Janice Mania!

We turned it out this morning at the Janice Dickinson "Walk Off" at the NBC Experience Store in Manhattan. Miss Understood emceed while Janice Dickinson lookalikes Winona, Madalein, Epiphany, and Sahara worked the crowd!

Screaming Queens Walk The Runway

This week's Project Runway features some of Screaming Queens' brightest stars: Sweetie, Sherry Vine, Acid Betty, Hedda Lettuce, and Miss Understood.

Hedda Lettuce clashed with Suede over his awkward design.

Terri turned Sweetie into a gorgeous fire goddess!

Blayne whipped up a fantasy frock for Miss Understood that looked great but lacked proper construction and began to collapse. Hey, these guys had to whip up glamorous garments overnight, give 'em a break!

Korto's Asiapunk concoction for Acid Betty was a brilliant. Poor Betty was distraught when she discovered that we don't get to keep the outfits.

Bringing home the medal was Screaming Queens Alum Varla Jean Merman in Joe's sequin Pepto-pink bell bottom sailor suit! Just so ya' know, this was 50/50 collaboration. Varla used her knowledge of classic film wardrobe to conceive of the dress and Joe executed it perfectly.

Read all about it:

New York Magazine
Chicago Style Examiner
New York Post






All aboard!


















Pterodactyl from
Gay Jurassic Park!

















Acid Geisha
Warrior!

Come Fly With Me.

Jet Blue has a new flight to Vegas! What better way to communicate this than with our lovely leggy showgirls:

Boston Tea-na Party
The roof of the Boston Taj Hotel was the perfect setting for last night's festive birthday party which featured our glamorous Marie Antoinette Strolling Table and New York's most amazing drag queen Tina Turner impersonator!






"Where do you put it?" asked a bold member of the Boston elite. "Wherever
I want to." said Tina with a sly look.

Lucy Ricardo left NYC for Connecticut
I can see why. It's quite green and lush, a nice change from the city where we are barely aware of the onset of spring. Last night we delivered some necessary glamor to a Greenwich CT benefit for Kids in Crisis.






Gorgeous Disco
Showgirl Gogo
Dancer Jen!




















Voluptuous Disco
"Cigar Girl"
Michelle!

















Miss Ross
was the star
of the evening!

Oo La La Sassoon!
I know, I know, that was the slogan for Sasson (jeans), not Sassoon (hair stylist) But he is still French! We appeared at a 1960's theme hair industry event for Intercoiffure, the worlds greatest hairdressers, on Saturday evening. Vidal and I felt an instant attraction! Okay, I'm lying, but hey, I would do whatever it took to get him to do my hair!


Miss Understood
and Vidal Sassoon
get cozy at the Waldorf
Astoria.

Holy Matrimony Batman! It was a second wedding for both of them, she wasn't doing the wedding dress thing. It was an elegant yet casual affair at their stunning hideaway in Sagaponack... that's the Hamptons for you out-of-towners. Guests were greeted by our lovely Drag Queen Brides:





















Virgins in white
Manila, Epiphany,
and Peppermint.

Divine in Nature

John Waters simply loved to film Divine, his drag queen femme fatale, in natural settings, and I can see why. The clash between the natural and artificial creations can be stunning.

We recently returned from a big bash in West Dover Vermont and it was quite exhilarating. In addition to appearances by drag queens Miss Understood and Epiphany we also got a chance to debut our dazzling new Blue Strolling Human Table:

Blue
Strolling
Table
featuring
Sequinette!










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Goddess in the Sky

Our Gold Goddess Human Table took a stroll yesterday at the serene Terrace Club at the Rockefeller Center Hotel.

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Bahama Mamas

We spent the weekend entertaining an A-list celebrity dense crowd at the grand opening of The Cove at Atlantis Resort and Casino in the Bahamas. The first evening was a poolside cocktail party/Janet Jackson concert which involved six of our brand new Living Buffet Tables. Our strolling tables looked lovely in the such a lush outdoor setting

The second evening was a disco blowout featuring six of our glitzy gogo dancers and our Disco Wig Makeover Bar. Performers included Earth Wind and Fire, Steven Tyler, and The Village People.

I was really too busy to notice who was who but according to
my performers and this weeks gossip columns, the guest list included:
Star Jones, Spike Lee, Oprah Winfrey, Gayle King, Magic Johnson, Whitney Houston, Jeremy Piven, Nick Lachey, Claire Danes, Vanessa Manillo, Mos Def, Stevie Wonder, Liv Tyler, Tyrese Gibson, Angela Bassett, Rob Lowe, Kelsey Grammar, Latoya Jackson, Chris Rock, Anthony Anderson, Ashford and Simpson, Carol Alt, Cindy Crawford, John Travolta, Usher, Kanye West, Alisha Keyes, P. Diddy, Michelle Rodriguez, Gloria Estefan, Nile Rogers, Alan Thike, Tim Allen, Quincy Jones, Shannon Elizabeth, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Lindsey Lohan. Whew!


