December 2011
2 posts
Christmas greetings from my favorite celebrity:...
Joyeux Noel once again, fans! Still reeling from the announcement of my “full-time job” experiment in yesterday’s missive? Well, I am too! But in a nutshell, here’s what happened to the man who The New York Times gushingly says “toggles between two personas” (whatever that means): like many of the super-successful, I haven’t many liquid assets -...
Christmas greetings from my favorite celebrity:...
Well, here we are as in olden days, happy golden days! Or at least a time before any of us had ever heard the words “the Eleventh” or “Sarah Palin.” As the days shorten in anticipation of the anniversary of the humble birth of the one true godhead incarnate who came to save all of us Methodists from eternal damnation that we might live abundantly in the life everlasting -...
September 2011
1 post
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July 2011
5 posts
Interview with nytheatre.com - my show "makes AIDS... →
June 2011
4 posts
I'm in the 44th Gayest Ad Ever! The claims to fame... →
Hot towel? Hot towel?
It’s always nice when a memory surfaces from the Mustache Years. Or when one particular memory just won’t go away…
FringeNYC Show Listings:
I'm on a list! But... →
Isn’t it nice? I think the little blurb says it all.
The New York International Fringe Festival * FringeNYC 2011 * AUGUST 12th – 28th * NEW YORK’S BEST STAYCATION
Click and see this celebrity hooker on LogoTV! →
There is no such thing as bad press - even when I confess to being a prostitute on camera! (Mother, if you see this, I am not really a prostitute.)
April 2011
1 post
Final Ars Nova show "another triumph!" - a review,...
Well, as I’ve literally been camped at Sardi’s since Wednesday night’s final Ars Nova curtain call and haven’t been handed word one from the mainstream press as goes a review, I am once again writing my own. One wonders anyway at the true efficacy of the mainstream press any longer, in the youtube era. I mean, did the Times interview Friday-singing celebrity Rebecca Black?...
March 2011
1 post
First show at Ars Nova "A Triumph!" - a review, by...
As no one is more qualified to comment on my show’s aspirations and achievements than I - and also as no one else has - I have decided to write my own review of this past Wednesday’s Ars Nova debut! Here goes:
A darkened theater. A red velvet curtain. A vase of yellow daffodils, hinting at God’s promise of the coming spring. And a spotlit 600-page book with my picture on the...
February 2011
1 post
Where have I been hiding?
Has it really been 1/3 of a year since I’ve written anything inane enough to disseminate globally via the vowel-challenged self-publishing web site known as “Tumblr”? I don’t know how that’s been allowed to happen, or how my 12 followers have managed to make it through Canadian Thanksgiving, Real Thanksgiving, Christmas (or that 8-day Kwanzaa thing if I have any...
October 2010
1 post
I Light Up My Life: the Mark Sam Celebrity...
excerpted with the author’s permission from this Thursday’s encore performance at Dixon Place - click for tix!
MY MORNING ROUTINE
PART 1
I generally wake around 8 and hit snooze several times while I cuddle with my favorite of the two cats that share my home with me. She is called Camille, after the hurricane. (The other is called Ignatius, and I have never warmed to him as much –...
September 2010
3 posts
Celebrity PSA
A PSA from this Thursday’s show!
Hi, I’m Mark Sam Rosenthal – celebrity. You know, we who are famous bear a tremendous responsibility to give back to the world. For as the good book says in Luke 12:48, “unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required.” I live by that code. So allow me to provide a brief public service announcement on a subject of great public urgency to me:...
I Light Up My Life: the Mark Sam Celebrity...
* includes bootleg material edited from the upcoming ENCORE PERFORMANCE of the show, Thursday 9/23 at 9:30 at Dixon Place! Get your tickets now before this one sells out like the last time!
…In the seventh grade we built our dream home!
While it was under construction we spent nine months in a unit of the Jefferson Place Apartments, during which time a handsome, mysterious, and itinerant...
the fractured pinky diaries 4 - Islamic Cultural...
