Chop Suey (2001)

A homage to Bruce Weber's Favourite things, these being mixing film, photography and classic movies. With portraits of a lesbian jazz singer and a 16 year old wrestler.

Director:

Bruce Weber

Writers:

Maribeth Edmonds, Bruce Weber

Stars:

Peter Johnson, Frances Faye, Herbie Fletcher

1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Peter Johnson	...	Himself
Frances Faye	...	Herself (archive footage)
Herbie Fletcher	...	Himself
Dibi Fletcher	...	Herself
Christian Fletcher	...	Himself
Nathan Fletcher	...	Himself
Rickson Gracie	...	Himself
Robert Mitchum	...	Himself (archive footage)
Wilfred Thesiger	...	Himself (as Sir Wilfred Thesiger)
Jan-Michael Vincent	...	Himself
Diana Vreeland	...	Herself (archive footage)
Teri Shepherd	...	Herself
Teddy Antolini	...	Himself
Jason Maves	...	Himself
Ryan Mickelson	...	Himself

Storyline

A homage to Bruce Weber's Favourite things, these being mixing film, photography and classic movies. With portraits of a lesbian jazz singer and a 16 year old wrestler.

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Plot Keywords:

lesbian | male model | homoeroticism | food in title | male frontal nudity | 

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Genres:

Documentary | Biography

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

5 October 2001 (USA)

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$10,472 (USA) (5 October 2001)

Gross:

$179,914 (USA) (19 April 2002)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Just Blue Films Inc.

Technical Specs

Runtime:

98 min 98 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Edited from Pretty Baby (1978)

User Reviews

Great to see Frances Faye sub for Weber and Teri too!

This felt a lot like DEATH IN VENICE, CA to me, who arrived at UCLA at 17 looking better than Peter Johnson and knowing who Frances Faye was from hip parents in Cosmo SF and the "in" crowd that was very rich and filled with artsier geniuses in posher houses.I hung out at the Interlude which was as gay as I was straight almost every night before enrolling at UCLA. The owners and the bar fans of mine and Frances' were my first taste of the gay world.In SF it was not happening yet except for decorators. It was there that I met Teri and became good friends for years and she introduced me to a lot of players in the film although I was much more white tennis sweater looking and acting and had a life in the Bel Air movie star tennis group within weeks. I did not meet Weber till NY which became my mid point on my way to Paris where I moved after dropping out of school.CHOP SUEY does have a wonderful feel to repression and Bruce's love for Peter who is really charming as his sexual preference is shielded even when he wears dresses and hugs elephants while nude on a beach. Nearly ALL of my favorite friends and some icons are there like a scrapbook to look at although I did miss a Weston or two.Henry Miller, Cocteau and Mitchum are joyful to see as it was to play with them once. Mostly, it is a lot of beautiful young men who never appealed to me at any time, but, to his credit, Weber crammed the faces with the gorgeous past and many parts of where I first learned that there were only '10,000 people in the world' thinking.Had Weber been handsome, he would never have become the success he did. It is kind of sad to think that, but, I revert to loving this indulgent postcard which fits just fine into my own past which had an equally innocent beginning as Johnson's.