He explains his past crime and his early parole from prison after being convicted of self-defense manslaughter in a drunken, bar-room brawl:I""ve been in the penitentiary for four years.)The patients are organized and controlled through a rigid set of authoritarian rules and regulations that McMurphy questions: "God Almighty, she""s got you guys comin"" or goin"".And become America""s hottest new actress."1982 became known astheyear with many Academy Award-nominated cross-dressing, gender-reversed, drag or transvestite performances/ roles with confused sexual identities:Julie Andrews earned a Best Actress nomination forVictor/Victoria (1982)as Victoria Grant, the title role singer who pretended o be gay Polish cabaret singer Count Victor Grezhinski, while co-star Robert Preston received a Best Supporting Actor nomination as her gay partner-in-crime Carroll "Toddy" Todd, who ended up in drag during the finale singing "Shady Dame From Seville"John Lithgow was given a Best Supporting Actor nomination for playing trans-sexual (sex-changed) ex-football player Roberta Muldoon inThe World According to Garp (1982)and then in 1983, Linda Hunt won Best Supporting Actress for the male role of Chinese-Australian photographer Billy Kwan in the next year""sThe Year of Living Dangerously (1983)Many other cross-dressing comedies - in the guise of examining male-female sex roles - played upon the same main features of this film, beginning with:I Was a Male War Bride (1949), by director Howard Hawks, with Cary Grant as a dress-wearing female to comply with the War Brides ActTorch Song Trilogy (1988), by director Paul Bogart, about witty drag queen actor/playwright Arnold Beckoff (Harvey Fierstein) in a film adaptation of the smash Broadway play of the same nameMrs.He looked through a scrapbook of clippings about his exploits, with pictures of his young victims, and described how he was trapped in Hell.The three films in the series were notable, in that each one earned more than its predecessor.With lots of cameos from major stars, including Tom Cruise, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey, Danny DeVito, Steven Spielberg, Quincy Jones, Britney Spears, Katie Couric, the entire Osbourne family, John Travolta, and Burt Bacharach, and more.