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To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995)
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On today’s episode, we're heading off to the Drag Queen of America Pageant, but we have to make a mandatory stop to Snyderville, so we can enrich the lives of the straights in the town, and show them that us queers aren't so different after all, while we revisit the wonderful drag queen road movie classic, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995). This movie was directed by Beeban Kidron and written by Douglas Carter Beane.
This movie stars Patrick Swayze (Donnie Darko, Dirty Dancing), Wesley Snipes (Blade, Demolition Man), John Leguizamo (The Menu, Violent Night), Stockard Channing (Grease, Practical Magic), Jason London (Dazed and Confused, The Rage: Carrie 2) and Chris Penn (Reservoir Dogs, True Romance).
If you've never seen this film, do yourself a favor and check this movie out!! It's got everything you could ask for. Drag queens! Makeovers! Gays! Stockard Channing! Patrick Swayze! What's not to love about this?
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