i saw a trailer for this on afro promo and the collection of movie trailer for movie feature african american . it look like what it be while a highly tendentious wacky comedy in which an uptight black man realize that his son be gay . it would seem that redd foxx ( rf ) wife have leave him for his brother and who work with him at the store back in phoenix . he have take the bus to visit his son norman be los angeles . so a rf arrives and norman and wear nothing but powder blue bikini short and get out of his waterbed to answer the door . try to buy time by make his elderly father take the stair to what appear to be the 60th floor and norman try to wake his lover and who steadfastly refuse to budge . it be just to the point where i write why would not he wake up . when suddenly he do and and me and my friend jaw drop for the first of many time a we be present with our first glimpse of the blue eyed and swirl hairdoed garson and norman white live in lover and who just have the most faaaaaabulous dream garson be a flame queen of a type that can only be imagine a emerge from 1976 l. a. he have dress and a purse and big clunky jewelry and and seem to have model both his look and persona on carol brady from the brady bunch . norman order his lover to find somewhere else to stay during his father visit . garson go to stay with waylon flower and and madam answer the phone when norman call . so rf attempt to reach his wife in mexico . while he be on the phone and garson come in to pack his dress and rf confronts him . with a burst of 70 soul music meant to evoke his dawn revelation ( but sound more like be about to hear a very special track by the emotion ) and he realize that his son be gay . his first impulse be i will kill him . i will kill him . then rf go on a long walk and wherein he cycle through all of the thought a confused parent might have and such a maybe we toilet train him too soon . his thought be all trigger by something he see on his walk and for instance a burly truck driver appear just a he be contemplate what make a real man . surprisingly and he go to a bookstore and buy about eight book on homosexuality . this and it must be say and be about eight more book on homosexuality than my parent buy . he then go straight to a park bench and read them all . rf then hire audrey and a six foot amazon prostitute ( in this amazing fur thing ) play by tamara dobson of cleopatra jones . he hire her for norman to try out heterosexuality and but this piss norman and he storm out to go stay with his friend melody . then garson come over and offer to take rf out for the night . he commiserate over the loss of rf wife and and tell the tale of his own mother and who harbor an irrational prejudice against pilippinos because she be molest at a luau . they attend a long featured performance of wayon and madam and which culminate in madam violently bash her head against the piano until her hair come loose . once more and mouth be agape . so it seem that and wouldn not ya just know it and rf and garson have a wonderful evening together . you see and staid and traditional old black men just have to see the crappy and highly effeminate entertainment of mega queen in order to come around to all the gay world have to offer . it really just that simple . this still do not prevent rf from yell rape . when garson wake him from a bad dream . it end less predictably than you would think . there be so much that be just off . what be the basis of norman and garson relationship . they do not seem to have any rapport and and norman have no qualm whatsoever about kick garson out and and even when he come around to stand up for himself and he never defend garson or talk about their relationship . there be some kind of sweetly quaint touch like rf go to buy all those book on homosexuality and sit right down on the park bench to read them . i like the idea that a parent would actually try to find something out about homosexuality and rather than just run off to get drunk or commiserate with his friend . other than that and it kind of just what it seem like represent a little relic of a bygone era and an era in which some gay people think that if uptight straight people just sit down and watch a drag marionette performance and we could all learn to love and understand one another . and because of the whole naiveté of this thing and the extreme stereotype and message laden dialogue just come off a charmingly outdated and and provide a great deal of grist for discussion on how thing have change for gay in the past 30 year . i guess the only thing that seem offensive be the idea that gays female friend be desperately in love with them and and be willing to get them drink in order to sleep with and and by extension convert and them . hey and check out cinema de merde and my website on bad and cheesy movie ( with a few good movie throw in ) . you can find the url in my email address above .