Of all of our stridently pansexual Scottish performers and perfumists, Alan Cumming is second to none. He nanced around and set heads a-scratching ten or so years ago as the emcee in Broadway's brilliant Cabaret revival, played a transvestite party promoter on Showtime's lady-on-lady business soap The L Word, and is…
The star of Broadway's Cabaret and TV's The Good Wife, Scotsman Alan Cumming is also a campy gay icon.
Sorry ladies, but he's off the market. Recovering nicely from his early-1990s bout with heterosexuality, Alan Cumming married boyfriend Grant Shaffer outside London over the weekend. The couple wanted to do the deed in America, but could not because of our prejudicial laws against Broadway actors. Check out the guest…
A reader alerted us to this commercial for Cumming: The Fragrance, the new cologne/perfume from the actor/gay icon/Spy Kids star. The "fragrance," according to the advertising, is "is all about Sex, Scotch, Cigars and Scotland." (That was the original tagline for Old Spice, by the way. OK, not really.)
"You want to make me walk up stairs?!" I harrumphed. "Are you kidding? What kind of snotty exclusive private club is this?" I trudged up the stairs anyway. Stairs with dirty carpet, industrial steel rails, and oddly, really cool bizarrely shaped chandeliers.
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