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unblogparaloschicos · 10 months

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TV: Rickie Vasquez

“My So-Called Life“ (1994-1995) es de esas series que han dejado huella aunque nunca haya pasado de la primera temporada. Es, más aún, de esos programas que han merecido que fans y críticos atacasen a las esferas más altas de un canal televisivo por no haberle dado otra oportunidad a una joya que casi pasa al olvido, caso reiterado en otras maravillas televisivas como “Freeks and Geeks” (1999-2000, una temporada) o “Anne With An E” (2017-2019, tres temporadas), por citar sólo dos ejemplos cuyo destino interrumpido ha dejado un mal sabor de boca a los fans.

Gran exponente de la adolescencia noventosa (mención de honor para su creadora, Winnie Holzman), la historia se enfoca en la joven protagonista Angela Chase (Claire Danes), que nos pone al tanto de sus experiencias familiares, sociales, escolares y, desde luego, románticas. Así conocemos a su mejor amiga Rayanne Graff (A. J. Langer), a su vecino y compañero Brian Krakow (Devon Gummersall), a Jordan Catalano, el chico rebelde que le gusta (nada raro, considerando que lo encarna el ganador del Oscar Jared Leto) y, claro está, el inolvidable Enrique “Rickie” Vasquez (Wilson Cruz), considerado el primer adolescente abiertamente gay en una serie de primetime.

Al principio, sólo parece el “amigo afeminado” de la protagonista, pero a partir del tercer episodio, en el que se toca el tema de las armas en las escuelas, su personaje se vuelve más complejo y su historia comienza lentamente a tomar mayor importancia, aunque sin abandonar demasiado ese rol secundario. Por caso, en el undécimo episodio, narrado por Brian, Rickie se enamora de un chico nuevo, de nombre Corey Halfrick (Adam Biesk), atento a su intuición que le advierte de que puede ser gay debido a sus coloridas zapatillas y a su estilo tan peculiar como el suyo. Más que enamoramiento, su fascinación puede deberse a la posibilidad de compartir su experiencia con otro chico gay.

Sin embargo, su historia tendrá mayor relevancia a partir del episodio navideño llamado “So Called Angels”, en donde Rickie aparece muy golpeado y huyendo de su hogar, que compartía con sus tíos. Si uno conoce al personaje, ya se imaginará lo que en realidad le sucedió (aunque no se explicita mucho en el capítulo), pero allí es un alma perdida, vagando por las calles en el crudo invierno y “protegido” por una misteriosa y angelical figura, encarnada por la cantante Juliana Hatfield. El propósito del episodio es reflejar la realidad de los chicos que han sido perdidos o abandonados por sus familias y, al final del episodio, se publica un número telefónico para llamar a la acción del público.

Posteriormente al final feliz del capítulo, el siguiente lo encuentra siendo recuperado y protegido por los Chase, pero esta tranquilidad dura poco, ya que decide volver a escaparse tras escuchar una preocupada conversación entre los dueños de casa. Simula estar bien y asegura tener un hogar adónde ir, pero la fachada de seguridad es descubierta por su profesor de Lengua, Richard Katimski (Jeff Perry), que le encuentra un lugar donde chicos como él pueden cobijarse. Rickie vuelve a escaparse... para llegar a la casa de su profesor, que vive con su pareja, que es otro hombre, adonde vive de forma temporal. El cierre de la temporada, que es el de la serie, lo muestra junto a Delia Fischer (Senta Moses), la chica que se ha enamorado de él, confirmándole que es homosexual, pero que, en caso de no serlo, sin duda la elegiría a ella como pareja.

Un personaje esencial en una serie imprescindible cuyo eco resuena desde entonces, como ejemplo cabal de los sinsabores de la adolescencia LGBTQ y ha servido para ofrecer visibilidad y esperanza, incluso, para el propio Cruz, como lo recalca en esta nota:

https://www.today.com/popculture/my-so-called-life-star-wilson-cruz-reflects-impact-his-t217985

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raurquiz · 1 year

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fashiongrunge · 2 years

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🎙[new podcast] Forward Flash Episode 016: Michael, I’m not addicted to drugs. I’m addicted to glamour. | Party Monster (2003) 🍩 [link in bio] Money. Success. Fame. Glamour. We're back in the NY club scene about a decade later with the Party Monster story. While we mostly stay on the film track we get detailed about the many documentaries about the true story that more than inspired this tale. There are so many fashion standouts that could be it's own episode. The portrayal of Michael Alig and James St. James by Macaulay Culkin and Seth Green deserves all the awards. Me, @charleshaslam, and @agentmikey007 talk this INSANE story, the uncomfortable accuracies, and question just how the fuck this all happened. Off-topic rants include: TV shows we're obsessing on, newish Brokeback Mountain news, and tales about Mikey's dog Boss. "Now it's all about photo placement. So if you're in a group of three always, always, always make sure that you're the one standing on the right because that way when they print the picture you'll be the one on the left. The caption will read "James St. James and bla bla bla" were seen, okay?" #podcast #partymonster #macaulayculkin #sethgreen #chloesevigny #natashalyonne #nyc #clubkids #truecrime #wilsoncruz #disco2000 https://www.instagram.com/p/CXraYu5Ovid/?utm_medium=tumblr

