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Actress Rose Marie, best known for her role as Sally Rogers on The Dick Van Dyke Show, died on Thursday in Van Nuys, CA, Variety reports. She was 94.

Born Rose Marie Mazetta in New York City on August 15th, 1923, Marie began her career as a child star at the age of three. Two years later she had her own NBC radio show. She cut several records and also appeared in vaudeville. As a teenager, she performed as a nightclub singer and later became a comedienne on radio. She also starred...

High camp or just plain trash? A cultural-cinematic swamp in perfectly rotten taste, this adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's supermarket 'dirty book' seeks out tawdry sleaze like no American movie had before. Junk beyond belief, and great entertainment if you're in a sick frame of mind. Valley of the Dolls Blu-ray The Criterion Collection 835 1967 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 123 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date September 27, 2016 / 39.95 Starring Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Paul Burke, Sharon Tate, Susan Hayward, Tony Scotti, Martin Milner, Charles Drake, Alexander Davion, Lee Grant, Naomi Stevens, Robert H. Harris, Jacqueline Susann, Robert Viharo, Joey Bishop, George Jessel, Dionne Warwick, Sherry Alberoni, Margaret Whiting, Richard Angarola, Richard Dreyfuss, Marvin Hamlisch, Judith Lowry. Cinematography William H. Daniels Film Editor Dorothy Spencer Conductor / Music Adaptor John Williams Written by Helen Deutsch, Dorothy Kingsley Jacqueline Susann Produced by Mark Robson, David Weisbart Directed by Mark Robson

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Divine in the cult classic “Pink Flamingos”

The documentary I Am Divine made its world premiere at this year's SXSW Film Festival and as the title suggests, it documents the life and times of the iconic Divine, the mother of all drag performers. Divine worshippers and newbies will be happy to know that this movie has all the crazy and outlandish antics expected from the late great performer, but it's also surprisingly intimate, heartfelt, and a bit somber.

All of us remember our first encounter with the lovely Divine (born Harris Glenn Milstead). More than likely, you know her from John Waters' Pink Flamingos (a.k.a. The movie where she eats dog poo). It wasn't any different for Jeffrey Schwarz, director of the film. He was in his teenage years when he started worshipping at the altar of Divine.

“I had read about Pink Flamingos before actually seeing it,...

Jeffrey Schwarz's is a very busy man. "I am Divine" is his fourth feature documentary in five years. This past summer his last film "Vito" aired on HBO. It was about the beloved gay activist and film scholar Vito Russo, and it comes out on DVD this April. His other films are "Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story," about the prolific Hollywood director who specialized in audience participation gimmicks and "Wrangler: Anatomy Of an Icon," about a 1970s gay porn star who transitioned to straight films and married Margaret Whiting. He has spent the better part of this century making "behind-the-scenes" documentaries and DVD extras stating he's "the guy responsible for all those featurettes, audio commentaries, and other "added value" as the studios like to call it." What it's about: "I Am Divine" is the story of how an overweight, effeminate, bullied Baltimore kid transformed himself into an internationally recognized drag superstar.

Jack Wrangler, the blond, handsome 1970s sex star — and a lifelong smoker — has died from complications of lung disease in Manhattan. He was 62. Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon, a documentary chronicling Wrangler’s life and career — including his marriage to big-band singer Margaret Whiting — was released last fall. Earlier this week, Wrangler was screened at the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. “Jack Wrangler knew the power of image-making and inspired an entire generation to be comfortable in their own skin and to become the man of their dreams,” said the film’s director, Jeffrey Schwarz. According to Schwarz, Wrangler wasn’t sure about being the subject of a documentary. "Are you sure people will actually be interested in this stuff?" he asked the director. "After the film hit the festival circuit, I found out the answer was most certainly Yes," Schwarz writes in The Advocate. "Sold-out showings of Wrangler: Anatomy...

Adult film star Jack Wrangler has died after losing his battle with a lung disease.

The former child actor became a gay porn pin-up in the 1970s but went straight after falling in love with and marrying singer Margaret Whiting.

He starred in over 80 X-rated films and also won awards as a theatre director. Wrangler conceived and co-produced the 1997 Broadway hit Dream.

A documentary of his life, Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon, recently won the GayVN Award For Best Alternative Release, according to BroadwayWorld. com.

Jack Wrangler, an icon of post-Stonewall gay culture and the subject of the award-winning documentary Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon, died Monday night of complications from lung disease, reports Advocate.com. Wrangler, born John Robert Stillman, was 62 years old.

More on the iconic performer's life and a pictorial tribute to his legacy continue below.

Wrangler grew up in Beverly Hills, the son of producer Robert Stillman (Champion, Home of the Brave). John Stillman began his career starring in and then later directing theater before going into adult films.

In Jeffrey Schwarz's documentary, the actor discusses growing up feeling scrawny and effeminate, but that becoming porn star Jack Wrangler made him a sought-after icon of masculinity.

Wrangler's films include such porn classics as Kansas City Trucking Company and A Night at the Adonis among the nearly 100 adult titles in which he appears.

Wrangler was among the first gay porn stars...