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Stripper
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By CATHI SUYAK
"I've always wanted to get into
something G-rated," quipped Lorelei
Lee, hopefully but nervously, as she
waited to be called on to dance. "And
just think - maybe now I'll have a G-
rating instead of a G-string."
The annual auditions for the Ring-
ling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey cir-
cus chorus line offered Lorelei hope for
a new career. But she knew the pro-
bable result. She had attended many
simnlar tryouts elsewhere, and the ver-
dict was always the same: no one
wanted to hire for a regular acting
job a performer who had spent the
last few years as one of a leading
burlesque stripper.
"I've been on the road for the last
ten years. And whatever city I'm in,
working in some nasty local burlesque
theater, I go to all the legitimate play
auditions," she said.
"But they always look at me and
say 'What are you doing here? What
kind of place do you think this is, any-
how? A burlesque girl doesn't dance in
our nice place!"'
Consequently, she decided to join the
queue at Detroit's Olympia Stadium,
waiting for a brief moment in the Bar-
num and Bailey center ring-waiting
for that slim chance to be discovered.
Thirty other women were competing
with her for an opportunity to ride ele-
phants, wear gaudy costumes, and fly
through the air with the greatest of
ease.
"I love the circus. These are beau-
tiful, fantastic people," she said. "Just
think of the people I'll be working
with- I've worked with belly dancers,
strip tease artists, and a lot of them
are bad. Well, some of them are OK,
but here I'll be around folks I'm sure
are good."
She paused. "I'm getting on in
years. I'm 27 years old. I've got to
start wearing more costume. I just
hope they're looking for my 5-foot-7
height, blonde hair, and blue eyes."
She seemed tired of the bump-and-
grind world of burlesque. "Burlesque
is a dying art. It's getting too raun-
chy," she said. She stated that strip-
pers are paid well, "but it's practically
nothing after paying for all your own
transportation and costumes."
And travel on the burlesque circuit is
far from glamorous. "You might get
into Detroit when it's zero degrees out-
side, and you've got on the things you
were wearing in Houston. You're freez-
ting
ing out there at six in the morning,
just shivering like a nut.
"I've arrived in bus stations at 3
a.m. and had to walk ten miles to the
theatre or motel where I was staying.
The agency would say 'Oh, it's right
around the corner', but it would be
three miles away. I'd walk and walk,
dragging my footlockers and every-
thing else."
But Lorelei never heard from Ring-
ling Brothers after the audition. In-
stead, she was fired from her job at
a Detroit burlesque house because she
skipped a performance to attend the
circus tryouts.
"They blew their big chance," she
s-id, oiietlv, and prepared to pack her
footlork. r to once again return to the
hbrlesane tour - still hoping, perhaps,
for gnother chance at a G-rating.
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In the golden days of yester-
year, "when movies were mov-
ies" as Ross Hunter would say,
the epic spectacle was a stand-
ard option open to any film-
maker (they were movie direc-
tors then) who had the resourc-
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the project.
Today, however, with the ma-
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spectacle as it was once known
has all but vanished.
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wing near-fascist filmmaker
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Lion on the world, an unbeliev-
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of quasi-terrorism in the days
of Teddy Roosevelt .
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epic without flinching.
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these proportions and get the
money to do it, is a feat I
have no accounting for. But Mi-
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gent who evidentally has as
many good friends as he has
hard-core enemies.
A noted admirer of King
Chump himself, John Wayne,
Milius is despised by what he
terms the "liberal" critics, no-
tably his running battle with
the New Yorker's Pauline Kael.
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