In the High Holy Temples of Cinema

Tally Brown “graced stages of all sizes and delighted audiences of all types,” Melissa Anderson writes in our November 19, 2026, issue. As seen in Rosa von Praunheim’s 1979 documentary Tally Brown, New York, she was an “indelible figure: short and rotund, outrageously bewigged,” with “gapped teeth and mile-long false eyelashes.” Anderson’s essay, occasioned by […]