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A film based on James St James' book of the same name about the 1980's club scene in New York City, and Michael Alig's "Club Kids" and the Limelight Club. The film reminded me strongly of Andy Warhol's work -- amateurishly produced, portraying self-destructive people in an aimless story. Alig leaves small-town America to go to New York, where he starts a record and club business, successfully at first, but capsized by drug abuse.
The Club Kids were paid large amounts just to be present at clubs in their outrageous images and personas; sexuality was liberal and shifting, and many of the images displayed very flamboyant drag of one form or another.
Marilyn Manson plays Christine. It is said that Manson turned up for filming with his own prosthetic boobs, bottom enhancer and wig -- which seems unsurprising to me.
There is a sequence on a chatshow -- modelled on the Montel Williams Show -- where various participants were present in costume; not all of this was drag as such.
HF December 2007
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