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In Minute 49 of The Whole Shebang, Mike and Jenny look at the dreamlike gauntlet of gay slurs and slurs for androgyny that Jack must walk by in the hotel restaurant, the trope of the gay waiter or maitre d’ and the gay sailor or matelot, the awesomely camp tableau of Jack receiving a rose from a clubgoer in a sailor outfit, the blurring and polymorphousness of identity inherent in Velvet Goldmine’s poststructural and queer aesthetic, Mandy’s relationship to Jack and the specter of Mandy being way more into Jack than he is into her, the legacy of the sometimes strained relationship between straight women and gay men, the difference between the Sombrero Club in reality’s gay clientele and the more bisexual clientele of the movie, Jack’s status as a true original and Brian’s sudden metamorphosis into a predatory figure, and we spend a very long time giving all hosannas to the arch, sexy, weird, delightful legacy of Jarvis Cocker and Pulp.
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