Girls, Set Your Calendars For This!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Lucy Harbin took an ax!
Took an ax!
Took an ax!
---from "Strait-Jacket", written by Robert Bloch

I am talking, darlings, about Thursday, January 26, when, in what has come to be almost an annual (or bi-annual) event, Chelsea Classics, and Hedda Lettuce (the granddaughter of Bedda Lettuce, and the great niece of Nedda Iceberg!!!) will once again present the Joan Crawford classic, "Strait-Jacket," and I want to see all my girls there!!!!!!!!!

This is one evening you will not want to miss!!!!! A Camp Hoo-Down!!!!!! It may not be one of Joan's best films, but it certainly one of the most memorable, and one of my faves!!!!!!!!!!!

She plays Lucy Harbin, "very much a woman, very much aware of the fact," a glammed up Lizzie Borden, institutionalized for a series of ax murders. No repressed spinster she, and, honey, you have just GOT to see the scene where she lops off the head of her husband, played in an auspicious and uncredited debut, by a young Lee Majors!!!!!!!!!

Lucy spends twenty years in the loony bin--"Twenty years of PURE Hell!"--and no sooner is she out, than people are being axed again!!!!! Who could blame Lucy, now forced to stay with her Ice Queen sister-n-law, played with such frostiness by Rochelle Hudson, I was hoping she would get offed, not to mention her Miss Butter Wouldn't Melt In Her Mouth daughter, Carol, now engaged to Michael Field, the scion to a dairy, whose mother knows the true importance of social origins, let me tell you, and whose son is such a horn dog, he is ready to bang anything in sight--Joan, Rochelle, or his mother!!!--because he sure as hell ain't gettin' any from Miss Goody Two Shoes, Carol, brilliantly played by Diane Baker in a series of early 60's fashion getups that will just have you on the floor, darlings!!!!!!!!!!!

This is a film that enough just can't be written about. Though not for the same reasons, as, say, "The Wizard Of Oz." I still say some composer should be commissioned to write this an an opera for the Met, because the climactic scene with the Dueling Joans outdoes even the Mad Scene in "Lucia Di Lammermoor"!!!!!

Girls, if you have seen this film before, you owe it to yourselves to see it again!!! It will liven up your evening during the altogether dreary period of late January!!!!! And if you have NEVER seen it--well, lambs, there is NO excuse!!!!! I want to see each and every one of you at the Clearview Chelsea the night of January 26, this year, for the Campfest that is "Strait-Jacket!"

This is one film that should be seen with a bunch of Screaming Queens!!!!!! For those of you who may be single, you could get lucky that night!
Or meet the Man Of Your Dreams!!!!!!! I will be going to this with mine, dolls!!!!!!!!

See you there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!