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"We gotta make moments fabulous. Because no sooner is a moment noticed than it is gone,
child. And a life ain't something to be avoided" --- "Noxeema" (Wesley Snipes)
Noxeema Jackson (Wesley Snipes), Vida Boheme Patrick Swayze) and Chi Chi Rodriguez (John
Leguizamo) are gonna show America a thing or two about being fabulous. Dressed to kill, with their
Dynel tresses tossing in the breeze behind them, these three stars of New York's drag-queen beauty
pageant circuit have hit the open road in a 1967 Cadillac convertible. Destination: Hollywood.
But the trio is in for a detour when the car breaks down in the tiny midwestern town of Snydersville,
where drag queens are about as common as August snowstorms. "Those women sure are big," gasps
one of the locals. Up to now Snydersville has been a lot more like a graveyard than a town. That's all
about to change. The local citizenry is going to get an infusion of flash and glamour the likes of which
it's never seen. During the course of one incredible weekend, eyes will be opened, broken hearts
healed, and hair teased within an inch of its life.
Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze and John Leguizamo star in To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything,
Julie Newmar, a new comedy from Amblin Entertainment for Universal Pictures. It is the first
mainstream Hollywood feature to deal with drag queens as drag queens. Beeban Kidron(Used
People, Antonia and Jane) directs, and the original screenplay is by Douglas Carter Beane. The
producer is G. Mac Brown, and Bruce Cohen is executive producer. (The title of the film is the
autographed inscription on a celebrity portrait which Noxeema, Vida and Chi Chi take with them as
a good-luck charm on the trip.)
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