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Lauren Wissot is an erotica author with Random House sub-imprint Nexus Books and a film and theater critic who contributes to numerous online publications including The House Next Door, Slant magazine, Spout and Theater Online. For more information visit her blog, Beyond the Green Door.
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Lauren Wissot, December 15th, 2009
Race, the latest David Mamet play to open on Broadway, stars the effortlessly brazen James Spader. Spader, of course, has fashioned an entire career playing slick, sexy scoundrels whose looks allow...
Lauren Wissot, November 16th, 2009
Once upon a time, there was an entity called community. It evolved out of the retro notion that people needed one another both to survive and thrive. It began with blood ties, since in the old days...
Lauren Wissot, November 2nd, 2009
My most delectable Halloween treat last week was attending The New Guignol, an evening of short, ripped from the perverse-but-true headlines plays presented by The Blood Brothers and Nosedive...
Lauren Wissot, October 19th, 2009
Titus Andronicus is the first show in the "Grudge Match: DMT Vs. Shakespeare" series ("in which nearly all of the Bard's great works will be ruthlessly mutilated, bent, battered, cut...
Lauren Wissot, October 5th, 2009
In Begging Naked Karen Gehres documents her friend Elise, a painter and sculptor and former Times Square stripper, as she succumbs to mental illness and homelessness. What struck me most about this...
Lauren Wissot, September 21st, 2009
I met Amsterdam-based director Jennifer Lyon Bell in person this past February at a Sunday brunch at Monkey Town, a performance space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn where we were both screening our...
Lauren Wissot, September 7th, 2009
Summer in NYC is always the sexiest time of year, so to me it made hot and sweaty sense that following on the high heels of Shakespeare in the Park's Anne Hathaway Bard vehicle Twelfth Night, arrived...
Lauren Wissot, August 24th, 2009
For those who think, "Dog collars—they're not just for Fido anymore!" and prize Hitachi's Magic Wand over their microwaves, Emily Dubberley has been a household name in the U.K. for...
Lauren Wissot, August 10th, 2009
As a freelancer who writes almost exclusively for online film publications I often find myself wearing more than one mismatched hat. Sometimes I'm a critic picking apart larger than life images, and...
Lauren Wissot, July 28th, 2009
New York magazine recently ran an article by Mark Harris called "The Gay Generation Gap," in which he describes that chasm perhaps best summarized as the binary thinking of the old versus...
Lauren Wissot, July 13th, 2009
What thrilled me most about the documentary Unraveling Michelle, which follows the ups, downs and in-betweens of MTF transsexual Michelle Ann Farrell as she transitions into her new life as a...
Lauren Wissot, June 30th, 2009
Recently I interviewed director Maria Beatty for the upcoming issue of Filmmaker magazine. Best known for the lesbian BDSM movies she's been creating for the past decade and a half, Beatty and I...
Lauren Wissot, June 10th, 2009
Free love is in the air—and Hair. Forty years after the summer of ’69, the greatest tribal love-rock musical ever sung just won Best Revival of a Musical at the Tony Awards, while Pola...
Lauren Wissot, May 27th, 2009
“Roy Cohn is not a homosexual. Roy Cohn is a heterosexual who fucks around with guys!" So proclaims Al Pacino as the notoriously ruthless McCarthyite in a clip from Mike...
Lauren Wissot, April 20th, 2009
I always felt that yoga was something for closet perverts, not out-and-proud pervs like me. (Personally, I'm a Thai boxing enthusiast, martial arts being the Zen physical activities of choice among a...
Lauren Wissot, April 6th, 2009
"Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac," Kissinger once famously proclaimed, and he should know. When someone as hot as a hobbit lands babes like Shirley MacLaine and Candice Bergen it certainly can't be...
Lauren Wissot, March 23rd, 2009
Though I've been to many underground sex parties in NYC I can't say I find them all that sexy. Hilarious—quite often; sexy—not so much. Maybe this is because I come from the BDSM world,...
Lauren Wissot, March 9th, 2009
For me, one of the most riveting moments at the Academy Awards this year occurred during the Hollywood love fest’s annual tribute to those who’ve passed on to that great multiplex in the...
Lauren Wissot, February 23rd, 2009
I still remember a conversation I had with my boss Sonja Blaze a dozen years ago when I served as a manager at the house of domination Arena/Blaze. While discussing the polyamorous relationship she...
Lauren Wissot, February 2nd, 2009
Larry King’s interview with Ted Haggard – the pastor of the New Life Church in Colorado Springs and the leader of the National Association of Evangelicals until his meth and rent-boy...