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xfilesposterproject · 4 years

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Back in stock! Both of my official #StarTrekDiscovery prints are now available again in limited quantities. Last chance to grab these so find them in the Star Trek section of my shop. 🖖 . .  #art #artistsoninstagram #trek #trekart #startrekart #scifi #tv #movies #vintage #retro #throwback #sonequamartingreen #dougjones #jasonisaacs #wilsoncruz #anthonyrapp #fanart #startrekfanart

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impendingfascination · 5 years

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The Red Angel Reveals The Path For Star Trek Discovery

Well, that’s one way to solve a mystery. ‘The Red Angel’ steps up and answers the question that has been plaguing us all season long. It also stops to introduce a few new questions because, well, if we didn’t have things to speculate about we might stop watching. We are also reminded of just how tight the Discovery crew is, with some possible indications that we might finally see the crew as they were at the very beginning of the season. Less a few Enterprise crew members, but all the better for it.

Let’s begin with the final departure of Airiam. Not really wanting to make light of a funeral I won’t spend a lot of time on this issue, but I have mixed feelings about this entire scene. Last weeks episode provided a powerful, emotional goodbye to a character that we’d only barely gotten to know. Part of that not knowing is what made her exit so affecting. To this week then spend a good chunk of the episode having various cast members give all the reasons why they will miss her takes away a bit from the place we were left. I’m almost surprised we didn’t get Admiral Cornwall’s reminiscing on her non-existent time with Airiam thrown in. Ok, maybe I’m being a little harsh, but I would have liked to see the funeral scene maybe be a bit more subdued, keeping in line with the fact that we’d just mourned a character we hardly knew.

Relationships from last season that have definitely been put to the test last season also finally get a little revisit this episode. The direction that Stamets and Culber are taking can be a little heartbreaking, especially considering the initial excitement that the show had unburied it’s gay. It does seem that eventually, we’ll get these two back together, but you can’t help but want to push that along. I’m not as convinced by Burnham and Tyler though. Something is feeling a little rushed by Burnham accepting him back. Yes, yes, she was on the verge of voluntarily dying, but this is also the man who trusts an agency that is responsible for her entire life. He also chose a life in the Klingon Empire with his ex Klingon lover over her last season. Maybe just a tiny bit more hesitation would be appropriate?

Speaking of Michael’s entire life (here come the spoileriest spoilers, if you want to stop now), the revelation of the identity of the red angel was...unexpected. I suppose the hints have been there all season. We’ve been given a lot of pause to stop and think about who Michael’s real parents were so in a way the revelation should have been somewhat easy to pick out before now. I wonder how this ties to Michael’s past exactly though. At what point in Michael’s timeline is her mother traveling from? I suppose this could be the ‘fix’ to the continuity the producers have been promising and we’ll get a third ‘Star Trek’ timeline out of this. The original, the Kelvin timeline from the later movies, and now the Michael timeline. That wouldn’t explain Spock never mentioning a sister though since it appears the divergence would start after the introduction of Michael. Still, time travel. It can be best not to over explain it.

And does anyone really think Leland is dead?

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adamwatchesmovies · 2 years

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Supernova (2000)

Supernova has liquefied my brain. I want to tell you how much I dislike this movie but it's so bland and generic the words are struggling to come out. It’s a watered-down version of a watered-down version of a watered-down version of Alien. If you thought Pandorum and Event Horizon were derivative of the Ridley Scott sci-fi classic, you’d be right, but at least those had a few elements that made them distinct. Supernova is not interesting or creative in any way whatsoever.

The crew of the Nightingale 229 are responding to a distress signal. Captain A.J. Marley (Robert Forster), co-pilot Nick (James Spader), medical officer Kaela (Angela Bassett), medical technician Yerzy (Lou Diamond Phillips), paramedic Danika (Robin Tunney), and technician Benjamin (Wilson Cruz) save the man who called for help (Peter Facinelli) but become stranded thanks to a teleportation malfunction.

From there, the plot is simultaneously complex and stupidly simple. The man - who has mysterious ties to Kaela - possesses a strange alien artifact that may or may not spell doomsday for mankind.

