I n 1995, Patrick Swayze , Wesley Snipes and John Leguizamo were praised — and hated — for pushing the cultural boundary for popular actors at the time when they donned drag queen personas in To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar . However, nearly four decades earlier, established actors Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis did practically the same thing in Some Like it Hot .
Set in Prohibition-era Chicago, Joe (Curtis) and his friend Jerry (Lemmon) are jazz musicians who work in a speakeasy run by mafia boss Spats (George Raft). When the pair witness a mob hit and are seen fleeing by Spats, they run away into the night desperately hoping to leave Chicago by any means necessary.
So when the opportunity to hop on a train to Miami presents itself, the guys disguise themselves as wo