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Merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, a blessed Eid, a bibulous Yule, a peaceful Solstice, a delirious Kwanzaa, and a wonderful New Year!
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A heartfelt 'Thank You' to all those named and un-named who again helped me this year to keep this site the way it is.
Oh - and special thanks to Michael T. Weiss!

In this video bit, Liberty B. Mitchell is talking about (amongst others) the early stages of her One-Woman-Play „The Pornographer's Daughter“, premiering in San Francisco in Jan-Feb 2014, then directed by Michael T. Weiss...: Video
Capturing the story of the legendary Ginger Coyote is a fascinating trip through the mercurial time/space dimensions of the punk rock world. From her groundbreaking 'Punk Globe Magazine' to her notorious band the 'White Trash Debutantes', Ginger's irrepressible will and larger-than-life personality have been the indomitable force at the center of it all. Since the first day we embarked on this journey, the flood gates busted open with so many truly ground breaking pioneers from the music, art, and film worlds stepping forth to pay tribute to Ginger, and to also open up about their own powerful experiences - often risking everything to challenge the ideals and preconceived notions of the times... While we're in production, we want to share some of the fascinating, compelling, and intimate moments of insight and wisdom that can only come from the people who were truly 'there'. We have amassed hundreds of hours of interviews, television appearances, and rare live footage from all over the world.
"Ginger Coyote: The Rock Documentary" is currently in production, with still more interviews underway to be a part of this rare collection of punk rock history. Shot, directed, edited and produced by Ms. Ligaya & The Floydian Device.

I would really love to give you news about Michael T. Weiss as much as I would like to get them – but since he apparently prefers to stay out of the lime light for the time being (with the exception of his visit to the watch presentation in Malibu in July) – there are none. ??
Not even the paparazzi are interested in him any longer. So we can only hope he has a happy fulfilled life where ever he roams and whatever he does.
He still has two agencies that take care of his business and legal affairs, and the one listed below also of his fan mail. Our West Coast Office has checked with both back in fall, so you could send your Seasons Greetings to Progressive Artists Agency – and ask if they perhaps would be willing to pass on any news about Mr Weiss.
Progressive Artists Agency, 9696 Culver Blvd. #110, Culver City, CA 90232, USA
~ EFi, admin ~

"Days of our Lives" - Wayback: Remember Dr. Robin Jacobs?
Mike Horton (1986-1987 portrayed by none other than our Michael T. Weiss) fought a hard-won battle to have incompetent Dr. Edward Curry fired from University Hospital. But Mike’s reward for his due diligence came in the form Dr. Robin Jacobs (Derya Ruggles), the new hard-nosed and straight-laced Chief of Surgery. The two locked horns almost immediately over Mike’s refusal to adhere to the strict rules and regulations of the hospital.
Mike and Robin’s relationship began to deepen when they worked to close the town’s local mine after a number of its workers became ill. When Robin was tending to one of the sick miners on the eve of a hospital gala, a fire accidentally broke out.
It was Mike who braved the flames to rescue her. All though it was painfully clear that they both wanted to take their relationship to the next level, Robin refused to do so on the grounds of religious differences.
She was an Orthodox Jew and Mike was a Christian, so Robin refused to initiate a romantic liaison between them and instead turned to Jewish pharmacist Mitch Kaufman. (In a bit of soap irony, Mike’s portrayer, Michael T. Weiss, was Jewish and Robin’s portrayer, Derya Ruggles, was not.)
Robin’s father Eli approved of her new beau but her uncle, Robert LeClair, had more pressing matters to worry about than who his niece was dating. In his heart of hearts, Robert was sure that Robin’s new colleague, Dr. Fred Miller, was in all actuality a former Nazi physician who had orchestrated the deaths of many Jewish persons imprisoned in concentation camps including Robin’s grandmother.
Mike and Robin worked together to uncover the truth about Miller, whom their research proved didn’t really exist. And thanks to an assist by Steve Johnson, they learned that he bore a scar in the exact same place where a distinct birthmark belonging to German-born Friedrich Kluger should have been.
After the truth was outed – and Robert was shot – Mike and Robin lobbied the state department to ensure that Kluger would be tried for war crimes and punished appropriately.
Although the investigation had brought them even closer, the difference in their religion proved an insurmountable barrier and Robin accepted Mitch’s proposal. And even though she and Mike made love – after being trapped in a shed by a torrential downpour – Robin went through with her wedding. Mike, meanwhile, pursued Ivy Jannings.
Mitch – finally realizing that his wife’s heart belonged to another man – had the marriage dissolved but warned his love rival that Robin would still never consent to marry him because of his faith. After considering Mitch’s sentiment carefully, Mike concluded there was only one thing to do: convert to Judaism.
Mike made the pronouncement to his lady love – and even proposed marriage to her inside an operating room. Despite some misgivings, Robin was thrilled and Mike began the arduous task of converting. However, it would all be for naught.
Mike and Robin became involved with a mysterious floppy disk that was coveted by a multitude of interested parties – including government officials and criminals – and someone attempted to murder Robin while she made a copy of the disk. Mike prayed for Robin’s recovery, but his Christian prayers were overheard by his intended – who realized that he could never really turn his back on his religious upbringing.
Robin made a hasty exit from Salem but she returned a year later with some stunning news for Mike. In the interim, she had given birth to his son, whom she named Jeremy. The exes tried to make a relationship work – for their child’s sake – but the problem of religious differences soon interfered.
Mike believed Jeremy should be raised Christian while Robin was adamant he practice the Jewish faith. In the end, Robin decided to relocate to Israel with Jeremy but extended an open-ended invitation to Mike for visitation.
"Days of Our Lives" (DOOL) still airs weekdays on NBC.

