My G-String Mother

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Publisher : Frog Books
ISBN 13 : 9781583940969
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (49 download)

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Book Synopsis My G-String Mother by : Erik Lee Preminger

Download or read book My G-String Mother written by Erik Lee Preminger and published by Frog Books. This book was released on 2004-01-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 her life, a disastrous attempt to turn her home movies into a blockbuster—make for comedic yet poignant reading. My G-String Mother is a stylish, incisive portrait of two lives: an awkward adolescent who was as much confidante, co-conspirator, and companion as son, and the legendary woman who told police at a raid at the famous Minsky’s burlesque house, 'I wasn’t naked. I was completely covered by a blue spotlight.'

The G-String Murders

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Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 1558617612
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (586 download)

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Book Synopsis The G-String Murders by : Gypsy Rose Lee

Download or read book The G-String Murders written by Gypsy Rose Lee and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2012-08-10 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Burlesque is the background . . . [and] the background is perfect. Recommended for the readers who feel better when their eyebrows are raised.” —The New Yorker 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 burlesque, richly populated by the likes of strippers Lolita LaVerne and Gee Gee Graham, comic Biff Brannigan and Siggy the g-string salesman. This is a world where women struggle to earn a living performing bumps and grinds, have gangster boyfriends, sip beer between acts and pay their own way at dinner. Femmes Fatales restores to print the best of women’s writing in the classic pulp genres of the mid-20th century. From mystery to hard-boiled noir to taboo lesbian romance, these rediscovered queens of pulp offer subversive perspectives on a turbulent era. Enjoy the series: Bedelia; Bunny Lake Is Missing; By Cecile; The G-String Murders; The Girls in 3-B; Laura; The Man Who Loved His Wife; Mother Finds a Body; Now, Voyager; Return to Lesbos; Skyscraper; Stranger on Lesbos; Stella Dallas; Women’s Barracks. “[Lee’s] novel is a rich and lusty job, brimming over with infectious vitality and a hilarious jargon of her own.” —Life “A lurid, witty and highly competent detective story . . . Rich show business vocabulary and stage door gags make her book almost a social document . . . The G-String Murders builds up to a hair-raising climax.” —Time

Mama Rose's Turn

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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617038539
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Mama Rose's Turn by : Carolyn Quinn

Download or read book Mama Rose's Turn written by Carolyn Quinn and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hers is the show business saga you think you already know--but you ain't seen nothin' yet. Rose Thompson Hovick, mother of June Havoc and Gypsy Rose Lee, went down in theatrical history as "The Stage Mother from Hell" after her immortalization on Broadway in Gypsy: A Musical Fable. Yet the musical was 75 percent fictionalized by playwright Arthur Laurents and condensed for the stage. Rose's full story is even more striking. Born fearless on the North Dakota prairie in 1891, Rose Thompson had a kind father and a gallivanting mother who sold lacy finery to prostitutes. She became an unhappy teenage bride whose marriage yielded two entrancing daughters, Louise and June. When June was discovered to be a child prodigy in ballet, capable of dancing en pointe by the age of three, Rose, without benefit of any theatrical training, set out to create onstage opportunities for her magical baby girl--and succeeded. Rose followed her own star and created two more in dramatic and colorful style: "Baby June" became a child headliner in vaudeville, and Louise grew up to be the well-known burlesque star Gypsy Rose Lee. The rest of Mama Rose's remarkable story included love affairs with both men and women, the operation of a "lesbian pick-up joint" where she sold homemade bathtub gin, wild attempts to extort money from Gypsy and June, two stints as a chicken farmer, and three allegations of cold-blooded murder--all of which was deemed unfit for the script of Gypsy. Here, at last, is the rollicking, wild saga that never made it to the stage.

