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July 2006



Flight Sergeant Kevin Cartwright- in Privates on Parade
Hey, we're as surprised as you are, sweetie...


This 1982 Pythonesque comedy reprising John Cleese's properly British Major character from Money Python is charming, wickedly funny and sure to make the denizens of Middle America Anytown Iowa flutter and fuss.  Men in dresses?  Solders in makeup?  We wonder how many of them would get the pun in the title?  Sputter, sputter.  Though we prefer--as MP would say--wink, wink, nudge, nudge...

Major Giles Flack (Cleese) is introduced to the SADUSEA (
Song And Dance Unit South East Asia), a military entertainment unit operating in Malaysia in the late 1940s.  Not a safe place, as it turns out. 



The very proper, very heterosexyual Major isn't quite ready for this assignment!  Guys in drag (an old British tradition, of course) and lots of hanky-panky, singing and dancing.  Who wants to fight when you can have fun? 
Those who have only seen Bruce in his scary villain roles have a treat and a surprise in store.  We have to say--even though we think Bruce Payne is the sexiest, most masculine man we have ever seen, in this film, he makes one of the prettiest girls. Bruce at 21--what a doll!  And he sings too!









  
                                                   Bruce is the pretty one on the left



Delicious Dollops of Divineness---Pretty  Privates on Parade:

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