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    CHANGING HIS STRIPES

    Mar 20, 2022 4 minutes
     by RUSSELL BAILLIE

    John Cameron Mitchell will forever be known as the creator of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the movie and musical that became the Rocky Horror Picture Show of its age. After co-writing and starring in the 1998 off-Broadway production, Mitchell directed and starred in the acclaimed 2001 film, starting a lasting cult following that has spawned stage revivals around the world ever since.

    Since then, there’s been the sexually graphic but good-natured , and many other directing and acting roles. Now Mitchell is the Tiger King – he’s playing Joe Exotic, the outlandish star of the Netflix real-life big-cat true-crime series, in the drama . With comedian Kate McKinnon in the

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