Audiences laughed with Hanks as a wisecracking cross-dresser on the early 1980s cult comedy series Bosom Buddies.

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Redemption comes, however, in the shape of Hubert Page (Janet McTeer) another cross-dresser, would you believe, but a far less anguished soul.

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He sat on a dais, where he was joined by his wife, the former singer Ri Sol-ju, and, a few moments later, an unlikely guest of honor: the onetime Chicago Bulls star and cross-dresser Dennis Rodman.

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