Jackie Curtis

I agree that Jackie deserves to be here in Hopelessly Devoted. The film is wonderful. It was so great to see it here in PPTown at the film festival this year. People laughed and screamed and cryed(me). Now it is for the whole world to worship the goddess of the east village.I miss you Jackie. kisses xxx

didn't Jackie Curtis and Holly Woodlawn do shows at the old museum bar and lounge on Columbus Circle on an upper floors in the old white building everyone wants to tear down save Merlin. can still see the balcony from the street when you look up. it was such a wonderful New York experience looking out over the crowd with the baby grand piano and Central Park in the backdrop.

and wasn't that Jackie's red lips and eyes on all those Bloomingdales bags way back in the early 70's? Merlin is looking for his wayback machine on this one.

More great news on the Jackie story via Craig Highberger:
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The (Cincinnati) film society will run the film again in the spring for a book release party for my book about Jackie Curtis (also called SUPERSTAR IN A HOUSEDRESS) will be released in hardback with lots of photos, lots more outrageous stories, plus excerpts from all of Jackie's plays, poems, diary excerpts, trip book drawings, PLUS the DVD of the film in the back pocket...

Penguin books will release it worldwide this spring - probably in April.

Then in the summer a new MTV channel will begin broadcasting a somewhat sanitized for basic cable (must protect the kiddies) in June!

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XXXOOO
Satori

COMING IN JUNE from Penguin-Chamberlain Bros. a 241 page hardback biography "Superstar in a Housedress: the Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis" by Craig B. Highberger which INCLUDES the DVD full theatrical version of the award-winning film!

For the book, Highberger interviewed more than forty friends and colleagues of Curtis including celebrity photographer Jack Mitchell, director Paul Morrissey, surviving superstars Holly Woodlawn, Penny Arcade, Joe Dallesandro and Tony Award winners Lily Tomlin and Harvey Fierstein. Heavily researched, the book includes interviews with Jackie Curtis, letters and diary excerpts, photographs, and never-before-published poetry and excerpts from Curtis' hilarious plays "Glamour, Glory and Gold", "Heaven Grand in Amber Orbit", and "Vain Victory".

The DVD includes more than 30 minutes of EXTRAS – including deleted interview footage, a Curtis prose poem, and scenes from Curtis' triumphant 1974 revival of "Glamour, Glory and Gold".

Save 34% by ordering your pre-publication copy now from Amazon.com please use the direct link on our home page: http://www.jackiecurtis.com

Can't wait!!! There have been friends I have been waiting to show the Video to that missed it on screen.

Here's the most recent update from Craig:

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This week Penguin Books' Chamberlain Bros. imprint is releasing worldwide (in hardback) "Superstar in a Housedress", my 256 page biography of this fascinating artist and personality who both lived and performed sometimes as a man, sometimes as a woman.

On Sunday, May 29th or Tuesday, May 31st, The New York Times "Bookshelf" section will publish an excerpt of my book next to a photo of the cover!

The book includes the DVD full theatrical version of my award-winning film, narrated by Lily Tomlin. The DVD interface design features Lou Reed's 1971 "Walk on the Wild Side" (his song about Jackie, Warhol and the other superstars) as background audio and also includes more than 30 minutes of EXTRAS - including some outrageous deleted interview footage, a Curtis performance of a prose poem, and scenes from Curtis' triumphant 1974 revival of "Glamour, Glory and Gold".

For the book, I interviewed more than forty friends and colleagues of Curtis including surviving superstars Holly Woodlawn, Penny Arcade, Joe Dallesandro, celebrity photographer Jack Mitchell, director Paul Morrissey, and Tony Award winners Lily Tomlin and Harvey Fierstein. Heavily researched, the book includes interviews with Jackie Curtis, letters and diary excerpts, photographs, and never-before-published poetry and excerpts from Curtis' hilarious plays "Glamour, Glory and Gold", "Heaven Grand in Amber Orbit", and "Vain Victory". The book also features many stories and a lot of ribald and outright scandalous tales of Curtis' wild escapades not in the film.

A new Viacom channel, MTV LOGO has just acquired the broadcast rights to the film (beginning with the channel's debut in major market cities) but because MTV LOGO will be on digital basic cable there will be bleeped lines and blurred visuals. The uncut version will only be available on the DVD with the book. Full updates and photo pages on the website: http://www.jackiecurtis.com

It's great to see this. I'm wondering if anyone knows where I might find a copy of the text of "Heaven Grand in Amber Orbit" -- maybe NYPL Performing Arts library? Maybe the file cabinet of someone on this forum...??

A fabulous, dishy wonder of a book is Superstar In A Housedress. I wish I was alive during that time so I could have met Jackie, Holly, Candy, Warhol, et al. I would've taken the drugs away from them and said "NO! BAD DRAG QUEEN! NO MORE HEROIN FOR YOU!"

Emily: I miss you. Write me.

As for Jackie and Candy and Holly and Andy:
I was alive and was there and they wouldn't have listened to you or me. btw Andy didn't use drugs. He was far to middle class for that.

That's right, Warhol didn't use drugs, but everyone else around him was. But he had to have been tempted at Studio 54 or being around at the Factory.

He was never tempted. He was too much of a fraidy cat to try anything that was dangerous.

Maybe it was an error on my part to include Andy with Jackie et al as drug addicts. But he DID hang out with some shady people, you have to admit.

If you are talking drugs then you would be wrong about Andy, but shady is another story altogether. He always looked for oppertunities to to be shady my dear.

loved jackie curtis, kept the black and white picture of her from the newspapers of her laying there in the bed with the roses in the hospital for years after her seeming demise. yes it was a news worthy event.

it was all such a time of 'decadent swank' in those days. decay all over the city, in our parks, most public schools, and any important buildings around town looked like ruins of a great long lost empire. there was a flavor in the city in those days -- of a once upon time glory not bombed out from war, rather a place that had seen better days and was on the verge of falling down never to recover. the ruin of it all, gave us a patina of a lost pleasure palace and made the city a personal fiefdom of the night trippers of that time. so glad to have witnessed a small part of it all.

Warhol is the real Slim Shady! LOL!