To Wong Foo

To Wong Foo: Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar is probably the most amazing movie I’ve seen in a while. Vida Boheme (Patrick Swayze) and Noxeema Jackson (Wesley Snipes) are both drag queens in New York City who have tied for the Drag Queen of the Year contest. As they prepare for their winning flight to California to take part in the Miss Drag Queen of America Pageant, they encounter one of their losing opponents Chi-Chi Rodruguez (John Leguizamo). Chi Chi is crying because she lost, and after much thought, the queens decide to take Chi-Chi under their wings and teach her how to be a true Queen. They embark on their journey and encounter a police officer in a rural town who tries to rape Vida, he discovers that she isn’t a woman and he falls backwards and gets knocked out and they drive off. After their car stops working, they flag down a passerby and he takes him to his small town named Snydersville. The queens stay in the bed and breakfast for the weekend while their car is being fixed. The queens totally transform the town, taking the women and giving them complete makeovers while helping set up for their annual Strawberry Social. The sheriff eventually finds out where the queens are hiding and sets off to get his revenge. When he arrives in Snydersville, he is confronted by the townspeople who have come to embrace the queens, regardless of their gender. Each of the townspeople, even the so-we-thought homophobic ones, step up and tell the sheriff they’re drag queens. He becomes so humiliated that he flees the town. The queens say their final goodbyes and then depart to California where Chi Chi eventually ends up winning the same contest won by Vida and Noxeema and is crowned by Julie Newmar.  such an entertaining movie filled with many laughs. I recommend watching it if you would like to be entertained. Patrick and Wesley do an amzing job playing drag queens and I commend them for this role!