He/she then appeared at the Hollywood/Westwood acting school-academy of her lecherous cowboy uncle Buck Loner (John Huston) and demanded her inheritance, claiming that she was Myron's widow. Myron refused circumcision: "Let's get it over with! Myra's waiting!" -Īnd was transformed into the statuesque, busty, trans-sexual, male-bashing beauty Myra Breckinridge (Raquel Welch in a self-parodying performance). Writer/director Michael Sarne's incompetently-made film (only his second feature) told about a New York gay film fanatic/writer named Myron Breckinridge (real-life film critic Rex Reed) who had a sex change operation (performed by chain-smoking mad doctor John Carradine). The drag-themed, debauched comedy was thought to be the voyeuristic, dreamy hallucinations of a male wishing to be a female siren.
The racy, incoherent, vulgar and irreverent film was unintentionally funny and seriously chastised upon its release, although it was intentionally thought by Fox that it would be popular with hip, young film-going audiences who had seen unconventional, liberal films during the permissive sexual/political revolution (of the late 60s/early 70s) such as X-rated Best Picture winning Midnight Cowboy (1969), Easy Rider (1969) and M*A*S*H (1970). Novelist Gore Vidal, who helped to adapt his own satirical 1968 novel about gender stereotypes and Hollywood into this odd, unusual, and controversial cult film, has since disowned this perverse X-rated (reduced to R) film. Greatest Box-Office Bombs, Disasters and Flops of All-Time
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