Previously: Male comedians in drag, ranked by attractiveness.
No woman, regardless of orientation, can long resist a boyish woman dressed in a well-tailored men’s vest. Whether it was this scene from Just One of the Guys:
Or this scene from Young Americans:
there came a time in your young and vibrant life when you were shocked to alertness by the quick-moving, wicked-smiling presence of a woman dressed as a man on a screen in front of you, and that alertness has lived in your stomach ever since. Let us rank these women now in order of how they won and wrung our eager hearts, because who is there to stop us?
23. Amanda Bynes, She’s The Man. Awful. Just awful. It’s like she’s not even trying. Do you know who is a more convincing boy than this? Vanessa Bayer as Jacob the Bar Mitzvah boy on Weekend Update. Have some respect for the craft.
22. Julie Andrews, Victor/Victoria. It’s a little unfair to put her in the same category as the others, because she does spend a lot of the movie playing a man pretending to be a woman. Nevertheless, a verdict must be reached: not great. Stylish, but not great. Sort of like Fred Astaire’s bloodless twin. I respect the hell out of her, but I do not want to seize her by the bowtie and become one. It’s the eyebrows.
21. Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore, Charlie’s Angels. Included mostly because of how good Lucy Liu looks in this shot. Diaz is nice enough, in a slight, anemic, “ah-me-I-was-a-pale-young-curate-then” sort of way. There is something horribly unsettling about Drew Barrymore in drag. He is not un-handsome, but he is not right. Like something very small and very determined is wearing Will Forte as a suit.
20. Rachel Stirling, Tipping The Velvet. Maybe the only actually lesbian character on this list. I regret to inform you that I do not find Nan to be particularly convincing. It’s partly the eyebrows, but that’s not the only drawback. She looks like one of the thousand other soft butches in newsboy caps who were standing outside smoking in front of The Abbey and The Cubbyhole and the Lexington in 2003.
19. Anita Yuen, He’s A Woman, She’s A Man. Perfectly nice, but unremarkable.
18. Ossi Oswalda, I Don’t Want To Be A Man. Perhaps a trifle too round-faced, but exceedingly pleasant. Strangely reminiscent of Dave Foley, who many have noticed looks like Isabella Rossellini when he dresses like a woman; the gender serpent eating its own tail. 
17. Keira Knightley, Pirates of the Caribbean II. Just for a few minutes, if I recall, and it wasn’t terribly convincing, but she makes for an enchanting boy. I’ll never understand why she isn’t a bigger lesbian icon, Bend It Like Beckham aside.
16. Alana Austin, Motocrossed. There is not a very good reason for a Disney Channel movie to be on this list; this is a very chaste and heterosexual film about a girl who likes to race dirt bikes, but I watched it every day for an entire summer until obsessively rewatching what I wanted but didn’t understand made me dizzy.
One of the most difficult parts of male drag for women to pull off is the jawline; men have almost no fat in their faces, which I will not criticize them for here. Find the right jawline and you’re halfway there.
15. Imogen Stubbs, Twelfth Night. Almost, but not quite, a Cary Elwes type. A lack of something, although she rolls up her sleeves nicely during the pool scene.
14. Tilda Swinton, Orlando. It grieves me deeply that Tilda Swinton does not rank higher on this list. By all rights she should, this David-Bowie-lookalike shapeshifting gender wraith. By all rights she should be queen and master of this list, sailing it around the midnight seas. But nobody looks their best in a curly ginger wig and a foppish ruff. Only magnificent.
13. Pretty much everyone in the Takarazuka Revue. “A Japanese all-female musical theater troupe based inTakarazuka, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. Women play all roles in lavish, Broadway-style productions of Western-style musicals, and sometimes stories adapted from shōjo manga and Japanese folktales.” Second from the right, then all of them, then the second from the right again.
12. Liselotte Pulver, The Spessart Inn. GIRL ROBIN HOOD. GIRL ROBIN HOOD. If there is no part of you that has longed for the warm hands and the light laugh of GIRL ROBIN HOOD, then I do not know what to say to you. The best movies about crossdressing women generally feature rich and lusty-laughed tomboys longing to escape to the freedom of the woods. This is one of them.
11. Mulan, Mulan (live-action and animated). Put a woman in drag, and you please us for a day. Put a woman in drag and then armor, and you have the hearts of the people forever.
10. Park Shin-hye, You’re Beautiful. Everyone in this actively perfect K-drama is so floppy-haired and perfect-skinned and androgynous. It’s a wonderful festival of gender chaos, and she’s the crown jewel. If festivals had jewels, I guess.
