Word: newmar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Your item about the ban on leaf blowers in Los Angeles [PEOPLE, Dec. 15] had some mistakes. Although we value Julie Newmar as one of our members, she was not one of the founders of the Zero Air Pollution group, as you implied. Also, ZAP was organized mostly by hardworking members of the middle class, not celebrities. And, finally, your statement that the cops won't enforce the ban isn't true. The L.A. police chief has confirmed that it will be enforced. If it isn't, the real losers will be the thousands of people who are sensitive...
Maybe once a year, a big studio trots out a big picture with similarly sympathetic gay characters in leading roles: To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar last year, Philadelphia before that. Is this enough to constitute enlightenment...
...REAL--OR RATHER, GET UNREAL. TO Wong Foo Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar is a movie [CINEMA, Sept. 18]. Remember what that means? Fantasy. Make-believe. Fairy tale. A genre that is not always designed to inspire moral judgments or politically conscious statements. It aims to entertain, which To Wong Foo does delightfully. What if the story line is predictable? Name a fairy-tale fantasy in which it isn't. What if three drag queens drive into a small, dreary heartland town and add style, brighten lives and create miracles? We believe because we want to think miracles can still...
...Cleopatra Jones" and techno-fear movies like "War Games" and "The Net" are good examples. When self-conscious marketing towards minority groups clashes with Hollywood's insatiable desire for money, we are assaulted with terribly confused, relatively lame efforts such as "To Wong roo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar...
Inside every gay man, the drag queen's fantasy credo goes, there's a beautiful woman just dying to accessorize. Take Vida Boheme (Patrick Swayze), the regal doyenne in To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar. Vida is a Victoria among drag queens; she could be the perfect ad for sisterhood out of a 1947 Good Housekeeping. And Swayze, maintaining equipoise between camp and bathos, is every inch a lady...