There’S a Wobble on My G. String

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Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1499026293
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (99 download)

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Book Synopsis There’S a Wobble on My G. String by : Ron Shapiera

Download or read book There’S a Wobble on My G. String written by Ron Shapiera and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kerry Wallace was the only child of average, normal parents. Kerry was not normal. She had great musical ability and was a very good and improving violinist. She was not normal. She was a psychopathic lesbian, with a compulsive desire to kill but not to be caught. Due to her mental instability, she was led into drugs. Her increasing need costs, meaning she had to acquire more money. Her life and ability to live as close a life to normal was severely restricted, and her abnormal mind was intent on achieving her goal.

Gypsy

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Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1623172780
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (231 download)

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Book Synopsis Gypsy by : Gypsy Rose Lee

Download or read book Gypsy written by Gypsy Rose Lee and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Awards, as well as raves from critics and audiences: “No matter how long you live, you’ll never see a more exciting production.” —Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal “Watch out, New York! This GYPSY is a wallop-packing show of raw power.” —Ben Brantley, The New York Times “Not your ordinary theater experience. This is the best production of the best damn musical ever.” —Liz Smith, Syndicated Columnist The memoir, which Gypsy began as a series of pieces for The New Yorker, contains photographs and newspaper clippings from her personal scrapbooks and an afterword by her son, Erik Lee Preminger. At turns touching and hilarious, Gypsy describes her childhood trouping across 1920s America through her rise to stardom as The Queen of Burlesque in 1930s New York—where gin came in bathtubs, gangsters were celebrities, and Walter Winchell was king. Gypsy’s story features outrageous characters—among them Broadway’s funny girl, Fanny Brice, who schooled Gypsy in how to be a star; gangster Waxy Gordon, who fixed her teeth; and her indomitable mother, Rose, who lived by her own version of the Golden Rule: “Do unto others … before they do you.”

Gypsy & Me

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Publisher : Little Brown
ISBN 13 : 9780316717762
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (177 download)

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Book Synopsis Gypsy & Me by : Erik Lee Preminger

Download or read book Gypsy & Me written by Erik Lee Preminger and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The son of the famous and eccentric ecdysiast recalls his life with his mother and her sometimes outrageous struggle to survive and to maintain her style of life, her menagerie of pets, and her teen-aged son

Mother Finds a Body

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Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 1558618015
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (586 download)

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Book Synopsis Mother Finds a Body by : Gypsy Rose Lee

Download or read book Mother Finds a Body written by Gypsy Rose Lee and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sexy, hard-boiled murder mystery by America’s most famous burlesque entertainer.

Gypsy

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Publisher : Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN 13 : 9781559360869
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Book Synopsis Gypsy by : Jule Styne

Download or read book Gypsy written by Jule Styne and published by Theatre Communications Grou. This book was released on 1994 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the greatest musicals of all time, with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. Gypsy is based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, a famous burlesque stripper. The musical focuses on her overbearing mother, Rose, the quintessential stage mother, as she pushes Gypsy (then known as Louise) and her sister June into life on the vaudeville circuit, forever trying to break into the big time. The musical contains many songs that have become popular standards, including 'Everything's Coming up Roses' and 'Let Me Entertain You'. Gypsy was premiered on Broadway in May 1959 at The Broadway Theatre (transferring to the Imperial Theatre), directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins, with Ethel Merman starring as Rose.

Mother Finds a Body

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Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 1558618023
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (586 download)

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Book Synopsis Mother Finds a Body by : Gypsy Rose Lee

Download or read book Mother Finds a Body written by Gypsy Rose Lee and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Burly Q circuit, settled as they are in a cozy trailer built for two. If you don’t count Gypsy’s overbearing mother, a monkey act, and Gee Gee, a.k.a. the Platinum Panic. Not to mention the best man found shot to death in the bathtub. Strippers are used to ballyhoo, but this time it’s murder. Leave it to Gypsy and her latest scandal to draw a crowd: Biff’s burnt-out ex-flame, a sleazy dive owner with a Ziegfeld complex, a bus-and-truck circus troupe, and a local Texas sheriff randy for celebrities. But when another corpse turns up with a knife in his back, Gypsy fears that some rube is dead set on pulling the curtain on her bump and grind. She’s been in the biz long enough to know this ghastly mess is just a tease of things to come.

