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Disney Has Drag Show
Contributed by Elizabeth Parker
Harland Williams ("Rocket Man") and Katey Sagal ("Married... With
Children") are set to star in a made-for-TV movie for ABC's "The Wonderful
World of Disney." The project, "Mr. Headmistress," began this week in
Toronto. Williams stars as Tucker, a con man recently out of prison. To
escape hoodlums, he disguises himself as the headmistress of a school for
girls. Sagal plays the assistant headmistress, known by the students as Dirty
Harriet, who was passed over for the top position.
--via Reuters
TriStar Doing Drag Comedy Movie
Contributed by Elizabeth Parker
TriStar Pictures has taken a swing at
scribes Christopher Reed and Cynthia Carle's comic pitch "Hot"
for low six figures against mid-six figures, the studio
confirmed Monday.
Pic, which TriStar VP Ricky Strauss described as "Some Like
It Hot" meets "Sister Act," is about a black male lounge
singer forced to impersonate a famous -- and long retired --
female torch singer to avoid entanglement with a crime he
witnessed.
"It's a very broad buddy comedy with great mainstream
potential, again like 'Sister Act,"' Strauss said.
Executive producer David Klawans acquired the rights to the
true story of Hilton Williams, who impersonated a female rhythm
and blues singer in the late 1980s in the Southeast, upon whom
the story is loosely based.
Reed and Carle's other feature credit is "The Sixth Man,"
which came out earlier this year from Disney.
--via Variety
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