9. Milla Jovovich, The Messenger. Overcame a disastrous haircut to still rip my heart to shreds with her impossible jaw. Joan of Arc’s not a male character, obviously, but she still passes herself off as a soldier and gets mistaken for a male at least once in the film (I think) so she stays.
8. Johanna Wokalek, Pope Joan. Flavors of Edward Norton predominate, not at all unpleasantly.
7. Salma Hayek, Frida Kahlo. I have no words. I have no words; they should have sent a poet. I WANT TO KISS YOU WITH THE KISSES OF MY MOUTH.
6. Janet McTeer, Albert Nobbs. She looks like Clive Owen. The world has given us a woman with strong shoulders and glossy chestnut hair who wears immaculate ties and who walks upon the earth with her own two feet and looks like Clive goddamn Owen. Thank whatever wretched god bore you and your kin.
5. Gwyneth Paltrow, Shakespeare in Love. GWYNETH. YES. I AM HERE FOR YOU. I AM HERE FOR YOU IN THAT SAUCY LITTLE GOATEE AND THAT INSOUCIANT BLUE JACKET. I would have made out with you so hard at Homecoming. (An aside: Gwyneth Paltrow is Katherine Moennig’s cousin; they are to my knowledge the only family members on this list.) You have a weird newsletter now but once you were the boy-girl of my dreams, Gwyneth, and I’ll never forget you for that. I’m not mad you won the Oscar for this; look at this audition scene. HOT GIRL HIDDEN IN A BOYSUIT HAVING FEELINGS REAL BAD AT THE CEILING.
Voice doesn’t really work, though. Still, A+ out of 10.
4. Cate Blanchett, He’s Not There. I didn’t see this movie. Nobody saw this movie. Everybody just watched Cate Blanchett’s scenes on YouTube and wished desperately we were a cigarette between her nervous, slim fingers. I feel nothing for Bob Dylan, but I would follow Cate Blanchett’s Bob Dylan anywhere.
3. Joyce Hyser, Just One Of The Guys. “What a fox. Dresses like Elvis Costello, looks like the Karate Kid — I’m gonna get it.” You said it, Sandy. 
2. Katharine Hepburn, Sylvia Scarlett. If you have not seen Sylvia Scarlett, might I suggest doing so at your earliest convenience? It’s very exciting that she wore the occasional pantsuit in Cary Grant’s Girlfriend Gets A Job, of course, but you haven’t seen Hepburn in menswear until you’ve seen Hepburn In Menswear. (She kisses girls, and puts her hands in her pockets just so, and Spencer Tracy was a goddamned beard and I will go to my grave saying so).
1. Katharine Moennig, Young Americans. Before there was Shane, there was Jake Pratt. And it was good. Young Americans was a summer replacement for Dawson’s Creek that ran for eight episodes, all of which I carefully taped on VHS, even when my family went on vacation the week “Will Bella Scout Her Mom?” aired. I am reduced here to mere syllables: UUNF. HUUURRNNGH. AAAUUUNGH. GNEHHH.
More than almost anybody else on this list, Jake sells maleness in a wholly believable and unique way. There’s no forced “hey-dude” in her voice and very little put-on swagger in her walk. She wears masculinity as well as she wears that motorcycle jacket in episode seven.
- How can you say no to forearms like that?
Special Category: Music Video
3. Lady Gaga, whatever her male Italian alter ego is. It’s a little James Deen, a little Joyce Hyser. Definitely solid. Excellent pompadour, good jawline.
2. Beyoncé, If I Were A Boy. It’s not drag, exactly, so much as it is a few props that telegraph maleness, but great God, does she look good in a uniform. Ma’am. Sir. Ma’am. Whatever pronoun you like, as long as you’re still in charge.
1. Ciara, Like A Boy. Dear Ciara, Thank you for making me gay.
Honorable Mentions
Doris Day in Calamity Jane, who is not technically cross-dressing only inasmuch as she is always female-identified and acknowledged as such throughout the movie. That said…look at her. I never thought being sexually attracted to Doris Day was possible, but here we are.
- Try to imagine her saying anything other than “TITTIES” with this hand gesture. Go ahead.
Please enjoy “A Woman’s Touch” from that same movie. Hello. What? Yes. How. How. How. But yes. Hello.
Cissy Meldrum from You Rang, M’Lord? Again, not passing herself off as male — just a jolly lesbian in Edwardian-era England with a fondness for Savile Row menswear. The lesbian answer to Niles Crane.
