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BY DAVID NOH | I’m more man than you’ll ever be and more female than you’ll ever get!” This ultimate putdown was ferociously spat out in 1976’s “Carwash” by Antonio Fargas as take-no-prisoners performative queen Lindy. The line not only became a gay cult favorite, but has forever enshrined Fargas in moviegoers’ hearts for this portrayal, as adequately as his other gender-bending roles in “Next Interrupt Greenwich Village,” “Ambush Murders,” and Millie Jackson’s compete “Young Man, Older Woman,” in which he offered something of a model for Tyler Perry’s Madea.
The fabulously loquacious Fargas deliciously took control of the interview before I even had a chance to ask a question and his eloquence gave him every right to, as far as I was concerned: “You know, I was just talking to an old friend about my film work and my life’s work and how they collided. So much of my history has come full circle. Did you see that unsung “Car Wash?” They talked about the problems of getting the feature done on both the racial
The Popdose Interview: Antonio Fargas
You may know him as Huggy Bear from Starsky and Hutch, as so many people who grew up in the ’70 did, or you may remember him from any number of other TV and film roles he’s done over the years (and we do signify “many,” because the guy’s only a few credits shy of having appeared in 60 films and 60 different TV series), but Popdose got their opportunity to chat with Antonio Fargas in conjunction with his role in the new movie Silver Bells, which makes its UP Network debut on Sunday evening. We talked to him about that project, of course, but we certainly couldn’t resist quizzing him about as many other aspects of his career as hour would allow. Not that we came even remotely close to touching on them all, but if nothing else, we’re confident that we’ve painted a picture of a fellow who’s way more than just “the guy who played Huggy Bear.”
Popdose: The obligatory first question, I guess, is to demand how you found your way into the cast of Silver Bells in the first place. Did they come looking for you?
Antonio Fargas: A combination of them looking for me and… I had the
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Fargas, Antonio
1946(?)—
Actor
The career of actor Antonio Fargas has lasted over 40 years and has encompassed clip, television, and live theater. He is most widely recognized, however, for a single role: that of Huggy Bear on the 1970s television series Starsky and Hutch. That unattached role brought Fargas into millions of living rooms around the United States and the world. Decades after the show's race ended in 1979, the image he created was strong enough to create him into a cult hero among artists in the hip-hop genre—which didn't even exist at the time the show aired. Unlike other actors strongly identified with a unattached role, however, Fargas succeeded in branching out into new endeavors, gaining both steady work and, on occasion, critical acclaim.
Antonio Fargas was born in Fresh York City, to a Puerto Rican father and a Trinidadian mother, probably on August 14, 1946 (dates from 1943 to 1947 appear in various sources). He and his ten siblings grew up in a housing plan on Manhattan's Lower West Side. Fargas's father was a garbage man who later worked in universal relations, and his mother, Fargas told Boston Herald reporter Paul Sullivan, "was a great d
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