AboutEnnis grew up in Cincinnati, the sixth of ten children. In his first life he was an actor and singer; embarking on his second, he completed his BA at Empire State College, where he was a Richard Porter Leach Fellow.
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A lifetime ago a man I once loved gave me the gift of Kenny Rankin the way one passes on an insider tip about the markets or the missing ingredient in a beloved biscuit recipe. The gift endured (outlasting the relationship, and the lover’s death), to the extent that often I’ve foisted the New York City-born Rankin…
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He’ll set his foot down on the road and the wind in the trees be talking to him and everywhere he step on the road, that road’ll give back your name and something will pull him right up to your doorstep…but maybe he ain’t supposed to come back. Bynum, Joe Turner’s Come and…
Continue readingIt’s hard not to be impressed by Christopher Williams, or The Golden Legend, his new work that premiered at Dance Theater Workshop this spring. And grateful—we’ve all bemoaned those evenings of dance that lack ambition, or at least a stroke of boldness or risk. Arriving on the heels of another exploration of divine passion (his…
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Dare to glanc e at Francis Bacon’s work, and you’ll find it impossible to look away. It’s all there: chaos with all the devastation of an interstate collusion; a pallette infused with the shouting glee of a street fair; an opulence of feeling that’s elegiac and celebratory, full of that tender, terrifying thing we call life. Bacon is back, and the Metropolitan Museum…
Continue readingUltimately photography is about who you are. It’s the seeking of truth in relationship to yourself. And seeking truth becomes a habit Leonard Freed Over the weekend I made an attempt to meet up with my spouse for a gallery hop in Chelsea after yoga, but alas, the ones we targeted–ah, how best-laid plans get…
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Passion. Desire. The ad copy for the current production of Desire Under the Elms is the kind of sexy teaser producers hope will put bodies in seats. No way would they tout the especial skills of Eugene O’Neill, an American playwright for the ages. But it’s his story up there, and while it’s by no…
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Sad to hear of the suicide of McFarlane, one of the founders of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, an executive director of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and more recently, of the Gill Foundation, an advocacy organization for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender civil rights. I keep reading articles bemoaning the lack of gay heroes; McFarlane…
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The man who inspired my favorite film musical now has an exhibit of his fashion photographs at New York’s International Center of Photography. AVEDON FASHION 1944-2000 runs May 15 through September 6. Whether Richard Avedon was shooting models or indigents, few could couple style and subtext so beguilingly. Viva Black and White! Above, Veruschka, dress by…
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Above, Coverup, Nursery Rhyme, Resurrection of the Waitress, Reception
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