Our latest "exhibit" here at the Dolores Delargo Towers Museum of Camp - and our latest obsession...
...Smoggie Queens!
You may need the subtitles.
All this and Michelle Visage as you've never seen her before!
CAMP: "A cornucopia of frivolity, incongruity, theatricality, and humour." "A deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavored, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother love." "The lie that tells the truth." "Ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical; effeminate or homosexual; pertaining to or characteristic of homosexuals."
Our latest "exhibit" here at the Dolores Delargo Towers Museum of Camp - and our latest obsession...
...Smoggie Queens!
You may need the subtitles.
All this and Michelle Visage as you've never seen her before!
Meet Margret Chola, aka "Legendary Glamma" - the 80-something style sensation from rural Zambia!
There's hope for us all...
Thou comest, Autumn, heralded by the rain,
With banners, by great
gales incessant fanned,
Brighter than brightest silks of Samarcand,
And
stately oxen harnessed to thy wain!
Thou standest, like imperial
Charlemagne,
Upon thy bridge of gold; thy royal hand
Outstretched
with benedictions o'er the land,
Blessing the farms through all thy
vast domain!
Thy shield is the red harvest moon, suspended
So long
beneath the heaven's o'er-hanging eaves;
Thy steps are by the farmer's
prayers attended;
Like flames upon an altar shine the sheaves;
And,
following thee, in thy ovation splendid,
Thine almoner, the wind,
scatters the golden leaves!
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Oh, no!
British Summer Time (for what it was worth) is over for another year.
No light evenings from now until March 2025...
I made my own lane. I worked and still work as hard as anyone can, and I love each person who supported me and cares about me for me. I love performing. I still take dance lessons, and when I sing to people in the theatre, I’m not giving a performance - I’m sharing my love with each individual person. I’m asking, “This is how I feel. How ’bout you?” My work is real.
No! She's not dead...
Our Patron Saint of Pizzazz Liza's very much still with us - as this fabulous interview/conversation with her long-time friend Michael Feinstein confirms:
It is with tears in our eyes that we bid a fond farewell to our beloved Patron Saint of Bugle Beads Miss Mitzi Gaynor, who has razzle-dazzled her way off to Fabulon today.
The star to end all stars, she shimmied, shook and high-kicked her way through myriad musicals, TV specials and award ceremonies in her long, long career - her screen legacy includes such classics as My Blue Heaven, There's No Business Like Show Business, Anything Goes, Les Girls and, of course, South Pacific. We are going to miss her terribly!
RIP, Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber, aka Mitzi Gaynor (4th September 1931 - 17th October 2024)