"Jackie, Holly, Candy & Craig" (working title)
Author: Craig B. Highberger
Author: Craig B. Highberger
Based on my book 'Superstar in a Housedress' (2005).
Authors contact email: craig.highberger@gmail.com
Authors' phone number: 205-223-4477
Authors' phone number: 205-223-4477
SYNOPSIS
Craig, an NYU film school freshman in 1972 meets Warhol superstar Jackie Curtis. Jackie takes Craig to meet his grandmother ‘Slugger Ann’ who runs a working-class bar on the Lower East Side. Afterwards they spend the night in his dormitory. Craig goes to sleep with Jackie Curtis girl and wakes up with Jackie Curtis boy. That’s the beginning of a two-year relationship, with wild times with Jackie sometimes a boy, sometimes a girl.
Fellow Warhol superstars Holly Woodlawn and Candy Darling are part of the mix, and their escapades include shoplifting designer gowns, indiscreet encounters with sailors during Fleet Week, and mayhem and madness at both Max’s Kansas City, and Andy Warhol’s birthday party for superstar Ultra Violet. Craig works with director Ron Link who produces both Curtis’ Off Off-Broadway play “Glamour, Glory and Gold”, and “Cabaret in the Sky: An Evening with Holly Woodlawn and Jackie Curtis”. But clandestine drug use results in the end of Curtis and Craig’s relationship, and ultimately in Curtis’s untimely and bizarre demise.
Craig, an NYU film school freshman in 1972 meets Warhol superstar Jackie Curtis. Jackie takes Craig to meet his grandmother ‘Slugger Ann’ who runs a working-class bar on the Lower East Side. Afterwards they spend the night in his dormitory. Craig goes to sleep with Jackie Curtis girl and wakes up with Jackie Curtis boy. That’s the beginning of a two-year relationship, with wild times with Jackie sometimes a boy, sometimes a girl.
Fellow Warhol superstars Holly Woodlawn and Candy Darling are part of the mix, and their escapades include shoplifting designer gowns, indiscreet encounters with sailors during Fleet Week, and mayhem and madness at both Max’s Kansas City, and Andy Warhol’s birthday party for superstar Ultra Violet. Craig works with director Ron Link who produces both Curtis’ Off Off-Broadway play “Glamour, Glory and Gold”, and “Cabaret in the Sky: An Evening with Holly Woodlawn and Jackie Curtis”. But clandestine drug use results in the end of Curtis and Craig’s relationship, and ultimately in Curtis’s untimely and bizarre demise.
Awards Won
LGBTQ Unbordered Spring 2023 Platinum Award
Semifinalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards - Diversity Initiative III
Quarterfinalist, Filmmatic - Inroads Fellowship Season 6
The Short List - Feature, Barnstorm Fest 2022
Honorable Mention, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition Spring 2023