Peppermint Talks 'Murder By Death' On 'Problematic Fave'; The Joy Of The 'Best Of Snapshots'; The TIFF Of It All

Issue No. 4: 'Drag Race' alum Peppermint unpacks her problematic fave, 'Murder by Death'; Gloria Calderón Kellett and the joy of one-act plays; TIFF kicks off!

Murder By Death was Clue before there was Clue… there’s also Peter Sellers in yellowface

Before there were flames on the side of Madeline Kahn's face in Clue, Peter Sellers was doing full-on yellowface in the Robert Moore's whodunit? Murder By Death -- and we talked to singer, dancer, actor, and RuPaul's Drag Race icon Peppermint all about it!

Set up as a send up of the "old dark house" genre, the film had an incredible cast including the aforementioned Sellers in yellowface; the OG Obi-Wan , Alec Guinness; queen Maggie Smith; Columbo -- I mean, Peter Falk, the Bride of Frankenstein Elsa Lanchester; Eileen Brennan, who also starred in Clue as well as literary legend Truman Capote and James Cromwell in his first feature role!

It's a stacked cast -- and the movie is super-duper fun -- but the way they lean into the yellowface of it all makes it problematic, obvi…