Carol Burnett and Kristen Wiig Discuss Careers

[ad_1] Photo: Mark Seliger for New York Magazine As a social-climbing hustler trying to gain access to an exclusive country club, Kristen Wiig plays Palm Royale’s Maxine like a steamroller. Spouting torrents of nonsense in a Tennessee accent, she hides her ever-present terror of being exposed behind sunglasses and an enormous smile. It’s the sort… Continue reading Carol Burnett and Kristen Wiig Discuss Careers

‘Carol Doda Topless at the Condor’ pays buoyant tribute to ’60s icon

[ad_1] San Francisco’s own Botticelli’s Venus was nightclub dancing goddess Carol Doda, her scallop shell a white baby grand piano supported by hydraulics and descending from a hole in the ceiling rather than surfacing from the sea. But also, in perhaps the key difference from that painting, hardly so modest as to cover her breasts… Continue reading ‘Carol Doda Topless at the Condor’ pays buoyant tribute to ’60s icon