Word: lilies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...themselves at perpetual high risk. I'm Your Girl, the record's midpoint and one of its high points, sounds at first like another improbably beguiling Snow song about love gone bad. I'm Your Girl is a love song, all right, but it is about Snow's mother Lili, who died of cancer...
...Lili Grossman was a former Martha Graham dancer who married an entertainer turned exterminator and raised Phoebe and her sister in the subdued suburban environs of Teaneck, N.J. Phoebe was a shy child. "If you remember," she says, "in high school there were always a couple of kids whose clothes were on crooked, whose glasses were really thick and hung sideways. Their hair was never right, and their clothes didn't match, and they looked like little lost souls wandering down the hallway. That...
...started in high school. "Would you believe I used to weigh 200 lbs.? And nobody liked me, nobody. Then I started with this lip-sync ensemble. They were trying to be real polite about my weight, but it was kind of an eyesore." She became svelte enough to play Lili von Shtupp, the hooker who sings I'm Tired in Blazing Saddles. Then she dumped the ensemble and went...
...feasible," she says. "So this is a nice substitute. Because I can get up there and be somebody I'm not and feel comfortable doing it. It's kind of like an escape. That sounds Hallmarkish -- I mean, totally generic. But I can get up there and be Lili von Shtupp in garters and be totally dragged out and say, 'Here I am, accept me.' And they do, they do accept me. I got third place with that act, and that was only because there were these two white girls ahead of me in housecoats and horn- rimmed glasses singing...
...Tijuana Jail at 45 r.p.m. Donnie Lovedart does a hip- rolling dance and flips hearts backhand to the ladies. The two girls in housecoats (bad news, Kim, they're back on the bill tonight) demand "R-e-s-p- e-c-t." And in a strategic countermove, Buchan leaves Lili von Shtupp in the dressing room, teases out her hair and does her Whoopi Goldberg routine instead -- head rocking brainlessly from side to side, arms flopping in front of her like windshield wipers in the delay mode -- a white woman from Illinois imitating a black woman from New York imitating...