Drag kings are mostly female performance artists who dress in masculine drag and personify male gender stereotypes as part of an individual or group routine. A typical drag show may incorporate dancing, acting, stand-up comedy and singing, either live or lip-synching to pre-recorded tracks. Drag kings often perform as exaggeratedly macho male characters, portray marginalized masculinities such as construction workers and rappers or they will impersonate male celebrities like Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson and Tim McGraw.
Herman J. "Herb" Wesson Jr. is an American politician who was the President of the Los Angeles City Council. He was the council member representing the 10th District from 2005 to 2020. Wesson was also Speaker of the California State Assembly.
Digital Entertainment Network was a multimedia dot-com company founded in the late-1990s by Marc Collins-Rector and his partner, Chad Shackley. Rector and Shackley had sold their ISP, Concentric Network, and used the proceeds of that sale, along with additional investor funding, to launch DEN. In February 1999, Jim Ritts resigned as commissioner of the LPGA to become chairman of DEN.
Stewart Bridgewater Linder was an American film editor with 25 credits. He shared the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for the 1966 film Grand Prix, which was the very first film on which Linder was credited as an editor. Linder is particularly noted for his long collaboration (1982–2006) with the director Barry Levinson. Perhaps the best remembered film from their collaboration, which extended over 20 films, was Rain Man (1988), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Linder won an ACE Eddie award for editing this film, and was nominated for both the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for Best Editing.
Ravi Vasant Patel is an American actor. He has also written and directed, with his sister, an autobiographical documentary, Meet the Patels.
Manna from Heaven is a 2002 film written by Gabrielle B. Burton and co-directed by her daughters Gabrielle C. Burton and Maria Burton. The film won awards at four film festivals. It was actor Jerry Orbach's final film before his death from prostate cancer in 2004 and Shelley Duvall's final film before her retirement from acting in 2002.
Maria Burton is an American director, producer, and actress. She directed the feature films For the Love of George (2018), A Sort of Homecoming (2015), Manna From Heaven (2002), Just Friends (1996), Temps (1999), and co-directed the 2007 documentary "Sign My Snarling Movie".
Peter Baxter is President and co-founder of Slamdance and a filmmaker.
Danae Elon, is an Israeli documentary filmmaker and cinematographer.
Wu Tsang is a filmmaker, artist and performer based in New York and Berlin, whose work is concerned with hidden histories, marginalized narratives, and the act of performing itself. In 2018, Tsang received a MacArthur "genius" grant.
Gabrielle Burton was an American feminist novelist and screenwriter.
Performers and Artists for Nuclear Disarmament (PAND)—alternatively called Performing Artists for Nuclear Disarmament—was a loose coalition of activist collectives made up of performers and artists. PAND chapters formed across the United States and Europe in the early 1980s to organize arts events, protest nuclear proliferation, raise funds to support peace and environmental causes, and heighten awareness of the threat of nuclear weapons. Several PAND chapters including the Cleveland and New York City collectives formed in 1982, a year when anti-nuclear activism culminated in the largest ever anti-war demonstration in support of the Second United Nations Special Session on Disarmament. The demonstration held in Central Park was attended by close to a million people.
Marcia S. Ross is an American casting director and documentary producer.
The Queen is a 1968 American documentary film directed by Frank Simon and narrated by Flawless Sabrina. It depicts the experiences of the drag queens organizing and participating in the 1967 Miss All-America Camp Beauty Contest held at New York City's Town Hall. The film was screened at the International Critics' Week section of the 1968 Cannes Film Festival; however, the festival was ultimately curtailed and ended due to ongoing civil unrest in France before any awards could be given out.
Man in Red Bandana is a 2017 American documentary feature about Welles Remy Crowther, an equities trader known for saving as many as eighteen lives from the upper floors of the South Tower during the September 11 attacks in New York City, during which he lost his own life.
The Ecclesia Athletic Association (EAA) was an organization founded by Eldridge Broussard in 1975, with the stated mission of helping children escape the dangers of inner-city Los Angeles through strict discipline and athletic training. In 1987, the group moved from its headquarters in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles to Sandy, Oregon. The group sometimes attracted accusations that it was a cult, often from neighbors or the family of members inside the group. Broussard publicly denied the label, including in 1984 and in a 1988 appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Ursula Burton is an American actress, director and producer best known for her work on The Office. With her Five Sisters Productions company banner she has produced films including Just Friends (1997), Temps (1999), Manna From Heaven (2002), which the L.A. Times called a "warmhearted comedic fable" and in which she played the role of Theresa. Manna From Heaven was invited to screen for Congress at the MPAA by Senator Chuck Schumer and Representative Karen McCarthy, and hosted by Jack Valenti.
Jennifer Burton is an American filmmaker and professor at Tufts University. She often works with her four sisters through their Five Sisters Productions company, in which the sisters all share credit but take turns directing, writing, etc. Films produced by the company include Manna From Heaven, Temps, and Kings, Queens and In-Betweens.
Five Sisters Productions is a production company helmed by the five Burton sisters, Maria Burton, Jennifer Burton, Ursula Burton, Gabrielle Burton and Charity Burton. Their films include Just Friends (1997), Temps (1999), Manna From Heaven (2002), Julia Sweeney's Letting Go of God (2008), Kings, Queens and In-Betweens (2017) and Good Eggs (2018). The New York Times called Manna From Heaven "a true outsider film," which is "refreshingly sincere, gentle and good-natured."
Kim Hastreiter is an American journalist, editor, publisher, and curator who co-founded Paper magazine. She served as co-Editor-in-Chief from its inception until 2017, when she and partner David Hershkovits sold the company. In her column of 32 years, "Note From Kim," Hastreiter observed and articulated cultural movements and trends that she saw forming, deciphering the transforming zeitgeist. She currently resides in Greenwich Village, New York City.
