"Chicka-pah!" -- Along with some lady friends, I went to see "Connie and Carla" last night, and loved it...even while understanding why half the reviews are great, half terrible. Like drag itself, a light comedy about dinner theater and (faux) drag queens will be either something you enjoy or hate, no middling around. Nia Vardalos was funny, Toni Collette was totally brilliant, but the real standout was Alec Mapa, noted Broadway and TV actor, who gets all the good lines (he's named "N'Cream," for god's sake) and chokes Stephen Spinella (the "gay Laurence Olivier" who starred in "Angels in America" and so on) with a feather boa at one point, almost causing me to choke on a Bit O'Honey. Woo! Here's an interview of Nia by Alec in the Advocate. It's matinee material at least, folks!