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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: QUEL DRAG! | 9/18/1995 | See Source »

...year's cutest meet: she throws up on him, and it's love at first hurl. Victoria (Aitana Sanchez-Gijon) has reason to feel queasy: she's pregnant but unmarried and is taking a bumpy train ride home to break the news to her very traditional family, proprietors of a vast Napa Valley vineyard. Paul (Keanu Reeves, whose blankness is used to good effect) has reason to be open to any romantic possibility: it's 1945, he's just been mustered out of the army and has discovered that his hasty wartime marriage was a mistake. Besides, A Walk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ABSOLUTELY FABULIST | 8/21/1995 | See Source »

...mood for a little shopping? Flanking Quincy Market are pricey gift and craft shops as well as such traditional favorites as Victoria's Secret, The Sharper Image, Banana Republic and The Gap. Don't forget to visit the seven story Limited...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston Is Old, So You Should Play Tourist | 6/24/1995 | See Source »

...tried to get Aldrich Ames fired for security breaches, 10 years before the FBI unmasked him for selling secrets to the KGB. As part of Brookner's settlement, the agency promised her a letter of recommendation in exchange for her silence on the details of the case. However, says Victoria Toensing, Brookner's lawyer, the agency insists that the letter remain in her classified personnel file and thus inaccessible to any potential employers because she is still considered "undercover." When CIA spokesman Mark Mansfield was asked for the whereabouts of the recommendation, he declined to answer, stating, "The agency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SKIRTS AND DAGGERS | 6/12/1995 | See Source »

Brown herself credits much of her success, bothon-stage and off, to her family. Born and raisedin Toronto by an Irish mother and American father,she remains close to her parents and to herbrother, Nicholas, and sister, Victoria, both ofwhom...

Author: By Hallie Z. Levine, | Title: Sometimes, the Best Man For the role is a Woman | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

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