TV @ The Movies: "I'm a Veronica"
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 9:42PM 
I believe I've expressed my love for Raven of RuPaul's Drag Race before. I loved her ferosh wit and confrontational showmanship long before she owned me for good with her "I'm giving Michelle Pfeiffer Bitch" competition moment. Now, she's the main attraction (if you ask me) of Drag U, the spin off show with TV's most absurd premise: drag queens do makeovers on biological women. It's really quite quite perverse when you think about it. It's essentially telling women that their men will be hotter for them if they look more like drag queens! Is this show trying to create a whole future generation of trannychasers?
Earlier this year on Drag Race Season 3 movie-geeks everywhere were horrified to realize that half of the young drag queen contestants on the show had never heard of the high school classic Heathers (1989). This basic pop culture fail did not automatically eliminate them from the show even though there ought to be laws against that! So the self proclaimed Heathers of the competition banded together like true Mean Girls to belittle their pop-history-deficient competition. But Raven, queen bee of Drag Race Season 2, shows everyone how it's done on the season premiere of Drag U.
Manila tries the formerly successful mean girl moves on Raven. Manila starts throwing her shade at Raven and her makeover subject...
Manila: That's not sexy.
Raven: Why are you so concerned with Miss Denise. Should I call you Heather?
Manila: You wish you were a Heather!
Raven: Actually I don't. I'm a Veronica.
It's such a simple smackdown but it shuts Manila right up. See, everyone knows that Veronica > the Heathers. She's very.
Drag Queens, Heathers, High School Movies
Reader Comments (9)
Off topic:
Tang Wei's "Late Autumn" starts showing at AMC Empire 25 in NY this weekend. Ironically, "Jian Dang Wei Ye - Beginning of the Great Revival", the chinese propaganda film that cut all her scenes out completely is also showing there.
Didn't love "Late Autumn" as a whole, but Tang Wei was fantastic.
ooh thanks for the heads up. I shall see it.
on topic: what the hell is up with raven's lips?
par -- i believe she is "transitioning" into a duck. you have to admit though that the collagen inflation does add a certain scary volume to those kiss off moments, hunty!
I like Raven's cleverness and all but her weird new face is so sad and if she's still as bitter as ever, then blah @ her. I prefer Manila's winking, sly humour and clever costume tributes instead.
NO ONE IS WORTHY OF THAT VINTAGE NONI GIF. BOW DOWN.
I LOVE YOU TOO NATHANIEL R!!!
Raven -- you are sickening. i bow down. WANT TO INTERVIEW YOU.
Nathaniel, thank you so very much! But, i insist you stay on your feet...no bowing down! I would love to do an interview! How should we go about that? Are you LA based? You are too sweet by the way! I do wish more people knew the movie Heathers!
I am NYC based. but can do email, skype, phone, whichevs. You can reach me at filmexperience (at) gmail (dot) com
thanks for noticing this. i hope you checked out the michelle pfeiffer post ;)