Picks and Pans Review: The Rupaul Show

By Joe Queenan

UPDATED 10/14/1996 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 10/14/1996 at 01:00 AM EDT

VH1 (Mon., Oct. 14, 9:30 p.m. ET, repeated various times)

B-

VH1 is always looking for ways to change its image as MTV's recycling bin. Well, a talk show hosted by a 6'5" drag queen certainly makes a change from those American Bandstand reruns. Not unexpectedly, hoop star Dennis Rodman is RuPaul's first guest; not unexpectedly, the king and queen of rehearsed iconoclasm do kiss. Wonder what Michael Jordan makes of all this. Or Dick Clark.