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1 online resource (xvi, 304 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Introduction : Diva complex / Michael Montlack -- Sappho: love, I implore you in polyester lapels / Michael Broder -- Queen Elizabeth I: heart of a king / Patrick Letellier -- Virginia Woolf: this perpetual revision of thought / Brian Teare -- Margaret Dumont: duchess of dignity / Christopher Murray -- Bessie Smith: empty bed blues / Sam J. Miller -- Claude Cahun: masks, makeup, meaning / Peter Dubé -- Gracie Allen: comic muse / Lloyd Schwartz -- Lotte Lenya: divine Weltschmerz / David Bergman -- Gloria Swanson: Sunset Boulevard / Edward Field -- Marlene Dietrich: falling in love again / Walter Holland -- Joan Crawford versus Bette Davis: "But ya AHHH, Blanche!" / David Trinidad -- Lucille Ball: flaming redhead / Lawrence Applebaum -- Mahalia Jackson: divine one / Forrest Hamer -- Julia Child: life's ingredients / Bill Fogle -- Billie Holiday: lady day / Alfred Corn -- Edith Piaf: a share of pain / Gregory Woods -- Evita Perón: Santa with a soundtrack / Guillermo Castro -- Grace Paley: O stone! O steel! / Mark Doty -- Ava Gardner: Small-town girl / C. Cleo Creech -- Aurora de Albornoz: tía divina / Scott Hightower -- Joan Sutherland: Dame Joan and I / Gary Ljungquist -- Eartha Kitt: purrrfectly detached / D.A. Powell -- Betty Berzon: Dinners with the diminutive diva / Jim van Buskirk -- Jeanne Moreau: living dangerously with Jeanne / Collin Kelley -- Jennifer Paterson ["Two fat ladies"]: cocktails with Jennifer / Jack Lynch -- Audrey Hepburn: adoration and the icon / Joseph Campana -- Ms. Kiki Durane: her sound and fury / Christopher Schmidt -- Elizabeth Taylor: the über-diva / Scott F. Stoddart -- Anna Moffo: her funeral / Wayne Koestenbaum -- Nina Simone: I got it bad for bangles and diamonds / Regie Cabico -- Julie Andrews: my first Maria / Mark Wunderlich -- Tina Turner: Tina and I / Jim Elledge -- Karen Black: diva of the deranged / Michael Schiavi. |
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Raquel Welch: as my mother / Ron Palmer -- Julie Christie: the Cocteau girl / Cyrus Cassells -- Helen Reddy: before anarchy / Richard Tayson -- Wonder Woman: exploring the Amazon / Jeff Oaks -- Diana Ross: how to reign supreme / Jericho Brown -- Rocío Dúrcal: the day she died / Rigoberto González -- Bette Midler: first loves / Steven Cordova -- Jessye Norman: Al ob Ich säuseln hörte / Dante Micheaux -- Liza Minnelli: everybody loves a winner / Jason Schneiderman -- Cher: History (1987-2000) / Aaron Smith -- Laura Nyro: all she asked of living / Michael Klein -- Stevie Nicks: "and wouldn't you love to love her?" / Michael Montlack -- Jessica Lange: isn't it a laugh? / Allen Smith -- Patti LuPone: Patti's turn, in the key of diva / Jonathan Howle -- Wendy Waldman: seeds and orphans / Paul Lisicky -- Cyndi Lauper: the sadness in her rasp / Steven Riel -- Rickie Lee Jones: the duchess of coolsville / Timothy Liu -- Annie Lennex: desire, despair, desire / R.J. Gibson -- Siouxsie Sioux: black eyeliner and dark dreams / Benjamin Harper -- Auntie Mame: "I'm going to open doors for you, doors you never even dreamed existed" / Lewis Desimone -- Kate Bush: the invisible diva / Reginald Shepherd -- Jamie Lee Curtis: when the artist met his muse / Vince A. Liaguno -- Sade: The other material girl / Christopher Lee Nutter -- Taylor Dayne: "Tell it to my heart" / Peter Covino -- Endora ["Bewitched"]: afternoons as Endora / Richard Blanco -- Björk: with regards to Ms. Guðmundsdótter / John Dimes -- Kristin Hersh: "Is sticky ever blue?" / Mark Bibbins -- Céline Dion: cirque du Céline / Jim Nason -- Parker Posey: a pocket full of Posey / Michael J. Andrews -- Margaret Cho: how to break every oriental stereotype in the book / Kenji Oshima -- Mary J. Blige: I take shallowness seriously / Jeffery Conway -- Princess Leia: Leia's kiss / Christopher Hennessy. |
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Gay men -- Identity.
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Gay men -- Identity. |
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Gay men -- Relations with heterosexual women.
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Gay men -- Relations with heterosexual women. |
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Gay men -- Biography.
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Gay men -- Biography. |
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Gay men -- Anecdotes.
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Gay men. |
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Anecdotes.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Gay men. |
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Gay identity. |
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Gay biographies. |
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Biographies.
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Anecdotes.
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Montlack, Michael, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: My diva. Madison, Wis. : Terrace Books, ©2009 9780299231200 (DLC) 2008043125 (OCoLC)262883577 |
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9780299231231 (electronic book) |
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0299231232 (electronic book) |
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0299231208 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780299231200 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780299231200 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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