God bless you all and keep you.
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You just reminded how much I love women-dressing-as-men narratives. I don’t think I was quite aware at 10 (when I started loving them) that it was because it is a thing for me.
omg omg omg yes yes yes
christmas is here!
FANTASTIC list, but…
Janelle Monae? yes?
janelle monae can be 1.5
Janelle Monae for ALL THE THINGS
Ehh, is she really “drag” per se or just owning the shit out of a tux?
welp, there were a few up there that weren’t “drag” per se, so I thought I would toss in my nomination. I felt like because Monae does the androgyny/gender bendy thing w/ her sexuality, it seemed to fit the drag thing more so than some of the candidates already mentioned.
Oh shoot good point. Yes then. She basically can do no wrong is the real thing here.
I was at the gym the other day doing sit-ups to “Q.U.E.E.N.” and then “Get Me Bodied” and the idea for a Beyonce/Janelle Monae femslash popped into my head. It was a good thing I was sitting down already.
Every time I see Ciara, ever: http://ciaradrop.tumblr.com/
The problem is that you’re looking at the wrong Tilda Swinton genderbending film. Behold, Tilda Swinton in Constantine: http://blog.ricecracker.net/wp-content/uploads/20… http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ooOIaJ5nZTI/TAesaoptLiI/AAAAAAAAAW8/GNWk8B3IJlw/s1600/Tilda_Swinton8.jpg
Granted, since she’s an (insane, fallen) angel here, she isn’t technically of either sex, but that should move her up a few ranks.
Swinton is in her own category, where she’s #1 all the time.
I WANT TO BE KATHERINE HEPBURN WHEN I GROW UP
Side note: my mother spent my entire adolescence sternly explaining that she had SEEN Victor Victoria and that Hepburn is an excellent aspirational model every time we fought over no-dresses. This is clearly my root.
Oh great. So there goes my productivity for the day.
I shall now unashamedly out myself age-wise by admitting that Just One Of the Guys (saw it in the theater!) is what made me realize I played for both teams. BLESS YOU, JOYCE HYSER. Just…bless you.
YENTL
OH GOD YES. I mean, I’ll take Babs in pretty much any incarnation, but LORDY ME.
We’ll start a petition and demand Mallory to edit this piece!
Guys, she is not on this list ON PURPOSE.
Papa can you hear meeeeee why NOT?
(I mean I think Babs has to be better than Bynes. Right?)
I agree to that just on principle!
Joyce Hyser has a kind of a cherubic Bruce McCulloch thing going on in that picture.
Kim Basinger in 9 1/2 weeks, Sharon Stone in that western movie,
Katharine Hepburn in every movie. You’re right about that.
oh my god HELLO CISSY MELDRUM
What about Ivan??
who is that?
Kelly Lynch!
oh right! good one.
Was Ivan a drag king, or was he trans? I don’t remember, and I think that’s why I left him off. Gotta hold off for the HOTTEST TRANS CHARACTERS list.
Hm, good question! I’ve only seen the show once through and it is a convoluted mess in my head. I guess I remember him performing at the drag king nights, but given his presentation outwith those you’re probably right that trans is a better descriptor. I eagerly await that list!
Aha! I was wondering why Hilary Swank in Boys Don’t Cry didn’t make the list. Now I know.
Okay, so! You know your Korean dramas, so, submitted for your consideration: Yoon Eun-hye in “First Shop of Coffee Prince” (aka “Coffee Prince”)? In the first episode, she seriously had me wondering what was going on. She had not just the look but the character down. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1dqAjOjHmF8/TNYSJkSLHQI…
Thank you! That whole series is amazing. Gah I love k-drama.
It’s really a fantastic series. Have you watched “The Moon Embracing the Sun”? (or similar title). It’s the last full K-drama I watched, a couple of years ago. I don’t have the stamina for them anymore. 🙂
YES COFFEE PRINCE. I got to the end of this article still expecting Eun Chan to be somewhere there. Although arguably she’s a genderqueer character, not a woman in drag?
what about HILARY SWANk????????
Also, Katherine Moennig looks just like one of those “Supernatural” guys, especially in the second shot. (In the first one, she looks like the young James Spader.) I don’t know which one I mean, but people who watch “Supernatural” could probably tell me.
Might you possibly be referring to Jensen Ackles AKA Dean Winchester? Who is so beautiful the show has to overcompensate by trying to make him the manliest man who ever manned? My attraction to her is suddenly making a lot more sense (not that I needed it to make sense).
