“Frasier” star David Hyde Pierce is back on the Broadway stage in “Pirates! The Penzance Musical,” a jazzy re-working of the Gilbert & Sullivan classic, transplanted to New Orleans. The former aspiring concert pianist talks with CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Martha Teichner about the thread that Gilbert & Sullivan has run throughout his life. He also talks about his comedy influences, and what it means to him to make people laugh.
Fran Lebowitz thinks the world would improve if everyone just tried to look better. For nearly 50 years, her topical opinions on everything from high fashion to partisan politics have shaped conversation and culture, cementing her as one of today’s most respected thought leaders. In honor of ‘The Now Issue,’ Fran sits down with Harper’s Bazaar to dissect the concept of “now,” using her signature wit to discuss AI, fast fashion, sex scandals (sans the sex), nostalgia, and more.
Director Andrew Ahn gets personal about the making of The Wedding Banquet—a joyful reimagining of the iconic queer rom-com. From building a home full of “gay things” to crafting a love story inspired by his own relationship, Ahn opens up about chosen family, vulnerability, and why this film is so personal.
The Wedding Banquet premieres in theaters April 18.
The actor, comedian, and writer Bowen Yang pokes around the Criterion closet and praises John Waters as a “timeless shocker,” shares his desire for more great nightlife movies like THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO, and reflects on the beauty of Robby Müller’s cinematography.
happy 50th birthday to the stunning actor Sean Maher!
When I met Sean at the Los Angeles LGBT Center gala in November 2011, he was such a sweet guy and still seemed so moved by all the love that had come his way since coming out earlier that year.
‘I am still hearing from people who were inspired by my story and came out to their parents,’ he told me. ‘I’ve also been getting some old-fashioned fan mail from people that brought me to tears – their stories so inspire me.’
‘It was 14 years that I sort of had this layer of fear on me so it does feel different to kind to kind of shed all of this past baggage,’ he also said. ‘This part of my life that was so huge that I didn’t feel comfortable enough to share for fear of my career being destroyed.’
Maher and his partner, Paul, have been together for more than a decade and are raising two children. He is so committed to his family that he took two years off from acting to be a full-time dad.
His career was launched in a big way in 1999 when he was cast in the title role of the FOX series Ryan Caulfield: Year One. He followed that up with a recurring role on Party of Five and was a cast member of the short-lived series The $treet.
Since returning to full-time acting in 2009, Maher has done guest spots on such shows as Arrow, The Mentalist, Looking, 9-1-1, The Rookie, Human Target and Drop Dead Diva, was a regular on the ABC Family series Make it or Break It and on the short-lived NBC drama Playboy Club in which he played a closeted gay man.
He is best known to many fans for his role as Dr. Simon Tam on Firefly.
He also starred in the independent film version of Much Ado About Nothing and is the voice of Dick Grayson / Nightwing in series of animated Batman and Justice League films.
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