The Goddess Bunny | |
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Directed by | Nick Bougas |
Starring | Sandie Crisp John Aes-Nihil Glen Meadmore |
Distributed by | Wavelength Video [1] |
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Running time | 85 minutes [1] [2] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
The Goddess Bunny is a 1994 American documentary film directed by Nick Bougas, which is about the life of a transgender woman named Sandie Crisp, also known as the Goddess Bunny. [3] [4]
The film depicts a tour of the Los Angeles, California underground transgender, lesbian, and gay nightclub scene, as hosted by the Goddess Bunny. The film also explores the life of Crisp, mainly focusing on her transition, as well as her battle with polio as a child.
Crisp became a subject of controversy when a video, which featured the Star Fox character Andross singing a Spanish version of "Itsy-Bitsy-Spider" before cutting to a scene from the movie of Crisp tap dancing, was first released in 2005 in the form of an online video on eBaum's World [5] [ unreliable source? ] and then reuploaded on YouTube. [6] The video, with the Spanish title "Obedece a la morsa" [5] [ unreliable source? ] or, in English, "Obey the Walrus", subsequently went viral, [5] [ unreliable source? ] [7] reaching more than 5 million views on YouTube as of 2020. [6]
The director, Nick Bougas, is also a cartoonist whose work has been described as racist, antisemitic and homophobic. [8] [9] [10]
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)But internet anti-Semites (or at least people fishing for a reaction) started splicing Garrison's work together with the work of Nick Bougas, aka A. Wyatt Man, a director and illustrator responsible for one of the web's most enduring anti-Semitic images.
So. You could stop right there and say that Nick Bougas is the most widely disseminated anti-Semitic cartoonist of all time and not be wrong.
Under the pen name of 'A. Wyatt Mann,' artist Nick Bougas has drawn many explicitly racist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic cartoons where there isn't even a pretense of humor.