FOF #2865 - A Look at Drag Queens in Movies & the Life of Little Richard
Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show
Fausto Fernós
4.4 • 834 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2020
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
In mainstream movies like Mrs.Doubtfire and Tootsie, the straight men dress up in drag to win hearts or get a fabulous job but rarely do they show the boys dressing as girls just for the fun of it.
Today, Miss Understood, one of the drag queens from the film Too Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, joins us to look at ways drag queens are portrayed in Hollywood films, what they got right and what they got wrong.
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Listen as we take a closer look at movies with drag queens: Too Wong Foo, Trick, Prisciilla Queen of the Desert, and the films of directors like Tyler Perry and John Waters.
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➤ A look at the life of Little Richard, the “King and Queen” of rock and roll. He died this past week from bone cancer, he was 87.
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| 0:00.0 | Since the beginning of Hollywood, cross-dressers have had their place in film as either a comedic foil or a threatening monster. |
| 0:13.0 | In mainstream movies like Mrs. Doubtfire and Tootsie, the straight man dress up in drag to win hearts or get a fabulous job. |
| 0:21.6 | But rarely do they show the boys dressing up as girls just for the fun of it. |
| 0:26.1 | Today, Misunderstood one of the drag queens from the film, Two Wong Fu. |
| 0:30.6 | Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, joins us to look at ways drag queens are portrayed in Hollywood films, |
| 0:36.1 | what they got right and what they got wrong. Listen as we take a closer look at movies with drag queens are portrayed in Hollywood films, what they got right and what they got wrong. |
| 0:38.8 | Listen as we take a closer look at movies with drag queens, To Wong Fu, Trick, Priscilla |
| 0:44.2 | Queen of the Desert, Victor Victoria, and the films of directors like Tyler Perry and John Waters. |
| 0:50.5 | Plus, a look at the life of Little Richard, the king and queen of rock and roll. |
| 0:55.0 | He died at 87. |
| 0:56.5 | I'm Fausta Furnos. |
| 0:57.8 | I'm Mark Filian. |
| 0:58.8 | And this is Feast of Fun. |
| 1:01.8 | Ooh! |
| 1:04.0 | Sorry, not as high as Little Richards. |
| 1:07.0 | Tootie-frutie in your booty. |
| 1:09.3 | Before we begin, let's listen to Charles Connor, Little Richards drummer from 1953, sharing in an |
| 1:16.8 | interview with the original lyrics to the iconic song Tudy-Fruity was. |
| 1:21.7 | The original lyrics to Tudy-Fruity that we used to play in the nightclub and things like that, |
| 1:26.1 | we couldn't record it was Tudie-Fruity, good booty. |
| 1:30.0 | If it's tight, it's all right. |
| 1:32.4 | If it's greasy, it makes it so easy. |
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