Word: dragging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DIET DRAG It's not just dieters showing symptoms of heart trouble. Now the FDA wants anyone who has taken Redux or fenfluramine, alone or with another drug, to see a doctor...
Brevity is not the soul of Clint. Clocking in at nearly three hours, Eastwood's ponderous adaptation of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil creeps along like a slug under the hot Georgia sun. Drag is indeed the most striking feature of this unwieldy film, and I'm not talking about Lady Chablis, the preeminent transvestite of Savannah...
...credit, there is no old-fashioned, romantic heterosexual love in the original Midnight. Its most interesting and lovable characters are con men, hustlers, drag queens and witches. Berendt's narrator revels unrepentantly in Savannah's decadence and its culture of closeted scandal. He falls in love with the city's roguishness, its peculiar brand of dark but endearing degeneracy cloaked in gentility. In short, he is nothing like Cusack's dippy, sententious young idealist. The closest he comes to romance is a date with a drag queen. And he certainly bears no resemblance to the late Elvis Presley, whom Cusack...
...starts to play like a day at the zoo: look at the goofy Southern people! Strong personalities like the volatile hustler Billy Hanson (played awkwardly by Jude Law) dissolve into mere plot devices or cheap gags. The score doesn't help (Billy Hanson enters room, cue fore-boding music. Drag queen walks down the street, cue sultry saxophone...
That George Clooney willingly, even proudly, admits that he likes some of the "I'm just a hunter, to drag the chick by the hair" mentality is not particularly noteworthy. But that his antiquated and sexist ideals should be toted as the essence of guyness, what real guys believe and what real women, by extension, should want, is wildly disturbing. Guyness is much more interesting than George Clooney, and much more varied. Thank goodness the '50s are over...