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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... Musicians were also needed by radio stations to provide advertis- ing spots and sound effects , and some of the big moviehouses hired musicians to play brief stage shows during the intervals between fea- tures . The very best - paid ...
... Musicians were also needed by radio stations to provide advertis- ing spots and sound effects , and some of the big moviehouses hired musicians to play brief stage shows during the intervals between fea- tures . The very best - paid ...
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... musicians . Though the distance between Reggie's hotel room and Billy's new resi- dence was only a couple of city blocks , with this change of address Billy left the world of her mother , in which marriage was " the only lookout , " and ...
... musicians . Though the distance between Reggie's hotel room and Billy's new resi- dence was only a couple of city blocks , with this change of address Billy left the world of her mother , in which marriage was " the only lookout , " and ...
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... musicians , " the niece remarked , and Billy , it seems , needed someone to mother her . Like Reggie , Helen played ragtime piano , which she kept up despite the hard work of running her boardinghouse , and like Reggie , she encour ...
... musicians , " the niece remarked , and Billy , it seems , needed someone to mother her . Like Reggie , Helen played ragtime piano , which she kept up despite the hard work of running her boardinghouse , and like Reggie , she encour ...
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But Who Was She? 18891928 | 13 |
Kansas City 19291932 | 33 |
19331940 | 47 |
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