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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... gave unsteady support on the bandstand . The eight - piece band he managed was now called George Mayer and His Music So Rare , a name copped from Jimmy Dorsey's hit " So Rare . " ( The running joke had it that Mayer's music was rare ...
... gave unsteady support on the bandstand . The eight - piece band he managed was now called George Mayer and His Music So Rare , a name copped from Jimmy Dorsey's hit " So Rare . " ( The running joke had it that Mayer's music was rare ...
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... gave me only one piece of advice : " Keep your underwear on and you'll be all right . ” I said , " Why is that ? ” And she said , " You will find out as you go along . " During 1942 and into the spring of 1943 , the George Mayer band ...
... gave me only one piece of advice : " Keep your underwear on and you'll be all right . ” I said , " Why is that ? ” And she said , " You will find out as you go along . " During 1942 and into the spring of 1943 , the George Mayer band ...
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... gave deeply of himself to William , and the content of what he gave perhaps offers an important insight into the character produced by this long impersonation . It shows us what Billy thought a son needed from a father . For William's ...
... gave deeply of himself to William , and the content of what he gave perhaps offers an important insight into the character produced by this long impersonation . It shows us what Billy thought a son needed from a father . For William's ...
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But Who Was She? 18891928 | 13 |
Kansas City 19291932 | 33 |
19331940 | 47 |
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