Word: strippers
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...Closer, opening today at the Loeb Experimental Theater, a stripper, a writer, a doctor and a photographer randomly meet, have sex with each other and yet still remain, essentially, strangers. And that, says director Michael M. Donahue ’05, is a lot like life at Harvard...
...episodes easily equal last season's, which in turn surpassed the show's 1999 debut for power, popularity--and controversy. Last season established The Sopranos as cable's highest-rated series ever, but it also drew renewed criticism for its unflinching violence, especially against women, in episodes showing a stripper's brutal murder, Dr. Melfi's rape and Tony's beating of his mentally ill mistress. Italian-American groups and some women complained, and the president of NBC sent a tape of one episode to other executives, asking how the show's envelope-pushing would affect TV as a whole...
...Burlesque is not the only stripping-inspired phenomenon to find mainstream acceptance. Since last year Crunch gyms have offered a Cardio Striptease class that features exercises culled from stripper moves; disrobing is optional, but enthusiasts grow bold. "The regulars start to come in high heels or in new underwear," says founder, instructor and former stripper Jeffrey Costa...
...even as amateurs enjoy the more wholesome side of striptease, work has become more explicit in recent years for the pros. Marcy Finnas, 38, a stripper of 17 years who works in the Las Vegas area, says her job used to be more about performing. "Now," she says, with clubs and police showing greater tolerance of physical contact, "it's about sex. It's about getting men off." Whereas the stage was once the focal point of strip clubs, the job in most venues now consists almost entirely of giving lap dances...
...Internet Movie Database identifies Herb Jeffries as being of "Ethiopian-French Canadian-Italian & Irish descent," and notes that one of his five wives was the stripper Tempest Storm. Jeffries was a mellow baritone; he had sung with Cab Calloway. On screen, as Herbert Jeffrey, he became the smoothest cowboy west of Sugar Hill in four sagebrush sing-a-longs made in the late 30s at a black-owned California ranch. As Bogle observes, Jeffries and his light-skinned leading ladies were the "whites" in these films; the supporting roles were taken by dark-skinned comics like Mantan Moreland...