Leslie Zemeckis
Auteur van Behind the Burly Q: The Story of Burlesque in America
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Leslie Zemeckis is an author, actress, and award-winning documentation. Zetneckis wrote, directed, and produced the award-winning Bound by Flesh, about Siamese twins Daisy and Violet Hilton, as well as the critically acclaimed Behind the Burly Q, a definitive history of burlesque. Blaze Stabs is an toon meer icon of burlesque whose act included panthers and a couch that burst info flames. Blaze was a nationwide sensation known as much for her voluptuous figure as for her affairs with Earl Long and John F. Kennedy, and she remains one of the last living legends of burlesque. toon minder
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Feuding Fan Dancers: Faith Bacon, Sally Rand, and the Golden Age of the Showgirl (2018) 17 exemplaren
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- Zemeckis, Leslie Harter
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ZEMECKIS, Leslie - Geboortedatum
- 1969
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Land (voor op de kaart)
- USA
- Beroepen
- documentarian
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filmmaker
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- Zemeckis, Robert (spouse)
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The interviewees proposed a number of theories for the death of burlesque – television; unions; pornography – probably all factored in. Some of the dancers ended in drugs and alcohol; others went on to varying degrees of success in more mundane fields. For more than you may want to know, see Candy Barr, Gilded Lili, Flesh for Fantasy, Stripping Gypsy, and Candy Girl.
Not very well organized as a history; its genesis as a movie shows. However, all the stories are interesting. Well illustrated; none of the photos are all that titillating but you might not want to leave it around where your ten year old can find it. OTOH I wouldn’t be surprised if the average ten year old nowadays has seen more flesh than I have. Short bibliography; rather sparse index.… (meer)