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...Myra Breckinridge is about as funny as a child molester. It is an insult to intelligence, an affront to sensibility and an abomination to the eye. Based on Gore Vidal's sordid little sex-change novel, the movie took nine months and at least $5,000,000 to make and spawned more tales of cast warfare than any film since The Night of the Iguana. The result is an incoherent tale of sodomy, emasculation, autoeroticism and plain bad taste...
...barrier is the lack of a strong female contingent in labor unions. Though more than two out of five workers are women, only one out of five union members is a woman. Detroit's outspoken Labor Leader Myra Wolfgang figures that men labor chiefs-harboring some old prejudices-really believe that women are overly individualistic, selfish and impulsive and lack the discipline to forgo immediate benefits in order to work for long-range organizational goals. To those indictments women reply that men are the unfair...
...telling, because I look older and then people are pleasantly surprised"), Erma has three children -Betsy, 16, Andy, 14, and Matt, 11. The farm has three smelly dogs; three horses, one of which is pigeon-toed and wears orthopedic shoes; and 28 "oversexed" ducks, one of which Erma calls Myra Breckinridge. "We also used to have white mice," she says. "Now we've got brown ones, everywhere...
...Reed, writer and sometime actor (Myra Breckinridge), ordered a bed from a Manhattan department store. Three months passed. Then came the long anticipated announcement: the bed will be delivered on Friday. Reed waited all day. No bed. Having disposed of his other bed, he slept on the floor. Next day deliverers brought the bed but could not put it up. No screws. "We have to put in a special order." On Monday, men appeared with the screws. But they could not put in the mattresses. No slats. "That's not our department." Reed hired a carpenter to build them...
...talked awhile. Jon spoke of his career. He said he'd been offered a part in Myra Breckenridge which he turned down. I was told that he'd played the queer in the green skirt standing beside Ratzo Rizzo in the opening bar scene of Midnight Cowboy. Jessica said she knew someone who didn't know that Jon was a man from his appearance in that role. "Really?" he said. "A lot of people think I'm a dyke. My wife thought I was a dyke when she first...