Showing posts with label Varla Jean Merman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Varla Jean Merman. Show all posts

Saturday, 7 April 2012

All about Evie



"Abortion? I've had more kids pulled outta me than a burning orphanage."

How my warped mind works, chapter #97 in a series...

Over at The Redundant Variety Hour, someone mentioned in a comment the name "Evie Harris", and that set me off on a Google search frenzy. And here's what I found...

The creation of a fabulous comedian called Jack Plotnick, the character of Miss Evie Harris - faded Hollywood B-movie actress and drunken bitch - has developed a huge cult following all her own; not least in the drag movie Girls Will Be Girls from 2003. So much so that she and actor Dennis Hensley made this hilarious short film about the search for the dame's Hollywood Star. I was hooting with laughter!



And here's a clip from the movie that introduced the world to "Evie", Girls Will Be Girls, alongside drag stars Coco Peru and house favourite Varla Jean Merman!


Another of those "Camp Movies we have never seen", I have now added Girls Will Be Girls to my wish list. Here's the title music, which alone would make me want to see this film:


Kitschy camp-a-go-go!

Girls Will Be Girls on IMDB

Sunday, 21 June 2009

Ethel Merman, beard hair and frankfurter sandwiches



We are well overdue for a celebration of one of my favourite divas - the wonderful Varla Jean Merman, "lovechild of Ethel Merman and Ernest Borgnine"(!)

Varla, aka Jeffery Robinson, is an award-winning international drag star, with hit shows such as Varla Jean Merman Loves A Foreign Tongue, Anatomically Incorrect, I'm Not Paying For This, Girl With A Pearl Necklace, An Act Of Love, Under A Big Top, Holiday Ham!, All Washed Up! and The Very Worst of Varla Jean Merman (the last of which hit London, and we inadvertently managed to miss it, but we have the album).

I love his/her vulgar innuendo-driven humour - a bit like a more glamorous Joan Rivers, but with the ability to sing (and move her face!). Here are just a couple of samples of the bizarre talent of this marvellous diva...



Varla's website