Counterprogramming with THE BIRDCAGE. I had no idea Elaine May wrote this screenplay.
Man, it’s a whole situation explaining to the kids that the characters are gay, not trans; the difference b/n trans & drag; & that gay men sometimes call one another “she.”
Also that phones used to be attached to cords and that you could eavesdrop on other people’s conversations.
I forgot that this movie features Danny Futterman playing *history’s greatest monster.*
Love the fluffy blonde receptionist reading Nietzsche.
“Oh, I see. You’re going to the cemetery with a toothbrush. How Egyptian.”
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