Above all, she was her own creation. Even her name was invented. She grew up as Rose Louise Hovik. When asked if she ever explained why she chose the name "Gypsy," her son, Erik Lee Preminger, said, ...

Gypsy Rose Lee never rushed anything, certainly not a strip tease, and apparently not even her artistic rediscovery. “If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly… very slowly,” Lee had once ...

Gypsy Rose Lee was one of America's legendary entertainers. On this 100th anniversary of her birth, you may wonder just what makes her legacy endure. Rita Braver can explain: In 1943 she played ...

"Particles, legends, romance" -- Undressing the family romance -- The queen of striptease -- To Hollywood and back -- The rise and fall of the striptease intellectual -- Selling striptease Summary "A ...

Karen Abbott, who chronicled the Everleigh Club, a high-end Chicago bordello around the turn of the 20th century in her book "Sin in the Second City" returns to the past again with her newest book ...

Program notes on container. Performer(s): Burlesque routines and music; book and lyrics by Eli Basse ; music by Bobby Kroll. Table of contents Introduction --How it all began --Minsky's barker --We're ...

OFC Creations Theatre is bringing the son of Gypsy Rose Lee and Otto Preminger to the Rochester stage. Erik Lee Preminger joins ARC Rochester to discuss "Wherever We Go," the show where he talks about ...