Guests were greeted by our Tequila Table!


















The exotic Miss Oyster!















Beware of the Gold Goddess!
















Sushi courtesy of the Blue Geisha.

















Lobster Lady with a side of lemon!












Our Disco Ladies in sequin Pucci.

















Usher and Tameka Foster
after visiting our Wig Bar!










We turned Star Jones
into a long lashed blond!
Gloria Estefan goes au natural.








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Start Spreadin' the News...
Here in NYC there is an ever recurring theme that will never die: New York City! We are gradually building our New York, NY collection. Ms. Taxi had her debut a few months back, and we now present to you Lady Chrysler:

Thank you Marc Jacobs, I can Die Now.

Every year Marc Jacobs throws the most amazing holiday costume ball in the world. This year's Venetion Masked Ball was probably the most over the top bash ever. The sixty sexy male and female gogo dancers were barely wearing anything, but what they were wearing was exquisitly designed by Antigravity's Shelly Bomb. It was as if the original 60's Enterprise had landed on a Venetian planet!

My ladies and fops (all 18 0f them!) had such big firm cages under their dresses they could have lined up and formed a fort to protect Gotham Hall from an invasion.

Epiphany looks pretty!

























Miss Understood looks hungry!




















Demi Tasse looks Regal!

























Jeff and Poison Eve Make dandy dandies!















More photos at www.marcjacobs.com

Welcome to the Grand Hyatt Shanghai!
Okay, I'm half lying. It was the Grand Hyatt but it felt like Shanghai.
Last night we helped create an Asian fantasy world in the grand ballroom at a fundraiser for the National Jewish Hospital. Understated, yes?
Miss Understood Madalein Ashton Iggy
Buddha Cathy Valdez Epiphany Perfidia























Epiphany and Cathy Valdez!























Iggy and Perfidia!

Queens, Teens, and in Betweens!
Tonight we apeared at "A Night Of Teen Decadence" at Gotham Hall to benefit Teens Against Cancer. Thanks to Colin Cowie for bringing us aboard. Here are a few moments caught on camera:





Stacey Farber of Degrassi, The
Next Generation gets an embrace
from Grace!



















Stud muffin poses with the ladies: Miss Understood, Diandra, and Epiphany.

















Teddy Geiger Performs

Joan Rivers is Really a Man!
Breaking news: Joan Rivers is actually a female impersonator! Don't believe me, watch this segment which aired on the TV Guide Channel last week starring Joan Rivers, Melissa Rivers, and Screaming Queens Entertainment's astounding Joan Rivers Impersonator Gary Dee:

Book "Joan Rivers" for your next event:
Joan@screamingqueens.com

We got a great write up today in Newsday, Long Islands best selling daily. Here is an abbriviated version of the article:

IMPERSONATOR ADDS 'WOW!'

Sweet 16 fete was No Drag

By Hana Albert
Newsday Staff Writer
August 27th, 2006

Crystal Mack's sweet 16 party had all the customary flourishes. A sparkly purple dress bought for the occasion, a spotlight dance to "My Girl" with her dad, a 40-minute candle-lighting ceremony, and - a drag queen.

Halfway through the party, a RuPaul impersonator bounded onto the dance floor, clad in a red miniskirt that clung to muscular legs and 5-inch silver stilettos in women's size 13.

Drag queens are appearing more and more frequently as entertainers at sweet 16s, anniversary parties, corporate functions and even bar and bat mitzvahs. Party-throwers, their guests, performers and the agents who book them say the trend is a sign that drag has, in part, shed its history of taboo and found audiences beyond the gay club scene.

Drag goes mainstream

"I think all of what you're seeing is a mark of drag becoming more mainstream," said Rosamond S. King, an assistant professor of English at Long Island University's Brooklyn campus who specializes in sexuality studies. "Theoretically, there's a certain amount of respectability that goes with being hired in these different arenas."

Alex Heimberg - the chief executive of Screaming Queens Entertainment, which sent the eight-year veteran entertainer Peppermint to Crystal's party - started out performing at nightclubs under the pseudonym Miss Understood and realized his act could have a wider appeal. After three years performing, he started Screaming Queens in 1995.

Since then, Heimberg has seen demand growing for his drag queens. In a busy month, he said, he sends out two dozen performers, compared with three or four a month in 1995.

"What we often do at bar mitzvahs and weddings is that at a certain point in the evening, when everyone's a little drunk, is burst into the room and dance with people," said Heimberg, whose company also has supplied drag performers for corporate events thrown by Samsung, Starwood Hotels and Lucky Brand Jeans. "We specialize in the colorful, cartoonish drag queens with pinkor blue hair, and the fantasy looks."

At a surprise 40th anniversary party in Bellmore for Anthony and Beatrice Lapadula, it was a dark-haired Cher celebrity impersonator who took the stage under a tent on their back porch. He's Steve Aviles, a performer who lives in Queens with his partner and manager, Robert Ojeda. But in costume, he goes by Mirkala Crystal.

