Life in a Trailer Town
The film festival's a-coming! The film festival's a-coming! Yep, in three weeks time — Thursday, October 16, to be exact — Reel Affirmations will turn up the lights in our gay hood for the eighteenth time. Which means the festival will finally be legal to vote this year. Tonight, Sept. 27, Town Danceboutique will screen about a dozen trailers from features selected for this year's festival. But that's not all. Tomorrow night's theme is actually movie night, so in addition to screening the trailers during the Town drag show, all the Town drag queens will perform movie-related numbers. And then, soon after the upstairs opens for the evening, the Town drag queens will actually star in a movie. No, not Schwarzwald: The Movie You Can Dance To. The planned showing of that film has been cancelled. Town's Ed "I’m Ready for My Close-up, Mr. DeMille" Bailey informs Hearsay that he couldn't come to agreement with the people behind the film on screening arrangements. But fear not, oh movie-minded clubgoers — the Town-folk have created their own little cinematic masterpiece, sure to win an Oscar, Oscar Oscar, an Emmy-Mae, a Gay People’s Choice Award and a Noble Roman’s Pizza Prize. Masterminded by the X-Faction dance troupe, the dancers and drag queens star in a short, short film that Bailey says is about the so-called Diva League saving a nightclub mogul who gets kidnapped and needs rescue. And just who is this Diva League? A fictional league of drag queens imbued with super powers, like the ability to put on lipstick flawlessly without looking in a mirror. The league is comprised of Banshee, Blonde Marvel, Angel Cat and Star Light, and they’re a super group of faux-girls. The whole she-bop gets going at around 10 p.m….
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