“Everything you said about her just sounded like it was made up,” we’re told in a new trailer for Valerie Kontakos’s “Queen of the Deuce.” One of our most anticipated titles screening at DOC NYC, ” the doc recounts the life and exploits of Greek-born business magnate Chelly Wilson.
“Queen of the Deuce” examines the legacy of Wilson’s gay porn cinema empire and her social, entrepreneurial dominion over “The Deuce,” New York’s infamous 42nd Street. Described in the synopsis as “a Christmas-celebrating Jewish grandma, a lesbian who married men, and a proud owner of porn theaters in 1970s NYC,” Wilson was a walking paradox whose self contradictions propelled her rise