Before the video revolution of the 1980s, it was damn near impossible for a suburban kid like myself to see the kinds of movies I read about in Danny Peary’s Cult Movies book. One of the titles Peary ...

Schwartz goes for conventional documentary structure, which works only because his subject is such an unconventional personality. Talking head interviews with family, friends, and colleagues; most ...

You wouldn’t think there’d be much of a demand for a 300-pound actor with extravagant eye makeup and a rather tasteless collection of frocks. But Glenn Milstead saw that need, or maybe just created it ...

“I Am Divine” is a welcome reminder that Baltimore’s favorite-son drag queen did more than eat dog poop at the end of “Pink Flamingos.” Much more. He was, in fact, a genuine force of nature, an ...

She was overweight, outrageous, shocking, ferocious, brash, crass, and in-your-face. And she was beautiful. The iconic Divine, branded the drag queen of the century by People magazine, ripped pop ...

Watching I am Divine, the feature-length documentary about the late legendary performer, I was struck with a powerful, overwhelming sense of nostalgia. My mind raced back to the very first celebrity ...

Actor Glenn Milstead, better known by his screen name 'Divine,' appears in an image from the documentary 'I Am Divine.' (Lynn Davis / Automat Pictures) You wouldn't think there'd be much of a demand ...

Back in the days when there were still plenty of taboos to be broken, Divine and John Waters had a crack at them all It must be hard to be a renegade these days. Everyone’s so tolerant and unshockable ...

The late larger-than-life, cross-dressing extraordinaire who ushered in the now-established world of theatrical drag (simultaneously bringing queer performance art to the mainstream) is given the ...

Jeffrey Schwarz uncovers the lovable man behind the cross-dressing John Waters muse and pop star. By John DeFore I Am Divine SXSW Film Still - P 2013 Six doors down the road from the Milsteads was ...