Beautiful Darling: A Positive Transgender Media Portrayal
Filed by: Dr. Jillian T. Weiss
April 2, 2010 9:30 AM
http://www.bilerico.com/2010/04/beautiful_darling_a_positive_transgender_media_por.phpWith all the talk about negative portrayals of transgender people in movies lately (and by the way, did you hear they're changing the trailer on the trashy one?), it's heartening to hear that some directors have class. From Wednesday's New York Times comes word of what seems like a positive portrayal of transgender actress Candy Darling:
James Rasin's Beautiful Darling: The Life and Times of Candy Darling, Andy Warhol Superstar is a tender biographical portrait of the vulnerable transgender actress (born James Slattery in Massapequa, N.Y.) who dreamed of being an old-time movie goddess in the mode of her idol, Kim Novak. Organized around the reminiscences of her close friend Jeremiah Newton, it is one of the best documentaries spun off the Warhol axis. Darling was only 29 when she died in 1974. Had her impossible dreams come true, she might have starred in a film like I Am Love.
