February 7, 2006
here! Podcast Chats with Film Legend John Waters
LOS ANGELES, CA – February 7, 2006 - here!, America’s first gay television network, recently added film director John Waters to its exciting roster of guests on the network’s internet radio program here! Podcast. The here! Podcast is accessible through www.heretv.com and iTunes and features audio interviews with authors, actors and other notable personalities throughout the gay and lesbian community.
here! Podcast hosts, Josh Rosenzweig and Sara Logue sat down with famed cult director and gay icon John Waters to discuss his first television series "John Waters Presents Movies That Will Corrupt You" which premiered on here! February 3rd. In a frank and funny conversation Waters discusses his early films, how he put together one of the most eclectic ensembles ever assembled on film as well as his own personal thoughts on mainstream Hollywood movies.
Over the past four decades, this controversial and celebrated film director-once crowned "The Pope of Trash" by William Burroughs and more recently hailed as the original voice behind Broadway's smash-hit musical Hairspray-has tested the boundaries that separate the margins of culture from the mainstream by creating provocative, hilarious and culturally important films for both gay and non-gay audiences.
here! Podcast, is produced weekly with each installment running approximately 1 hour in length. Each segment features highlights of here! programming and upcoming notable events, Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transsexual news, and other information of interest to the here! audience. Recent guests include HRC President Joe Solmonese, New York Times Best-Selling author Christopher Rice, Award-winning playwright Charles Busch, the cast of the Off-Broadway hit Altar Boyz, NYC cable TV icon Robin Byrd and drag sensations Hedda Lettuce, Cashetta and Sherry Vine.
"here! Podcasts are fun, informative and entertaining. It is a pleasure to have such an esteemed guest as John Waters on our show, giving our audience yet another way to experience the programming that here! has to offer," said Eric Feldman, Executive Vice President of Programming and Operations at here!.
For those unfamiliar, podcasts are audio files which can be downloaded from the internet onto an iPod or other digital music devices that support mp3 technology. Similar to a radio interview, a podcast sets itself apart from that medium by making itself available whenever you would like on demand. here! Podcast will also be available for direct download onto your computer, allowing as many listeners as possible to experience this exciting development.
About here!
here!, America's first gay television network, was established in 2002 by Regent Entertainment co-founders Paul Colichman and Stephen P. Jarchow. here!, currently available to more than 42 million households, offers a wide variety of groundbreaking original movies and series plus the world's largest gay and lesbian film library targeted to a broad-based gay and lesbian audience. here! is available across the U.S. via satellite and carried by major cable providers nationwide.
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