(Selzer also claimed to have had significant bedroom roles with Cary Grant and Randolph Scott, and also Tyrone Power.
Gay men fashion critics on the red carpet movie#
After an ear tuck and nose job at 17, he won a small part on stage with Mae West and a cutting-room-floor role in a movie produced by Howard Hughes, who first christened him Blackwell. As detailed in his 1995 autobiography, From Rags to Bitches, he grew up on the streets of Bensonhurst but moved into Manhattan to turn tricks on Central Park West, though he told his mom he walked rich people’s dogs. And all of it-the 240 minutes of live red-carpet coverage, NeNe Leakes offering fashion critiques, Anne Hathaway reportedly earning $750,000 to wear some jewelry at the Oscars-begins with a little gay boy from Brooklyn who just wanted to be somebody.īorn in 1922, Richard Selzer traveled a long way to become Hollywood’s head Heather.
This is how Tony winner Christine Baranski found herself suffering the prostate exam that is the revolving E! GlamCam 360 (sponsored by Volkswagen) at the Golden Globes this year. This is now the modern red-carpet fashion-entertainment complex, a collusion of designers, stylists, and of course the stars themselves who can exploit an appearance on a best-dressed list to land magazine covers, beauty ads, and even movie roles.Īwards-show arrivals have become bigger than the awards themselves as the rest of us, on our couches, hate-tweet the whole thing in real time. “When he said ‘best and worst,’ it meant something,” Melissa says. They are credited with upending the entire fashion universe with the simple question “Who are you wearing?” True-but to be fair, they were standing on Blackwell’s shoulders. If you’re younger than 40, you’ve come of age seeing Joan Rivers, who died last year, and her daughter, Melissa, praise and pummel awards-show attire live on the red carpet and later on E!’s Fashion Police. But the experience from the other side of the velvet rope has always been enjoyable.