"Days of our Lives" - Wayback: Remember Dr. Mike Horton?
He was a child whose true origin nearly destroyed an entire family in the 1960s. He reigned as a teen heartthrob in the 70’s, who matured into a strong heroic lead character in the 80s and 90s. But just how much do you really remember about Days of our Lives‘ Mike Horton (played by several popular actors, including Michael T. Weiss)?
Full story in Soap Hub. See below.
BTW: The name of this fan page "Ask Dr. Mike" is based on Dr. Mike Horton!

Three weeks ago, on July 11 Michael T. Weiss was finally seen in public again
He attended the official US unveiling of the latest refresh for the Breguet Marine line. These three watches were first revealed at Baselworld 2018 before receiving the update at the Swatch Group’s Time to Move event in May 2019, but this was the first time that the brand had officially exhibited them in the United States to the invited guests and assembled press.

Here MTW is pictured with Price Arana, founder of The Press Cabinet advertising agency, and Anthony Cenname, publisher of The Wall Street Journal Magazine at the Breguet Marine Collection Launch at Little Beach Soho House Malibu on July 11, 2019 in Malibu, CA. Photo by Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for Breguet. Full size photos from the event.
More photos from the event, some also of Michael T. Weiss. Photographer: Jason Lowrie at BFA.com

#PrideMonth #LGBTQ #Jeffrey

"Jeffrey" — Queer resilience thrives in this rom-com about love in the time of the AIDS crisis
1995 marked a turning point in the AIDS epidemic in the United States. It was the year the FDA approved an antiretroviral treatment that would soon bring about a massive decline in AIDS-related deaths and illnesses. Yet 1995 was also the year in which AIDS-related deaths — then the leading cause of death among all Americans ages 25 to 44 — reached their peak. Roughly 50,000 Americans died of AIDS complications in 1995. It was against that backdrop that the gay romantic comedy Jeffrey debuted. The experimental indie comedy is a cinematic tribute to the heart, humor, sadness, romance, and, most importantly, resilience of gay men living in New York City on the heels of a decade and a half of crisis. As one character sums it up towards the end of the film: “Just think of AIDS as the guest that won’t leave. The one we all hate. But you have to remember: Hey! It’s still our party.”
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Those words are delivered to Jeffrey (Steven Weber), an aspiring actor and cater waiter who serves as the movie’s protagonist — a sort of tentative Hamlet for the mid ’90s. Frustrated by the paranoia around sex and the logistics of doing it safely (the film’s comedic opening montage sees him handing over three separate blood tests to a potential hookup), Jeffrey decides to simply swear off sex entirely. Naturally, that’s exactly when he meets Steve (Michael T. Weiss), a hunky bartender who’s instantly smitten with him. Jeffrey’s biting interior designer friend Sterling (Patrick Stewart) suggests this could be the perfect solution to Jeffrey’s sexual woes. If he starts a monogamous relationship with Steve, they can set the rules once and stop worrying. It’s worked for Sterling, who is happily coupled up with a ditzy Cats chorus boy named Darius (Bryan Batt). But just as Jeffrey comes to terms with the idea of dating, the other shoe drops: Steve is HIV positive.
