Screen Queens
Touch of Pink is a new movie about a young gay South-Asian Canadian living in London with a Cary Grant fixation. Sounds great, eh? I like the cleanly designed look of the
official site, complete with some tasty looking Indian cuisine recipes.
On a similar note: we just watched Die Mommie Die, Charles Busch's affectionate parody of overripe Technicolor "grande dame" melodramas of the '60s. The pacing is a little pokey and the performances range in quality from good (Busch, nicely subtle) to surprising (Jason Priestley as a gigolo) to meh (Natasha Lyonne's bratty daughter). The only part they truly botched was the set design. If you've ever sat through movies like Portrait In Black or Lady in a Cage, you know that opulent, kitschy sets (sort of a Readers Digest version of Louis XIV) were half the entertainment value. For Die Mommie Die, it looks like they spent most of the budget on costumes, hairstyles and cheezy back-projection effects. Oh well. Now I want to see some of the originals - especially the climax of Where Love Has Gone, in which Susan Hayward committs suicide by impaling herself on a sculpture. No kidding.
Posted by mhinrichs at July 16, 2004 02:01 PM
