Audrey Hepburn & Kay Thompson

[Westwood]

I am pretty sure I have all of Audrey Hepburn's movies in my collection, be it on dvd, or taped from tv in one language or another, and I have only watched a couple of them. I remember watching My Fair Lady in Italian and I was really bored, but I was very young then. I guess I would enjoy watching the original version in widescreen on the latest dvd. Of course I have seen Breakfast At Tiffany's a couple of times and I like it, but I find it a bit to light for my taste.

I think that her appeal to gay audiences (male) might be different, rather than less than other icons, because she never really went camp and started using heavy makeup. There is a certain gay group who just loves former "has-beens" becoming this way. You know, the big eyelashes, the wigs. I don't think Audrey ever had this phase.
I have never seen a drag-queen made up to look like her to be honest.

I think another reason she doesn't belong in that group's list is because she was never a strong woman in movies, and usually those make for big gay icons, the broads who fight their way out of life's challenges, or suffer for love but overcome it. So she might be recognized for her grace and style in this context. Then of course she did all her work for Unicef but that is not relative to the topic.

Personally, she does fail to draw me in like others do.

[domino harvey]

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