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Superstar in a Housedress
(2004)
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- Directed by:
- Craig Highberger
- Writer:
- Craig Highberger
- Release Date:
- 5 May 2004 USA ...
- Genres:
- DocumentaryBiography
- Region:
- USA
- Language:
- English
- Runtime:
- USA:95 min
- Color:
- Color
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"Jackie Curtis is not a drag queen. Jackie is an artist. A pioneer without a frontier." -- Andy Warhol. Superstar in a Housedress examines the life and legend of Warhol transvestite superstar Jackie Curtis who was a poet, playwright, performer, and one of the great personalities of his time. Jackie both lived and performed sometimes as a man, sometimes as a woman - and died tragically of a drug overdose under bizarre circumstances when he was only 38. The film features on-camera inter ...[Read Story ]
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The building in the closing scenes is the Tregoweth Brown building, a reference to film editor Treg Brown. The main character's name, "Michigan J. Frog", was created long after the cartoon was produced. Michigan J. Frog later became the mascot of the Warner Brothers television network ("The WB"). Steven Spielberg once described this as "the most perfect cartoon ever made". The retrospectively-given name of Michigan J. Frog is derived from the one song he sings ...[Read Story ]