Beauty vs Beast: Crime Is Beauty
Monday, September 8, 2014 at 11:27AM 
JA from MNPP here with another round of "Beauty vs Beast" for us to sink our teeth into - every Monday we ask y'all to choose sides between an appointed movie's "good" guy and "bad" guy, wherein we acknowledge that such distinctions are liquid (eyeliner). But as a wise and beautiful woman once said, "I'm scared rats are gonna come out and bite my new nylons." Oh and she also said, "There has to be a line drawn somewhere." And that line runs right down the middle of Baltimore's premiere hair enhancement clinic, the Lipstick Beauty Salon!
The Film Society of Lincoln Center is running a fabulous John Waters Retrospective here in New York right now, showing every single film the Pope of Trash, the Prince of Puke, ever made, and so it only seemed right and proper to celebrate this divine (ahem) ocassion this week with my fave of his films, 1974's Female Trouble. Meet our Teams!
Beauty, beauty, look at you, I wish to God I had it, too. Who will it be - the avant-garde artists or their deranged muse? You have a week to vote, and to let your opinions on the matter spill forth in the comments.
PREVIOUSLY Last week it was the eternal Lily Tomlin's 75th birthday and we jumped in the pick-up truck and gunned it to the big city with 1988's twin-comedy Big Business - did you go for Lily's pair of Roses or Bette Midler's twosome of Sadies? Well Rose started off strong... but at the last minute Sadie stuffed her in the janitor's closet and became the Joan Collins she always wanted to be. Said Nathaniel:
"As much as I love Lily, this film belongs to Bette's Sadie... especially via her awesome Dynasty fixation and possibly the best film use of her trademark eye flashing. TEAM SADIE!"
Reader Comments (5)
Divine........there is only one Divine.......Christmas Trees beware the spurned Santa wish for Cha Cha Heels.
Every time I see a picture of Divine I want to throw in like Polyester or something. Stop it! But how can I vote against Dawn? I haven't seen Female Trouble since college though... perhaps a revisit is in order.
anyone who ruins xmas gets my vote
Eh, I haven't see this one so I don't vote, but I MUST comment on that fabulous Sadie leaving the elevator GIF, Nat. It does almost rival Miranda Priestly's entrance, but only by a hair. o___Ov
Team Cha Cha Heels
Nat, Female Trouble is great. My favorites of Waters with Divine. However, a recent viewing of Desperate Living has me convinced that was his magnum opus masterpiece, which seems like a heresy to place a non-Divine film as his best. But Mink Stole...... man.