For this week’s episode of The Sewers of Paris, we’re trying something new — I’ll interview my guest, Christian Garcia, about the movies that cha...
2025-07-24 16:00:21 +0000 UTC View Post
You might know Dante Basco as Prince Zuko from Avatar, or as Jake Long, or as Rufio from Hook. But back in the 90s, he was a break-dancer and he played a gay wrestler in But I'm a Cheerleader -- though the director was w...
2025-07-21 16:00:33 +0000 UTC View Post
On last week’s episode of The Sewers of Paris, I talked with comedian Tim M...
2025-07-17 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there! For this week's bonus video, I wanted to give a little context for why, in this house, we adore Natasha Lyonne -- starting with her adorable early roles in commercials and Pee-Wee's Playhouse, and then of course with her teen appearan...
2025-07-13 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest this week on the Sewers of Paris podcast is comedian Tim Murray,...
2025-07-10 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Pretty much any time a book is adapted into a movie, the book was better ... but there are a few notable exceptions, and one of them is Brokeback Mountain. And that's according to Annie Proulx, who wrote the book! In this week's bonus vid...
2025-07-06 16:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest this week on The Sewers of Paris is Profes...
2025-07-03 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, here's a rare Monday-afternoon bonus video! Usually I post these on Sundays, but because we've had a lot of folks joining from my new Brokeback Mountain video, I didn't want to keep you in suspense for a week with this one: The bes...
2025-06-30 19:57:58 +0000 UTC View Post
This week, I’m welcoming author Christopher Rice back to The Sewers of Paris to talk about his new book, 2025-06-27 19:37:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, sure, Anne Hathaway told a little lie during her audition for Brokeback Mountain. But can you blame her for not wanting to do Princess Diaries sequels for the rest of her life?
Anne's little fib helped her land the pa...
2025-06-22 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest this week is drag legend Courtney Act, who you may know fro...
2025-06-19 22:01:59 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest this week is the comedian Ricky Sim, who’s currently touring with his show <...
2025-06-12 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
The animated Star Trek spinoff should have been cheap and terrible ... but thanks to a fluke of timing and a very brave demand from Leonard Nimoy, it wound up having some surprising bright spots. (It was still pretty cheap, though.) So why is the ...
2025-06-08 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest this week is culture writer Erik Piepenburg, author of the new book ...
2025-06-05 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry wanted to have gay characters on the show, and even instructed writers to include gay couples on Next Generation ... so why didn't they? This week's bonus video's all about Gene's vision for making the future que...
2025-06-01 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest on The Sewers of Paris podcast this week is writer Christopher Tr...
2025-05-29 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest on the Sewers of Paris podcast this week is filmmaker Peter McDowell<...
2025-05-22 18:27:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Why did William Shatner need to steal so many wigs from the set of Star Trek, and what was he doing that rendered them "unphotographable"? For that matter, what happened to the wigs belonging to the producer's multiple mistresses in the cast? We'r...
2025-05-18 18:34:48 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest this week is Alexis Langlois, director of the film 2025-05-15 16:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy mother's day, let's talk about the horniest mom in the galaxy! I've dug up some fascinating behind-the-scenes details about Star Trek, the character Lwaxana Troi, and the real-life saucy shenanigans going on behind the scenes of the...
2025-05-11 16:00:20 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest on this week's Sewers of Paris podcast is Pete Crighton, whose debut book 2025-05-08 18:17:49 +0000 UTC View Post
This may be one of the most awkward interviews I've ever seen: Ian McKellen talking to Dick Cavett, ostensibly about Ian's appearance at the 1992 Tonys and his touring production of Richard III, but it quickly turns into a weirdly tense confrontat...
2025-05-04 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
A new film called Lavender Men comes to theaters this month, and strea...
2025-05-01 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest this week is the writer, director, and co-star of the new Argentinian film 2025-04-24 16:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Is there any more friendship in showbiz as wholesome as Ian McKellen's and Patrick Stewart? I've been doing a lot of Ian-related research for an upcoming video about his show Vicious, and I just keep coming across really lovely stories ab...
2025-04-20 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
You may have seen writer, actor, and comedian Jeffery Self on the shows 30 Rock, Desperate Housewives, and Jeffery & Cole Casse...
2025-04-17 16:01:13 +0000 UTC View Post
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I'm chugging away on multiple videos for you right now -- one about Roy Cohn and Angels in America; and another about the 2013 British sitcom Vicious. For this week's bonus video, I've got some fun backstage st...
2025-04-13 20:01:36 +0000 UTC View Post
You might’ve seen this week’s guest, Andrew Gurza, in the news lately. An activist and advocate for people with disabilities, he recently drew headlines for talking openly about how sex workers have changed his life, and why he believes the go...
2025-04-10 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
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So, you've just been through a bank heist. Robbers have held you at gunpoint for hours, the FBI rescued you, and ... what happens next? Do you have to go in to work the next day, do you get overtime, and how does anyone know tha...
2025-04-06 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
As you might’ve heard, I have a new video up on YouTube about the film Dog Day Afterno...
2025-04-03 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post