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Blaze Starr: My Life as Told to Huey Perry
From the 1950s through the 1970s, Blaze Starr was a world-renown burlesque entertainer. On the home town front of this author, she was the famous as the owner of the Two O'clock Club on the Baltimore adult-entertainment strip known as the "Block."
Miss Starr and I never crossed paths. She sold the Two O'clock Club in 1975 and I hit the Block three years later. Hardly a day passed on the Block in which some stripper-turned-barmaid or old-school booking agent didn't mention her, though.
Rarely have I felt more honored than I did last June 15, when the Baltimore Sun called me for a quote in her obituary. Over the days that followed, that honor translated into a remembrance I wrote for the Sun's Editorial Page.
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