Jan 9, 2011

Happy birthday, Gypsy Rose Lee: A strip show at the library



















January 8, 2011


In celebration of her 100th birthday the New York Public Library hosted a book launch — with strippers — for American Rose, a new biography about Gypsy Rose Lee and the burlesque that was her life.  It was a spectacle, but senior subscribers and artsy folk in the audience took it in stride.