God Bless Lili St. Cyr!

For current audiences raised on a diet of dirtpipe milkshakes and anal creampies, the name Lili St. Cyr is probably best known from a throwaway line in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show". But in her day, Lili was every bit as much of a superstar in her field as Jenna and Tera are in theirs (i.e., fashion design and pot smoking, respectively). Author Kelly DiNardo's brand new "Gilded Lili: Lili St. Cyr and the Striptease Mystique" puts the spotlight back on one of burlesque's brightest stars, and chronicles a life that includes six husbands, several obscenity trials, a handful of "art" films, and a successful lingerie line. So if you ever wondered what Janet was going on about ... well, now you know.

· Order: "Gilded Lili: Lili St. Cyr and the Striptease Mystqiue" (Amazon)
· "Top Ten Reasons to Buy Gilded Lili" (Kelly DiNardo's blog @ thecandypitch.blogspot.com; see also YouTube book trailer here)
· Lili St. Cyr (Wikipedia)
· Lili St. Cyr, the queen of Burlesque (bio + galleries @ vivavavoom.com)

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Previously: The Candy Pitch: Burlesque News You Can Use, "Strippers: The Untold History of the Girlie Show", Vintage Pulchritude: The Sexy Of Yore, Ten Striptease Pioneers