Our Own JJ (not pictured) interviews the legendary Charles Busch and goes on to muse on drag (not in drag, on drag) at the new joint venture Thirteen/Capital.
As Peg, the boozy, washed-up screenwriter (Kathleen Turner) in Charles Busch‘s play The Third Story explains,
I told you the third story is often the best. The first is the genesis of an idea, but usually completely off the track. The second is when you go overboard with flights of imagination. The third story is when you return to the truth.
Well, you would think that La Cieca, being so boozy and washed-up herself, would keep so important a truth inscribed on a plaque or something so she’d never, never forget that, in the case of really major stories, it’s the third that finally centers in on reality.
That particular bit of wisdom has been brought home to La Cieca now that she has heard (from one of her usually reliable sources) a third and (who knows) perhaps even a truthful version of why that dramatic soprano left that opera company. Read more »
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