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Jack eventually convinced the others to send him back to the Therapy Game. And even though Vlad had a (mostly) positive experience, they are so worried after Jack broke down when he returned from his last session.

Saiwa: "Be careful. Leave whenever you feel uncomfortable." Jack: "I will." Tiny Can beeped exitedly and started the Game.

Jack was still locked up. But he kept himself from screaming 'OUT!' and tried to get himself together. This. Is. Just. A. Game. Breathe in through the nose and out through the muzzle. Just like Saiwa tought him. He managed to calm down a bit and looked around. There was NPC Barfolomew! And NPC Uncle Stefan on the stands! What a strange place. Is this a court hearing? They won't execute him, will they?

NPC Barfolomew stood up: "Are you ready Boys?" A growl and a rattle from the cell next to Jack answered him ö.Ö' There is another wolf captured here. And from the stand Jack heard the crowd chant: "Wolfsbane! Wolfsbane! WOLFSBANE!!!" Just like last time. Barfolomew is obviously the bookmaker here.

He opened their cells (finally!) and they stepped out. Jack looked around. Of course there is also an NPC Greg! He is so going to have a word with Tiny Can when he's back! At least there's no gallow or pyre.

The Queen hissed: "Who is this pooch and why isn't he greeting his Queen?" Barfolomew: "Forgive him, Your Royal Highness! He probably grew up in the woods!"

And to Jack: "Hey, Moonchild! Get yourself together!" And so Wolfsbane and Moonchild greeted the Queen and her entourage.

Which consisted of no lesser than Noxee, Ji Ho and: Caleb! OMG! (The Boys met Caleb Vatore last Winter Solstice ^^') Even though Jack knows that these are only NPCs, he's so excited. Noxee! And Caleb! He already regrets that he left the game early last time. And Ji Ho looks so beautiful!

Barfolomew went back to his table. Jack Moonchild and Wolfsbane stood opposite of each other. So these are wolf fights! Barfolomew shouted: "The bets are placed. Leeet's get ready to rrrumble!" And the crowd cheered and chanted their 'Wolfsbane!' fan chants...

Wolfsbane hugged Jack Moonchild and whispered: "Don't worry, I'll go easy on you!"

Caleb does not seem to like what he sees.

Despite Wolfsbane's promise, it was a rough fight. But Jack Moonchild enjoyed it. He loves a good fight - and he's the Super Soldier after all :3

Neither is giving anything away. Caleb's eyes are locked on the combatants.

'Well, in the Euston Tavern you screamed it was your shout But they wouldn't give you service so you kicked the windows out They took you out into the street, kicked you in the brains So you walked back in through a bolted door and did it all again

At the sick bed of Cúchulainn we'll kneel and say a prayer And the ghosts are rattling at the door and the devil's in the chair, hey'

The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn - The Pogues I can't keep still when I hear this song! ^^'

It was an equal fight but Jack Moonchild won in the end. And Caleb looks shocked. It seems he placed his bets on Wolfsbane.

The Queen stepped down to congratulate Moonchild and extolled them for the enthralling fight. His beloved, beautiful Noxee. Best therapy ever! In this world he is not the damaged, mangled wolf with a bag full of disorders. Here he can show his talents and gather positive experiences in a safe surrounding. Good job, Tiny Can! And maybe, in this game, Noxee is not together with Greg and Jack can woo her and become her King! If Greg were her King, he would sit next to her, wouldn't he? Poor defeated Wolfsbane can't look pouting Caleb in his sulking eyes.

To be continued...

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Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes, and John Leguizamo in: TO WONG FOO, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING! JULIE NEWMAR 1995 | dir. Beeban Kidron

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Some men need to be hit back!

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995) / dir. Beeban Kidron

Mama Vida tell him!

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I wanna be as classy as Miss Vida, as cool as Miss Noxeema, and as cute as Miss Chi Chi

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4am I hear a door SLAM and then a guy starts screaming. He pauses for two seconds then continues. He repeats this for ten minutes. The pauses get longer. Changes expletive a couple times, but it’s never sentences, just one top-volume prolonged word each time.

