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TENNESSEE TALES
by Micky Day.
CHATTANOOGA
Wade Hampton’s Go Go
Club was the site of the
Miss Gay Chattanooga
Contest. The contest
was directed by the Go
Go club’s ow director
Kelly Keebler. A
fantastic aray of talent
vied with the con
testants for the
audiance attention
Wendy Medows. was
crowned Miss Gay
Chattanooga. Atlanta's
Lady Shawn was
Second runner up.
Shawn delights Atlanta
audiance of her enor
mous talent as regular
in the cast at Atlanta’s
Sweet Gum Head.
Third runner up was the
Go Go Clubs talented
Candy Cain.
The star studded show
was Atlanta’s Lisa King
was Mistress of
Ceremonies. The
reigning Miss Gay
Atlanta was assisted by
a host of talented quest.
Nashville - Lisa La
Mae the reigning Miss
Gay Nashville, former
Miss Gay Tennessee
Jamie Chambers and
Daisy Dalton, . Atlanta
Atlanta Entertainer of
the Year 1975 Award
Winner, Mickey Day;
Miss Gay Chattanooga
1975 Cheerleaders and
the fabulous reigning
Miss Florida, Hoi
Chocolate captured the
audience.
Kelly Keebler and Lisa
King presented one of
the most professionally
run contest’s in
meaning. Entertainer
in Atlanta & Nashville
are still raving over the
show. The star studded
cast played to a star
studded audience with
former Miss Gay
Atlanta, Lady
Baronessa, Misty
Black, Jim Grey & the
Locker Room Disco’s
nashville & TEN
NESSEE
Two Miss Gay
Tennessees? It ap-
peares there will be. A
Tennessee judge has
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induction that would
stop the second Miss
Gay Tennessee Pagent
of 1976 occuring.
Don , owner
of the George’s in
Memphis has hold the
Miss Tennessee pagent
for seversl years.
George’s was the site
again this year on Nov.
21st and 22nd. The
pagent, we might add,
was marvelous ana
Jimmy Dee deserved
the crown!
The second annual
Miss Gay Tennessee
Pagent will be held
Dec. 18th & 19th at The
Other Side in Nashville.
Even though it’s
number 2 it is the
“Official” Pagent. The
winner will be" eligiable
to compete in the
Official Gay America
Pagent. We know
Jammie Summers and
Don Caldwell will
produce another fan
tastic show that Norma
Kristie Inc. and the
traditional sites of the
States Ms. ^**®#^*
Whatever can’t work
together. The en
tertainers work hard,
they should be honored
ana should be able to
compete for Miss Gay
America. Norma is
doing a fantastic job
with
“professionalizing” the
contest rules. I hope
things can be worked
ouL Maybe after all the
heat from the court
battles settle. Norma.
Don Caldwell and
Jammie will be
magnamioums and let
the unofficial Miss
Tennessee compete tool
Don didn’t win
the case but George’s is
the traditional site and
the winner was Jimmy
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weren’t good, you got
fired....I put people
under in two seconds ; it
takes a doctor half-an-
hour and sometimes it
still doesn’t work.”
Senness hopes to
establish a research"
center in Atlanta,
where she will give
university-level in
struction to both doc
tors and laymen. She
also plans to work On
several books, including
one to help the parents
of gays to cope with
their situation.
All that won’t in
terfere with her per
forming-after all, a
woman has to have
smoething to do in the
daytime!
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MOVIE
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even the virgins in the
back row won’t be able
to miss. “I wanna give
you every inch of my
love,” he doesn’t
exactly croon in “Whole
Lotta Love,” _
Well, that’s what
rock-and-roll’s about.
To vary the Madison
Square Garden concert
footage, the Zep’s
members go off on
individual visual trips
during the longer
numbers. Plant,
guitarist Jimmy Page
and keyboardist John
Paul Jones get into
frequently violent
costume dramas, while
drummer John Bonham
drives a race car and
anything else on
wheels.
The sound is of
studio quality, and so is
most of the
photography. If you’ve
been waiting for a Led
Zepplin concert film,
you shouldn’t be
disappointed.
TWO- MINUTE
WARNING
...There must be
someone, somewhere,
who^ still Jakes Charlton
Heston seriously; Two-
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Revue
The Girl that put Chicago on the map
and her ALL STAR CAST
Minute Warning is for
them.
For the rest of us, he
adds unintentional
humor to a fairly
suspenseful story about
a sniper at a cham
pionship football game
who threatens the lives
of what seem to be over
90,000 stars.
Unless, you’re
following the game,
your interest will
probably wane before
the shooting starts. The
finale is pretty exciting,
even though we know
the final gun will be
Heston’s
And for the record,
although it’s pretty well
playedout:
NORMAN...IS THAT
YOU!
.. .The play, Norman...
Is That You! by Ron
Clark ahcTSam Bobrick,
is so written that an
aware director can still
make a good show of it,
one that gays of high’
political consciousness
can see with their
f iarents and they’ll all
eave feeling good.
Producjer-director
George (Laugh-In)
Schlatter, who worked
on the film script with
the playwrights, has
made a lot of changes-
most of them wrong.
Ben Chamber (Red
Foxx) goes to
Hollywood to seek
consolation from his
son, Norman, after his.
wife (Pearl Bailey)
runs off, to Mexico with
his brother-partner, he
finds Norman living
with a flaming faggot
named Garson in wnat,
when it’s referred to at
all, is called an
“engagement,” not a
marriage. The young
men snow almost no
affection for each other
in word or deed.
After the predictable
hysterics, Dad goes out
to get a girl for Nor
man. He brings back a
hooker, played by
Tamara Dobson. She
looks like a drag queen
and acts less real than
one of Wayland
Flowers’ puppets-who,
incidentally, nave the
best lines. (Madame at
Disneyland: “I went up
on the Matterhorn and
down on the Mad
Hatter....I sat on
Pinocchio’s nose and...
said, ‘Lie, kid, lie! ’ ”)
Flowers guest-stars as
a neighbor and night
club entertainer.
Norman has a girl
friend (Vernee Watson)
in whom he confides.
This seems like the
film’s most enlightened
change, showing the
relation-ship possible.
between a gay man arid 5
a straight woman
where sex doesn’t loom
as a threat. But wait;../
It’s just a set-up,
because when Norman
runs to her from his
father’s whore, she
tries to do a number on
him herself. She gets
him drunk, lures him
into bed and rejects him
when nothing happens.
Foxx is less com
fortable in this role than
his tv “Sanford,”
although it’s not too
different. Pearl
Bailey’s part is so small
she could have phoned
it in. The Norman
character has been all
but lost in the script
revisions, but hand
some Michael Warren
(no relation) (So it
wouldn’t be incest...!)
does what he can with
what’s left of it. Dennis
Dugan plays Garson as
directed; he’s not to
blame.
A videotape-to-film
process makes the
picture look as shoddy
as some of the thinking
that went into it.
Fortunately, Norman Is
That You? isn’t good
enough to be seen by
enough people to hurt
us.
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