Shimmying in a tight black bodysuit with a sparkly pattern, Mirkala lip-synched to Cher's classics and new hits.

"A gay bar in New York City or adults and children in Long Island: Anyone who would have a drag queen at their party is open-minded and wants to have a good time," said Peppermint, who asked to use his stage name because that is his identity while performing. "But I definitely made my act a little - a lot - more PG than I normally would have in nightclubs."

In an effort to give her daughter's sweet 16 an edge that other parties didn't have, Gina Mack of Dix Hills shelled out a lot of money for Peppermint to perform. "We wanted to do something different and spectacular," she said. "People look at the entertainment.... We wanted something with a 'Wow!'"

Mack said she took precautions to ensure that the show would not be inappropriate.

"I told them no sexy clothing, no stomach showing," Mack said. "She wasn't going to do a strip show. She was going to sing."

Leah Steuer, 16, of Plainview, said Peppermint was an adventurous departure from the other sweet 16s she's attended, which feature "really loud DJs who play the same terrible music all the time and possibly really bad arcade games before."

Seeing Peppermint perform was a surprise, she said. "A pleasant surprise."

Copyright 2006 Newsday Inc.

Screaming Queens Outrageous Paris Party!

We had a big celebration last night at Headquarters to celebrate Our Paris Hilton impersonator Natalie Reid's Playboy spread. After being greeted by "Joan Rivers" on the red carpet guests were entertained by a gaggle of showgirls (real and fake) and were served up dazzling numbers our own "Diana Ross" and "Tina Turner".

There's a great clip here on the TMZ website:
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Wire Image has great photos:
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...and Check out Getty Images:
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Back to Paris
It's a crazy week for our Paris Hilton impersonator Natalie Reid. Her Playboy spread is out and her Simple Life episode is about to air.
Book Natalie Reid: paris@screamingqueens.com

Pretend Paris bares all for Playboy!

Screaming Queens' Paris Hilton Impersonator Natalie Reid made headlines during fashion week when she was mistaken for Paris in Bryant Park. Tongues are wagging once again over her six page spread in the September issue of Playboy which is due to hit the stands on August 8th.

Natalie's an actress and a model who is just lucky enough to be born looking like Paris Hilton. Columnists and bloggers often portray her as an obsessed fan who spends all of her time passing as Paris to accumulate freebies. While she has often been given VIP treatment for her resemblance to Hilton, she generally appears at events that she's hired for. Guests generally spend some time wondering if she's really Paris. Once word is spread that she's a professional celebrity impersonator they generally want to meet her and pose for a photo. It's all in fun, believe me, she's no identity thief!
Booking Inquiries Paris@screamingqueens.com or call: 212 714 8097

Ms. Taxi Takes New York!
Bloomberg Media threw an amazing picnic for their employees on Randall's Island yesterday. Thousands of guests attended the eclectic carnival on a grassy field under the Manhattan Bridge. Our new Taxi Lady posed with guests alongside vintage checker cabs and a 50's diner facade.

Our Brand New Neon Woman!

Donna a Loves Chicks With Schticks
Donna Karan threw a swanky soiree for one of her most valued employees. Screaming Queen's drag queen celebrity impersonators were there to stand in for some of Ms. Karan's closest pals: Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, and Patti LaBelle.

"Those are such a pair of legs!" said Donna, "I'm Jealous." "Brilliant" said the highly observant Sandra Bernhard who joined the ladies in their dressing room for little chit chat.
















Demi Tasse, Donna Karan, Princess Diandra, and Phyl Craig.

The 21 Club
What a glitzy 21st birthday this guy had last night!
Theme: Studio 54
Venue: Studio 450, a sleek Manhattan penthouse with a spectacular view.
Entertainment: "Liza" and "Grace Jones" to add pizazz
and
our gogo dancing Human Disco Balls to dazzle and delight!


















Grace Jones Impersonator Diandra!

Scissor Sisters choose Cover "Girl" Keisha!

Screaming Queens was contacted last week to provide a delicious drag queen model for the cover of the upcoming Scissor Sisters album "Ta-Dah" Bandmembers Jake Shears and Ana Matronic went wild for Keisha. Was it her chiseled cheekbones? Her petite size 4 figure? Or was it that seductive smile? Keep your eyes out for the album and let's hope she gets a closeup on one of the singles!



















Keisha wearing Heatherette

Bar Mitzvah Madness!

How do you top a great Manhattan event space with a great view? How about a space directly across the river with a stunning view of the Manhattan skyline? It's called Waters Edge and it's located in Queens. The crowd was largely Russian and if you've ever worked with a Russian crowd you'd know that they love glitzy entertainment. We brought them a dazzling drag queen Cher impersonator, our Human Dessert Tables, and a gaggle of glamorous gals serving up cigars and dancing the night away.