Reviews
Waiting for the Moon (1987)
Alice doesn't live here anymore....
The richness and romance of the lives of Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein is poorly and bitterly portrayed in Waiting For The Moon. It is no wonder that the video went out-of-print before the ink was dried on the boxes.
The stately and mannish Gertrude is played by a pretty and starry-eyed Linda Bassett. Alice, her demure and gypsy-like lover and secretary, is played by a sharp-tongued, tantrum-throwing Linda Hunt - looking more like Gertrude's grandmother than her paramour.
This is not a happy film, although its intention may be otherwise, and for Stein-aholics and Toklas-aphiles it is a huge disappointment. One of the most beautiful romances of this century deserves a portrayal better than this.
Pink Flamingos (1972)
A Sick Spiritual Awakening
The Contest: the Filthiest Person ALIVE. The Contenders: Raymond and Connie Marvel who kidnap and impregnate women via their cross-dressing butler and sell the offspring to Lesbian couples; and Babs Johnson, the current title holder who stops at nothing-plus to maintain her tainted crown.
Edie the Egg Lady, the Hippy Boy with the Singing Anus, the chicken-prickin' son, and Baltimore's men in blue round out the cast.
PINK FLAMINGOS was hip before hip-hop; queer before Queer Nation; genderful before gender bending became au courant and de rigour.
It's rough, scatologically inclined, seamy and a tad psychotic; and therefore perfect for family viewing in the '90s.