Liza Minnelli and Halston in 1984
Credit: Rex
It is a truism – and a joke from the Sex and the City 2 – that whenever there is a peak of gay energy in any room, Liza Minnelli automatically appears. I didn’t care for Sex and the City and its grasping archetype hags – it was consumerist Feminism, empty Feminism - but it is right in this sense, if only by coincidence or mistake.
Minnelli is in Halston from Netflix, a new five-part series about the most original designer America ever produced, with the ever-watchable Ewan McGregor as her best friend Roy (Halston) Frowick. The show isn’t as creative as the man it is named for: how could it be? Netflix is gaudy and well-funded, but it is not imaginative, as its subjects were.
a month after, she watched her son s casket come off a cargo plane, a month after she says promised her answers, she says she is still waiting to hear. still waiting for answers. waiting for a call. congress held hearings today. we ll talk about that shortly, but first, my conversation with sean smith s mom, pat. i appreciate you being with us. i m so sorry for your loss. what do you want people tonow about sean? so god. he was my only child. he was good at what he dand he d it. he loved working with computers? computers, radios. did he always do that? always good with computer hes? we ll, when he was a kid, computers weren t out yet. and then they were out and i got a computer and he started showing me how you could build a flame thrower by watching a c computer and that is how it started. he lived in the netherlands were you able to communicate a lot. was?you allay know wheree wn he told me. for example, this time he was in the hague and that is where he was sta