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Glenn

I'm Jean-Paul Sartre's 'The Jewish Question' - delighted to meet you!

About Me

Author of CONFESSIONS FROM THE VELVET ROPES: THE GLAMOROUS, GRUELING LIFE OF THOMAS ONORATO, NY'S TOP CLUB DOORMAN from St. Martin's Press.

"Glenn Belverio has a devastatingly urban eye. An ultra-hip arbiter of style, he commands the fine line between fashion and flash. He is a superb guide to the underworld of earthly delights." --Bestselling author and culture critic Camille Paglia


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Official Confessions from the Velvet Ropes website

"Confessions from the Velvet Ropes is like a surreal mash-up of Party Girl and Apocalypse Now, or maybe Please Kill Me and Night of the Living Dead. It's packed with absurdly juicy war stories from the velvet goldmine of New York clubland, down and dirty yet screamingly funny tales from the door-bitch jungle, full of crazed revelers, wasted starlets, fashion pimps, and sex behind the ice machine. Brilliant stuff." -- Rob Sheffield, writer for Rolling Stone magazine.

Read my article on Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan

Read my article on Daniel Johnston

My Interests

Writing, traveling, my friends, films

I'd like to meet:

Other writers, hillbilly crooners, Bollywood superstars, old rock stars, fashion and film icons, sexy Italian/Latino/Spanish/Asian/Indian/Arabic guys, rich old ladies, nightclubbers, YUMmies (Young urban Marxists), dandies, New Yorker subscribers, vixens, ultra vixens, Roger Ebert, witty Southern alcoholics.

Music:

Luxuriamusic.com, RadioGhoulSchool.com, early punk, Siouxsie, the Smiths, Morrissey, jazz, Ennio Morricone, Canto-pop, Goblin, Daniel Johnston, vintage country and western, Johnny Cash, Johnny Lydon, Hank Williams, Loretta Lynn, Elvis Presley, Vietnamese street music, Mongolian throat singing, Gregorian chants, Bollywood, Dollywood, Throbbing Gristle, Marc Almond, opera, silence

Me and Door Bitch Thomas Onorato (photo: Torkil Gudnason)

Movies:

Directors: Tsai-Ming Liang, Dario Argento, Wong Kar-Wai, Fellini, Fassbinder, Godard, Mira Nair, Bruce LaBruce, Paul Morrissey, John Waters, Bollywood films especially ones starring Hrithik Roshan, "I am Cuba", "Memories of Underdevelopment", "Clockwork Orange", "Fahrenheit 451", "Borat", "Female on the Beach", "The Misfits", "Nashville", "Coal Miner's Daughter", "Auntie Mame", "Cleopatra", "Puzzle of a Downfall Child", "Persona","Citizen Kane", "Boom", "Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains", "Desperate Living", "24 Hour Party People", "Infamous", "Walk the Line", "Krrish", "Mission Kashmir" "Vertical Rays of the Sun", "Fanaa", "Dil Se","Rope"

Television:

Ugly Betty, Family Guy, American Dad, Hard Gay... width="425" height="350" ..

Books:

"Havana Red" Leonardo Padura, "People Are Crazy Here" Rex Reed, "Infinite Variety: The Life and Legend of The Marchesa Casati", "D.V." by Diana Vreeland, "Disco Bloodbath", "The Beautiful Fall", "Around the World with Auntie Mame" Patrick Dennis, Camille Paglia, Bruce Benderson, Mark Simpson (especially "Saint Morrissey")"The Reluctant Pornographer" Bruce LaBruce, books on China, Vietnam...."Vietnam Now"....Mao's Little Red Book, "The Club" Stephen Gaines, "Nashville Babylon" .. width="425" height="350" ..

Heroes:

Diana Vreeland, Patrick Dennis, Jackie Susann, Karl Lagerfeld

My Blog

My essay on paparazzo Ron Galella that accompanied an exhibition of his work

Ron Galella   By Glenn Belverio   Perusing the oeuvre of 72-year old photographer Ron Galella, one could get the impression that his work is all about hands. And not just the outstretched...
Posted by Glenn on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 07:37:00 PST

My article on Dario Argento which appeared in ZOO magazine

The Deep Red Menace Italian horror maestro Dario Argento finally pays tribute to fellow Catholic, Alfred Hitchcock, and discusses his love of Turin, cats and sex By Glenn Belverio    ...
Posted by Glenn on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:20:00 PST

My article on Lydia Hearst

Citizen Lydia Lydia Hearst talks about her mom, Puma bags, war-torn Africa, and fear of forty. By Glenn Belverio Lydia Hearstthe 22-yr old model and daughter of Symbionese Liberation Army kidnap ...
Posted by Glenn on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:11:00 PST

My feature on Jenna Jameson from Zoo Magazine

Jenna Jameson doesn't think of herself as a star  just someone who happens to have sex for a living. The world's most famous porn actress talks about her best-selling book, fashion modeling and the ...
Posted by Glenn on Tue, 29 May 2007 09:11:00 PST

Rave review for Confessions from the Velvet Ropes

Copyright 2006 The Calgary Herald, a division of Canwest MediaWorks Publication Inc.All Rights Reserved The Calgary Herald (Alberta) July 30, 2006 Sunday Final EditionHEADLINE: New York behind the ro...
Posted by Glenn on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:14:00 PST

Brief excerpt from my book

Thomas surveys the crowd of people who are waiting in front of the ropes. The two lines stretch past the length of the club and around the corner where Eighteenth Street meets the West Side Highway. T...
Posted by Glenn on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 12:11:00 PST