MIlton Berle, Some Like It Hot (and Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon), Dame Edna, Mrs. Brown's Boys, Tyler Perry... Joe Namath in that panty hose commercial. All soon to be banned.
Dressing as a woman? I'm agin' it! I don't even wanna see women dressing as women. It's the devil's work!
Hi, Kirk!
I'm Singing Along With Mitchell (above). One of Milton Berle's most popular bits was dressing as a dame. You'll recall his appearance in drag in the music video for the rock band Ratt. Curtis and Lemmon were a smash as Josephine and Daphne in Some Like It Hot. The above three characters were all popular during the sleepy, conservative Eisenhower 50s. History shows that they were not banned. In the early 70s, The Flip Wilson Show routinely featured sassy Geraldine Jones. The list goes on and on. As a boy, I watched Bugs Bunny regularly. It didn't warp my mind or turn me into a perv seeing Bugs sashaying around in female attire. I did that all on my own.
Yes, it's a joy living here in Florida where the red tide is in full bloom at this time of year and a blob of seaweed twice the width of the USA is set to make landfall on our beaches already littered with rotting dead fish.
Shady, I don't mean to harp on the state in which you live but it does look like it's turning--I'm being nice--into All the King's Men down there. It's not just drag but FREE THOUGHT that's being banned down there. Not that it can't happen here in Ohio. The Proud Keepers or Oath Boys or whatever the hell those thugs are called invaded an Akron suburb trying to shut down one of those drag storybook readings. Shouts of "Sieg Heil!" were heard. I don't know. If they can't rant in English, maybe ICE should go after them.
Mike, it may just be heavily censored. You'll see Jessica Lange and Bill Murray but not Dustin Hoffman.
Incidentally, the screenplay for Tootsie was written by the late, great Larry Gelbart, who also created the television version of MASH, which among other things introduced (he was in neither the original novel or the feature film) Max Klinger, who crossdressed hoping that it would get him a Section 8 discharge. Tennesse may just end up giving him that discharge after all.
In order to keep the hucksters, humbugs, scoundrels, psychos, morons, and last but not least, artificial intelligentsia at bay, I have decided to turn on comment moderation. On the plus side, I've gotten rid of the word verification.
MIlton Berle, Some Like It Hot (and Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon), Dame Edna, Mrs. Brown's Boys, Tyler Perry... Joe Namath in that panty hose commercial. All soon to be banned.
ReplyDeleteMitchell, you remember Radio Free Europe? Soon they'll need Television Free Tennessee.
DeleteBugs Buggy is a NOTORIOUS cross-dresser!
ReplyDeleteDebra, that's what kept Elmer and Sam guessing. What's up doc indeed!
DeleteDressing as a woman? I'm agin' it! I don't even wanna see women dressing as women. It's the devil's work!
ReplyDeleteHi, Kirk!
I'm Singing Along With Mitchell (above). One of Milton Berle's most popular bits was dressing as a dame. You'll recall his appearance in drag in the music video for the rock band Ratt. Curtis and Lemmon were a smash as Josephine and Daphne in Some Like It Hot. The above three characters were all popular during the sleepy, conservative Eisenhower 50s. History shows that they were not banned. In the early 70s, The Flip Wilson Show routinely featured sassy Geraldine Jones. The list goes on and on. As a boy, I watched Bugs Bunny regularly. It didn't warp my mind or turn me into a perv seeing Bugs sashaying around in female attire. I did that all on my own.
Yes, it's a joy living here in Florida where the red tide is in full bloom at this time of year and a blob of seaweed twice the width of the USA is set to make landfall on our beaches already littered with rotting dead fish.
"Come on down!"
Shady, I don't mean to harp on the state in which you live
Deletebut it does look like it's turning--I'm being nice--into All the King's Men down there. It's not just drag but FREE THOUGHT that's being banned down there. Not that it can't happen here in Ohio. The Proud Keepers or Oath Boys or whatever the hell those thugs are called invaded an Akron suburb trying to shut down one of those drag storybook readings. Shouts of "Sieg Heil!" were heard. I don't know. If they can't rant in English, maybe ICE should go after them.
I wonder if movies like Tootsie will be banned from TV?
ReplyDeleteMike, it may just be heavily censored. You'll see Jessica Lange and Bill Murray but not Dustin Hoffman.
DeleteIncidentally, the screenplay for Tootsie was written by the late, great Larry Gelbart, who also created the television version of MASH, which among other things introduced (he was in neither the original novel or the feature film) Max Klinger, who crossdressed hoping that it would get him a Section 8 discharge. Tennesse may just end up giving him that discharge after all.