THE DISH
Current RuPaul’s Drag Race season 13 contestant and NYC icon Tina Burner is a good sport who actually enjoys being the butt of shady jokes–if they’re funny.
But she understandably has a limit. Tina recently posted on Facebook: “Okay I need to address something. Posting that I give bad Sherry Pie vibes is problematic. There are victims of that situation that I’m sure aren’t looking to relive that. From the actual parties involved reaching to the effects of the cast and production. I’m all here for a good comparison. From Big Bird, Ronald McDonald, and a sexy hot dog, y’all have kept me laughing. The constant sexual harassment comparisons are just tasteless. If you do better you ain’t gotta get better. Much love and a lot of shade. :)”
Okay I need to address something. Posting that I give bad Sherry pie vibes is problematic. There are victims of that situation that I’m sure aren’t looking to relive that . From the actual parties involved reaching to the effects of the cast and production.
— Tina Burner (@TheTinaBurner) January 5, 2021
I commented on the post that I would never compare Tina to Sherry Pie. To me, she’s more like Dorian Corey, who had her ex’s corpse mummified in a suitcase for years. Kidding! Tina is so right about the limits of shade, and someday even I will learn that lesson.
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In other drag queen news, I am utterly disconsolate about Kim Kardashian and Kanye’s divorce. I’ve lost at least 20 seconds of sleep over it and I hope it doesn’t bring out more circles under my eyes! But I can’t say I’m all that surprised by this development, since Kim had privately told someone I know that Kanye is sort of a lit keg, emotionally speaking. Confided KK, “With Kanye, you never know what person you’re going to get every morning.”
I’m still waiting for the day I wake up and he seems decent.
BREAKOUT STAR
But those two are as over as celebrity catfishing. More interestingly, there’s a new, hot out lesbian in country—the richly talented Lily Rose—and she made it primarily through self-promotion. Lily’s acoustic song “Villain”—about the weirdness of being labeled the bad guy after a breakup–made it all the way to number five on the U.S. digital sales chart, strictly through her putting it on TikTok and watching it take off like a house aflame.
Lily is an open lesbian (rare in the country world), she has no label, and still, she scored chart points in ALL sales, not just country. Any power-that-be that doesn’t jump on this very soon is a villain.
SCREEN PLAGIARISM?
Speaking of hot lesbians: The Prom has a lot of “zazz,” but one line from the movie (and the show it was based on) gets my gay goat. It’s when Barry, the hammy actor who’s hiding a lot of gay pain (played by James Corden), sings about a good review, “It means that this tour de force will not be forced to tour.” The line always felt familiar to me, considering that actor/playwright Charles Busch long ago quipped about “a tour de force that should be forced to tour.” I asked Busch about this perplexing matter and he said, “It’s possible that somebody remembered me saying that–not in a play, but in a curtain speech. But alas, I appropriated the line from a biography of the great actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell. I gladly pass it along.”
CLUB KIDS MADE GOOD
Let me pass THIS along: My old pal Lisa Edelstein (House, Girlfriends’ Guide To Divorce) just sold a movie to Viacom and will be directing. Details to follow…Another old club cohort, Pauley Perrette (NCIS), called to catch up. In our long, amazing chat, Pauley said that she never thought club-kid leader/killer Michael Alig was charming or cute and she doesn’t think that Angel Melendez constituted Alig’s entire death toll either. It’s hard to disagree that there might have been other casualties. By the way, there’s been a gofundme started for Alig’s funeral expenses. Some people have suggested the much cheaper option of dismembering the body and tossing it into the river.
BONUS BLIND ITEM: “Which Tony obsessed young playwright has covid and has apparently been super-spreading it?” Such a giver!
Cam
I know there are many other issues in a marriage, But isn’t the timing interesting. As soon as Kanye’s buddy loses the election, Kim decides to dump him.
Glad to see another out lesbian in country music, and I think the Sherry Pie comparisons are just because there is a resemblance in appearance.
barryaksarben
Yes, me and my friends did comment on a physical resemblance between Tina and SHerry but didnt think badly of tina. As horrible a person as SHerry is she was a damned good drag queen