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Vintage burlesque still maintains an aura of smoky nightclub mystery, but the pre- and post-World War II heyday of glittery pasties, spinning tassels and well-placed sequins is now distant enough to ...

Their names sound like something out of a Wild West adventure, or a comic book. Tempest Storm. Blaze Starr. Evangeline, the Oyster Girl. Miss White Fury. And their lives were an adventure. And ...

Anecdotes aplenty tumble past the footlights in "Behind the Burly Q," a love note to '30s-era burlesque that plays best for those already invested enough in the milieu to hang on every word of aged ...

It was not the kind of stripping that we think of today. There were no poles, no overtly dirty songs and the women didn’t get totally nude, according to the new documentary “Behind the Burly Q.” “The ...

Emeritus beauties take a peep back at their glory days as burlesque strippers in the absorbing documentary “Behind the Burly Q.” Director Leslie Zemeckis (whose husband Robert directed “Forrest Gump”) ...

Alexandra the Great “48,” Blaze Starr, Tempest Storm, Lili St. Cyr, Candy Cotton, Sunny Dare, Gypsy Rose Lee: The names are as exotic as the performers themselves. They belong to women who bared skin ...

I love strippers! Always have and always will. Having said that I have never been to a real burlesque show. Oh, I’ve been to tittie bars, sure, tittie bars, absolutely! Four years in the Navy and ...

A succession of straight-talking elderly strippers relate the history of burlesque. After a perfunctory overview of the form, which arose in the mid-1800s and flourished during the Depression, pic ...

Alexandra the Great “48,” Blaze Starr, Tempest Storm, Lili St. Cyr, Candy Cotton, Sunny Dare, Gypsy Rose Lee: The names are as exotic as the performers themselves. They belong to women who bared skin ...

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