Everything about Supernova is boring. As soon as the action kicks in, you know what the twist will be, you know way ahead of time what the deal is with the guy being rescued. It’s almost insulting it’s so bland.

Under any scrutiny, this picture falls apart and there’s so little about it that’s stimulating you can’t help but ask questions. If the Nightingale 229 is a rescue vessel, why does it only have 8 pods to shield humans from the harmful effects of the teleportation process? What if they came upon a ship with like 200 people? Would the six crewmembers make a hundred trips back and forth? Who programmed the ship’s computer with a sassy attitude? Why would the aliens leave the powerful artifact where it is if it can indeed do what we're told it can? Why do the crewmembers play with round playing cards? Wouldn’t they be a lot more expensive and cumbersome to play with?

Every character is flat, and their relationships don’t mean a thing. It's no wonder any of the talented actors try to make them lively or engaging. Over and over, the crew of the Nightingale 229 make idiot decision that robs the story of all possible tension. If at least the picture delivered some cool gore once the madness really kicked off you could get some sort of enjoyment, but no. There’s one cool death but early in the film, and honestly, even that one you’ve seen done better else - in a movie far less obscure than this one.

Supernova lasts a mere 90 minutes. It feels like an eternity. With the depths of absurdity it sinks to, you'd think it might be fun to tear apart, but it isn’t. I don’t even know how I convinced myself that it could be - the only reason I've seen the movie twice now. Supernova is dumb through and through but it’s not even bad in an original way. I suppose if you want to see Angela Basset in the nude for a few fractions of a second you might be able to pry your eyes awake long enough to make it all the way to the end, but there’s no way anyone will be satisfied with this.

The most fun you'll have with Supernova will be speculating about how it came to be. Director Walter Hill is credited as Thomas Lee, and he's only one of the three people who were at the helm at various points. If you look deep through trailers and the various special features available, you could edit Supernova into a wholly different movie. It stinks of a project that was fed through the executive machine so many times it lost all sense of what it was supposed to be. I bet you the actors requested the credits be in that reverse order where all the technical people are listed first so that way everyone would leave the theatre before they could memorize who was responsible for this waste of time. Too bad for them IMDB will never let them forget the sins of their past. (On VHS, November 20, 2016)

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deraywrites · 2 years

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#TodaysQuote #QuoteOfTheDay #foodforthought #morningmeditations #afternoonmeditations #inspirationalquotes #motivationalquotes #dailymeditations #mindbodyspirit #SelfTrust #Progress #Success #BigCapricornEnergy #GlowingUp #Insecure #JaneWilde #WilsonCruz #December27 (at Cedar Brook Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CX_uwemOiLe/?utm_medium=tumblr

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billybennight · 3 years

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Here's my shot of Wilson Cruz at Paramount's 2nd Annual 'Star Trek Day' Celebration looking awesome! #startrekday #wilsoncruz @wcruz73 #startrekthenextgeneration @startrekonpplus @startrek #startrekday https://www.instagram.com/p/CToIk6PrfPg/?utm_medium=tumblr

#startrekday #wilsoncruz #startrekthenextgeneration

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jefferybeasley · 6 years

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#saturdaymorning casual with #WilsonCruz @wcruz73 (at West Hollywood, California)

#saturdaymorning #wilsoncruz

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unblogparaloschicos · 4 months

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TV: Evan Martinez

Una ciudad habitada enteramente por gays y lesbianas, sin atisbo de heterosexual a la vista, parecería un lugar idílico en el que la paz y la tranquilidad campea a sus anchas, ¿verdad?

Piénsalo otra vez.

Ese lugar se llama West Lahunga Beach y, dentro de su población, conocemos a tres parejas atravesando habituales situaciones conyugales; ellas son: Rick Brocka Jr. (Will Matthews) y Steve Ball (Peter Paige); Kirsten Kellogg (Emily Brooke Hands en la primera temporada y Jessica-Snow Wilson en la segunda) y Dana Bernstein (Taylor M. Dooley) y, finalmente, la conformada por Chuck Masters (Alan Cumming) y Evan Martinez (Wilson Cruz).

El conflicto se desata cuando Kirsten y Dana desean tener un bebé y le piden a Rick ser el donante. A partir de allí seremos testigos de una serie adulta y de humor sarcástico que, a través de sus dos temporadas (emitidas en 2007 y 2009) animadas en stop motion, se burla de todo, incluso, de la misma comunidad LGBTQ, cortesía de su creador Q. Allan Brocka.

