Before we had Carrie Bradshaw, The New Yorker had Lois Long aka "Lipstick". Hired at the age of 23, Lois Long brought insight to the New Woman of the mid 1920's. Lipstick would spend her nights drinking, dancing and dining at speakeasy's in New York City. She would stay out all hours of the night, and then go into the office in the mornings, still drunk, and write her columns. Lois Long allowed people to see what the new "normal" was for the new, middle-class woman who embodied the flapper's spirit and style. (Information taken from Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern by Joshua Zeitz)
2. Neil Patrick Harris as Hedwig
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Move over Barney Stinson, Neil Patrick Harris' best role yet is playing Hedwig in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch". NPH was born for this play. I saw it Saturday night, and could not believe how beautiful, magical, loving, inspiring this show was. Hedwig is performed as a conversation between her and the audience. There is a band onstage to support her, and interacts throughout the show. Hedwig is the story for a man who became transgender to marry another man during the late 1980's in East Germany. We go through the ups and downs that Hedwig experienced, singing, laughing and crying with her. I highly recommend everyone see this play before it closes!
3. I'm Addicted -- Essie
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4. F. Scott Fitzgerald
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At the moment, I am reading Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern and Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald. Both books speak about F. Scott Fitzgerald, and I have fallen in love. I know he spent way too much money that he didn't have, but the man sure knew how to party. Fitzgerald would go out every night, partying with the flappers, hanging out with other writer friends, and then turn around and write brilliant novels! And according to both books, Fitzgerald was very persistent with Zelda. Who doesn't want that?
