I'm watching an old episode of Saturday Night Live right now. Terry Sweeney is in blackface drag playing Patti LaBelle. The wrongness-meter just woke up the neighbors.
Wow, whatever happened to him?
When I belonged to a gay advertising-and-media professionals group in NY, Sweeney and his boyfriend/writing partner were guest speakers at a meeting (right after he'd left SNL). He was actually very smart and interesting, talking mostly about the fact that the SNL folks had never dealt with an openly gay cast member before. (He was best known for playing Nancy Reagan in drag.) He went on to write the screenplay for one of the better coming-of-age-in-the-'60s movies of the '80s,
Shag. But after that, I lost track of him.