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Article: Lady luck.(female impersonator The Lady Chablis)(Interview)
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- November 11, 1997
- Author:
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It's a fact. Everybody who reads Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt's juicy nonfiction novel, invariably remarks on the book's most vivid, least forgettable character: The Lady Chablis. Sassy diva, gifted raconteur, he-as-a-she par excellence, and now literary neophyte with her own yummy book, Hiking My Candy, The Lady Chablis is the fabu drag queen whom Berendt met while writing and researching Midnight and who has now, a decade later, nabbed a part in the film version of the book
Playing herself. That's right, The Doll -- as she alternately calls herself -- is now a genuine movie star. It all happened when Clint Eastwood started casting the ...