By the mid-1960s he had embraced the city's countercultural scene and befriended Waters, who gave him the name "Divine" and the tagline of: "The most beautiful woman in the world.almost." Along with his friend David Lochary, Milstead joined Waters' acting troupe, the Dreamlanders, and adopted female roles for their experimental short films Roman Candles (1966), Eat Your Makeup (1968), and The Diane Linkletter Story (1969). Closely associated with independent filmmaker John Waters, Divine was a character actor, usually performing female roles in cinematic and theatrical productions, and adopted a female drag persona for his music career.īorn in Baltimore, Maryland, to a conservative middle-class family, Milstead developed an early interest in drag while working as a women's hairdresser. Harris Glenn Milstead (Octo– March 7, 1988), better known by his stage name Divine, was an American actor, singer, and drag queen. My cats are screaming at me now, so I gotta go. Just wish the theme had clicked better for me. It seems like you can spell LAH-DI-DAH all kinds of ways (with and without the various "H"s), so that was interesting ( 87A: Highfalutin). Had LIE-INS before DIE-INS, so got a bit flustered there ( 100D: Attention-grabbing protests). No idea about OSTER, so that bottom section could've been dicey, but the crosses were all fair. Nothing else really rose to the level of threat. OTOE required first and fourth crosses ( 73A: _-Missouria Tribe).
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That NYT clue was baffling to me ( 61D: Sullivan's opponent in a landmark free speech case: Abbr.) as was this AMOS person, of whom I've never heard ( 62D: Stephen K. The crosses were almost ungettable for me. Hardest part of the puzzle for me by far was the front end of SYMBOLIC LOGIC (never heard of it-only got SYMBOLIC, in the end, because it's a word I could recognize). The things I really like about the grid are smaller, mid-range answers like " BUT WHY?" and TECH HUB and even RED DWARF, PROP BETS and AUTOPAY. two shoes? What am I supposed to be seeing here? I actually appreciate the weirdness of the whole theme concept today, but there's something in the execution that just doesn't quite come together for me. two feet in the Acrosses, one big shoe in the Downs? NBC LOGO feels forced (fine as clue for PEACOCK, not as an answer unto itself). I mean which is it? Are there two feet, or is there just one big shoe? I guess. A few of the theme answers are very nice (" YOU FLATTER ME," THE ELEPHANT MAN), but the theme itself. Anyway, clearly I don't fully appreciate this theme. I keep saying it out loud, over and over: nothing. What is "About Two Feet" playing on? My Left Foot? About a Boy? Two Left Feet? I feel sure there's a pun in there somewhere, but I can't see it.
two shoes than "big shoes." And I don't understand the title. It's weird, though-since the "shoes" don't occupy one cell, but two different cells, one atop the other, it's more like. I do get that the shoes are "big" in that they are two stories tall. So my brain does not feel fully up to evaluating / discussing this puzzle. Blog drive enjoy Saratoga Springs drive blog, that's the day. Had to take a detour through the backwoodsiest parts of central NY to finally rejoin the 88 and then home feed cats dinner Manhattan and now solving / writing. During the return journey, I was daydreaming or otherwise up in my head and missed the 88 turnoff and was heading toward *&$%-ing Utica (!?) when I realized everything looked. Woke up at 4, solved and blogged, fed cats and ate breakfast, then drove to Saratoga Springs to visit my wife (away at a writer's workshop), then bopped around the town for a bit, then drove home again. As I indicated yesterday, the write-up is going to be a little short today because I'm tired from driving much of the day.
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