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Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture

by Maria Elena Buszek

Published: 2006-05-31

Paperback: 464 pages

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Subverting stereotypical images of women, a new generation of feminist artists is remaking the pin-up, much as Annie Sprinkle, Cindy Sherman, and others did in the 1970s and 1980s. As shocking as contemporary feminist pin-ups are intended to be, perhaps more surprising is that the pin-up h...

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Tivoli

by Frank Van Straten

Published: 2003-10-01

Paperback: 256 pages

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Frank Van Straten recalls the Tivoli's best vaudeville, variety and review artists and all the behind- the-scenes drama. This flamboyant account of Australia's great theatrical past is full of evocative photographs and anecdotes that bring the whole era to life.

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Behind the Burly Q: The Story of Burlesque in America

by Leslie Zemeckis

Published: 2014-11-11

Paperback: 384 pages

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By the director of the hit documentary Behind the Burly Q comes the first ever oral history of American Burlesque--as told by the performers who lived it, often speaking out here for the first time. By telling the intimate and surprising stories from its golden age through the women (and m...

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Tempest Storm: The Lady Is a Vamp

by Tempest Storm, Bill Boyd

Published: 1987-10-01

Hardcover: 266 pages

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First Edition, 1987, first printing, 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1, INSCRIBED and dated by the author on the first blank page: "To Bill Tait Love & Passion Tempest Storm 11/11/88", an otherwise like-new, apparently unread, hardly opened, unmarked hardcover, with a price-clipped, otherwise like-new dust jacket,...

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Denholm's Wife: A True Story

by Joyce Keating

Published: 2012-04-26

Paperback: 234 pages

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Susan Elliott was the American wife of British actor Denholm Elliott (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Trading Places, A Room with a View, etc.). This is a true story of the life they shared before each dying tragic deaths - his through AIDS, hers through a fire in their home. Though the pages are laced throughout...

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Bill & Jessie's House

by Joyce Keating

Published: 2018-08-23

Paperback: 274 pages

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Bill and Jessie own a huge old home in Washington, DC's trendy area of Georgetown. They invite Morgan, their 33 year old niece and her husband Anders, to house sit for nine days while they vacation in London. Morgan is elated with the offer since as a stay-at-home mom for 4 year old Tyler, she feels...

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Gypsy: A Memoir

by Gypsy Rose Lee

Published: 1999-07-15

Paperback: 408 pages

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Gypsy Rose Lee’s memoir became a New York Times bestseller in 1957, inspiring the 1959 hit musical, two movies, and three revivals. Now a fourth, directed by Arthur Laurents and starring Patti LuPone, is lighting up New York, winning top Broadway theatre awards, including three 2008 Tony...

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My G-String Mother: At Home and Backstage with Gypsy Rose Lee

by Erik Lee Preminger

Published: 2004-01-20

Paperback: 288 pages

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Erik was 12 when Gypsy decided she was through with striptease—'I’m forty-two years old. Too old to be taking my clothes off in front of strangers.' Her endless schemes for staying famous and maintaining their extravagant lifestyle—a best-selling writing career, a musical based on he...

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The G-String Murders (Femmes Fatales)

by Gypsy Rose Lee

Published: 2005-06-01

Paperback: 240 pages

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A mystery set in the underworld of burlesque theater, The G-String Murders was penned in 1941 by the legendary queen of the stripteasers?the witty and wisecracking Gypsy Rose Lee. Narrating a twisted tale of a backstage double murder, Lee provides a fascinating look behind the scenes of bu...

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Mother Finds a Body (Femmes Fatales)

by Gypsy Rose Lee

Published: 2012-07-03

Kindle Edition: 199 pages

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This encore performance by the author of The G-String Murders is simply “one of the greatest mysteries ever written” (Philadelphia Daily News).   It’s supposed to be a quiet honeymoon getaway for celebrated stripper Gypsy Rose Lee and Biff Brannigan, ex-comic and ex-Casanova of the ...