Debi Mazar Dances With The Stars

Debi Mazar chatted with The Advocate about her reasons for rumba-ing it up on ABC's wildly successful Dancing With The Stars competition. Whether it's her Entourage fame, hot DWTS partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy, or her early days hanging around with New York queens, Mazar is candid about it all. The provocative former make up artist and longtime Madonna pal says she only wishes she could have shared a tango with the tantalizing Cheryl Burke...

Originally published on Advocate.com
By Brandon Voss
From her feature film debut as a coke-snorting mistress in 1990’s Goodfellas to her recurring role as publicist Shauna on HBO’s Entourage, Debi Mazar has made a career out of playing strong, sassy women with New York accents as thick as her eye makeup. Best known to TV audiences as tough-talking legal secretary Denise on both Civil Wars and L.A. Law, Mazar has memorably milked small roles in movies like The Doors, Malcolm X, and Empire Records, but it’s her enviable gig as gal pal Madonna’s makeup artist in the ’80s that first cultivated her gay following.