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...fool you." Well, yes and no. Like Bessie Smith, Hopkins came up in the South, with a mind bent on singing. And like the 1920s blues singer, who was an imposing 200-pounder, Hopkins, 50, is a handsome ample woman. Rustling her voluminous, diaphanous blue caftan, she shimmies across the stage of Manhattan's Ambassador Theater in a rhythmic roll that more than matches her vocal size. Me and Bessie, Hopkins' nearly one-woman musical revue (she is backed up by two dancers), recalls the history of Bessie Smith, from tent singer to Empress of the Blues...
...person, almost introverted onstage." Also he was "quite porky. In a caftan he looked like a myopic nun." Still young Reg, unable "to chat it up with the girls," did what he could to change his unprepossessing image. He unsuccessfully tried amphetamines to cure his weight problem. He borrowed the Christian names of Saxophonist Elton Dean and Leader John Baldry to create a new stage name for himself. Then he went off to London, where he found work as an errand boy at a music company...
...Arab fast and I looked like one in the picture" To get the perfect shot, Kaye and photographers took over a gas station in Queens. "A crowd formed as soon as we got there," recalls Kaye, "and I was afraid the Jewish Defense League might show up." His caftan wasn't blown until one of Kaye's clients in radio saw the magazine and announced to his listeners, "That's no Arab, that's my Jewish agent." For his own part, Kaye says he is worried that his Zionist grandmother will be offended...
...There should be a limit to a person's trying to look younger than he is," says Rudi. "People simply have to get over their youth hang-up and accept their advancing years as a natural process of life." For senior citizens, Rudi has designed boldly patterned, caftan-like robes with stylish simplicity and stunning colors that may well win him more admirers -young and old alike-than his masculine miniskirts and barbered bodies...
...Welch, everybody conjured up this image of her in a plunging minidress, batting her long eyelashes at me in seductive silence over a candlelit dinner." Alas, it wasn't like that at all, reports Jon. "Our first interview took place in broad daylight, with Raquel in a voluminous caftan, drinking Gatorade and complaining nonstop about the problems of being a modern sex goddess." Despite that somewhat disappointing start, Larsen spent the better part of two weeks with Raquel, observing her on the set of Myra Breckinridge, interviewing her in her dressing room and back home. He found her refreshingly...