Superstar in a Housedress
Subtitle: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
Edition: Har/DVD edition
Publisher: Chamberlain Bros.
Published: May 31, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781596090798
Subjects: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General; United States; Entertainers; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Transvestites; Biography/Autobiography; Rich & Famous; Entertainment & Performing Arts - Actors & Actresses; Biography & Autobiography / Rich & Famous; Biography; 20th century; Authors, American
First sentence: FEBRUARY 19, 1947: John Holder, Jr., is born in New York City.
Description: In the heyday of Andy Warhol's legendary hub of art, subculture, and insanity known as the Factory, one performer made his mark like no other: Jackie Curtis. A wildly creative, avant-garde performer, poet, playwright, and longtime friend and collaborator of Warhol's, Curtis was well known as a cross-dressing phenom whose personal life went even further and was even wilder than anything onstage and onscreen. In this loving, dazzling, and, above all else, shocking memorial to Curtis--who died tragically of a drug overdose in 1985--filmmaker Craig Highberger delivers a fascinating oral biography of the drag queen, including interviews with such counterculture luminaries as Holly Woodlawn, Joe Dallesandro, Paul Morrissey, and Michael Musto. DVD includes producer/director Highberger's award-winning documentary film Superstar in a Housedress, narrated by Lily Tomlin.--Publisher description.