Definitely Going to Watch the Miss Cleo Documentary

Okay, Hotline is not actually a Miss Cleo documentary: it’s a “look at the extensive world of phone hotlines — from sex to suicide prevention to Ms. Cleo herself,” of which the first part is certainly interesting enough. But Miss Cleo! I would consume any amount of material about the Psychic Friends Network and their public disgrace, and Miss Cleo is so very Miss Cleo in this Indiewire interview in advance of the documentary, in which she reminds the journalist that she came out in 2006 as a way of taking control of her public image. “I’m as gay as a two dollar bill, same as you,” she says. [IW]

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