New Cast Members Added For Extended Run

Jeff Jones and the "Girls" welcome

WANDA WOOLWORTH

&

SASSY DIVINE

To the growing list of rotating contestants

Little Miss Parliament is NOT a real pageant. The 7-year old girls will be played by grown men. This show is simply an example of what it would be like if everything that could possibly go wrong at a toddler pageant actually did go horrifically wrong.

Orlando is laughing its collective ass off!

It's a new show Every Week

Remaining Show Dates

Saturdays:

January 28, and February 4 & 11, 2012

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Leslie Jordan Returns   

With Autobiographical Story-Telling Hilarity

 

Do gay men become their mothers? That is the question asked in Leslie Jordan's hilarious and touching new romp, Stories I Can't Tell Mama. Jordan travels back in time using show-and-tell to take the audience on the ride of a lifetime. Childhood recollections combine with perilous teenage shenanigans. From the day a teenage Jordan sits down with his poor, clueless mother to inform her that he has decided to forego college to become a female impersonator, all the way to a gay Alaskan cruise on which a 53-year-old Jordan witnesses his aging mother's astounding metamorphosis (and whose only real concern about a gay cruise to Alaska is that she doesn't want to go ice fishing), Jordan is in his element. His storytelling skills abound, and will make for an evening of fun and thought-provoking theater.

 

Wanzie is sending out this information specifically as a courtesy to subscribers, offering you and your friends the opportunity to snag the very best seats 2 weeks before any publicity goes out to the general public.

 

LEASLIE JORDAN RETURNS TO

FOOTLIGHT THEATRE FOR 4th TIME

With All-New Show for 2012

 

See him perform in an intimate setting!

Meet him after the show!

 

 

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The Man in the One Man Show

Jordan stepped off a Greyhound bus in 1982 from the hills of Tennessee, said "hello" to Hollywood, and has never looked back. With hundreds of television shows, films, and commercials to his credit, he has become a familiar face on the entertainment scene. Jordan is the 2006 Emmy® Award-winner for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his delicious portrayal of "Beverley Leslie" on Will and Grace. Audiences will also remember him for his recurring roles on Boston Legal, Ugly Betty, and Reba, and from the feature films as Brother Boy in Sordid Lives (a role he continued in Sordid Lives...the Series on the Logo network), and the recent DreamWorks feature film The Help. On stage Jordan won the Ovation Award, the Garland Award, and the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for his portrayal of "Preston Leroy," the aging, sodden barfly in Del Shores hit play Southern Baptist Sissies. His book, "My Trip Down the Pink Carpet" for Simon and Schuster, formed the basis of a 90-minute one-man show, which had a 45-city book signing/performance tour, and a successful 12-week off-Broadway run in 2010.

Dear Michael,

Regarding your F.Y.I. in last week's gram ("So what has Obama done..."):

You simply stated the facts, and yet because of the hundreds of millions of dollars already spent to brainwash the average American in an attempt to deny Obama's accomplishments, I suggest your column was brilliant.  Isn't it a shame when presenting facts rises to the level of brilliance? 

It's important for us to realize that the bulk of the funds being used in this smear campaign to deny Obama's accomplishments come from the top 1/10th of the top 1% of income earners - the wealthiest of the wealthy - those above the other 99.9% of us. (Now there's a "9-9-9" that is meaningful!) The U.S. Supreme Court helped shepherd this in with their decision that corporations are a person, and thus can enjoy unlimited financial support of political action committees. As if corporations, and their billions of dollars already spent in lobbying, were at a political disadvantage. The facts speak for themselves.  Thank you for your service of presenting them to us. If the WANZeGRAM were required reading for all voters, Obama would be assured a second term.

Jeff Horn

Dear Jeff,

Jeff, you are too kind.

Most of my article was simply a compilation of FACTS that are readily and easily available to anyone who cares to look for them.

I'm glad to know the little bit of effort it took to do so on my part was appreciated, and I can only hope it opened a few eyes to a great many truths about our President, while exposing many a false statement from those who have always opposed him, and who have worked so tenaciously to hopefully cause this President to fail, rather than involving themselves in the process of actually governing.

Thank you for taking the time to write in.

Sincerely,

Wanzie

"Directly following the conclusion of our services, you can be baptized by Jesus Himself in the Baptismal font located just outside the Church. Or, if you don't want to be baptized, you can receive Holy Communion from our other Jesus, who be located at the Last Supper Table just inside the cave on your left."  

