The media
Starting with Gore Vidal's controversial best-seller, Myra Breckinridge
has been a multimedia phenomenon. From the book have flowed a movie, a
stage play, a cook book and a book sequel.
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Gore Vidal's 1968 novel was the beginning of Myra mania. With no advance
publicity, the highly satirical story of a man-hating transsexual quickly
became a sensational bestseller.
Those who understood it were amused; those who didn't were shocked.
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Michael Sarne's 1970 film is unfairly derided as one of the worst movies ever made.
Nearly impossible to find on video today, the Twentieth Century Fox film
has become a cult classic.
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Gay porn pioneer Pat Rocco did a
Myra spoof on stage in 1970 called Myra Breckinbitch.
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Dill dough buns, hare pie and
fallatio all'arrabiata are just a few of the recipes in this 1970
collection by Howard Austen and Beverly Pepper.
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Gore Vidal published Myron in 1974. Myra and Myron fight for air
time in this far less successful sequel.
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