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Title: Gorgeous George: Lessons From a Bad Boy
Post by: Natasha on August 26, 2008, 01:01:37 AM
Gorgeous George: Lessons From a Bad Boy

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121924235977856677.html (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121924235977856677.html)
8/25/2008

Mr. Capouya: I don't want to say that he invented flamboyance. But he
was a tipping person. He was the first to create an ultra-flamboyant,
gender-bending persona -- and to get away with it and make a good
living at it. Liberace and Little Richard followed. Everyone saw him,
and everyone knew he'd acted this way and had become a famous star.
Part of the thesis of the book is that many acts that later followed
can be traced back to him.