Yes, I think that’s the one I meant! 😀 I just looked him up.
I have to admit that his gorgeousness and general excellence in the field of Conveying Manpain Expressively (single perfect teardrop, sigh) is an embarrassingly large part of why I watch the show.
awww.
I tried watching the show, since it’s all over Tumblr, but I quickly realized that it’s too scary for me.
p.s. is “Destiel” a real thing, or just a fan creation? I can’t tell if those two guys are really in love with each other or it’s just the gifs.
Ohhhhh my friend that is a more complicated question than you know. It is not canon that Dean and Castiel definitely have romantic feelings for each other (they haven’t kissed or otherwise expressed sexual/romantic desire towards each other in the show), but depending on who you talk to there is a lot of queer subtext in their relationship (and hints that Dean may be bisexual, besides his relationship with Cas). The show has winked at the possibility several times (i.e. other characters saying one of them is in love with the other, etc.), so the writers are definitely aware of the strong following the pairing has in the fandom. They certainly do have a very intense connection, famously characterized by Castiel as a “profound bond”, that goes way beyond a normal friendship. But it’s also true that Dean in the show is almost cartoonishly heterosexual/a ladies’ man (see above comment about manliest man who ever manned), and Cas has only ever expressed actual attraction towards women.
That being said, I personally think that their relationship has progressed in such a way that a Dean/Cas romantic pairing could credibly happen without screwing up the show. And honestly, if Cas were a female character, Destiel would have happened like 4 seasons ago. But I highly doubt the people behind the show would ever include that as part of the story. Supernatural takes a lot of risks and pushes the boundaries in terms of storytelling and breaking the fourth wall, but that definitely doesn’t extend to taking risks in terms of meaningful diversity in sexual orientation, race, etc. I’m a fan, but it’s got its problems with misogyny and a lack of queer/non-white representation.
Anyway, hope you have enjoyed this ridiculously long and convoluted answer to a very simple question about a show you don’t watch!
Begone, imposter!
I DESPERATELY NEED TO SEE THE TAKARAZUKA REVUE
Have you seen this documentary? It’s excellent. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8YLKo8Nzsg
This list made A++ by the conspicuous absence of any reference to The L Word or Boys Don’t Cry. Thank you for not going there.
which the commenter above (myself) quickly ruined. :/
TAKARAZUKA REVUE. OMG I love Takarazuka Revue stuff. But good lord it is so hard to get a hold of. Still, everyone should see this amazing Visa commercial with Haruno Sumire:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A8DnMK2Whk
Just bow at her feet in general, mere mortals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSu8M1R9q9g&li…
I AM SO UTTERLY BORINGLY HETEROSEXUAL BUT THIS LIST IS AMAZING you’re so right about the vest thing!!!
Me too! I’m straight as can be but I appreciate the hell out of a lady in well-tailored menswear.
There is a reason I have lady-crushes on Katharine Hepburn and Janelle Monae.
HEY I’VE TOTALLY SEEN HE’S NOT THERE AND LA CATE IS PRETTY FUCKING GLORIOUS.
Also how is Coffee Prince not on this list?
Oh man! I just finished watching that. Yoon Eun-hye is fucking glorious.
See my comment above.
I’ve totally seen He’s Not There, too, and you are correct.
I came down here for Coffee Prince and I was not disappointed. That said, HOW HAVE I NOT SEEN NUMBER TEN? I know what I’m doing this holiday season.
I can only imagine the pain of combing through exemplar photos for this piece, trying to find just the right one. The torment.
I am solidly straight and I still found myself panting by the end of this list. Takarazuka Revue. Mulan. Ciara. KATHARINE HEPBURN. Christ almighty, Katharine Hepburn. um wow yes please
One of the things about women in drag is, if they’re doing it right, there’s such swagger happening and it’s so magnetic it brings in all the laydeeeez.
This is also NOT BAD: http://bit.ly/1bXKM5i
Oh my GOD what is that from? In related news, I don’t think I’ll be getting any work done today.
Anne Hathaway played Viola in “Twelfth Night” in Shakespeare in the Park a few years back with Audra McDonald as Olivia.
Mehhh I’m more into Viola Davis’s jawline in that shot than anything else. Anne’s a tad boring in drag.
(also Raul Esparza, ALWAYS, is distracting to me, but this is a Lady List so his hairy chest is out)
AUDRA MCDONALD NOT VIOLA DAVIS. Somewhere the god of musical theater is crying.
