Given that the frivolous days of disco are being played out again in film -- witness Boogie Nights and the upcoming movies 54 and The Last Days Of Disco -- it comes as no surprise that the equally campy era of glam rock is making a comeback.

Independent director Todd Haynes (Safe, Poison) will tackle the androgynous and glitter-laden scene that sprang from early '70s England through David Bowie -- or more precisely his alter-ego Ziggy Stardust -- Marc Bolan of T. Rex, the recently arrested Gary Glitter -- a dodgy performer whose greatest commerical success was a song on which he didn't even sing (Rock And Roll Part II) -- and Roxy Music.

Director Haynes' Velvet Goldmine, which stars Ewan McGregor as an Iggy Pop-like rocker in a gay love affair, is said to be making its debut at Cannes in May with a November release planned in Toronto.

"The '70s seem to have been celebrated more for their silliness and hedonism than for their complexity," Haynes tells the April issue of Bazaar. "For Americans, glam rock was a very exciting period. It put out images to kids that blurred sexual orientation in a very un-American way."

Velvet Goldmine also gets some music cred through executive producer Michael Stipe of R.E.M., who also helmed the accompanying soundtrack that will include such '90s acts as Radiohead and Grant Lee Buffalo doing glam classics.

Meanwhile, such fashion-conscious '90s music stars as Scott Weiland, parttime lead singer of Stone Temple Pilots and burgeoning solo artist, and Jarvis Cocker of Pulp, seem to be eerily channelling Bowie on their latest albums, 12 Bar Blues and This Is Hardcore, respectively.

Weiland, who has made no secret of his Bowie fixation, tells the current issue of Rolling Stone that he likes being a rock star right now.

"I'm glad rock stars and supermodels are becoming popular again," says Weiland, who will do a solo tour in the U.S.

"They are the only superheroes we have. Because life is painful, life sucks, you want things that seem fun, exciting. I'm like a combination of David Bowie and Henry Rollins. I like the flash and the glamor, I like driving nice cars but I'm so dedicated in my ambition, it's almost overwhelming."

But while Weiland revels in the decadence, Cocker, who will bring his band to an intimate setting in Toronto in June, seems to be bemoaning the drugs-and-drinks-and-sex atmosphere as he growls Bowie-like on This Is Hardcore.

"Entertainment can sometimes be hard when the thing that you love is the same thing that's holding you down," Cocker laments on the track Party Hard.

Weiland, who has had his fair share of drug problems, knows that all too well.