RuPaul's Drag Race Season 5 — Page 12

I haven't had a chance to view the elimination "Lunch with Jinkx and RoXy"...When I saw Roxxy lashing out at everyone in the workroom, I was ready to view her actions in a different light....I saw pure panic, fear and stress....and I while I did't condone her behavior, I could at least understand the source of it.

But her "last-minute-in-front-of the-judges" apology to Jinkx came across as self serving, egocentric face-saving.

The public's reactive to Roxxy as been vicious...and beyond these comments, I won't heap abuse upon her head....but were I to be given free tickets to see her perform live, I'd decline.

That is awesome!

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Chad Sanders...

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So I watched Season 5's Snatch Game and you've got a room of gay men and only ONE of them knew what the f*ck Grey Gardens was?

For shame.

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But in gay/drag culture? Surely Alaska, Detox and Ivy knew. It's the pageant girls that seem to need to be completely naked to count to 21. And only if they're untucked.

I get the feeling there are a lot of past winners and participants who are not happy with production people and how things have gone down. Sharon has said some very shady stuff about RuPaul and been tagged as ungrateful. And Alaska is in RuPaulogize before anyone has been crowned. They said, at least last year, they film all three finalists winning and only Ru knows who will air as the winner. He could get pissed and ignore Alaska now. I am hoping they figure out a way to do it live, but I doubt it. There was some Q&A where someone asked Jinkx if they had filmed the finale and she was contractually obligated to ignore the question and not give a peep. In other words, yes, it has all been filmed.

I am very torn. I am Team Jalaska. Either would be okay with me at this point. I was all about Jinkx, but Alaska has given 100% this past two episodes and Jinkx looked a hot damn mess on the runway.

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"But in gay/drag culture? Surely Alaska, Detox and Ivy knew. It's the pageant girls that seem to need to be completely naked to count to 21. And only if they're untucked."

I don't remember who knew and who didn't, but most of them didn't know who Little Edie Beale was. I've always thought that the film's influence was being severely overstated anyway, I just don't think it is that widely known, even in gay circles, even with the film available on DVD, and maybe I'm wrong, of course. But for years I was the only gay man I knew who'd even heard of the film, much less seen it, and that was while I was working at a gay business in Chelsea, and for way too long I owned the only VHS copy of the film I'd ever seen. GREY GARDENS is a rarity, and not the kind of thing that someone like RoXy Andrews, Coco or Alyssa would get much out of, I'd say.

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Updated On: 4/25/13 at 03:12 PM

And...if I remember correctly...it was Alyssa and Coco (and maybe RoXy?) that were flummoxed by Jinkx's choice.

Does anyone own the DRAG RACE DVDs? I was just curious if they had the Untucked episodes on them as well.

we need video of that

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There was a big shift in his feedback. He used to always keep it positive and laugh, but now, especially in the work room, he pulls more of a Tim Gunn approach and tells them if he doesn't think it will work.

I don't really remember much about Ru in Season 4. What did he do?

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