OMG WHAT HAVE I DONEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
actual shame right now
Excellent list. Isn’t the film in #4 called I’m Not There? (I didn’t see it either.)
probably!
See, I’m normally pretty much all about the men in drag, but turns out it’s just as much women in drag!
It is actually I’m (not he – there is no gender, as this movie is secretly NOT ABOUT Bob Dylan at all but rather the concept of identity, artistry, and masculinity should it exist at all, also Charlotte Gainsbourg is there being amazing) Not There, which I’ve not only seen but OWN, but yes – and if anyone has not seen the scenes where Cate Dylan makes sexually suggestive remarks at ex Michelle Edie Sedgwick, get on that.
And may I add: EOWYN. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrCvgiQGh1o
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbmuamgZsm1qbvpv0….
I own it too! And it worked really well as an art piece for me. Cate totally steals the show but strangely it’s Richard Gere’s part that I spent time contemplating.
AND FUCK YES EOWYN….. I AM NO MANNNNN!
This isn’t film, but I once saw Tatiana Troyanos play (sing) the part of Julius Caesar in the opera by the same name. She was pretty darn convincing, though because it’s opera, you don’t have the problem of closeups.
http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-ma…
Opera is the best for this. There are so many lovely mezzo sopranos who make the most beautiful young men!
Brigitte Fassbaender as Octavian. Changed my life just watching her when I was thirteen.
We could have an entire sub-thread about operatic trouser roles. For starters, speaking of Julius Caesar, I give you…Sarah Connolly, in the same role.
I just want to roll around in this thread.
Words are insufficient in responding to this, unless those words are the entirety of “I’ll Make a Man Out of You.”
“Like something very small and very determined is wearing Will Forte as a suit.”
because I love you mallory
Hahahaha, you are the iceberg of my heart.
I’ve seen I’m Not There! More than once! Everyone should watch I’m Not There! It’s such a weird and marvellous thing. I used to say Bob Dylan’s voice was the actual aural equivalent of Cystitis, I loathed him so much until I watched I’m Not There and the power of Cate Blanchett’s amazingness in that film led me to reassess to the point where I own a whole Bob Dylan CD and actively enjoy upwards of three songs on it (those where he’s not singing about women because that’s still terrible and will never get any better).
Mallory I love you I love this, but what about that part in Swiss Family Robinson where they rescue the guy and his son (DAUGHTER!) from the pirates? What about Natty Gann? Isn’t she mistaken for a boy at one point, or can’t we give her a pass because there’s clearly something draggy about that character?
Johanna Wokalek = Joseph Gordon Levitt in that photo.
Also look! How timely! Kim Basinger in a Ralph Lauren suit…
I’m never not happy to read someone talk about Motocrossed.
but, but, but what about Marlene Dietrich?
Exhibit A: http://jabrody.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/morocc…
I think Dietrich, here, falls into the “Not technically in drag, just owning the SHIT out of a tux” category, cf. Janelle Monae.
Long-time person-obsessed-with-Ms.-Ortberg’s-writing, first time commenter.
My submission: Glen Close as the bearded pirate in Hook who gets put in the Boo Box (thereby cementing children’s nightmares the world over). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCx-M8dcDhk
Holy shit I had no idea that was her.
The Boo Box 🙁 🙁
This line: “but I watched it every day for an entire summer until obsessively rewatching what I wanted but didn’t understand made me dizzy”, but about that version of Twelfth Night. Like, skipped dinner, rewatched obsessively, everything.
The CBC series Murdoch Mysteries had a Season 3 episode called Victor/Victorian that put an interesting spin on this — a circa 1897 Toronto social club for ladies who like the suits: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x16l1hq_murdoch-…
No love for Babs, Mallory?? NO LOVE FOR BABS?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwCPAo5e_F8
I have painful and disappointed memories of “Victor/Victoria” which came out when I was in high school. When I first saw the poster for “Boys Don’t Cry” I knew I wanted to see it because, finally, a film didn’t fuck around when it cast an actress as a man (which is especially important for an actress playing a trans guy). I’ve never seen “The Year of Living Dangerously” though, in which Linda Hunt plays an Asian guy (I know, I know). In the photos the character doesn’t look embarrassing; http://sexualityinart.files.wordpress.com/2010/01… . Also 1000% agree that you must see “I’m Not There”. It’s fantastic (in the literal sense) and has Michelle Williams as Edie Sedgwick!
Not an actress, not a living human being in the physical space we occupy, but WHO CARES, let us never forget:
YEEEESSSSS. I embarrassed the crap out of myself (i.e.: pwned it like I didn’t care) whenever I played Super Smash Bros, because I INSISTED on being Sheik because Sheik was The Bomb.
