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AGENDA

You will like this one: The Gay Agenda

WHATTA DRAG

DeppFest Movie of the Day was BEFORE NIGHT FALLS(2000); the Julian Schnabel film about the life of Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas (Javer Bardem). Depp appears only briefly, twice: first as a drag queen who smuggles Arenas' writing out of prison in his ass and second as a prison warden who (I think) gets Arenas released. Unclear. There is some sado-macho stuff that is going on and I did not get it.

I included this film in the DeppFest because I did not see it the first time around and also because he has gotten a lot of notice for what is basically a (double) cameo appearance. Sean Penn is a walk on too but no one talks about that one or saves the photos.

It is very well done and no matter how I might have resisted, it got me deeply involved. I will rate it a 4 on the Netflix 5 scale.

Here we are with one of those unplanned conjunctions again; yesterday's boring Izzard show and my reactions to drag and the Depp routine today. I ordered the DVD months ago so.........here it is; a two-fer. Somehow this was OK as it was dramatically positioned and, most importantly, it worked. The thing about Izzard is that he kept bringing it up (John told me). He iterated his identity as an 'executive transvestite' whatever the hell that is; evidently not one of those unsavory ones. Here, the character is unapologetic and without self-reference; s/he just is. Maybe that is it: I don't like pushy drag queens. I don't know. Something to reflect on. Not very long though.