Word: carousel
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Dates: during 1992-1992
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...film opens in Dallas, where Ruby (Danny Aiello) runs the Carousel Club, a burlesque bar. In need of a dancer, Ruby visits his usual haunt, the Greyhound depot diner, where he meets stripper-to-be Sheryl Ann Dujean (a blonde Sherilyn Fenn...
...Bahama Mamas and playing cards. Down on Deck 4, Tim and Ann Swan of San Antonio are dressing for the '50s rock-'n'-roll night. On Deck 5, Liz Scheetz from Chapel Hill, N.C., is slamming quarters into a Dynamite Jackpot slot machine, while around the corner in the Carousel Pub Mary Ann Brower of Pleasantville, N.J., is celebrating with a bottle of Freixenet champagne. In the dining room, with its two-deck-high wall of windows, the crew is getting ready to serve a dinner of lobster tail and prime sirloin to a sequined and tuxedoed crowd...
Though reading the testimony didn't give me much intimation of an assassination revelation, it was a revelation of another kind. In telling his life story, of how he wound up in the Carousel Club in 1963, the Name was telling a story of an American life -- of an America -- far different from the one I'd known in my suburban hometown...
...from the West Coast to Dallas looking for her. Picked up some work at the Texas state fair in a carney sideshow called "How Hollywood Makes Movies," which featured some of Jack Ruby's strippers. Made some connections and soon found himself living in the back room of the Carousel Club in the midst of Ruby's strange menage, which included strippers, burlesque comics, stage hypnotists and, of course, the dog Sheba...
...left town and hitchhiked 2,000 miles north to Michigan. Another buff had theorized that the Warren Commission was interested in the Name because he bore an eerie physical resemblance to Oswald -- which might have been an innocent explanation for some of the "Oswald" sightings in Ruby's Carousel Club. Other buffs wondered if he might not be one of the mysterious "Oswald impersonators" who was setting up the real, innocent Oswald to be the assassination patsy...