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Female
impersonator
Robert Stephens
has Spears
down patW hile on the road last
year filming his latest
independent movie,
director Ludi Boeken and his rel-
atively unknown cast decided to
stop at Hooters for lunch. (We
hear their chicken wings are fab-
ulous!) It would have been no big
deal except that one of his stars
looks almost identical to every-
one's favorite recording star,
Britney Spears. And, of course, he
(yes, he) was dressed in character
as the pop icon.
"We were so used to seeing
Robert as Britney, we didn't think
anything of it," Boeken recalled.
"All of a sudden we had like 800
LfCpeople looking at us. He fled, and
they chased him. From then on,
we just brought food to him."
The Mary in question (or
Robert) is Robert Stephens, a.k.a
transvestite Angel Benton, a mas-
sive Spears fanatic and imperson-
ator on the Southern California
drag queen circuit.
Boeken's latest film, cleverly
titled Britney Baby - One More
Time, is a comedy loosely based
on a true story about a television
news crew that mistook Benton
for the real singer. The movie,
which stars real-life filmmakers
Mark Borchardt and Mike Schank
(of American Movie fame) as the
reporters, premiered at the
Sundance Film Festival in Park
City, Utah, last week. For Benton,
who wisely ditched her Baby
Spice act to become Spears just a
few years ago, the movie marks
another strange turn in what has
been an adventurous run as a
drag queen.
"When the Spice Girls started
losing their popularity, I wantedQtexas 6
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