No One Ever Asked Me

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803243243
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis No One Ever Asked Me by : Hollis Dorion Stabler

Download or read book No One Ever Asked Me written by Hollis Dorion Stabler and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young adolescent, Hollis Dorion Stabler underwent a Native ceremony in which he was given the new name Na-zhin-thia, Slow to Rise. It was a name that no white person asked to know during Hollis's tour of duty in Anzio, his unacknowledged difference as an Omaha Indian adding to the poignancy of his uneasy fellowship with foreign and American soldiers alike. Stabler?s story?coming of age on the American plains, going to war, facing new estrangement upon coming home?is a universal one, rendered wonderfully strange and personal by Stabler?s uncommon perspective, which embraces two worlds, and by his unique voice. ø Stabler's experiences during World War II?tours of duty in Tunisia and Morocco as well as Italy and France, and the loss of his brother in battle?are at the center of this powerful memoir, which tells of growing up as an Omaha Indian in the small-town Midwest of Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, and Oklahoma in the 1920s and 1930s. A descendant of the Indians who negotiated with Lewis and Clark on the Missouri River, Stabler describes a childhood that was a curious mixture of progressivism and Indian tradition, and that culminated in his enlisting in the old horse cavalry when war broke out?a path not so very different from that walked by his ancestors. Victoria Smith, of Cherokee-Delaware descent, interweaves historical insight with Stabler?s vivid reminiscences, providing a rich context for this singular life.

Sun Chief

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300002270
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)

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Book Synopsis Sun Chief by : Don C. Talayesva

Download or read book Sun Chief written by Don C. Talayesva and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1963-01-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the contrast in lifestyles of the author between his life among whites, and his life with the Hopi

Stripping Gypsy

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199754330
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Book Synopsis Stripping Gypsy by : Noralee Frankel

Download or read book Stripping Gypsy written by Noralee Frankel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this new biography of Gypsy Rose Lee, Noralee Frankel draws on archival sources to strip bare the myths created by Gypsy herself and to tell the real story. Although Lee published an autobiography that has sold steadily, this will be the first biography of her. Frankel combines politics with twentieth century popular culture"--Provided by publisher.

Will I Ever be Good Enough?

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416551328
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Book Synopsis Will I Ever be Good Enough? by : Karyl McBride

Download or read book Will I Ever be Good Enough? written by Karyl McBride and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book specifically for daughters suffering from the emotional abuse of selfish, self-involved mothers,Will I Ever Be Good Enough?provides the expert assistance you need in order to overcome this debilitating history and reclaim your life for yourself. Drawing on over two decades of experience as a therapist specializing in women's psychology and health, psychotherapist Dr. Karyl McBride helpsyou recognize the widespread effects of this maternal emotional abuse and guides you as you create an individualized program for self-protection, resolution, and complete recovery.An estimated 1.5 million American women have narcissistic personality disorder, which makes them so insecure and overbearing, insensitive and domineering that they can psychologically damage their daughters for life. Daughters of narcissistic mothers learn that maternal love is not unconditional, and that it is given only when they behave in accordance with their mothers' often unreasonable expectations and whims. As adults, these daughters consequently have difficulty overcoming their insecurities and feelings of inadequacy, disappointment, sadness, and emotional emptiness. They may also have a terrible fear of abandonment that leads them to form unhealthy love relationships, as well as a tendency to perfectionism and unrelenting self-criticism, or to self-sabotage and frustration.Herself the recovering daughter of a narcissistic mother, Dr. McBride includes her personal struggle, which adds a profound level of authority to her work, along with the perspectives of the hundreds of suffering daughters she's interviewed over the years. Their stories of how maternal abuse has manifested in their lives -- as well as how they have successfully overcome its effects -- show you that you're not alone and that you can take back your life and have the controlyouwant.Dr. McBride's step-by-step program will enable you to:(1) Recognize your own experience with maternal narcissism and its effects on all aspects of your life (2) Discover how you have internalized verbal and nonverbal messages from your mother and how these have translated into a strong desire to overachieve or a tendency to self-sabotage (3) Construct a step-by-step program to reclaim your life and enhance your sense of self, a process that includes creating a psychological separation from your mother and breaking the legacy of abuse. You will also learn how not to repeat your mother's mistakes with your own daughter.Warm and sympathetic, filled with the examples of women who have established healthy boundaries with their hurtful mothers,Will I Ever Be Good Enough?encourages and inspires you as it aids your recovery.

