Word: raskind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Serve was an extremely sensitive one, so studio executives were shown test footage of "a young man" they were told was being considered. Laughs Executive Producer Linda Yellen: "We kept them going and then revealed it was Vanessa." By all accounts, Vanessa Redgrave gives an uncanny performance as Richard Raskind, the New York ophthalmologist who underwent transsexual surgery, became Renee Richards and joined the women's pro tennis tour. "I hold a tremendous empathy for her," said Redgrave, "a woman trapped inside a man's body." The actress's work in the film, which airs on cbs next month, earned...
...work, there is a clear separation. For Richards, however, no clear dichotomy between her first and second lives actually exists. In his young for motive years, "The best thing that had ever happened to me was being dressed like a woman." A few years later: "Though not fully awakened, [Raskind's] heterosexuality was beginning to emerge. He seemed to have arrived at the climax of an all-American boy-hood." Richards describes Raskind's pre-sex change dalliances with women and, stocked full of estrogens and dressed or undressed in drag, with men. Richards played both sides of the sexual...
...well know, it did not work and Raskind decided in the spring of 1975 to go through with the final stroke. It sounds feasible that Raskind had been able to live with the facts of his double life for 41 years but just got to the point where he needed a change. But some details don't fit; for instance, that "Dick" seems to have able to repress his feminine side enough to have a relationship with a woman during middle age. The reader suspects that Raskind, dissatisfied with his previous relationship thought Richards might have better luck
...sell--is Richards' openness. Though the book reads like a long string of one-sentence declarations, these certainly pack a punch. Richards shows considerable guts in spelling everything out; she discusses her relationships in painstaking detail, emphasizing that through it all both Dick and Renee have always been heterosexual. Raskind, it seems, spent a lot of time reworking his own body within limits. For instance, he used to tie his penis behind his rear end to hide it. Before his emasculation he would sleep with men but wear an impenetrable girdle. When his masculine side asserted itself. Raskind was very...
...Andy Raskind, in one of the more accurate statements of literary history, is quoted by his father as calling the whole episode "crazy." Richards does indeed seem crazy, and the narrative doesn't quite refute that impression. But she seems to enjoy telling her story, enough so that one enjoys retracing its wild twists and turns. And anyway, she is happy.RENEE...