Cruise In The Night
That's composer Angelo Badalamenti and singer Julee Cruise celebrating the upcoming September releases of the Twin Peaks soundtrack and the video performance of Industrial Symphony No. 1, created by Badalamenti and director David Lynch in which Julee also stars.
Source: The Gavin Report August 31 1990
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Jennifer Tilly, then 45 years old, as featured in a 2003 one-on-one interview regarding her life and career at the time; magazine publication & photographer unknown
(via instagram user tillymoments)
[image description: a one image clipping, seemingly scanned digitally from the original paper source, from a magazine article. the title of the article is called The World According to Jennifer Tilly, and the title font is much bigger and bolder than the rest of the interview text below it. on the top half of the page, Jennifer is pictured lounging on a white bed. she is wearing a bright red dress that falls right below her kneecaps, with matching heels in the same color. the top of the dress has an off shoulder neck line and is accented with thick white lace trim that stops a little above her natural waist line. she is posed in such a way that her right hand is resting on top of her hip, and her left arm is casually propping her up, with her left hand gently placed on the side of her jaw. in the background, a white vase placed on top of a brown, wooden bed side table holds a bundle of big pink flowers. white and pink curtains that match the colors of the vase and flowers can be partially seen behind the table. the text on the bottom half of the image underneath the large bold head line reads:
"She's picked up an Oscar nomination (for 1994's Bullets Over Broadway) and hooked up with a psychotic toy (in 1989's Bride Of Chucky)
(transcription note: the 1989 release year is a typo, Bride Of Chucky was released in 1998. the interview continues)
Now Jennifer Tilly, or at least her head, co stars as a fortune teller trapped in a crystal ball in Disney's The Haunted Mansion. We're not sure Tilly, 45, can predict the future, but she's refreshingly candid about the Hollywood Life.
(transcription note: a line divides this paragraph and the one on one interview continues below it in a format where a topic prompt is typed in bold format before Jennifer Tilly's responses, in regular non bold font, in quotation marks)
On her career: Eight times out of 10 when I get recognized, it's for Bride Of Chucky.
On her outrageous fashion choices: If you're Nicole Kidman and you're wearing a plain black dress, your picture's going to run because you're Nicole Kidman. But if you're Jennifer Tilly and you're wearing a plain black dress, it's never going to run anywhere.
On her figure: I'd love to be 15 pounds lighter, but I get hungry.
On her fans: After "Bullets", I got this huge gay following. I guess I was so over the top with those pink feathers. I think gay men like the way I present myself because I'm a little like a drag queen.
On her upbringing: We were hippies. We moved to California because my step father didn't want our family to be part of the government war machine. He was sort of like David Koresh. He made me drop out of Girl Scouts because he thought they were teaching us to be little soldiers. And I was like, I just want to make brownies!
On her sister Meg, 43 (The Big Chill), who got her break first despite being slower to take up acting: Everyone assumed I was following in her foot steps and I didn't want to be like, no, she was copying me, honest!
On wanting to have a child: Obviously I've got to get a move on.
On the bright side of her recent split with beau Dodd Mitchell, 37, a restaurant designer: Since my boyfriend moved out, I have more room for my clothes."
this is where the interview stops at the bottom right side of the page. end description.]
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Southern voice, September 13, 1990, Andrea K. Brown
[Image description: An article from a magazine written by Andrea K. Brown and titled "SODOMY STARTS TO HEAT UP AGAIN", above the title reads "FEATURE" and below "The Georgia Privacy Coalition wants the 'S' word off the Georgia law books." In the center of the article, breaking the page, is an illustration of a torn dictionary definition of the word Sodomy, torn in such a way where the word, it's pronunciation, and "the homosexual proclivities of t-" "1: copulation with a member-" ":noncommittal and esp. anal or oral-" -posit sex" are the only words visible. the main text of the article reads
"Remember sodomy? It was the hot issue
in SoVo's pages earlier this year, largely as a
result of a controversial sodomy law repeal
demonstration and lobbying campaign on
the first day of the legislative session. ACT
UP staged the demonstration—complete
with inflatable, anatomically complete dolls
arranged in different "sodomitic" positions
—outside the Georgia Statehouse.
No doubt you also remember that the
repeal effort fizzled when legislation that
would have amended the sodomy law to
legalize private consensual sexual acts
between adults regardless of sexual orientation was defeated 6444. An amended version that excluded gays and lesbians from
protection was trounced 87-22 as supporters
of the gay inclusive version withdrew their
votes.
