody, For the Victims of Hiroshima”….well, what is there to say about That Episode? And then we close on “Dark Space Low,” the closing track of the series which, like the series itself answers no questions and will never leave you alone again. Although we do have Mark Frost’s Final Dossier to look forward to which is bound to explain everything.

Pretty good so.

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – The Echo of Pleasure

From the opening seconds of The Pain of Being Pure at Hearts’s debut self-titled album back in 2009, here was a band performing the perfect blend of low-fi indie rock with essentially pure pop. It sounded like it should have been drowned in feedback so when the band emerged as a more or less solo act for  2014’s Days of Abandon, it seemed fitting that and pretensions towards were gone. Actual pop was in and that continues through The Echo of Pleasure.

It would appear that the echo Kip Berman is referring to is his wife’s pregnancy. Berman has said he thinks it’s unlikely there will be another Pains…. Album purely because the money isn’t there to make it. It’s a shame really – throughout the Pains…. career there have been a number of songs that you could imagine the likes of Beyonce and Sia giving a good seeing to.

The post NEW MUSIC: Tori Amos, Twin Peaks Soundtracks, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart appeared first on Towleroad.

NEW MUSIC: Tori Amos, Twin Peaks Soundtracks, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

This Is How Much Senate Candidate Roy Moore Hates LGBT People

Alabama’s fired former Supreme Court chief justice — and current candidate for U.S. Senate — thinks gay people are “disgusting.”

www.advocate.com/politicians/2017/9/13/how-much-senate-candidate-roy-moore-hates-lgbt-people

It’s time to notice these secret gems of the Las Vegas nightlife scene
Seven unique “hidden gems” of the Las Vegas nightlife scene.

www.queerty.com/time-notice-secret-gems-las-vegas-nightlife-scene-20170913?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29