A post shared by Xentercircle.com (@xentercircle)Before they launched the phenomenon known as RuPaul’s Drag Race, the World of Wonder team (Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato) did both a documentary and a feature film about the notorious club kid murder of 1996.
I’m a talking head in the former and my blind item about the murder buzz comes up in the latter — namely 2003’s Party Monster, based on Alig associate James St.
James’ book and starring former child star Macaulay Culkin as the demonic club-kid leader Michael Alig and Wilson Cruz as the victimized drug dealer Angel Melendez.
Rocker Marilyn Manson played a trans diva on the edge named Christina.Well, the gruesome story (which involved hammering, Drano injections, and dismemberment) keeps growing and morphing.Daniel Auster (the late son of author Paul Auster) was the other person in the apartment when Melendez was killed by spiraling promoter Alig and the mysterious Robert “Freeze” Riggs.