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The two-hour event, Margaret Cho--I'm The One That I Want, is available through the Pay-Per-View services iNDEMAND, DirecTV, Dish Network and Cablevision. It consists of the film and 20 minutes of behind the scenes footage of Cho on stage and on tour. In 1999, Cho's one-woman show, I'm The One That I Want, won New York magazine's Performance Of The Year Award and was named one of the Great Performances Of The Year by Entertainment Weekly. In 2000 the concert film of the same name, filmed at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco, won widespread praise from film critics, including Roger Ebert, who gave the movie a "Thumbs Up." The independent film is one of only three movies in history to gross over one million dollars with fewer than 10 prints.
"I laughed until the tears were running down my face," said Stephen Holden of the New York Times in his review of I'm The One That I Want, "Her show is strung with killingly funny parodies." Cho was awarded GLAAD's inaugural Golden Gate Award, recognizing her as "an entertainment pioneer who has made a significant difference in promoting equal rights for all, regardless of sexual orientation or identity." Also in June, along with Adelphia's Bill Rosendahl, she will be presented with a Lambda Liberty Award. |
Margaret Cho: Celebrating on a Pride float 