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Never far from a bottle of Stolichnaya or a discounted Vivienne Westwood frock, Edina and Patsy are without sitcom ancestry. They aren't scatterbrained housewives or ambitious careerists or sassy working-class women struggling to make ends meet. They're single, well-to-do best friends of unadmitted age, who drug, carouse and couture-shop their way through life. Hardly ever do they tend to the pseudo-glam, fashion-world jobs they inexplicably manage to keep...
...Eric Idle of Monty Python fame brought drag to a new level by putting on a habit in "Nuns on the Run." During "Belle Epoque," the 1993 Academy Award winner for best foreign film, we got a chance to see what the hero looked like in a frock (rather fetching, as it turned out, but really not his color). And there are many, many more movies that serve as variations on the transvestitial theme...
...reversal of normal college theatre procedure, the men in Drood are far better dressed than the women. Costume Designer Tinadetta Lee has outfitted the male characters in several splendid variations of Victorian dress--special note should be made of Jasper's splendid frock coat and purple waistcoat. Other than the gorgeous tatters of Princess Puffer, however, the women are mostly stuffed into badly tailored, frumpy dresses...
...frock from Christian Lacroix...
...Still isn't. The son of a white Englishwoman and a black African man, he was born in Riverside, California, but moved to Hertfordshire, England, when he was three. He worked in the British fashion industry and, as late as two months ago, had a temp job in a frock shop. His conversation is nonchalance unsullied by star ego. "I find it hard to be objective about the film," he says. "I can't see past the fact that I'm in it. I can't bear to look at myself, that's what it is. This is arrogant...