Get away with your “Kirby has better attacks” and your “switch between Zelda and Sheik, you’ll get more points.”
I am the fiercest, badass, ambigiously-ethnic ninja, and I win on PRINCIPLE.
I loved You’re Beautiful to a ridiculous degree and became obsessed with how Shin-hye was styled in that show. The mix of clothes they put her in as a man added up to this adorable and sweet kind of androgyny. It made me want to go buy a whole new wardrobe and dress like that all the time.
I have a deep love for stories about women who dress like men and find empowerment in doing so.
HNNNNNNGH
WAIT A MINUTE THERE ARE WORDS IN THIS POST TOO?
All of these are great, but I just had to say: JANET MCTEER. JANET MCTEER. JANET MCTEER. YES, PLEASE COME SPEAK TO ME IN THAT DUBLIN ACCENT AND SWEEP ME RIGHT OFF MY FEET. (She probably could, too. She’s like six feet tall.)
OH HELLS YES. I AM SO PLEASED THAT OTHER PEOPLE KNOW WHO JANET MCTEER IS. SO EXCITED I MUST CAPSLOCK.
The Glenn Close 2011 Albert Nobbs really made my heart thump.
Oh holy god Sorcerer reference, I love you <3
Man, I had forgotten about Young Americans but watching the first episode on YouTube makes me feel like it’s summer and I’m in High School all over again. I def watched the first time around.
Katharine Moenning is amazingly convincing as a boy. (I think she’s played trans characters a time or two as well). I actually found the sight of her in her bra and panties to be LESS believable than when she’s in boys’ clothes. I can handle that she’s a woman, but in that shot I sort of felt like they were trying to imply that she’s a femme at heart, and that is what I have a hard time with (of course, I also watching The L Word, so i have pre-existing Shane bias).
I am also now scrolling between her picture and the picture of Gwyneth and noticing family resemblances in their faces, so thanks for that.
I feel like a special mention should go to Yuga Yamato as Tuxedo Mask in the run of Sailor Moon musicals this year. She was hand picked by the creator of Sailor Moon, has a background in takarazuka and KILLED IT as Tuxedo Mask. There’s some AMAZING gifs of her in character and some from interviews where the other actresses get extra giggly talking about her. ADORABLE.
*Googles*
…Bless you.
😀 She’s like the definition of swoon.
http://i.minus.com/i3XuxmCZ8UPkJ.gif
God bless you for pointing me to this.
UGH THAT GIF. I’m completely dead. It’s so good.
holy what: http://ocean-owls-zukablog.tumblr.com/post/702145…
…does anyone see a heterosexuality on the carpet, I had it a second ago.
“…because who is there to stop us?” may just be the cornerstone of my philosophy going into 2014.
"…because who is there to stop us?" may just be the cornerstone of my philosophy going into 2014.
Great list… sad that one of the great movies… Yentl is missing… Barbara Streisand did an amazing job portraying Yentl Mendel… also some of the best unknown Streisand music… especially Papa Can You Hear Me and Piece of Sky…
Yentl is a 1983 romantic musical drama film from MGM, and directed, co-written, co-produced, and starring Barbra Streisand based on the play of the same name by Leah Napolin and Isaac Bashevis Singer, itself based on Singer’s short story “Yentl the Yeshiva Boy”.
The dramatic story incorporates humor and music to relate the odyssey of an Ashkenazi Jewish girl in Poland who decides to dress and live like a man so that she can receive an education in Talmudic Law after her father dies. The film’s musical score and songs, composed by Michel Legrand, include the songs “Papa, Can You Hear Me?” and “The Way He Makes Me Feel”, both sung by Streisand. The film received the Academy Award for Best Original Score and the Golden Globe Awards for Best Motion Picture-comedy and Best Director for Streisand making her the first woman to have won Best Director at the Golden Globes.
I would like to add Mya's My Love is Like Woah video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4gcQj_NZ30
Great list! Just One Of The Guys= So much yes.
I agree Yentl is missing, and another one is Ismael from the Bergman movie Fanny and Alexander. No mention is ever made of the actress’s femaleness and she simply plays a male character, end of. Kind of like with Cate Blanchett in the Bob Dylan flick. It was interesting to say the least.
Just, for the record, Asta Nielsen. Her silent Hamlet from 1921 is extraordinary (YES she plays Hamlet, YES she is in love with Horatio, YES it is perfect.)