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Outrageous! Only Woody Allen at his best could outdo some of the one-liners in Richard Benner's brilliant comedy about a female impersonator's rise to stardom and the whacked-out woman behind his success. Craig Russell's unabashedly gay hairdresser has graced us with a character we will not soon forget, completely stealing the show in the movie's plot and the movie itself. His series of famed singers and actresses belting out "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" will bring down any house, so carefully honed are his Channings and Ellas. Co-star Hollis McLaren...
...story its driving force, just as booming industry pushed America through the '20s. Fast creates many rich, three-dimensional personalities in his book--the powerful bankers, the fishermen, the couple who decide to leave the city to operate a vineyard, the girl who leaves for Hollywood in search of stardom, the man who swindles...
Outrageous! Only Woody Allen at his best could outdo some of the one-liners in Richard Benner's brilliant comedy about a female impersonator's rise to stardom and the whacked-out woman behind the success. Craig Russell's unabashedly gay hairdresser has graced us with a character we will not soon forget, completely stealing the show in the movie's plot and the movie itself. His series of famed singers and actresses belting out "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" will bring down any house, so carefully honed are his Channings and Ellas. Co-star Hollis McLaren...
...feature article consists of an interview with "the next 'Duke'." This turns out to be Patrick Wayne--son of the old man of the cinematic West. Catherine Guinness simpers her way through their conversation with unoriginal remarks like "Maybe stardom isn't all it's cracked up to be?" Then she gushes unabashedly "You're better looking than the new Superman." He swallows her flattery greedily and easily...
...talk." The two women spent their first day together shopping and running errands: going to supermarkets, drugstores and health-food stores, where Keaton bought two bags of special caramel corn-the kind with extra nuts. Says Castro: "Diane doesn't want to be surrounded by the trappings of stardom. She wants to be able to travel and do everyday things without being recognized." Later in the week they visited Keaton's grandmother, Grammy Hall, and toured the Hollywood hills, looking at houses that Keaton had considered buying. Castro taped more than ten hours of their conversation while gathering...