- Pastor Jan Crouch, speaking at the dedication of THE CHURCH OF ALL NATIONS, at Holy Land Experience, Orlando - Friday, January 20, 2012

"Did you ever notice that the politicians who are fond of saying that they will NEVER apologize for America are usually the very people that we inevitably have to apologize for?"  

- Rich Charron

CHANGE IN IRELAND INCLUDES ACCPETANCE OF GAYS
By Bill Woods

The train from Belfast pulled into the station in Dublin where a group of women passengers were immediately arrested. Their crime? They had brought back condoms in protest of the laws banning the purchase or use of contraceptives in the Republic of Ireland.  The year was 1971.  Some forty years later, Ireland has progressed, not only with regard to contraceptives, but it has officially embraced civil partnerships for couples of the same or opposite sex. 

As an American who is about to enter into a civil union with my Irish partner, I wanted to understand how a country that once was so dominated by the influence of the Catholic Church had transformed itself into one of the most progressive members of the European Union.  I wondered if there was hope that the United States might be able to make similar progress to grant full civil rights to my LGBT friends and colleagues.

To understand the changes in Ireland, one has to take note of the various forces at work.  One of the forces is from outside the Republic, the other from within.

While Ireland has a rich history, it is a relatively young republic.  Trust me; you don't want to tell an Irishman that his country is part of the UK!  Ireland obtained complete independence in 1937. In 1973 Ireland became a member of the European Union.  While this union was primarily economic with each member retaining control of their own social laws, the fact that citizens of one member state could travel freely to other member states (like we can travel between US states) meant that pressure for social change was inevitable.  Legislators like David Norris (himself an openly gay man) argued successfully that Ireland must decriminalize homosexual relationships, based on the European Convention on Human Rights that had been enacted by the E.U.

The other force, the one from within, was the loss of respect that life-long Catholics had for their church leaders, who continued to either cover up or downplay the scandals associated with the sexual misconduct of priests.  The Irish population turned a deaf ear to the once influential church, and began to revisit the church teachings on sex.  Many politicians who previously feared voter backlash now began to listen to the demands for equality and respect toward the gay community.

In my next submission to the Gram, I will let the people of Ireland share their thoughts on these civil unions.

Bill Woods is an Orlando businessman of advanced years who came out late in life after having been married and siring children. He has since quickly become an advocate for social change who also supports the arts, is a long-time member of the Orange Blossom Tennis Association, and a once-a-year Pageant Queen (for fundraising purposes), who also served as campaign finance manger during Jeff Horn's bid for City Council. Like his Irish fiancé, Bill enjoys a touch of the spirits now and again, and like a popular Playskool toy, he often wobbles, but he doesn't fall down.

PETA Should Have Chosen People We Would Not Wish to See Naked

By Mike Dorman

"Did you ever wonder why.....?" A few minutes ago I ran across on my MSN home page a Fox (who else?) news link to the PETA ads featuring beautiful young women stripped to the bare essentials with a tag line along these lines; "I'd rather go naked than wear fur." All that immediately came to mind (well, almost all) was "Darlin', most of us would rather see you like this than wearing fur!" Now I'm pretty much opposed to the entire PETA agenda once you get past the part we agree on - "Anyone who abuses animals for fun deserves to die a messy and protracted death." Animal abuse is horrid, but sometimes a cheeseburger just works when nothing else will. We evolved with pointed canines for a reason. Having said that, I still would propose that if PETA really wanted our attention to their cause, they should use persons in their ads who we don't EVER want to see naked (a list follows). Proposed bare it all singles and couples for PETA fur ads: Newt Gingrich and Aretha Franklin, Newman from the Seinfeld show, Liza Minelli, Ron Paul, the Shave Ice truck guy from Hawaii Five-0, Nancy Reagan, and of course, me.

Mike Dorman is a retired Orange County School (History) Teacher who previously served as a career officer (submarines) in the United States Navy. Mike has since retired to The Villages, where he obviously has too much free time on his hands. He agreed to be this publication's Global Correspondent, reporting on life in The Villages. Although we have received several mini-rants (such as this one you are now reading) from our subscriber friend, he has yet to turn in the Global Correspondent content he was asked (and which he agreed) to submit.