NYTimes.com – By Alessandra Stanley
It’s hard to be a female impersonator in today’s world. Today’s world is teeming with aging-not-so-gracefully actresses who are their own best impersonators: when Faye Dunaway served as a judge on the reality contest “The Starlet” on the WB a few years ago, she was a dead ringer for herself. Or RuPaul. Drag queens want to look like divas, but it’s a drag when so many divas look like cross-dressers.
“RuPaul’s Drag Race,” which begins Monday on the Logo channel, is a new reality competition that explores what it takes to be a drag star today.