Mainstream Movies and Songs with TGs

[TJT]

Someone mentioned "Soldier's Girl",that's damned good movie.

In the very early 80's there was a movie that was essentially a bio-pic of Toronto drag performer. It was a real snapshot of the TV/TS scene pre-AIDS in Toronto and NYC. I can't remember the name of the pic or the performer now?

"Kiss of The Spiderwoman" is highly stylized,but the scenes of Raoul Julia's flashbacks/dreams give a glimpse of the Brazilian TS/TV street scene in those days.

The Tubes had a video that features Alexis Arquette dressed,sharing a car in a funhouse ride w/ a little boy. I think the title of the song was "One in Million"? The Tubes stage shows featured all sorts of alternative lifestyle folk on stage in the 70's. They used to get banned at all sorts of venues.

[Lance.Trebor]

The picture with the Tronto drag performer was Outrageous! actually a seventies film staring Craig Russel
There was also a follow up called too Outrageous I think though it was nowhere near as good as the first film

[TheMan]

I'm looking for a film that was released late 80's early 90's about a guy who was abusive to women and then was changed into one. I can't find the title.

[TheMan]

Johnny Cocksville wrote:

Law and Order: SVU had two well done episodes. The first dealt with a set of twins ( a boy and a girl) who turned out to both be boys (one's circumscsion(sp) went awry.

Never saw it, but it sounds like its based on the true and tragic story of Bruce/ Brenda Reimer. I quote from a previous posting of mine. I wrote:

Recently I saw an interesting TV programme on Discovery- the true story of a boy named Bruce Reimer who was conditioned by an 'expert' psychiatrist into being a girl after a botched circumcision left him with little genitals to speak of. The procedure was previously applied to hermaphrodites only. The newborn underwent various procedures and took hormones and lived all his young life as Brenda. Unhappy throughout his/her childhood, young Brenda behaved very much like a little boy. Eventually Brenda's father told his rebellious child the truth. Brenda's first though was to hunt down the doctors who botched his circumsision. Instead, he left home and tried to begin his new life as a man, becoming David. He commited suicide last year aged 38.

Here it is:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...uration%3Along

[peggygee]

I'm looking for a film that was released late 80's early 90's about a guy who was abusive to women and then was changed into one. I can't find the title.

Switch (1991)

http://imdb.com/title/tt0103016/

Genre:Crime / Fantasy / Comedy more

Tagline:Steve and Walter used to have a preference
for blondes. Then Steve was murdered... and came back
as one. Will being a woman make him a better man?

Plot Outline:A sexist, chauvinist pig gets his just desserts
when his angry ex-girlfriends murder him and he
is reincarnated as a woman.

Ellen Barkin ... Amanda Brooks

Jimmy Smits ... Walter Stone

JoBeth Williams ... Margo Brofman

Lorraine Bracco ... Sheila Faxton
Tony Roberts ... Arnold Freidkin
Perry King ... Steve Brooks

Bruce Payne ... The Devil (as Bruce Martyn Payne)
Lysette Anthony ... Liz

Victoria Mahoney ... Felicia

Basil Hoffman ... Higgins

Catherine Keener ... Steve's Secretary

Kevin Kilner ... Dan Jones
David Wohl ... Attorney Caldwell

James Harper ... Lieutenant Laster

John Lafayette ... Sergeant Phillips

[TomSelis]

Redman- A day of Sooperman Lover

-"Well how the hell did you save him?
Are you Police/Undercover?"
-"Naw baby,
The "S" on my chest stands for:"

Chorus: Sooperman Lover (Yeah!)
Baby call him the Sooperman Lover
Something wrong...
Something wrong, indeed
Something wrong. Yes, yes indeed...

Verse 2

She was grateful
Lookin' for ways to repay me
No money,
A donut, and some..uhm coffee maybe?
Of course
What kind of sauce(?) did I take?
Make my donut Jelly
And my coffee Sanka
We sat,
Unhooked the cape from the back
She felt my arms
'Cause my pythons looked stacked
"Goddamn, Sooperlover!
Yo shit looks thick
Tell me, how strong are you
With muscles like this? (you bad motherfucker!)"

(I'm stronger than a locomotive)

I'll keep hittin ya like Rocky
She ran to the room
And came back with a (?)
Negligee, high-heeled shoes,
Wit' a blunt in her mouth
Ready to roll up,
Hey hold up/ she had the dollar fold(ed) up
To mix the coke with the smoke
Yo, she was no joke
She took a sniff,
Some got on her top lip
That bitch stuck out her tounge
and gave her top lip a lick
and said: -"Here baby, hit it."
-"Naw baby, I ain't wit' it
You'd need more than a body
To make me wanna hit that shit!"
But I'll hit the blunt
So she took out her fronts
Cracked the philly
Opened the bag and laid out the skunk
Then I took a long pull
It was hype/ outtasite
We ran into the bedroom
So I cracked my pants for head room
Later, tossed the covers
And oh, brother! I was wit' it
Ready to hit it
Asked my dick, "YO, WHASSUP GEE?"
"Yo man, shit's thick"
Licked her down her belly
And kissed her on her back
Stuck my hands between the legs
And I felt the bozack(!)
As big as mine (YO!)
This bitch must be craze,
So I threw my suit on
And I was Swayze...
'Cause I'm the:

Chorus

[RawNY]

How did you miss out The Crying Game? That was a shock to me!
Also:
Ma Vie en Rose (My Life in Pink) - excellent French movie.
Doberman - another cool French movie with one of the bank robbers as transsexual.

US television:
The Golden Girls - ran for years with Bea Arthur playing a transsexual accepted by her mother and friends (although never actually mentioned!).

seanchai

So, what you are saying is that Maude was really Murry?

[jeffbee]

They Might Be Giants has a number of songs that can be interpreted as playing with gender. The two that are the clearest are "How can I sing like a girl?" (obviously) and S-E-X-X-Y.

"How can I sing like a girl
And not be stigmatized
By the rest of the world?
Tell me how can I sing like a girl
And not be objectified
As if I were a girl?"

The trick with S-E-X-X-Y is to interpret is as SEX = XY, the person's sex is male.

"There she is
Standing on the bed
Cookie in one hand, wig on her head
S-E-X-X-Y
X because it's extra baby
Y because it's extra baby
Unnoticed by few
Very very few
And that includes you"

The girl has something 'extra' that many people notice.

[TheMan]

I'm looking for a film that was released late 80's early 90's about a guy who was abusive to women and then was changed into one. I can't find the title.

Switch (1991)

It's finally put to rest!

Thank you so much!

[Matthias Powerbomb]

The movie Blast from the Past featured an actress named Jazzmun propositioning Christopher Walken, "using lawn furniture as a come-on!"