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Posters for the film illustrate the liberating, redemptive power of hope and the religious themes of freedom and resurrection, with the words:"Fear can hold you prisoner, Hope can set you free.When Denbo saw the contest, he killed the two zombies to save the hooker (although she was wounded in the arm by gunfire when she shielded him), and Denbo's quiet, slightly-retarded but trusted sharpshooting companion Charlie Houk (Robert Joy) (with a disfigured face from a fire) killed Chihuahua with one shot to the head.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.[Zira spearheaded the women's movement when she told her applauding women's club audience: "A marriage bed is made for two, but every damn morning it's the woman who has to make it! We have heads as well as hands.