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With his elaborate makeup, outrageous costumes, bleached hair, and magnificently affected voice, he looks like the result of an especially reckless evening involving David Bowie, Alice Cooper, and a drag queen with access to an unlimited wardrobe budget.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd that's before he starts singing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the film, Beef is recruited by the sinister record producer \u003cstrong\u003eSwan\u003c\/strong\u003e, played by Paul Williams, to perform music stolen from composer Winslow Leach. Unfortunately, Winslow has returned as the masked Phantom and is less than enthusiastic about hearing his compositions performed by a screaming glam-rock diva.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeef's big moment comes during the opening night of the Paradise, Swan's extravagant new rock palace. Performing \u003cstrong\u003e“Life at Last”\u003c\/strong\u003e in a spectacular Frankenstein-inspired stage production, Beef delivers a performance filled with exaggerated gestures, theatrical posing, and enough camp to power an entire Broadway season.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen the Phantom intervenes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWithout spoiling too much for the uninitiated, Beef's performance ends with one of the most memorably outrageous onstage deaths in movie history. It's shocking, ridiculous, and completely in keeping with a film that treats subtlety as a personal insult.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough Beef's screen time is relatively brief, \u003cstrong\u003eGerrit Graham's performance became one of the film's defining attractions\u003c\/strong\u003e. His exaggerated femininity, flamboyant mannerisms, and wonderfully unhinged delivery made him an instant favorite among fans of glam rock, midnight movies, and queer camp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd \u003cem\u003ePhantom of the Paradise\u003c\/em\u003e itself is a treasure trove of that sensibility. Released in 1974, the film combines horror, rock opera, satire, and gender-bending theatricality into a gloriously strange vision of the music industry. While it initially struggled at the American box office, it went on to develop a fiercely devoted cult following.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor queer audiences in particular, Beef represents something irresistible: a man who is loud, excessive, unapologetically theatrical, and completely uninterested in conventional masculinity. 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