peacocky

“We started with him being more peacocky, so full of himself and a big contrast to what was going on in the rest of Russia,” Perry says.

“They’re both at their most peacocky and glamorous when they fall in love, and they grow together as a couple,” the costume designer adds.

It was fun to put them in the book in their peacocky '70s incarnation where they really were the brightest stars in journalism.

In a recent interview, one of the film’s directors, Bryan Darling, told me he hopes audiences find the documentary to be an “empowering” discovery, or rediscovery, of the catalog’s peacocky fashion and pre-Instagram gay eroticism.

Jimmy is hungry and hustling; Saul, preening and peacocky; Gene, beaten and bitter.