I got this book for my friend Chuck for Christmas. Yeah, it's signed. And it's forty years old.
Joan had a LOOOOOONG career, but she was nothing less than a STAH! ever. I hate to describe (particularly to straight folk) why she was what she was. Who cares about her maltreatment of kidz? Her snubbing of Davis? Her need for falsies, wiglets, scary costume jewelry? It's tedious to hear NON-fags tell me that they just don't get it. It must be a "gay" thing. Well so is stinky cheese!
It was bottled in "gay" water in West Hollywood!
We ALL drank the Kool-AIDS!!!
Crawford was not a great actress, but neither was Davis, who prided herself on NOT being a STAH!, but being a slattern. She was an old tart before she even got old. JC, on the other hand, never stopped being a YOUNG trollop, even after her prime. Be afraid of her in TORCH SONG. This is a woman in her 50's pretending to be in her 40's. Hello? Madonna?
Anyway, how tedious is it for "straight" folks to think that JC is a GAY thing?! She may be, but if you only see her in one flick, MILDRED PIERCE, you will see a STAH! If you see her in other, lesser flix, she's still a STAH! Drunk, sober, who cares?! Crawford was a STAH! no matter the dreck she did.
I appreciate Davis. I appreciate Crawford. I appreciate Marjorie Maine. I love to think about Joan Collins. What is she drinking at 104? Water from WeHo?!
Why should I have to defend THE Gays and what they like or don't like. Hell, half the fags in Bellingham don't even know who Crawford is. But the fact that two of us do, and defend her honor, is enough. Why do we do it?
Watch a couple of her movies and see.
QUEEN BEE
HARRIET CRAIG
SADIE McKEE
FEMALE ON THE BEACH
OUR DANCING DAUGHTERS
GRAND HOTEL
RAIN
MANNEQUIN
HUMORESQUE
FLAMINGO ROAD
THE DAMNED DON'T CRY
THIS WOMAN IS DANGEROUS
SUDDEN FEAR
JOHNNY GUITAR
AUTUMN LEAVES
STRAIT-JACKET
PEPSI COLA
PEPSI COLA
PEPSI COLA
TROG
Joan had a LOOOOOONG career, but she was nothing less than a STAH! ever. I hate to describe (particularly to straight folk) why she was what she was. Who cares about her maltreatment of kidz? Her snubbing of Davis? Her need for falsies, wiglets, scary costume jewelry? It's tedious to hear NON-fags tell me that they just don't get it. It must be a "gay" thing. Well so is stinky cheese!
It was bottled in "gay" water in West Hollywood!
We ALL drank the Kool-AIDS!!!
Crawford was not a great actress, but neither was Davis, who prided herself on NOT being a STAH!, but being a slattern. She was an old tart before she even got old. JC, on the other hand, never stopped being a YOUNG trollop, even after her prime. Be afraid of her in TORCH SONG. This is a woman in her 50's pretending to be in her 40's. Hello? Madonna?
Anyway, how tedious is it for "straight" folks to think that JC is a GAY thing?! She may be, but if you only see her in one flick, MILDRED PIERCE, you will see a STAH! If you see her in other, lesser flix, she's still a STAH! Drunk, sober, who cares?! Crawford was a STAH! no matter the dreck she did.
I appreciate Davis. I appreciate Crawford. I appreciate Marjorie Maine. I love to think about Joan Collins. What is she drinking at 104? Water from WeHo?!
Why should I have to defend THE Gays and what they like or don't like. Hell, half the fags in Bellingham don't even know who Crawford is. But the fact that two of us do, and defend her honor, is enough. Why do we do it?
Watch a couple of her movies and see.
QUEEN BEE
HARRIET CRAIG
SADIE McKEE
FEMALE ON THE BEACH
OUR DANCING DAUGHTERS
GRAND HOTEL
RAIN
MANNEQUIN
HUMORESQUE
FLAMINGO ROAD
THE DAMNED DON'T CRY
THIS WOMAN IS DANGEROUS
SUDDEN FEAR
JOHNNY GUITAR
AUTUMN LEAVES
STRAIT-JACKET
PEPSI COLA
PEPSI COLA
PEPSI COLA
TROG
2 comments:
I was sad to see that you didn't include Montana Moon from 1930. It wasn't a great film, but I am a gay from Montana who likes Joan Crawford...
It does have romance, dirty dancing, and bandits though! What isn't to love?
Technically there are three gay men in Bellingham who defend JC. Even if one of them happens to be married to someone who asks, "So what is with the whole Judy Garland thing?"
Or how could I forget that wonderful little movie Joan made between TAXI DANCER and ICE FOLLIES OF 1939: THE MAVEN FROM FAIRHAVEN! It was a musical, and yes, unfortunately, JC had not learned her lesson after a screening of THE GREAT SCHLOMO that she cannot sing. Needless to say, these three films led to what looked like the end of her career: A really bad case of syphillis.
Hence the term Box OFFICE POISON.
Bet you didn't know THAT.....err.... man-of-snows!
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