Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy TiptonHoughton Mifflin, 1998 - 326 páginas "Suits Me is the biography of a now notorious jazz musician named Billy Tipton, who grew up as Dorothy Tipton in Oklahoma City and Kansas City but lived as a man from the time she was nineteen until she died at age seventy-four. Billy Tipton's death in Spokane, Washington, made news all over the world, not because he was celebrated as a musician but because the scale of his deception - he had been "married" to five women and had reared several adopted children - and the scarcity of ready explanations endowed the skimpy available facts with the aura of myth." "But locked away in Billy's office closet lay files of clippings and photographs documenting the transformation of Billy from she to he, as well as a legacy of annotated comic routines, musical arrangements, and program notes. These revealed to Diane Wood Middlebrook how Billy scattered clues and riddles night after night about the drag she wore. These hints were so bold that they helped conceal Billy's secrets." "With brio and pathos, Suits Me tells the life story of this brilliant deceiver, who lived and loved in two skins, one of each sex."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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... George had big personal stakes in carrying them off . " Silly business " endowed them with the privileges of entertainers — comedians can say anything . George playing Cab Cal- loway made theatrical use of his dark skin . Billy's acts ...
... George had big personal stakes in carrying them off . " Silly business " endowed them with the privileges of entertainers — comedians can say anything . George playing Cab Cal- loway made theatrical use of his dark skin . Billy's acts ...
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... George was very , very special . George was sensitive about his dark complexion ; partnership with fair - haired Billy diminished the ambiguity . Maybe most important to Billy's security was George's lack of curiosity about other people ...
... George was very , very special . George was sensitive about his dark complexion ; partnership with fair - haired Billy diminished the ambiguity . Maybe most important to Billy's security was George's lack of curiosity about other people ...
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... George Mayer , " Corpus Christi Caller - Times , 24 Apr. 1980 . 112 Mayer was probably : George Mayer routinely gave inconsistent information about his age . His obituary said he was sixty - two at the time of his death , that is , born ...
... George Mayer , " Corpus Christi Caller - Times , 24 Apr. 1980 . 112 Mayer was probably : George Mayer routinely gave inconsistent information about his age . His obituary said he was sixty - two at the time of his death , that is , born ...
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But Who Was She? 18891928 | 13 |
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