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My friend, New York Times reporter, filmmaker and mensch of the century Andrew Jacobs has created what looks to be an amazing film, The Four Seasons Lodge.

From the film’s website:

They come together to cook, gamble, flirt, fight and dance. Having endured the worst of humanity, they gather at a Catskills bungalow colony each summer to celebrate life, and relive their harrowing pasts. They are part of a remarkable tribe whose members are fast disappearing – Holocaust survivors with a captivating joie de vivre and a bracing sense of humor.

View the Four Seasons Lodge trailer at their web site. I can’t wait to see the film; I hope it gets down to Florida soon.

I’m very serious here. And RuPaul and World of Wonder boys, please throw the voting in this girl’s favor. It’ll be our secret…

VOTE HERE

Beth Johnson and pals have been hard at work putting together the upcoming memorial for Dean….. click below for details:

ROCK & ROLL FAG BAR 2008

From Beth Johnson, Dean’s sister and all-around great gal:

To all of Dean’s friends and family in NY -

My name is Beth and I am Dean’s sister. I understand your confusion and hunger for information surrounding Dean’s death. His death is currently under investigation and I don’t feel comfortable discussing the details of his case until the conclusion of that investigation….but rest assured that they do know who Dean was with and that I have every confidence in the DC Det. investing the case. As soon as the case comes to a conclusion, which I am told will be soon ( although not sure what soon is in cop time….) I wil reveal every detail I know. Hang in there.

Dean has been cremated and will be layed to rest next to his mother in Maine soon. They loved each other very much and I know they are together now somewhere.

I can not express the depth of loss I feel. But to hear your stories and see your pics is a comfort. Keep posting the pics, I love them. Thanks to all of you for loving Dean so much. He would love the buzz going on about him now.

With much love and gratitude….
Beth Johnson

Beth, I feel saddest for you. I’m so sorry; let me know if I can do anything.

I’ll write my reminiscences of Dean later on, after some of the hysteria has died down. Thanks to everyone who reached out to me with concern… I’m fine, if a little remorseful. Dean had been trying to fix our broken friendship as recently as last month, and I’m a schmuck for not immediately grabbing the extended paw of reconciliation.

The boys at World of Wonder (friends and fellow members of the 80′s/90′s East Village diaspora) have done us all a great service by creating WOW TV, which includes a hefty chunk of their awesome work.

My special faves are the documentaries, which can be found at wow-doc.wowtv.tv. Two of my faves are Crazy Rulers of the World (raved about in earlier posts) and the original documentary of Party Monster, which should have won an Oscar™!!!

All this amazing stuff can be viewed for a pittance. Get thee over there, ASAP!