And I’m just laying in the dark hoping he finds peace and thinking of the wise words of Noxeem Jackson:

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WESLEY SNIPES as Noxeema Jackson in To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

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|| To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar (1995) || 4.5/5🌟 || Comedy || "Elite Manhattan drag queens Vida Boheme and Noxeema Jackson impress regional judges in competition, securing berths in the Nationals in Los Angeles. When the two meet pathetic drag novice Chi-Chi Rodriguez -- one of the losers that evening -- the charmed Vida and Noxeema agree to take the hopeless youngster under their joined wing. Soon the three set off on a madcap road trip across America and struggle to make it to Los Angeles in time."

Content Warnings: Sexual Assault, Attempted R*pe, N-Slur, S-Slur, Racism, Homophobia, Domestic Abuse.

Drag Queens bring life, color and culture to a small, southern town.

Wesley Snipes played this role a little too well 😂 something I didn't know I needed.

Queer Film everyday of June 16/30 🏳️‍🌈

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Multiracial Companionship: To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

Saddled with potentially one of the most verbose and ridiculous titles in cinema history, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar is the campy romp of three New York City drag queens, played by Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, and John Leguizamo who find themselves stranded in a midwestern town after their car breaks down on their way to Hollywood to compete in the Miss Drag Queen of America Pageant. The girls take the town by storm, form wholesome friendships with the classy ladies of Snydersville, Illinois (makeover alert!), navigate tensions with the town’s law enforcement, and chaos and glitz abound.

To Wong Foo represents an imagining of the multiracial buddy movie interested largely in the compartmentalization of identity categories with a concerted interest in gender and sexuality and a resistance to intersectional understandings of identity categories. The main characters being White, Black, and Latino is a fact the film acknowledges with the cinematic ideal of a post-racial U.S.--most importantly, To Wong Foo reminds us, the girls are drag queens, and their racial positionality comes second. The hierarchical ordering of their internal differential social orders that imbue their embodiment firstly with sexuality and gender rather than race comments on the film’s attempt to make a film by and for queer people in response to the growing conservative fear of a departure from traditional values and attempts to largely overwrite race.

My inspiration for the script came from watching the religious right videotape The Gay Agenda. There’s a scene where they show drag queens going through a town, and the narrator is warning viewers that these people will take over your town, and I thought, ‘Well, that would be fun.’

-Douglas Carter Beane, Screenwriter, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

In, “The Black Image in Protective Custody: Hollywood's Biracial Buddy Films of the Eighties,” Guerrero explains that black people “appear on the screen in the 1980s predominantly in the biracial ‘buddy formula,’ which reveals all the strategies by which the industry contains and controls the black filmic image and conforms it to white expectations.” Noxeema, the film’s main Black character played by Wesley Snipes quips about Blackness and her status in this small town is effectively placed in the protective custody of whiteness, severed from the Black community surrounded entirely by non-Black people and at an increased risk of violence in this small town. She at one point jokes that "the last Black person to stay [in this town] was Sam Cooke," a prolific Black soul artist who was famously murdered in a motel.

The racial tensions in the movie are tonally consistent with the film's self-aware insistence on its own levity, poking fun at itself and acknowledging racial and gender regimes, but ultimately suggesting they can be overcome.

Noxeema: You and your causes! Look, that child is Latin. You don’t want to get mixed up in all that Latin mess. She might turn out to be a Sandinista or something.

Vida: Noxeema Jackson! I have to admit that I am shocked and just a little bit saddened by you. I mean you of all people. Hon, I remember the first time I laid eyes on a certain ebony enchantress in the rough, and how through styling and the occasional makeup tip I helped her look a little bit less like Moms Mabley. And who would think that ebony enchantress would one day share a title with moi.

In an atmosphere where whiteness is presented as the absolute authority, the exchange fails to fully present itself as an examination as racism among people of color and ultimately portrays Vida, who is white, as the gatekeeper of Noxeema's successful identity as a drag queen.

To Wong Foo, ultimately, is optimistic about the possibilities for a multiracial, post-gender regime world--it imagines a world where drag queens take over the town and racial tensions can be assuaged with the power of friendship. It mostly neutralizes race as a factor in the marginalization of the girls, and its depiction of state violence at the hands of an idiotic, bumbling sheriff who is scared of change holds a mirror to conservatism and distorts it like a fun house in return.

