Word: xaviera
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reprehensible, it begins to lose its shame when it becomes big business. Men who were "in trade" used to be socially blighted. Acting, as long as actors were poor, was considered a dishonorable occupation for centuries--until mass audiences and later the silver screen turned actors into billionaires. When Xaviera Hollander announced that she had struck it rich, she was asking the world to take a new, mostly false look at prostitution. Her book took the profession out of the underworld and executive suites People may have groaned and snickered, but they read the book...
There is not a great deal to say about this pea-brained adaptation of a best-selling paperback by Xaviera Hollander, once secretary of the year in The Netherlands and, more recently, New York City's most prominent madam. In the old days, the book might have been called "spicy," delving as it does into the intimate details of the author's more elaborate entanglements. The movie-rated a no-risk R-is short on specifics of any sort and stringently unimaginative. If anything, it seems to be trying comedy, although not even that is certain...
...awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho is like granting Xaviera Hollander (the Happy Hooker) an award for extreme virtue...
...Massachusetts' Walpole state prison, Albert DeSalvo, "the Boston Strangler," has been baring his sex-obsessed past with some 1,500 women to Steve Dunleavy, one of the writers who helped out Xaviera Hollander with The Happy Hooker. "Albert wants people to understand about an individual with his tremendous sexual drive," P.J. Piscitelli, DeSalvo's lawyer, explained. The reminiscences were due to be published early next year - several publishers were bidding for them - when the Supreme Court ruled on pornography. Now, says Piscitelli, "we are injecting a lot of corn in place of some of the porn. The book...
...confidence of Xaviera Hollander, a 28-year-old Dutch-born madam on the fashionable East Side of Manhattan, by telling her that he wanted to observe the judges and politicians who frequented her brothel. One fateful day, Phillips, who usually avoided dealing with prostitutes because he felt they were untrustworthy, showed up to demand money. Ratnoff made a quick check, since all sorts of people claiming to be cops were in the habit of trying to shake down Xaviera. He found that, sure enough, Phillips was a bona fide policeman. "Let's wire up on him," a commission member...