Queen alert! Seemingly respectable filmmakers are eagerly repackaging homosexuals as whining, pathetic drag queens for a culture disturbed by sex plagues and nose-ringed militants. If last year’s To Wong Foo led the charge, The Birdcage delivers[…]
With a head like a giant peanut, vast mascara’d eyes, too-kissable lips, baby-doll voice (courtesy of singer Mae Questel), flattened marcelled hair, and mere threads of a dress exposing miles[…]
Directors · Exploitation & Erotica · Interviews
Behind that mountain of oversized tits-and-ass that make up his “body” of work is an extremely intelligent, charming, and funny man, well-versed in cinema history and pop culture. My first[…]
Actors & Personalities · Documentaries
There was more to Carmen Miranda than insane hats and leering grins, a recent documentary shows Camp depends on a glittering surface that often resists penetration. Carmen Miranda is one[…]
Actors & Personalities · Exploitation & Erotica · Interviews
“In the future, everybody will be so sexually satisfied, there’ll be an end to violence, rape and war. We will establish contact with extra-terrestrials and they will be very sexy.”[…]
Unwilling body alterations give these “instant kiddie classics” disturbing undertones. There are two kinds of propaganda: the personal and self-aggrandizing, and the more insidious corporate/social. Personal propaganda is easily recognized[…]
