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Saturday, August 19
Admission: $10
Showtimes: 7:30pm and 10pm
reservations
are recommended
Tonight, we are very pleased to screen John Waters' non-Divine
film, Desperate
Living. And we are even more pleased that Susan
Lowe aka "Mole McHenry" will
be in attendance tonight for a post-screening Q&A.
And we could crib a slightly altered version of the following
description, but why deny Casey-52 her IMDB authorial glory. Take
it away Ms. -52...
"Fans of John Waters have always disputed which of his films
is his best. Two titles will almost always come up: "Female
Trouble" and this movie. While I prefer the former, I can
understand why "Desperate Living" would also be considered
his best!
While Divine was touring with an off-Broadway play, Waters decided
to make a movie starring only women! While there are a few men
here and there, the cast is predominantly women! Mink Stole is
Peggy Gravel, the snobby upper-class lunatic who goes into frantic
anxiety attacks and thinks her children have sex! Jean Hill makes
one of two film performances as Grizelda Brown, the black maid
who smothers Peggy's husband by sitting on him! Susan Lowe is
the butch Mole and Liz Renay is the slutty Muffy, two lesbian
lovers in the scuzzy town of Mortville! Edith Massey is the evil
Queen Carlotta, the tyrannical ruler of Mortville whose soldiers
are leather-clad homosexuals! Mary Vivian Pearce is Princess Coo
Coo, the half-wit who wants to marry a nudist garbageman! Cookie
Mueller is Flipper, a sadistic nightclub performer who tortures
men on stage, and Susan Niesp is her lover who sleeps with midgets!
If this sounds like entertainment to you, "Desperate Living"
is right up your alley! Additional highlights: a transvestite
motorcycle cop with bleeding gums, a bizarre lesbian scene between
Peggy and Grizelda, and a sex change resulting in a disgusting
penis for Mole, which is eventually..." [let's leave some
suprises for the uninitiated]
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