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DIED. Howard (Butch) Kerzner, 42, South African--born casino and resort developer--and son of international leisure tycoon Sol Kerzner--who acquired and dramatically expanded the Bahamas' renowned Atlantis Paradise Island into a 2,300-room pleasure palace with 60 acres of swimming pools; in a helicopter crash; in Sosua, Dominican Republic...
...DIED. Willi Ninja, 45, lithe, athletic club dancer who, as the star of the 1990 documentary Paris is Burning popularized vogue dancers, a then-obscure subculture of New York City drag ballrooms; of AIDS-related heart failure; in New York City. The charismatic, self-described "butch-queen," born William Leake, later taught the martial arts-inspired movements in Europe, worked as a runway model for designers like Jean Paul Gaultier and taught fashionistas like Naomi Campbell how to strut with flair...
...Willi Ninja, 45, lithe, athletic club dancer who, as the star of the 1990 dance-club documentary Paris Is Burning, popularized vogue dancers, a then obscure subculture of New York City drag ballrooms; of AIDS-related heart failure; in New York City. Born William Leake, the charismatic, self- described "butch queen" taught the martial-arts-inspired movements in Europe, worked as a runway model for designers like Jean Paul Gaultier and taught fashionistas like Naomi Campbell how to strut with flair...
...most memorable portraits of any character yet seen in this medium, Bechdel paints her father as a classic "closet case." An obsessive home decorator and control freak, he challenges any gender non-conformity he discovers in his children, for example making the young Alison, whose playground nickname is "butch," wear a barrette when she doesn't want to. He also runs the family business, a funeral home, which gives the book its snarky double-entendre title. Far from fun, thanks chiefly to the father's quashing of all affections lest the "bad" one be exposed, Bechdel compares her home life...
...opportunity to dress like a doily and sit in the corner in silent anger while the rest of my family discusses in a whisper whether or not I'm a lesbian." Rebecca Drysdale, it so happens, is gay (and does a nifty Dr. Seuss parody about how the butch and the femme lesbians learned to get along), but she resists the label some have tried to stamp on her. "That puts something first, besides funny," she says. "My show's about a hundred other things." Like, oh, AIDS and Hurricane Katrina--for which she devises cheery mock-folk songs...