Well, i am learning to ype with nine fingers, so ypuu’ll notice fewer typos i do hope! no borrken pinky can stop me from connecting with my adoring public, or even from masturbatinog. i get by! but then i have always been a survivipr - one has t be in my business, and certainly if one aspires to endure a homosexual childhood and aldolescence in ?Baton Rouge wihtout being lynched.
i am...
August 2010
7 posts
the fractured pinky diaries 3 - birthday edition
Well, this pinky is still broken friends and fans - so continue to forgive ty[osp and don’t let that river of cards and letters stop flowing! Although where theylre flowing i have really no idea!
Whither goeth i, you ask? Because i am indeed on the move and will tell you where! (i am not in the witness protection prgram after all - although if such a move would put behind bars those...
interviewed in Out magazine about my Celebrity... →
I took time out of my busy celebrity day yesterday to be interviewed while doing laundry at the Clothespin Laundromat around the corner - I am always available for my public, if not always for true and meaningful intimacy.
"unabashed self-absorption" is what they're saying... →
Jason Jacobs blogged about the premiere of I LIGHT UP MY LIFE: THE MARK SAM CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY - and I think he gets it! Merci pour les kind words, Jason!
Celebrity Evidence #2: I have appeared in... →
“…it seemed like I had found my niche: I would earn my keep as a parody of myself and of my people…”
- excerpted from I LIGHT UP MY LIFE: THE MARK SAM CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY
the fractured pinky diaries 2
first i want to thank everyone for their cards, flowers, and SMS things (to use the eurpean term) - although none ofthem have arrived yet i have no doubt they rae on their way and so, so look foward to receiving your well weshes! agan, forgive ty[pos i am working with only nine fingers! but one thing i must beg of you, my piublic: PLEASE, PLESAE DON;T TREAT ME ANY DIFFERENLTY THAN YOU WOULD HAVE...
the fractured pinky diaries 1
fortive typos, dear public - im typing wiyth a cast! yes, shcocking as it may seem, this week of all weeks - when my celebrity autobiogtapjhy is poised to shatter all manner of taboos at its first public rading on Friday night - this celebrity has ended up on … Page Sick. :(
yesterday: an ominous dark sky (omen i failed to heed?), a bike ride uptown to rehearsal alog CPW, a song as ever in...
"one of the city's great comedic storytellers" -... →
July 2010
7 posts
I Light Up My Life: the Mark Sam Celebrity...
…At any rate, junior year came and with it my tour de force as Mr. Mushnik in Little Shop of Horrors – which remains one of my favorite musicals to this day. I have passed many happy moments with other show folk in the tiny basement of Marie’s Crisis belting out its anthems (in a crowd my atonal voice blends). It was the best production in the history of Episcopal High School, and even if...
I Light Up My Life: the Mark Sam Celebrity...
Chapter 1
BORN FOR IT: FIRST STIRRINGS OF STARDOM
“…and ye shall find him wrapped in swaddling cloths and laying in a manger…” – Luke 2:14
Readers, note: I quote the above biblical text not to cast myself in any sort of Messianic glow but rather to pay homage to the even humbler beginnings of one of my favorite celebrities, Jesus Christ. If he rose to such heights from a dung-flecked pile...
WatchWearing the same underwear today and suddenly remembered this forgotten gem: my tribute to the worst song in the history of the world, “I Hope You Dance” by Lee Ann Womack. I’ve trimmed down quite a bit since this taping thank heavens!
I Light Up My Life: the Mark Sam Celebrity...
PROLOGUE
Do you remember remembering? It’s what one was formerly required to do, before the Internet, if one was to quote a favorite line from a motion picture or impress others at a family Christmas gathering with a cherished and obscure Steely Dan lyric. Admittedly remembering has fallen out of vogue, supplanted as it has been by Googling. And that may in an odd way be to my benefit. For I have...
