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...children are forced to live. The cast is a nice mix of high-profile TV faces (Ed Asner and Evening Shade's Michael Jeterin throwaway cameos) and theater veterans (Christine Ebersole as the heart-of-gold stripper Tessie Tura and Anna McNeely reprising her Broadway turn as the rival ecdysiast Miss Electra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bette Comes Up Roses | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

...opera hall against orders. MASH jumped back into the fray with a declaration that policemen, like all other citizens, are entitled to go to the opera. As for MAD, perhaps it could expand to meet the new crisis, possibly forming new groups called Memphians Against Damsels Doing Ecdysiast Routines (MADDER), Memphians Against Chest Hair at Operas (MACHO) or, to honor the Met, Memphians Against Culture Buffs Exposing Themselves Heedlessly (MACBETH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boffo in the Buff | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

...GRASS signs to picnic and sunbathe on the park's green expanse. Next, a few students from the nearby university shed their bras. Panties followed, and some men forgot their trunks. Dips in the park's crystal-clear waters became skinny-dips. But the real ecdysiast explosion commenced this summer. By last week, as temperatures rose, at least 400 nudes sprawled provocatively alongside the park's main path. In fact, passers-by wearing street clothes were often hailed with cries of "Why don't you take your clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Barefoot - and More - in the Park | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

...Star Wars' Darth Vader-complete with mask and laser sword-Johnson, 32, not only wriggles out of his elaborate costume but along the way he also executes a ribald torch dance, pours flaming alcohol over his body, swallows a lighted torch and twirls sparklers. The third and final ecdysiast is Larry Slade, 32, who once worked as a bodyguard for the pianist Liberace. To feminine cries of "Take it off, take it all off!" Slade slowly peels away his tight black outfit and then performs a slinky number with a towel under the kaleidoscope lights before he parades among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: And Now, Bring on the Boys | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...Pink Panther Strikes Again and a bed-hopping socialite in the film version of Harold Robbins' The Betsy. For her next act, in a British television special, Down backs into a role as Phyllis Dixey, the legendary English stripper. What is it like to play an ecdysiast, after Miss Georgina? The roles, says Down, have "no comparison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 5, 1978 | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

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