Bet on black: how Hollywood's off-center icon Karen Black wound up singing on the set of the new gay independent film Gypsy 83.(film)(Interview)(Biography)

Publication: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)

Publication Date: 11-MAY-04

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At first Karen Black had no intention of playing Gypsy 83's Bambi LeBleau, a small-town highway-lounge singer who threw in the towel after a successful New York career. "I thought it was an ironic parody of me," says Black, veteran of more than 100 feature films, including Five Easy Pieces, Nashville, Airport 1975, and Trilogy of Terror. But unlike Bambi, whom the movie finds singing in a roadside dive, Black notes, "I have kept working, even if I've thrown off the big movies I used to do. I still have three or four wonderful little movies coming out."

Gypsy 83 was written and directed by Todd Stephens, who wrote and produced 1998's Edge of Seventeen. In Gypsy, Bambi is muse to two outsiders on...

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