Questions:

How does the film's casting of three mainstream straight, male actors as drag queens contribute to the racial and gender politics of To Wong Foo?

What might the levity of the film regarding racial and gendered violence contribute to it?

How does drag as a performance art relate to racial embodiment in general? How might it play into the film specifically?

[satureja13]

Night fell over San Myshuno.

Rubyn and the Boys gathered on the platform.

Rubyn wangled a very special transport for them. There it comes!

Rubyn: "Amazing, huh?" Poor Ji Ho isn't that excited ^^' Is he afraid?

But the others are amazed!

It's been a while since a Sim got the opportunity to travel in an UFO!

Beam us up, Scotty!

Saiwa: "Don't worry, Noxee!"

And off they go.

'Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its 5-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.' Star Trek: The Next Generation Intro

Well, not exactly ^^'

Poor Noxee.

But Greg has a plan. He's going to distract her :3

From the Beginning  ~  Underwater Love ~  Latest 'Putting the Boys Back together' from the beginning -> here Previous Chapter: 'Disbandment of the Group' from the beginning -> here

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Panel from the "To Wong Foo..." movie comic adaption featuring a pivotal scene from the film with Miss Noxeema Jackson💜💜💜

Love love LOVE this movie!!!!!

[dragthemovies]

To Wong Foo... a Brief Review

Hello and welcome to the first official post of Cinema’s a Drag! I will be talking about various movies and media that has showcased the popular queer art form known as DRAG over the years! This post is dedicated to the 1995 film To Wong Foo: Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar starring Patrick Swayze as Vida Boheme, Wesley Snipes as Noxeema Jackson, and Jon Leguizamo as Chi-Chi Rodruigez. The opening sequence shows the process of Vida and Noxeema getting into drag for the regional Drag Queen of The Year pageant and ends with the introduction of Chi-Chi being harassed on the street for presenting as femme and holding her wig in her hand. Vida and Noxeema are announced the dual winners and are crowned by the reigning queen Rachel Tensions (played by RuPaul) while sporting a sequined confederate flag gown. The first 10 minutes of this movie bring up 3 points for me:

The sequence of the queens “Dragging up” is familiar to anyone who has done drag, and it’s such a small and playful scene that doesn’t particularly advance the story, but it feels like we are on screen from Vida putting her wig on and saying, “Here comes Mama” to dancing along to I am Body Beautiful by Salt-N-Pepa while putting makeup on. It is very clear that there are drag queens on the producing team that helped share this story as authentically as possible (with straight cis-men playing queer characters, but that’s for a different analysis).

While upsetting, Chi-Chi’s first appearance on screen is also a familiar experience to drag queens and other queer people who present their gender identity differently than they are “expected” to. One could ask “why wouldn’t she wear the wig to ‘pass’?” Those who don’t do drag may not know that drag wigs can be fragile and even hard to see withWe were introduced to her character as a young and outspoken person who isn’t afraid to stand up for herself even when she’s being faced with a possible violent situation.

Rachel Tension’s entrance is as problematic as it is iconic. We all know the significance behind the confederate flag and have known for a long time. This speaks to one of the properties of drag that goes against “the norm” or what is appropriate. A black queen wearing a notoriously anti-black pattern with the name Rachel Tensions is a great example of a drag concept being perfectly executed… there’s humor, there’s a bit of shock, and a WHOLE lot of glamor.

To not spoil the WHOLE movie I want to cover some of my favorite or important moments and scenes.

When the queens are picking a car from the used car lot to drive from New York to Los Angeles, they see a yellow Cadillac convertible and are enamored by how beautiful and fabulous they look in it. The car dealer explicitly warns them that it won’t get them to California, and they should take a (might I add dingy looking) gray Toyota Corolla. The queens ask the age-old question, “Style or Substance?” and a high energy driving montage of the Queens cruising down the highway.

When Vida drives through her affluent hometown, Chi Chi, who grew up in a low-income neighborhood, could not wrap her head around why Vida would leave a place with so much to offer. Vida explains “Vida gave all of this up to be Vida.” This gives us a window into Vida’s life and her queer roots. Many queer people come from many different walks of life, but there has unfortunately been a constant in many young LGBTQ+ peoples upbringing of being turned away from their own homes just for being queer.

