Know your Broads.In anticipation of the ABC-TV movie, test your knowledge about These Old Broads In the tradition of The Women, Valley of the Dolls Valley of the Dolls portrays self-destruction of drug addicted starlets. [Am. Lit.: Valley of the Dolls] See : Drug Addiction , and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? comes These Old Broads, an eagerly awaited diva blowout premiering on ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. February 12. Sort of a femme femme adj. Slang Exhibiting stereotypical or exaggerated feminine traits. Used especially of lesbians and gay men. n. 1. Slang One who is femme. 2. Informal A woman or girl. spin on Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys, the film stars Debbie Reynolds, Shirley MacLaine, and Joan Collins as three veteran actresses who can't stand each other but find themselves reuniting for a musical TV special at the behest of Elizabeth Taylor (playing a Sue Mengers-ish superagent). Handling writing chores is none other than Carrie Fisher, Reynolds's daughter (and ar fair actress in her own right), who will no doubt bring some Postcards From the Edge--style showbiz cattiness cat·ty 1 adj. cat·ti·er, cat·ti·est 1. Subtly cruel or malicious; spiteful: a catty remark. 2. Catlike; stealthy. to the mix. Reynolds, MacLaine, Collins, and Taylor are not just some of Hollywood's most legendary figures, they're also key figures in gay pop culture. Test your knowledge of their on-screen on·screen or on-screen adj. & adv. 1. As shown on a movie, television, or display screen. 2. Within public view; in public. and off-screen triumphs, tragedies, and occasional tackiness by matching a dozen fun factoids with the correct diva. Get out your pens ... 1. Crossed gender lines in 1964, playing the female reincarnation of a dead male mobster in Goodbye Charlie. 2. Took over Joan Crawford's role in The Opposite Sex (1956), a musical remake of the gay camp classic The Women. 3. Played a woman who got pregnant and gave up her ballet career, all to prove that her husband "wasn't queer," in The Turning Point (1977), 4. Said, "The queens love me," in Postcards From the Edge Postcards from the Edge is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Carrie Fisher, first published in 1987. It was later adapted, by Fisher herself, into a motion picture directed by Mike Nichols which was released by Columbia Pictures in 1990. (1990--and probably off-camera as well. 5. Her Giant (1956) character was torn between closeted clos·et·ed adj. Being In a state of secrecy or cautious privacy. screen icons Rock Hudson and James Dean. 6. Is cultivating a new generation of gay fans by playing Grace's mom on Will & Grace. 7. Felt "so damn sick and dirty" over her lesbian affections for Audrey Hepburn in The Children's Hour(1961). 8. Became a camp icon in the '80s by wearing big-shouldered Nolan Miller gowns on Dynasty, 9. Portrayed a "procurer" for depraved de·praved adj. Morally corrupt; perverted. de·prav  ed·ly adv. homosexual Sebastian Venable in Suddenly, Last Summer(1959). 10. Played a mother whose dreams of a grandiose wedding for her son flew out the window when he came out of the closet in In & Out (1997). 11. Starred as The Bitch in the 1979 movie that featured the immortal line "It's a little bit on the gay side--but gay is in." 12. Was the screen's leading interpreter of gay playwright Tennessee Williams--at least until the disastrous Boom!(1968). |
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