Jeffrey insists that Steve’s HIV status doesn’t matter to him, yet comes up with a last-minute excuse to cancel their first date. He’s afraid of getting sick himself, but he’s even more afraid of loving someone and watching them die. It’s a future he sees echoed in Sterling and Darius’ relationship. Darius is also HIV positive, and his health is often a seesaw. One day he’s patrolling the neighborhood as part of a campily dressed anti-gay-bashing organization called “the Pink Panthers,” the next week he’s fainting from dehydration brought on by his new medication. Despite Darius’ condition, he and Sterling approach life with confidence, zest, and a flair for bon mots. Jeffrey, however, is fixated on the fact that he lives in a world where godlike men deteriorate before his eyes and memorial services are a regular part of the social calendar.
Jeffrey first began life as a successful 1993 Off-Broadway play. While the initial pitch of a comedy about AIDS raised some eyebrows, the witty play was soon heartily embraced. New York Times theater critic Stephen Holden described Jeffrey as “just the sort of play that Oscar Wilde might have written had he lived in 1990’s Manhattan and taken aim at an epidemic that was decimating his circle of friends.” The show’s success helped launch the careers of playwright Paul Rudnick (who would later go on to write the more mainstream gay rom-com "In & Out") and future Tony-winning director Christopher Ashley. They soon re-teamed to adapt the material into a film, keeping all its fantastical and fourth wall breaking conventions in tact—from cameo appearances from Mother Teresa to a conversation that suddenly turns into a game show.
The film adaptation of Jeffrey was met with a more mixed response, with many noting that the material didn’t work quite as well onscreen as it did onstage. The film’s budgetary limitations often show, as does Ashley’s seeming uncertainty as to how to translate his theatrical directing skills to a cinematic setting. Yet considering just how benign and familiar the romantic comedy genre can often feel, it’s still exhilarating to watch Jeffrey swing for the fences in such a big, unique way—even if it sometimes misses the mark.
In the nearly 25 years since its debut, Jeffrey has only become more interesting as it’s crystalized into a time capsule of a specific slice of the gay community in a specific time in LGBT history. Jeffrey and Steve’s relationship provides a loose narrative through line for the film, but Jeffrey is mostly a series of vignettes about affluent gay male culture in the 1990s. The stage play starred eight actors doubling up on parts, but the film adaptation enlists a bunch of big name actors for one-scene roles. Sigourney Weaver pops up as a self-important self-help guru. Olympia Dukakis plays a mom attending Pride with her daughter, who recently came out as trans. Nathan Lane is a closeted Catholic priest who finds God in musical theater. Debra Monk and Peter Maloney portray Jeffrey’s suburban parents in a fantasy sequence where he imagines what it would be like if he could talk to his parents about his sexual woes. (While frosting a cake, his mom cheerfully asks whether he’s ever considered joining a jerk-off club.)
Best of all is Christine Baranski as a gaudy socialite throwing a rather tasteless country western themed “Hoe-Down For AIDS” fundraiser. It’s a second meet cute for Jeffrey and Steve, who previously had a sexually charged interaction at the gym. Jeffrey is working the event as a waiter while Steve is there as a bartender, and their flirtation transforms into a fantasy sequence where a bunch of strapping male cater waiters take the floor for a sexy shirtless hoe-down homage to Busby Berkeley. That’s certainly not the kind of thing you’ll get from your average studio rom-com. (Give or take Mamma Mia!, of course.)
Clip "Square Dance":

