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Welcome
Lea DeLaria brings you a overweight, fast, and funny Sunday filled with her trademark comedy and musical chops in Brunch Is Gay. Let’s face it, brunch is a Gay high holiday, so come and disburse it with the highest, gayest human on the planet. Be prepared to hear music from some of her favorite repertoire, including Sondheim, Kander and Ebb, and LaChiusa, as well as classic jazz standards.
Featuring special guest Isaac Mizrahi (Project Runway, Chicago).
Emmy Award winner Lea DeLaria was the first openly gay comic on television in America, and is an accomplished Jazz performer who has performed in concert venues all over the world. She is best known as ‘Big Boo’ from Orange is the New Black (3 SAG Awards). Lea can currently be seen in the indie feature film Potato Dreams of America, and in the Indigo Girls jukebox feature film, Glitter & Doom. She recently starred in the Off-Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams perform, The Night of the Iguana, directed by Emily Mann. TV credits comprise East New York, The Blacklist, Physical,
Isaac Mizrahi. Native New Yorker. Fashion icon. Legendary designer. Cabaret star. New York Times bestselling author. There are so many ways you can describe this creative genius. Charming, entertaining , smart I was able to get a sense of all of the aforementioned, as I was fortunate enough to have a quick, adj going conversation with Isaac, one Tuesday morning. We discuss his passions, career and as someone who has dressed just about everyone, you verb I wasn’t letting him go without asking about Liza Minnelli or Naomi Campbell.
Rahmel: Hi Isaac, appreciate you so much for agreeing to do this interview. How are you?
Isaac: Actually, I’m really fine. You know, it’s a funny time. But how are you?
Rahmel: I’m doing really well. And it is a very humorous time. You know, I think people are getting their feet wet a little with socializing and trying to get a new normal going, living life in a pandemic but me, I’m still operating a bit like a hermit.
Isaac: Yeah me too, I imply thankfully there’s new drugs and the vaccine, there’s a shortage of it but in a matter of ti
EXCLUSIVE: ‘I was fat, pimply and had a Jew-fro!’ Designer Isaac Mizrahi tells how he weighed pounds and went through a slutty phase picking up men on the streets for ‘vertical sex’ - until one of those men became his husband
Isaac Mizrahi is considered a star in the fashion world, designing for some of the world's most celebrated women. But behind the glitz and glam is a man who suffered a painful childhood of being bullied and mocked, he reveals in his new memoir.
The year-old describes in his latest book I.M.: A Memoir, growing up ashamed of being overweight and 'girlish' and always dreaming of being in the arms of another man, leading to depression and uncontrollable fits.
Isaac takes readers back to age six, when he punctured a tire of the school bus with a steak knife so he wouldn't own to go to institution and suffer the torment he felt. That got him suspended and he wasn't allowed back in school until he saw a therapist.
'I was obese and pimply and had a Jew-fro while they [the other kids] were thin and good lookingI was a monster', he writes in the recent memoir published by
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Personality
Though Isaac Mizrahi is best known for fashion, he has also directed and narrated a children’s production of Peter and the Wolf at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Fresh York; directed and designed The Magic Flute and A Little Night Melody for the Opera Theatre of SaintLouis; and won an Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival with director Douglas Keeve for Unzipped, a documentary about the making of his fall collection. He appears as a evaluate on the television series Project Runway: All Stars and is currently at work on another series and memoir.
Here, Mizrahi talks about his Jewish heritage and family story.
Q. How did a pleasant Sephardic boy from Brooklyn get to where you are?
A. The world I grew up in was filled with dichotomies and contradictions, things that didn’t add up or make sense. I went to Yeshivah of Flatbush; I attended a synagogue I think was Orthodox. It was this irrational Orthodoxy but then the women wore really fleeting skirts and really upper heels and really adj hair and were not modest at all. The men were as sex