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...shameless rip-off of "Priscilla," the story of two drag queens and a transsexual on a road trip through the Australian outback in fantabulous togs, "To Wong Foo" is the story of three drag queens on a road trip from New York to Los Angeles in lackluster ensembles. In "Priscilla," they are on their way to put on a drag show at a hotel in the middle of nowhere; in To Wong Foo, they are going to compete in a national drag queen pageant in L.A. "Priscilla" had a matron, a misanthrope and a young upstart. What a shock...

Author: By Theodore K. Gideonse, | Title: 'To Wong Foo' Not Worthy of 'Priscilla's' Old Pantyhose | 9/28/1995 | See Source »

...feckless would-be writer named Steve Geddes, has unwisely taken a publisher's advance to produce a book on collectors. But the collector collector finds that his subjects, though daft, are stunningly boring. An obsessed gatherer of sounds has recorded utter silence in Namibia, the Sahara and the Australian outback. One human rodent, who promises to show Geddes the world's largest beer-can collection, leads him to a completely empty room. Curses, he says, my hostile wife and son have stolen every can and taken them to the dump. But no; later the wife and son force the loony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ONE OF EACH | 2/13/1995 | See Source »

...feckless would-be writer named Steve Geddes, has unwisely taken a publisher's advance to produce a book on collectors. But the collector collector finds that his subjects, though daft, are stunningly boring. An obsessed gatherer of sounds has recorded utter silence in Namibia, the Sahara and the Australian Outback. One human rodent, who promises to show Geddes the world's largest beer-can collection, leads him to a completely empty room. Curses, he says, my hostile wife and son have stolen every can and taken them to the dump. But no; later the wife and son force the loony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: One Of Each | 1/23/1995 | See Source »

...Dooling is only warming up. It seems that Killigan's son Michael, Boone's idealistic friend, has gone missing while on Peace Corps duty in Sierra Leone. The scene shifts to the African outback, and the reader worries for a chapter or two that Dooling intends to serve up the traditional wise and ! mysterious natives of white-man-in-Africa fiction who look on gravely as the palefaces disintegrate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Scorn Syrup | 7/18/1994 | See Source »

...another story line.) Her employees include Sarah Owens (Cassidy Rae), an innocent from Iowa City who is required to wear a leather bustier on her first job; Linda Holden (Teresa Hill), a woman desperately hiding her junkie/ porn- star history; Julie Dante (Kylie Travis), an export from the Australian Outback, where her father beat her repeatedly; and Teri Spencer (Stephanie Romanov), prone to alcoholism and burdened by the grief of losing her mother on the day she was born. Here is a group that really could benefit from model psychotherapy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Calling Christy Turlington | 7/11/1994 | See Source »

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