Who: Shannon Walker Where: New York City What she does: Co-creator of the LES Film Festival, Writer, and Actress What’s on your mind today? Candy. What are you currently working on? Everything related to the LES Film Festival, and a sexy screenplay about a 20-something female who blackmails her philandering boss. What do you think [...]

For a certain point in American pop culture, Harris Glenn Milstead was the king…and queen of misfits. Born into a conservative, wealthy middle class family in Baltimore, Maryland, he surely didn’t fit with his surroundings. That is, until he met then-aspiring filmmaker John Waters. Milstead became one of Waters’ closest friends and also his muse, [...]

This week New York’s IFC is playing BEAUTIFUL DARLING, a documentary about downtown icon, Candy Darling. Born James Slattery in Massapequa, Long Island, she made herself into a stunning blonde underground star, her own greatest creation, with Warhol and Tennessee Williams among her fans—until succumbing to cancer at 29. Vintage footage, excerpts of Candy’s letters [...]