Jeffrey starts to feel a little repetitive and aimless in its middle third, as the vignettes fail to cohere into something greater. It doesn’t help that Steven Weber and Michael T. Weiss only intermittently find the palpable romantic and sexual charge that should be fueling Jeffrey and Steve’s will they/won’t they dynamic. In general, Weber struggles to bring a sense of three-dimensionality to a character who’s very, very passive. For all the time we spend following Jeffrey’s life, we don’t really get to know him all that well.
The film’s strongest performance comes from Patrick Stewart, in his first project after wrapping his seven-season run on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Stewart sinks his teeth into the layers of a character who wears his catty confidence like a suit of armor. He’s equally funny whether Sterling is learning into his campier impulses or subverting them. (Asked which group he’s marching with at Pride, the normally chipper Sterling deadpans, “Gay men who need a cigarette.”) Stewart also emerges as the dramatic heart of the film, particularly when Darius’s health begins to waver.
Since its Off-Broadway debut, there have been questions about whether some of Jeffrey’s characters, particularly Sterling, are too stereotypical. Edward Hibbert, who originated the role onstage, argued that the very fact that Sterling is a central character, rather than one-note comic relief, elevates him above stereotype. It certainly helps that Jeffrey is the rare rom-com in which nearly every main character is a gay man (at least a few of them played by openly gay actors), which alleviates the sense that any one of them alone is standing in for an entire community. It was also written and directed by gay men speaking to their own experiences. Still, there’s unsurprisingly plenty about Jeffrey’s sensibility that feels dated today, and potentially already felt dated at the time of its release.
In many ways, Jeffrey demonstrates just how much things have changed for the LGBT community in the decades since it premiered—from the outlook for those living with HIV to the language we use to discuss gender, sexuality, and identity. In other ways, however, Jeffrey is a lovely reminder of the continuity of queer history. The film’s third act features a big sequence at New York City’s Pride Parade, where Ashley showcases footage from the actual event. Jeffrey may center on a group of white cis gay men, but the parade footage captures the exuberant intersectionality of the real-life celebration. In fact, much of the footage looks like it could’ve been filmed at a Pride event today.
Pride Clips... strung together...:

Both textually and metatextually, Jeffrey is a celebration of the resilience and longevity of the queer community. The film’s thesis boils down to the idea that it’s collective communal kindness that creates spiritual meaning in life, even in the darkest and scariest of times. “Hate AIDS, Jeffrey. Not life,” Darius advises. Or, as a little old church lady reminds him, “The only real blasphemy is the refusal of joy.”
Jeffrey may be an imperfect romantic comedy, but it’s a beautifully joyful one.

