NY Mirror  In step with cabaret history, the Duplex's 50th
anniversary was an extremely worthy get-together (see number 2)
celebrating the Village spot that's launched as many superstars
as it has drunks singing "Memory." To commemorate the event,
talent booker Leah Sutton put together a fabulous variety show-
benefit filled with people who've worked at and/or drunk at the
Duplex. The tall and caustic Judy Gold was a riot, talking about
her "Hadassah arm" (the flabby area no trainer can help) and
saying, "I performed for President Clinton—and I did stand-up
comedy for him too." And our MC—the campy, rubber-faced comic
Mario Cantone—was manic, hilarious, and unstoppable, whether
impersonating various famous women doing The Vagina Monologues
("My vagina is an oven," he said as Julia Child) or explaining
that he turned down the meerkat role in The Lion King "when I
realized there'd be a puppet pinned to my fucking scrotum." He
even did Liza Minnelli jokes—this on the very day she was
announced as having encephali