La pareja de Chuck y Evan está signada por la gran diferencia de edad y de personalidades: Chuck es un hombre de cincuenta años, gran amigo de los protagonistas, paralítico e infectado con el VIH y, según se deja constancia en uno de los episodios, quizás sea bisexual. Su pareja es un adolescente de diecinueve años que disfruta de su sexualidad en plenitud. Usuario de todo tipo de drogas, superficial y desprejuiciado, su vida fluctúa entre su obsesión por la moda y las constantes noches de clubs y diversiones tan vacías como él mismo.

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#TV #EvanMartinez #Rick&SteveTheHappiestGayCoupleInAllTheWorld #gay #adolescencia #RickBrockaJr #WillMatthews #SteveBall #PeterPaige #EmilyBrookeHands #Jessica-SnowWilson #TaylorMDooley #AlanCumming #WilsonCruz #2007 #estadosunidos #Canadá #QAllanBrocka

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luxwood-art · 3 years

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Here is my finished Hugh ! I’m so happy with this one ! I tried something new here with new Poscas. Usually I add white posca at the end for a glittering effect, but here I really wanted a starry look everywhere for this so charming doctor, and I used pastel colored Poscas. And first this was so fun, and second the result is exactly what I wanted . 👉 If you swipe , this is just me being mesmerized by the effect of a changing color light bulb on my drawing 😁. I think it’s really fun how the colors seem to metamorphose with this light.✨🌈 . . . . @wcruz73 @startreknetflix #startrek #wilsoncruz #hughculber #paulstamets #startrekkers #startrekdiscovery #michaelburnham #startrekart #startrekuniverse #startrekfanart #startrekfan #starfleet #trekkie #sciencefictionart #sciencefictionartwork #startrekdiscoveryfanart #startrek💫 #galaxyart #galaxyartwork #rainbowart #rainbowdrawing #rainbowartwork #rainbowaesthetic #rainbowartist #rainbowcolors (at Paris, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVQnZ-gojH_/?utm_medium=tumblr

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raurquiz · 4 months

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#happybirthday #felizcumpleanos @wcruz73 #wilsoncruz #actor #HughCulber #startrekdiscovery #MySoCalledLife #RedBandSociety #13reasonswhy #shameless #greysanatomy #pushingdaisies #partyoffive #supernova #TheBravestKnight #TheAmericanBoys #thecasagrandes #MoonGirlandDevilDinosaur

#happybirthday #feliz cumpleaños #wilson cruz #actor #hugh culber #star trek discovery #my so called life #red band society #13 reasons why #pushing daisies #partyoffive #supernova #the casagrandes

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fashiongrunge · 3 years

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🚨[Patreon exclusive] My So Called Life Episode 008: Squeeze my hand as hard as it hurts. ~ Strangers in the House (1994) 🩺 [link in bio] This was a weird episode. There are so many things going on here. Sharon's dad has a heart attack which leads Daddy Graham to question his own mortality. While all this is going on Sharon just wants to BE WITH HER BEST FRIEND and Angela just doesn't get it or even seem to care? In the end this gets summed up with a bittersweet Jordan interaction, a mutual reconciliation, and more info on the Brian Krakow sitch. #podcast #patreon #mysocalledlife #clairedanes #jaredleto #90stv #ajlanger #wilsoncruz #devongummersall https://www.instagram.com/p/CUxtNLvFw8n/?utm_medium=tumblr

#podcast #patreon #mysocalledlife #clairedanes #jaredleto #90stv #ajlanger #wilsoncruz #devongummersall

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stevesimage · 6 years

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The super talented @wcruz73 Wilson Cruz a Happy Belated Birthday #stevesimage #WilsonCruz #hollywood

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anthony-larusso · 4 years

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.@AppleTV’s #VisibleOutOnTV screening last night: Producer #WilsonCruz & Director Ryan White—top-notch talent. @wcruz73 @white815 . . . Per @guy_social — Thanks @joeyisraelnyc #lgbtq #nyc #manhattan (at IPIC) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9IeY4YBhHC/?igshid=piz0ybfzovw8

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kjstark21 · 5 years

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Just a few of my pics of the Discovery panel on Sunday afternoon, with #AnthonyRapp #ShazadLatiff and #WilsonCruz It was a really fun and entertaining panel, with a few really lovely moments. 😀🖖 #DST #DST2019 #DSTBirmingham #StarTrek #Discovery #Disco #Panel #Fun #Entertaining #EnjoyedIt https://www.instagram.com/p/B4LDekCAaQt/?igshid=1kd6wd5yjdk55

#anthonyrapp #shazadlatiff #wilsoncruz #dst #dst2019 #dstbirmingham #startrek #discovery #disco #panel #fun #entertaining #enjoyedit

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