ENTERTAINMENT
August 29, 2001 | WILLIAM LOBDELL, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Pam Walton initially turned down a chance to make a documentary on the struggle of gays and lesbians to become ordained pastors in the theologically torn Lutheran church. "Like a lot of gay and lesbian people, I didn't have a lot to do with religion," the 56-year-old said. "The whole idea of religion turned my stomach." But then she met some of the gay Lutheran clergy. "These people are so devoted to their church that they won't leave it," Walton said. "They just can't. They feel called.
NEWS
June 2, 1991 | ROBERT M. ANDREWS, ASSOCIATED PRESS
John E. Frohnmayer still unwinds by rowing a shell on the Potomac River four times a week at dawn, but the controversy bedeviling the National Endowment for the Arts has virtually silenced his singing. Of all the slings and arrows he has suffered in his 18 months as NEA chairman, none stung Frohnmayer more deeply than an allegation that he required a subordinate to give him free voice lessons during and after working hours.
ENTERTAINMENT
July 24, 2002 | ANNE VALDESPINO, TIMES STAFF WRITER
November 1971. A packed house at the Anderson Theater in New York, strewn with celebrities and socialites, waited to see the latest San Francisco sensation, the Cockettes. But when the curtain rose, the show didn't live up to its hype. A grossly under-rehearsed, elaborately overdressed collection of hippies, drag queens and acid freaks ran through a loosey-goosey musical of their own trippy invention. They could feel themselves bombing as audience members left in disgust.