Word: dragging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brown understands the purpose of the Pudding, and seems to grasp the joys of transvestism. In keeping with tradition, she had hoped to play a man in this year's production, "A Forum Affair!" Drag, Brown points out rightly, is a two-way street. (Last weekend, Brown played a male character in "Jurassic Park: The Rock Opera...
Instead of clinging, pantyhose-like, to their charter, Pudding members ought to give Brown's not-so-modest proposal a little thought. An organization so tightly bound to tradition that it's members wouldn't even consider changing. Now that would be a drag...
...form of movie idolatry endemic only to Hollywood -- but they love to stargaze. They will put an attractive actress on-screen for 1 1/2 hours and mostly . . . just . . . watch . . . her. She poses at a window, she listens to the phone ring; in a moment of high agitation she may drag on a Gauloise. A vision of dyspeptic distress, she is a modernist pinup for the monastic voyeur behind the camera. When the woman is lovely, pouty Juliette Binoche, and the director is Krzysztof Kieslowski, the picture can become the X ray of anguish: not stargazing but soul gazing...
Brown said she hopes to play a male role in the produc- tion. "Drag comedy is just as funny if womendress up as men," she said...
...Every play has character restraints and needscertain people to fill the roles," he said. "Thetype of drag comedy that has evolved at thePudding just requires an all male cast...