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...star that was difficult to deal with? Liz Taylor. So we'd go in through the back door. We knew more things about celebrities sometimes than they knew themselves. We would have their beautician, we might have their sister, we might have a person in the contracts division of their lawyer, we might have their agent's secretary, we might have their boyfriend or girlfriend...
...Beautician: Lay back in the chair...
There was even a novelty song called Big Bad Bruce. It was a parody of a John Henry-style folk ballad about a beautician who "swished into town...
...When beautician Polly Tishun (Michael Kennedy '99) blooms from her stuttering shy-girl cocoon and becomes a sexy, successful presidential candidate, we not only see gender-bending acquire an occupational valence but also a post-feminist re-telling of the American teenager's Bildungsroman, embedded in a politicized pulp paradigm that we have not seen since the 60s (aka Celine Dion). Kennedy is fully aware of all the dimensions of his character but still manages to add symbolic layers even as he sheds tactile ones...
DIED. TAMMY WYNETTE, 55, country music's down-home diva; of a blood clot; in Nashville, Tenn. A beautician turned songstress, she performed often plaintive ballads that imitated her life story: five marriages, bankruptcy, a painkiller addiction and a kidnapping. Her iconic anthem, Stand by Your Man, made feminists wince--Hillary Clinton among them--but Wynette stood by her twangy tunes through more than 50 albums and 20 No. 1 hits. (See EULOGY below...