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  1. Jul 23, 2019 · Drop Dead Gorgeous was a whole other beast, ... Minnesota, as "Lost Picasso" by Hot Sauce Johnson (a song and band that couldn't be any more 1999 if it tried) plays. The year is 1995, and a ...

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  2. Cult status. Soundtrack. References. External links. Drop Dead Gorgeous (film) Drop Dead Gorgeous is a 1999 American satirical mockumentary black comedy film directed by Michael Patrick Jann and written by Lona Williams.

  3. Jul 23, 1999 · For satire to work, it has to contain a kernel of truth. What made "Fargo" brilliant was the way it combined satire with affection and accuracy. The climax of "Drop Dead Gorgeous" contains a few cheerfully disgusting scenes that qualify it to open in this Summer of Raunch. But once again, the ideas are funnier than the images.

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  5. Jul 5, 2019 · Nearly every review of the movie compares it unfavorably to “Smile,” a beauty-pageant satire from 1975, which was directed by Michael Ritchie.

  6. One song that has always resonated with me is “The Show Must Go On” by Drop Dead, Gorgeous. This track, featured on their album “In Vogue” released in 2006, holds a special place in my heart.

  7. Jul 23, 1999 · "Drop Dead Gorgeous" isn't exactly what I would call a subtle satire. They use some standard situations, magnify them by a factor of 1000 and then aim at them with a large cannon so they certainly will not miss their target. Does that mean that the humor isn't any good? No, certainly not.

  8. Jan 17, 2022 · In 1999, perhaps the film’s satire of white evangelical Christianity and its fervor against gun culture and crass capitalism cost it some viewers. Becky is an avid shooter; Tammy is the newly elected president of the “Lutheran Sisterhood Gun Club”; Gladys, we learn later, is prone to gun violence.

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