Some blame ACT UP's high-visibility
techniques for losing the reform bill's more
conservative supporters. But others feel that
disapproval of graphic demonstrations is just
a rationalization for homophobia, and that
the law had no chance of passage this year,
regardless of what anyone did or did not do.
For most, the issue has cooled. But in the
minds and hearts—and other parts—of
activists, it still sizzles. "Sodomy" as a criminal term is used to intimidate and harass
gays and lesbians, and as a weapon that may
be wielded in divorce and custody cases, in
criminal trials, and in military and other
forms of discrimination.
In Georgia, sodomy laws prohibit anal
and oral sex regardless of partner
gender—but private consensual sodomy is
not commonly prosecuted
Nevertheless, Georgia has one of the
harshest laws in the country: first-time
"offenders," committing consensual sodomy may be imprisoned for up to 20 years.
Forcible sodomy is punishable with lifetime
imprisonment.
The good news is that there are places in
this country that have made significant
progress on legalizing the way we make
love.
This summer, in both Michigan and
Kentucky, Circuit Court judges struck down
sodomy laws, using state constitutional privacy protections as grounds for their rulings.
These are the first decisions applying to
homosexual sodomy since the U.S. Supreme
Court's infamous 1986
Bowers v Hardwick case.
In Fayette County, Kentucky, the state law— which
criminalizes same sex sodomy
only—was declared
unconstitutional. The decision presently applies to the
Lexington area only, but, since the state
Attorney General is appealing, it could soon
apply to the whole state.
A Wayne County, Michigan judge ruled
that state laws against sodomy (defined in
Michigan as anal sex between partners of
any gender) and gross indecency (oral sex
and mutual masturbation, also without
regard to sexual orientation) violate privacy
rights, in the case of non-public consensual
sex between adults. The case may or may
not be appealed.
In Hardwick, the Supreme Court's majority proclaimed that "homosexuals do not have a fundamental right to engage in acts of
consensual sodomy" under the due process
clause of the 14th amendment, on which
activists had challenged the punitive Georgia
law. The high court cited "millennia of
moral teaching" as grounds for its decision.
The existence of sodomy laws in 26
states (and D.C.) makes clear the government position that engaging in sodomy is a heinous and abominable "crime against
nature." In some states, the statute is actually
titled with those words, or with a variety of
equally offensive terms. Generally speaking,
there are laws on the books
which prohibit anal and
often, mutual masturbation —whether they all fall under each state's definition of sodomy or not. Seven states prohibit only same sex sodomy. All around the country, advocates of sodomy repeal and/or reform are organizing to make changes at the state
level. There is some visible movement in
Oklahoma, Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
Maryland and Minnesota. Attempts at repeal
have been and/or are being made in
Mssouri, Texas, Tennessee and the District
of Columbia. In Tennessee, the law has been
reformed—reducing sodomy from a felony
with a possible 15 years in the clink to a
misdemeanor with a $25 fine.
Some consider reform of this sort a victory
—a step in the right direction. But others
feel that reform will only make repeal more difficult.
Members of the Georgia Privacy
Coalition (GPC) are among those for whom
the issue of sodomy remains hot. The GPC
was formed in April of this year to lobby for
and create awareness about the upcoming
repeal effort.
The strategy in '91 is, first and foremi
to get the word "sodomy" off Georgia's law
books.
Aggravated sodomy and solicitation of
sodomy are to be covered elsewhere: the
first, under a new "aggravated sexual battery" statute being introduced alongside the
repeal bill—Georgia's rape law does not
presently cover forcible sodomy; the latter
by the amending the solicitation for prostitution statute to include a description of the
deed(s).
In an effort to activate interest in repeal
of Georgia's sodomy statute the National
Lesbian & Gay Law Association and the
Lesbian/Gay Rights chapter of ACLU
Georgia will sponsor a Sodomy Track Day,
October 8, as part of the Lavender Law
Conference, to be held in Atlanta.
Workshops, organized by Sue Hyde,
Director of the Privacy Project of the
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, will
include information on post-Hardwick state
court challenges and legal strategies, penal
code revision and recodification, and legislative repeal/reform. Registration info for the
Conference is contained in an ad on page 3
of this issue.
The Georgia Privacy Coalition meets the
fourth Wednesday of every month.
Networking is essential to eventual
sodomy repeal; contacts outside of Atlanta
are particularly needed. Call the GPC at
286-2358 /end id]
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Julee Cruise on New York City
"I like New York because I have dogs and it's a city of dog lovers. It seems like everyone here has to have an animal or a plant to remind them of nature." [audible barking in the background]
— JULEE CRUISE, recording artist and actor
Source: Interview Vol 23 Issue 11 November 1993
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