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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.”[…]
A Woman’s View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women 1930-1960, by Jeanine Basinger, 1995, 528pp, paper, $17.95 (University Press of New England, 201 E. 50th St. New York, NY 10022). This is[…]
Actors & Personalities · Artists
With his lacerations, deformities, faux stump legs, and shaved head, Chaney was the original Modern Primitive. ReSearch Publications in SF specializes in cultural demi-mondes, everything from Burroughs and J. G.[…]
Actors & Personalities · Artists · Directors · Interviews
Is Gregg Araki’s new film really “a more radical personal and political film than Oliver Stone could have managed in his wettest of wet dreams?” Matthew L. Severson says so,[…]
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[…]
Artists · Directors · Interviews
What does it mean to be a “madwoman” and an artist in American society? A review of Allie Light’s documentary on the subject, along with an interview (below), tries to[…]
Hitchcock has always been considered a director sui generis. John W. Hall looks at Psycho and Touch of Evil to show that even Hitch couldn’t resist the charms — and stylistic strategies — of Orson Welles.[…]
