Word: robins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reaches the apartment of her male friend Robin (Craig Russell), and Robin isn't so sure. Liza (Hollis McLaren) hears bells not audible to most people and battles periodically with an evil spirit "from the other place," called the Bonecrusher. Wouldn't she be better off with the nasty shrinks and their mind-killing shock treatments? Certainly not. After all, she has sympathetic friends like Martin (Allan Moyle), a local crazy; and the doctors, as one of Robin's friends says, "gotta spoil all the special people." So Liza moves...
...Robin is rather special himself. He is a cheerful, buttery fellow who is a hairdresser and, sure enough, a homosexual. He has his own problem: Should he come all the way out of the closet and parade at his favorite gay bar as Tallulah? Or Carol Channing? Or (sigh) Bette Davis? He is a dumpy man trying absurdly and wistfully to turn himself into a dumpy woman. Will thousands sneer...
Glittery-eyed fans of Anita Bryant may be excused at this point, but this very odd couple - the frail female nut and the overweight drag queen - really are lovable in their devotion to each other. As Robin blissfully makes up, Liza happily makes out - in the next room, with a cab driver. Soon Robin is over flowing onstage before an audience of cheering leather boys, and Liza is pregnant. Wretched excess continues as Robin heads for New York City to do his impersonations on the Great Gay Way. Liza, of course, is in labor. He is a smash...
...that will not threaten most of them. Normal householders walk out of the theater snuffling happily after his exit line. Liza, who has fled to Manhattan following the stillbirth, is acting like a zombie. She says she is dead in side. "You are not dead!" says Robin, as the music rises. "You're alive and sick and living in New York just like 8 million others." The little splashes at this point are tears; the big one is sentimentality, hitting bottom...
...record - tours, disc-jockey interviews. But before each appearance, she tips off the cops, timing the call so that they arrive too late to catch Bobby but in plenty of time to allow for a colorful comic chase. Naturally, the public rallies to him as a sort of Robin Hood figure. The film offers a glancing insight into a curious phenomenon of our time, namely, when the law's remedies for injustice fail, celebrity can be a powerful defense for the few individuals lucky enough to command...