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	Girls Will Be Girls
	Richard Day Jack Plotnick, Clinton Leupp, Jeffery Roberson, Ron Mathews, Eric Stonestreet, Hamilton von Watts, Dana Gould, Chad Lindsey 2003		Drag queens are not everyone's idea of can't-miss entertainment. Taking that into account, the low-budget comedy "Girls Will Be Girls," featuring a trio of cross-dressed actors at one another's throats, is about as good as campy, bitchy burlesque gets. It's a broadly sketched revue about sketchy broads — specifically, a trio of divas on the prowl in Hollywood. Yes, this "Valley of the Anatomically-Incorrect Dolls" is a silly little bauble. It's also a salvo of bawdy, wickedly funny dialogue as its three twisted female archetypes — self-absorbed, way-over-the-hill actress Evie (Jack Plotnick); her embittered assistant/confidante Coco (Clinton Leupp); and their new roommate, the ripe wannabe starlet Varla (Jeffery Roberson) — collide and try to undermine one another. Evie's a drunk who wants to re-ignite her second-rate career and bed any male she can corral. Coco hears her biological clock ticking and longs for the man who got away: the handsome doctor who performed an abortion on her when she was young. Voracious Varla will do absolutely ANYthing to make it in the movies. They don't quite flip their wigs, but each performer fearlessly, hilariously embraces his inner woman. If you like such frolic, go and see.