Paris Is Burning Page #3

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to trying to look like models -

like Iman

and Christie Brinkley

and Maud Adams

and all those children.

(Dorian) Everyone couldn't

be a Las Vegas showgirl.

Everyone couldn't put on

a stack of feathers and a big headpiece.

So they made the categories

for everybody.

That's what really made

the balls change.

So there was more

involvement.

Everyone that goes

to one of these affairs now

damn near participates.

Eventually, over the course

of a year's balls,

they've all walked the runway

in some category or another.

Either you've got a nice body

or you are very fashionable

or you're very pretty

or you're very real-looking,

but there's always something

there for everyone.

And that's what keeps

them all coming.

And it's like in nature -

I'm such a nature fan -

the young ones

are always bucking

to move the old bulls

out of the way.

That's why they change

and go through all these mad categories

that I never can

stay awake for.

Upcoming Pretty Girl 1986,

take it to the floor.

They're showing up

for the press.

Audience, please back up

and give them air.

Next category,

High-Fashion Winter Sportswear.

The Poconos versus

the Catskills.

Sexy body.

Is there anyone walking?

Some children were asking me

what I meant by "Miss Cheesecake."

That means you must not only

have a body,

but you must be sexy.

A lot of people have bodies

but are not sexy.

Best body!

Body, body, body!

And curves!

A body that says,

"Come up and see me sometime, big boys."

Going to school. School.

Elementary,

high school, college.

Not here. School.

(cheering)

Looking like a girl

going to school.

Do she look like a girl

going to school?

Town and Country,

exclusively done.

(man) Dupree, Dupree, Dupree.

Get into their suits.

I said,

the well-dressed man

of the '80s,

get into the suits

and get into the pumps.

(Dorian) In real life,

you can't get a job as an executive

unless you have

the educational background

and the opportunity.

Now, the fact that you

are not an executive

is merely because of

the social standing of life.

That is just the pure thing.

Black people have a hard time

getting anywhere.

And those that do

are usually straight.

In a ballroom,

you can be anything you want.

You're not really an executive,

but you're looking like an executive.

And therefore, you're showing the

straight world that I can be an executive.

If I had the opportunity,

I could be one,

because I can look like one.

And that is, like,

a fulfillment.

Your peers, your friends

are telling you,

"Oh, you'd make

a wonderful executive."

Is this the businessmen

of the '80s or what?

High-Fashion Parisian,

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