Leave it to Cleavage: I Love Elvira

October 31, 2006

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Last week on Twist, the radio show I co-host with Will Wikle and Melissa Carter, our in studio guest was the Mistress of the Dark herself Elvira AKA Cassandra Peterson.

I could not have adored her more.

First of all, she’s such a champion of the gays she insisted on coming in and doing the interview in the studio instead of phoning it in. Cassandra also served up some great anecdotes, like the fact that she grew up around drag queens (her mom worked in a costume shop) and they taught her everything she knows about putting a look together.

She added that her personal assistant is one of the best Elvira drag queens she’s ever encountered, though she worries that one day she’ll come home and find him trying on her clothes Single White Female style.

Someone should make a movie of that.

But what really blew me away about Cassandra was how much joy she seemed to get from being Elvira. She’s been slipping into that get-up and trotting it out for, what, twenty years at least, and she didn’t seem the least bit over it.

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