During the road trip, Noxeema starts to read Chi Chi for not being experienced or polished enough to be a drag queen. In this (outdated and less than politically correct) scene, the ladies set up Chi Chi’s character progression for “polishing her up” to be what drag is to them. This scene stuck with me personally because when I first saw it, it gave me an opportunity to look at my own drag progression up to that point and see where I feel I am. I feel a sense of accomplishment every time I “level up” my drag in my own way.

Sherriff Dollard character is a very interesting take on homophobes. The blatant hypocrisy and disrespect with a hint of curiosity bubbling beneath the surface really makes him more comical than offensive (except for the racial slurs). From groping Ms. Vida to calling them perverts for wearing dresses. When he went to a bar, he was rambling about gay people in detail about what he thinks they do in private, which could be more of a window into his imagination or even history, although it’s never explicitly stated.

While the queens are getting to know the townspeople, the women mention their upcoming “Strawberry Social” and the queens help them put together a “girls day out” with makeovers at the beauty parlor, and new outfits at the local store. I specifically love when Noxeema falls in love with a burnt orange/auburn fringe 2 piece set that is also very much my taste.

There are plenty more iconic scenes, lines, and reads that I couldn’t cover in this post alone. To see them, To Wong Foo: Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar is available anywhere you can rent films. I hope you check it out, thanks for reading!

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Vida Boheme, Noxeema Jackson, and ChiChi Rodriquez ♥️🔥✨

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WELCOME TO MOVIE NIGHT ON THE BEACH! 

There will be three different screens set up throughout the Santa Monica Pier and surrounding beach with showings of different LGBTQ+ films. Concession stands with popcorn, candy, drinks, pizza, and nachos will be set up for everyone to enjoy. 

See below for the schedule of movies and which screens will be showing which, and enjoy your night!

MOVIE SCREEN ONE ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE BEACH:

Imagine Me & You: (During her wedding ceremony, Rachel (Piper Perabo) notices Luce (Lena Headey) in the audience and feels instantly drawn to her. The two women become close friends, and when Rachel learns that Luce is a lesbian, she realizes that despite her happy marriage to Heck (Matthew Goode), she is falling for Luce. As she questions her sexual orientation, Rachel must decide between her stable relationship with Heck and her exhilarating new romance with Luce.)

Disclosure: (A documentary examining Hollywood's depiction of transgender people and the impact it's left on both the transgender community and American culture.)

MOVIE SCREEN TWO ON THE PIER:

The Prom: (Down-on-their-luck Broadway stars shake up a small Indiana town as they rally behind a teen who wants to go to the prom with her girlfriend.)

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Neymar: (Elite Manhattan drag queens Vida Boheme (Patrick Swayze) and Noxeema Jackson (Wesley Snipes) impress regional judges in competition, securing berths in the Nationals in Los Angeles. When the two meet pathetic drag novice Chi-Chi Rodriguez (John Alberto Leguizamo) -- one of the losers that evening -- the charmed Vida and Noxeema agree to take the hopeless youngster under their joined wing. Soon the three set off on a madcap road trip across America and struggle to make it to Los Angeles in time.)

MOVIE SCREEN THREE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BEACH:

Call Me by Your Name: (It's the summer of 1983, and precocious 17-year-old Elio Perlman is spending the days with his family at their 17th-century villa in Lombardy, Italy. He soon meets Oliver, a handsome doctoral student who's working as an intern for Elio's father. Amid the sun-drenched splendor of their surroundings, Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever.)

Rent: (In this musical, set at the dawn of the 1990s, a group of New Yorkers struggle with their careers, love lives and the effects of the AIDS epidemic on their community. Mark (Anthony Rapp), an aspiring filmmaker, and Roger (Adam Pascal), an HIV-positive musician, scramble for money to pay rent to their landlord and former roommate, Benny (Taye Diggs). Meanwhile, their friend Tom (Jesse L. Martin), a professor, has fallen for Angel (Wilson Jermaine Heredia), who is slowly dying of AIDS.)