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Patty Duke as Billie: Role Model or Sell-Out?
Patty Duke as Billie Role Model or SellOut Author:Gary Gerani, Casey Bond What appears on the surface as a featherweight teenage romp is in reality a hotbed for social and political debate. Patty Duke?s Billie is celebrating its 50th birthday as a pop culture oddity. And there?s no better time to explore this neo-musical?s unique thesis on social change, political activism and gender identification disorder? all to th... more »e infectious Beat of mid-?60s rock and roll! Authors/debaters Gary Gerani and Casey Bond take readers through every stage of Billie, from its beginnngs as Broadway?s celebrated Time Out for Ginger to its current status as a cult classic. Along the way social experts and college professors weigh in with their views pertaining to this study?s central question: Is super-athlete Billie a role model for feminism or, because of her final, fateful, give-up-sports-and-put-on-that-pink-dress decision, a betrayer of same? Even Billie herself, Patty Duke, shares her thoughts on the subject. In addition to thematic analysis and behind-the-scenes revelations, rare photographs, many never before published, add to the overall fun of Patty Duke as Billie: Role Model or Sell-Out? So get in the game, readers? and take a stand!« less