Virtually all Hollywood gender-bending farces follow a direct creative line from Some Like It Hot. As Juwanna Mann shows, succeeding generations tend to produce pale, mugly clones in the same way that Michael Skakel is a Kennedy.

Still, the elements remain. The hero must hide out as a woman. He must fall in love with the woman who confides in him as a best-friend/confidante. He must be driven crazy with desire as they become pajama-party intimate (women always confide to each other while wearing sexy lingerie). And he must fend off the amorous intent of some horndog who buys his disguise all too well.
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