Entertainment Weekly

Best of 1998

#464/465 Dec. 25, 1998/Jan.1, 1999

John Cameron MITCHELL He did the impossible: He made drag cool again. In his funny, brainy, faux concert, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Mitchell goose-stepped onto the stage as a German-born Courtney Love wannabe-and bounded across the traditions of American theater. Hedwig's tragic tale of a botched sex change and hard-rock heartbreak will soon be an album, then a movie for New Line. But Hedwig leaves you spellbound, whatever she is.

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