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The AP article....
Blaze Starr burlesque dancer, pinup
queen, alleged JFK mistress dead at 83
Famed burlesque dancer Blaze Starr who said she
slept with JFK and whose affair with a Governor was
turned into a film starring Paul Newman dies aged 83
Blaze Starr burlesque dancer, pinup
queen, alleged JFK mistress dead at 83
and the Daily Mail....---
Filmmaker John Waters, a Baltimore native who celebrated the city's weirdness in movies such as "Pink Flamingos" and "Pecker," said he watched Starr's shows as a teenager, though he never met her. He said her wardrobe was a major influence on Divine, the cross-dressing actor who starred in several of Waters' movies.
"Other boys my age were at football games and the Orioles and the Colts, but I was thinking about Blaze Starr, and not in an erotic way, either," Waters told The Associated Press on Monday. "Just from a showbiz point of view, I respected her deeply."
Waters said Starr was an important figure in the history of postwar Baltimore.
"She was a stripper on The Block, which for a long time was Baltimore's only tourist attraction, really, from the Second World War and after, that was why people went to Baltimore," he said. "I still think she was the best tourist attraction that Baltimore ever had."
He said she was "never tawdry" and was able to build a diverse fan base.
"She had a sense of humor, and she turned what was once thought of as a negative career, being a stripper, into a class act in a weird way," Waters said. "No one looked down on Blaze Starr."
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Famed burlesque dancer Blaze Starr who said she
slept with JFK and whose affair with a Governor was
turned into a film starring Paul Newman dies aged 83