
with Children, but died before he could perform. He was looking forward to a gay male role, Uncle Otto, in Married. He only performed as Divine in Lust in the Dust because he wanted to co-star with Tab Hunter, and only did Hairspray because he had a dual role, one as a man (Arvin Hodgepile) and one as Divine (Edna Turnblad) - and Milstead joked that he was not in drag for that role because no drag queen would ever be that frumpy. By the mid-'80s, Milstead was getting tired of drag roles.Milstead regretted the entire "eating dog shit" scene from Flamingos.Babs literally has a "shit eating grin" at the end of Pink Flamingos.When Earl Peterson tells Dawn Davenport to "go fuck yourself", Dawn already did "fuck herself" in Female Trouble.It's the Best Whatever, Ever!: People Magazine declared Divine "Drag Queen of the 20th Century.".Insistent Terminology: Milstead insisted he was not in drag in Hairspray because no drag queen would ever be portrayed as a frumpy housewife."I Am" Song: "I'm So Beautiful", from Maid In England.Fat Bitch: The book Videohound's Cult Flicks and Trash Pics described Divine's standard persona as "a shrieking 300 lbs.He was also tapped to voice Ursula, but passed away before he could record any lines. Expy: Ursula from the Disney's The Little Mermaid (1989) was modeled on him.Concert Film: Live at the Hacienda and Shoot Your Shot.drag performer to be restrained - though she was pretty low key as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray. Chewing the Scenery/ Large Ham: What, you expected a 300 lbs.

The talk of associating with criminals didn't bother them, what did bother them was the line, "I eat raw sugar!" Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Once while performing for the San Francisco drag troupe The Cockettes, he went into a prototype of the Blasphemous Boasts Dawn Davenport recited in her nightclub act in Female Trouble.Alliterative Title: His first album was titled Jungle Jezebel.Alliterative Name: As Dawn Davenport in Female Trouble and Francine Fishpaw in Polyester.

That, of course, was Divine's own real name.
