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Transamerican Love Story news/blog roundup, 6 March

From Transamerican…

Above: Andrea James on location for Transamerican Love Story

Lotsa new stuff today:

• MapaCAM: Club Night (alec mapa @ loogoonline.com)

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Eagle-eyed viewers will see our pals James St. James, Chris Crocker, Miss Kitty, Willam Belli, and drag legend Momma (pictured above), among other club luminaries in Alec’s video.

• Transamerican Love Story Photo Recap Mar 3rd edition (nadia @ nadia’s transgender

• TLS: Take Four (jim via wow report)

• Weekly TV Round Up (bianca @ school for scandal)

• Calpernia interview (PRI’s “Fair Game” with Faith Salie)

• transamerican love story 3&4 (nexy via nexy’s cocoon)

• Transamerican Love Story – Episode 04 Thoughts (calpernia addams @ calpernia.com)

I also added a couple of new shots on my Picasa and Flickr albums.

By Andrea James | March 6, 2008 | Film and media news, Transamerican Love Story |

Casting Pearls screening at IDEM Festival in Spain

From the Deep Stealth Productions blog:

Deep Stealth Productions’ short film “Casting Pearls” has been chosen to screen in IDEM, the International Gay-Lesbian Festival for Audio-Visual Art of Andalusia. IDEM will run from March 24-April 1.

Directed by Andrea James, Casting Pearls illustrates the difficulties transsexual women face in Hollywood via a hectic series of auditions endured by Cassandra, a transsexual actress (played by Calpernia Addams). Cassandra weathers the horrible, funny and cruel things said by various Hollywood professionals with plucky determination and professionalism, showing that decades of bias can’t hold back the real contributions of transgender people to the arts and media.

* IDEM: Festival Internacional Gay-LĂ©sbico de Artes Audiovisuales de AndalucĂ­a

* Casting Pearls website

By Andrea James | March 5, 2008 | Casting Pearls, Film and media news |

Snail attack!

OK, the hibiscus is going to town:

But today I found deux escargots hanging out:

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This poses a quandary for me, because I really don’t like to kill anything.

It also reminded me of one of the best nature films ever made: Microcosmos: Le peuple de l’herbe

http://www.youtube.com/v/76R2EKEnoJQ

If you like nature and especially closeup photography, I’m not sure a more groundbreaking film has ever been made about the “people of the grass.”

By Andrea James | March 4, 2008 | Photography, Random thoughts |

Transamerican Love Story news/blog roundup

In “I Love the Nightlife,” episode 4 of Transamerican Love Story, Calpernia invites the bachelors to her favorite LGBT nightclub to watch her perform a sexy burlesque dance to “Stunning.” Then the guys are challenged to follow suit, to bump and grind for her and an audience of club kids and fabulous judges.

OK, so Calpernia eliminated Peter after learning at their one-on-one date that he gets even more chatty when drunk. I was pushing for her to ditch Mark because he wouldn’t do the challenge like everyone else and for being a general ass, but in her defense, we didn’t know how mean Mark was being to everyone when we weren’t around.

Mike usually doesn’t do much for me, but he was undeniably fantastic performing at the club. He moved way up in my book!

You can watch our wrap-up on Logo:

• Next: Peter (andrea james and calpernia addams @ logoonline.com)

Nice podcast with Calpernia:

• FOF #717 – A Stunning Woman – 03.04.08 (fausto, marc, and kennidi @ feastoffools.net)

Other online mentions , etc.:

• More Random Thoughts (jim @ the pampered queer)

• Head Case – Meet the T in LGBT (michael demarco in camp)

• TLS Recap: Episode 4 (rachel @ metrophobic)

• Episode 3: Nip/Tuck has jumped the shark (shawn @ transameriblog)

By Andrea James | March 4, 2008 | Film and media news, Transamerican Love Story |

Tonight’s Transamerican Love Story: Clubbin’

Tonight’s episode of Transamerican Love Story was my favorite, because I got to wear my own clothes. Calpernia performs her club single Stunning, and I got to put the guys through their paces with a little show of their own.

Check out the latest behind the scenes shots from the episode on my Flickr set and on my Picasa set. Episode airs at 10pm Eastern on Logo for those with DVRs to set.

By Andrea James | March 3, 2008 | Film and media news, Transamerican Love Story |

Tonight's Transamerican Love Story: Clubbin'

Tonight’s episode of Transamerican Love Story was my favorite, because I got to wear my own clothes. Calpernia performs her club single Stunning, and I got to put the guys through their paces with a little show of their own.

Check out the latest behind the scenes shots from the episode on my Flickr set and on my Picasa set. Episode airs at 10pm Eastern on Logo for those with DVRs to set.

By Andrea James | March 3, 2008 | Film and media news, Transamerican Love Story |

IN Los Angeles magazine 10th anniversary

IN Los Angeles Magazine had a really lovely party tonight at Gonpachi in Beverly Hills. We go to a lot of events, but this one had a really great vibe and lots of people with whom we wanted to talk.

We ducked out at one point to grab dinner at Fogo de Chao with someone we met, but the way they are set up is like some kind of buffet with no menu, so we hit it and went across the street to Woo Lae Oak. We grabbed dessert on the way home. All in all, a really great evening!

• IN Los Angeles magazine 10th anniversary issue (PDF)

By Andrea James | March 2, 2008 | Events and Appearances |

Transamerican Love Story blog roundup, March 2

This time around, we have an entry by Calpernia herself, another in Nadia’s ongoing series, and a detailed writeup on Feministe:

• Transamerican Love Story – Episode 03 Thoughts (calpernia @ calpernia.com)

• It ain’t easy being television’s most eligible transsexual bachelorette… (holly @ feministe)

• another episode of Transamerican Love Story (nadia @ nadia’s transgender )

And don’t forget to check out my behind-the-scenes shots on Flickr and Picasa! more to come tomorrow.

From Transamerican…

Above: Andrea James, Sara Jandrain, and Calpernia Addams on location filming Transamerican Love Story.

By Andrea James | March 2, 2008 | Film and media news, Transamerican Love Story |

Transfigurations Stanford Presentation on iTunes

Photographer Jana Marcus has a great photo documentary called Transfigurations that has been touring as part of a lecture series. A recent presentation at Stanford was filmed and is available free on iTunes:

• Transfigurations Stanford presentation via iTunes

• Transfigurations via Jana Marcus

By Andrea James | March 1, 2008 | Stuff to check out |