#PrideMonth #LGBTQ #Jeffrey

"Jeffrey" (Shout! Factory): Director Christopher Ashley’s award-winning 1995 debut feature, adapted from co-producer Paul Rudnick’s off-Broadway hit (scripted by the author and directed by Ashley) stars Steven Weber in the title role of a struggling gay actor in New York City who swears off sex during the AIDS epidemic – only to encounter hunky Michael T. Weiss, who makes him rethink his decision. Splashy and sympathetic, but essentially a big-screen sitcom, although the cast is very appealing, including Patrick Stewart (first-rate), Sigourney Weaver, Olympia Dukakis, Christine Baranski, Robert Klein, Kevin Nealon, Victor Garber, Camryn Manheim, Kathy Najimy, Bryan Batt, and Nathan Lane.
The “Shout Select” Blu-ray ($29.99 retail) includes audio commentary, retrospective interviews, original trailer, and more. Rated R. **½
Blu-ray Review: "Jeffrey"
The video is 1.85:1 anamorphic. The transfer brings out a bright and cheerful view of New York City in the mid-90s. The city hadn’t quite out priced a creative class. The audio is 2.0 DTS-HD Master Audio Stereo. The levels bring out the fourth wall busting moments. The movie is subtitled.
Content: 4.0 ; Extras 4.0 ; Replay 4.0 ; Overall: 4.0
Bonus material:
- Audio Commentary with Steven Weber and film critic Alonso Duralde. He admits to having never seen the stage play. He was offered the script because of his work on the hit Wings. He speaks about taking the role.
- An Interview with Steven Weber (26:20) has him talk about making an AIDS related comedy. He talks about how the role impacted him.
- An Interview with Mark Balsam (11:47) meets up with the producer. He talks about how the film is how a man must figure out how he fits into the world.
- Theatrical Trailer (2:26) shows the film is going to be about sex.
- Still Gallery (10:46) has plenty of shots from the gym.
Shout! Factory presents "Jeffrey". Directed by Christopher Ashley. Screenplay by: Paul Rudnick. Starring: Steven Weber, Patrick Stewart, Michael T. Weiss, Bryan Batt & Sigourney Weaver. Rated: R. Running Time: 93 minutes. Released: June 11, 2019.
"Jeffrey", the 1995 gay romantic comedy starring Steven Weber and Michael T. Weiss, and featuring Patrick Stewart (Star Trek, X-Men), Sigourney Weaver (Alien, Ghostbusters), Christine Baranski (The Good Wife, The Big Bang Theory), Victor Garber, Bryan Batt, Camryn Manheim, Kathy Najimy, Olympia Dukakis and Nathan Lane. Screenplay by Paul Rudnick, based on his play of the same name. Directed by Christopher Ashley. New extras include audio commentary by Weber and film critic Alonso Duralde, plus interviews with Weber and producer Mark Balsam, was finally released on Blu-ray on June 11th through Shout! Factory.
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Extending the blessings of Easter and Passover to everyone. So whatever you celebrate, may it be peaceful and enjoyable. ~ EFi, admin ~

Shout! Factory is preparing to release the Blu-ray debuts of "Boom!", "Jeffrey", "Can't Stop the Music" and "To Wong Foo Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar" for Pride Month in June.

JEFFREY Blu-ray – Release date: June 11, 2019 Directed by Christopher Ashley "Paul Rudnick, adapting his off-Broadway hit, deftly blends uproarious fun and touching gravity." – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone Meet Jeffrey (Steven Weber, Wings), a struggling actor in the New York scene who has just made the biggest decision of his life: he’s swearing off sex … forever! No sooner has he made this startling vow than he meets the dreamy and sensitive Steve (Michael T. Weiss, The Pretender). With the help of his friends Sterling (Patrick Stewart, Star Trek: The Next Generation) and Darius (Bryan Batt, Mad Men), Jeffrey decides to give love a second shot. But some unexpected news puts Jeffrey in a bind, forcing him to decide if he should take a risk on what could be the love of his life. From acclaimed director Christopher Ashley and writer Paul Rudnick, this hilarious and touching film redefined the romantic comedy for the LGBTQ+ community living in the age of AIDS in the 90s. Jeffrey also features cameos from several notable stars of the stage and screen including Nathan Lane, Olympia Dukakis, Christine Baranski, Victor Garber, Camryn Manheim, Kathy Najimy, and Sigourney Weaver. Runtime: 94 min, w/English Subtitles Special Features: NEW Audio Commentary with Actor Steven Weber and Film Critic/Author Alonso Duralde NEW Interview with Steven Weber NEW Interview with Producer Mark Balsam Original Theatrical Trailer Still Gallery Sources: MediaPlayNews and InsidePulse, April 19, 2019

Happy Birthday, Michael!
Wishing you all the best for your special day, lots of presents and fun with friends and family, and success with your endeavors.
Understandable that you enjoy your time out of the limelight, but please return to acting and the public - you are most missed!
Cheers to many happy years more! EFi, on behalf of "Ask Dr. Mike"

For birthday greetings and other fanmail:
As of January 2019, Michael T. Weiss has a new agency, that also handles his fanmail.
From now on you should use this address:

Michael T. Weiss
c/o Progressive Artists Agency
9696 Culver Blvd., #110
Culver City, CA 90232
USA