La la la lesbian.The buzz on Jennie Livingston's long-awaited follow-up to Paris Is Burning is more like a hum. The world's first lesbian S/M S-M or S/M abbr. sadomasochism S/M n abbr (= sadomasochism) → S/M movie musical--dubbed "Felliniesque" by its backers and cheekily rifled Who's the Top?--will hit this September's Independent Feature Film Market in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . If that doesn't get fans of singin' sapphos excited, filmmaker Catherine Crouch (One Small Step) plans to complete her all-out '60s beach-musical spoof, Butch Babes on Bikini Beach, by spring 2000. "Think of it as the Airplane! of lesbian movies," quips Crouch. Could these two projects ignite a genre that 1997's outrageous but still unreleased motion-picture songfest song·fest n. A casual gathering for group singing. Isle of Lesbos Lesbos (lĕz`bŏs) or Lésvos (lāz`vôs), island (1991 pop. 87,151), c.630 sq mi (1,630 sq km), E Greece, in the Aegean Sea near Turkey. did not? We hope so. As Crouch notes, "Musicals are so ripe for camp and comedy, and Lord knows we lesbians need more of both in our films." |
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