Liz Goldwyn
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Liz Goldwyn has worked in fashion, art, and photography since the age of sixteen. She has produced major fashion shows and art installations, helped establish the fashion department at Sotheby’s New York, and was a global consultant for Shiseido America. Liz has written feature articles for international publications including French Vogue,The Financial Times and Hantasubaki. In 2001 Liz launched an eponymous line of jewelry which is sold in the US and internationally. Her documentary film on burlesque queens, Pretty Things, premiered in July 2005 on HBO. Liz’s first book Pretty Things: The Last Generation of American Burlesque Queens was published in October 2006 by Regan/HarperCollins and is available worldwide. Liz lives in Los Angeles.

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Doing Our Part for the 'Ball of Fire'

Posted March 8, 2010 | 20:23:56 (EST)

Betty Rowland, aka "The Ball of Fire" is a 93-year-old retired burlesque queen. We first met in 1997 during research for my documentary film on the last generation of burlesque, Pretty Things (2005). Betty also wrote the forward to my book on the same subject, Pretty Things: The Last Generation...

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Britney's "Knish" & The Lost Art of Flashing

Posted December 13, 2006 | 14:22:06 (EST)

Recently there has been a proliferation of tabloid celebrities going sans underwear and "flashing," a practice not unique to our current celebutants but in fact used by the burlesque queens of the early 20th century in order to give their audience a thrill and spread word of their skill. But...

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