Atlanta Strip Clubs: Gypsy Rose Lee protrayal that’s edgier, darker than ever

Posted on January 10th, 2011 in Atlanta strip clubs

Gypsy Rose Lee protrayal that’s edgier, darker than ever
By Special
For the AJC
By Eileen Drennen
For the AJC
If you think you know all about Gypsy Rose Lee because you saw the play “Gypsy” on Broadway, or loved the movie of the same name, come sit next to Karen Abbott.
Her portrait of the famed stripper,  “American Rose — A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee,” is both darker and more inspiring than the famed stripper’s version of her life as filtered by Broadway or Hollywood. Both whitewashed her damaged but enduring family ties with her formidable stage mother from Hades, Rose Thompson Hovick, who literally killed more than once to get her daughters where she wanted them. and her sister, the equally wounded actress and dancer June Havoc.

See the full article from “Atlanta Journal Constitution”



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