“And honestly, it was really freeing to just be like, ‘Who cares? It’s just hair. The film had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in May and is streaming on Discovery Plus.ĭirector Marielle Heller showed off her acting chops with her work as Alma Wheatley, mother of a female chess prodigy (Anya Taylor-Joy) in the 1950s and 60s in Netflix’s “The Queen’s Gambit.” She tells me that after agreeing to cut her long red hair for the role, she donated the locks to a cancer organization. If you’re a fan of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” you must watch “P.S.: Burn This Letter Please.” Co-directed and written by Michael Seligman and Jennifer Tiexiera, the documentary chronicles the lives of several 1950s New York City drag queens as detailed in letters discovered in a storage unit belonging to the late legendary agent Ed Limato after his death in 2010. PS: As part of Bloomingdale’s On Screen series, Smith will chat about “Bevelations” with Tituss Burgess on Jan. The credits will say ‘Art consultant: Bevy Smith.’” “I went out and procured the art for a film starring an Oscar winner. Like the seasoned media pro she is, she teases that she’s just landed her first gig. “I believe that this book was supposed to come out right now.” “But everything is as it should be” she says. Her final edit came through at the start of the pandemic followed by Smith fighting COVID and her father dying from the disease. A change of editors caused another delay. She began writing the book while “Page Six TV” was still on the air, but she was “heavily depressed” at the time. The book took her a little longer than expected to write. ![]() ![]() ![]() And I really wanted to talk about being a part of that machine, and knowing what they were doing and still falling prey to it.” “I just feel like they prey on women so often, they prey on our insecurities in a way that they don’t do to men. She has warned her 92-year-old mother about her explicit descriptions of sex, but promises that she’ll “black out those parts” before letting her read it.Īs for shopping, Smith says, “For women especially there is this certain kind of cutesy imaging that goes along with being a shopaholic, which is why I wanted to bring it up,” Smith says. “All of that was just like me trying to get to happy, trying to find satisfaction,” she says. Smith gets real in the book about her unhealthy relationships with sex and shopping.
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