Margaret Cho, stand-up comic, toured the United States with her show Notorious C.H.O. A film version of the show opened in Los Angeles on June 28, 2002 (see article in the Los Angeles Times of June 26). The film had its world premiere in San Francisco earlier in the month.
"Notorious C.H.O. is much more of a stand-up show, rather than a theatrical one-woman piece," Cho said about the live show, as quoted in the Boston Tab of October 19, 2001. "I developed it in Provincetown and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and I think it's got an edge that I'm the One didn't really have--there's more of a rock n' roll energy to this one."
Notorious C.H.O. "is about body issues, and about women's bodies, how society views women's bodies, and how we view our bodies from the inside looking out," said Cho as quoted in the Boston Globe of October 20, 2001. "A lot of it is about sex, a lot of it is about the politics of eating, about the way women's images affect women's psyches. Not just women, but men too, and especially gay men."
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