HOT: MOVIES AND DRAG! Hedda Lettuce returns to the Chelsea Clearview tonight [actually, it looks like November now], but that's not all. Even MoMA is getting into the act: Lypsinka (okay, John Epperson) is scheduled to host the 8:30 pm screening of Reflections in a Golden Eye (directed by John Huston, novel by Carson McCullers, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith, and Julie Harris) on Friday, September 22, 2006. (That means it's pay-what-you-wish! Just don't expect a lot of the chosen to enhance the experience--it's the Sabbath and Rosh Hashanah.)

Getting back to the Chelsea Clearview, here's the schedule. Thursday evenings are "definite" for Hedda; the Friday/Saturday midnight screenings are not as definite, probably depending on the stamina of whomever Hedda picks up on Thursday. [Hedda is actually not expected at any of these anymore.]

September 14-16: Pillow Talk
September 21-23: Flamingo Road
September 28-30: Lover Come Back
October 5-7: Jezebel recommended
October 12-14: Mr. Skeffington
October 19-21: Airport 1975 recommended
October 26-28: Carrie recommended

Of course, movies don't have to be introduced by drag artists. Example: Curtice Taylor did a bang-up job introducing The Misfits at MOMA on September 6. It was fascinating to hear Taylor, son of the movie's producer, co-narrate [with Gail Levin] the behind-the-scenes footage from the production and take in his warm (and sometimes sad) memories of Marilyn Monroe along with other anecdotes, such as the one about his father's failed attempt to interest a Hollywood producer in Death of a Salesman before the play had even been produced. As for The Misfits: uneven but highly recommended, especially for Clark Gable's macho performance.

Last Monday evening, Taylor also shared his memories of the more uneven but still worthwhile espionage thriller The Kremlin Letter--in which George Sanders appears in drag. Look--there s/he is!
























Photo courtesy of MoMA [replaced uncropped photo as per MoMA's request]


In other drag/movie news, Paper Dolls is playing the Film Forum...



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...and (not the least) Willi Ninja became the latest Paris is Burning artist to go off to The Fabulous Runway in The Sky. Can you find him in this cool PSA for AMFAR?



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