Enchantment Place

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780756405106
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis Enchantment Place by : Denise Little

Download or read book Enchantment Place written by Denise Little and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories centers on the opening of Enchantment Place, a new mall that caters to mythical beings such as vampires, witches, and werewolves with one-of-a-kind specialty stores.

American Rose

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Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 081297851X
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Book Synopsis American Rose by : Karen Abbott

Download or read book American Rose written by Karen Abbott and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER America was flying high in the Roaring Twenties. Then, almost overnight, the Great Depression brought it crashing down. When the dust settled, people were primed for a star who could distract them from reality. Enter Gypsy Rose Lee, a strutting, bawdy, erudite stripper who possessed a gift for delivering exactly what America needed. With her superb narrative skills and eye for detail, Karen Abbott brings to life an era of ambition, glamour, struggle, and survival. Using exclusive interviews and never-before-published material, she vividly delves into Gypsy’s world, including her intense triangle relationship with her sister, actress June Havoc, and their formidable mother, Rose, a petite but ferocious woman who literally killed to get her daughters on the stage. Weaving in the compelling saga of the Minskys—four scrappy brothers from New York City who would pave the way for Gypsy Rose Lee’s brand of burlesque and transform the entertainment landscape—Karen Abbott creates a rich account of a legend whose sensational tale of tragedy and triumph embodies the American Dream.

Lady of Burlesque

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Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786438266
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (382 download)

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Book Synopsis Lady of Burlesque by : Robert Strom

Download or read book Lady of Burlesque written by Robert Strom and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-03-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant woman who happened to disrobe for a living, Gypsy Rose Lee was commonly known as the "intellectual stripper." Born Rose Louise Hovick in 1911, she had meager beginnings, no formal education, and a mentally ill stage mother who criticized and demeaned her daughter. Despite these hurdles, Gypsy climbed to the peak of every career she tackled: she triumphed as an actress, novelist, playwright, artist, political activist, and, ultimately, a star. Appendices cover Gypsy's will and estate, the original production and Broadway revivals of her play Gypsy, and complete filmographies and discographies. The book contains many rare and never-before-published photographs.

Sex Letters to Mr. Anthony and Breakfast with the Wife Swappers

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Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 146918396X
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (691 download)

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Book Synopsis Sex Letters to Mr. Anthony and Breakfast with the Wife Swappers by : Anthony N. Bellon

Download or read book Sex Letters to Mr. Anthony and Breakfast with the Wife Swappers written by Anthony N. Bellon and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains 150 letters on practically every conceivable sexual subject imaginable form marrying a deceased lover to wedding a giant statue in a public square. Mr. Anthony gives each missive a witty and sarcastic wisecrack response. Each mailer writes two letters. Some of them are years and situations apart. There are sex letters from people all over the United States even one from a lowly, asexual amoeba to the spirit of a horny George Washington. In reading this hysterical collection, Mr. Anthony asks that you be completely nonjudgmental and to feel reassured that happiness is knowing that everyone else is miserable too. This play is a comedy about the wife swappers the-morning-after-night-before. One couple is seasoned at switching but it is the virgin experience for the other pair. Laughter reigns supreme throughout the entire hilarious two acts!