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For many years, she worked and ruled the street. People came from all over just to see her perform. But things are changing now. The Two O 'Clock Club is under new management. The old -style burlesque shows are a thing of the past. What has happened to Blais Star? Well, there's some things that time just cannot change. After some 25 years in one of the world's oldest professions, stripping, Blaystar is still hot. Through time, the makeup may have gotten heavier, the gowns fancier, the strip more provocative, but the hair is still red, the body still deluptuous, and the rose still very much a part of the act.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144398/file/266873#t=21.56,77.74"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144398/file/266873/transcript/77091/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e A lot of people knock us, and if women knock us, they're only jealous because they'd like to do what we're doing instead of staying home. Is that right? and taking care of the husband and the kids, I think they'd like to be a stripper for a day, as long as they're far away from home and nobody's gonna tell. Just one time. I've had women tell me that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144398/file/266873#t=78.5,94.75"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144398/file/266873/transcript/77091/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e Blaze star came to the block back in the early fifties when it was a much different place than it is today. Hired by Mr. Goodman of the two o 'clock club, she married young and did well. Fortune came her way when she took her act on the road and she achieved fame as the outrageously public mistress of Louisiana's Governor Earl Long. She returned to Baltimore bought the club where she got her start and the rest is history.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144398/file/266873#t=95.32,119.96"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144398/file/266873/transcript/77091/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e had the measurements for this and that is really what counts. If you have the measurements and I had youth on my side, so if you have the measurements and look pretty fair with makeup, anybody can look pretty good. And the want to. Brother Bob Harrington says you got to have the want to. So, and you want to get on stage. So you mix it all up and you become a stripper.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144398/file/266873#t=120.77,144.29"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144398/file/266873/transcript/77091/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e You were very popular in the beginning. How did the other women who had been working in the clubs for a long time react to you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144398/file/266873#t=150.64,156.78"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144398/file/266873/transcript/77091/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e Well the girls that worked steady, they liked me, but the girls that would come in off of the road like two weeks, one week stands, they'd get jealous of me and I'd copy their act and I'd copy their wardrobe and they'd chase me with a butcher knife and oh I went through a lot.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144398/file/266873#t=157.37,173.13"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144398/file/266873/transcript/77091/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e Back in the early 50s when you started on the block in Baltimore, what was life like there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144398/file/266873#t=173.57,177.83"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144398/file/266873/transcript/77091/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e Back then, you just didn't hear of anybody taking drugs. It was an awful thing if a girl left drunk at night. And they had beautiful shows, beautiful wardrobe. All the girls tried to outdo each other to have pretty wardrobe. And all the clubs more or less stuck together and nobody took off pasties. Pasties are little bunches of beads you wear up here. Oh, really? Thank you. Oh really? You haven't seen them for years around Baltimore. You haven't seen them for years around Baltimore. You don't see G -strings anymore either around Baltimore. It's a shame the offers I get that one person could really make that kind of money when they can get 12 or 15 girls for that kind of money, young pretty girls, but really as you get older you get more famous.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144398/file/266873#t=178.6,223.57"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144398/file/266873/transcript/77091/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e So how much could you make in a week? How much could you make?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144398/file/266873#t=224.72,225.7"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144398/file/266873/transcript/77091/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e I've made seven, eight thousand a week.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144398/file/266873#t=228.03,229.61"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144398/file/266873/transcript/77091/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e And you get that today, that's the kind of money you get today.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144398/file/266873#t=231.29,233.35"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144398/file/266873/transcript/77091/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e I can get that today. In Vegas, I'll get ten. I haven't signed the contract because I'm holding out for ten. And I won't go unless I get it. I think I'll get it. I don't mess around. I go up there and do what I go up there to do. I don't wait around the stall. Guys don't like to be stalled, right? So I go up there and do my thing. Well, I still think it's an art. I try to make it as artistic as I can with the way you have to strip today. But there was a time when you kept on pasties and a G -string and beautiful gowns and all that. And today you go in some of these places and it's go -go girls with a nightie. No, not a nightie. A top to a nightie. A top to a baby doll nightie. And nothing else. So that's not artistic when you go up there. totally nude to start with. If you're gonna get nude, start with something on and work your way naked.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144398/file/266873#t=232.74,294.82"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144398/file/266873/transcript/77091/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e What goes on in your mind? What in the world are you thinking about when you've got all those people screaming at you and trying to grab you and everything?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144398/file/266873#t=299.02,305.72"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144398/file/266873/transcript/77091/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, I'm hoping there's one out there that I might get a thing going with, a nice relationship going. Really? Yeah, I'm always looking. I go peek out on that stage before every show, and sometimes the other girls in the show will too, and I say, hey, you see that one hands off. That's mine. Or the other girls say, hey, he's with a woman. So I bet it's not his wife. I bet he don't have a wife. And we make it look a little game to find out, or use an excuse to go over and say, hey, don't I know you from somewhere? Thank you very much for joining us today, and we'll see you next time. That's it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144398/file/266873#t=306.3,337.01"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144398/file/266873/transcript/77091/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e that's a real shock to me i thought you'd say that you know you didn't see the audience or the footlights were sites that you just blocked them out but you're trying you're looking for somebody huh looking for","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144398/file/266873#t=337.95,347.07"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144398/file/266873/transcript/77091/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, I go on there really looking to meet somebody and also to try to entertain whoever's there. To make them leave a little happier than they were when they came to the club. I feel they've been entertained a little. I'm never going to quit. I'm going to strip another 30, 40 years, things I can do with plastic surgeries, like taking an old car in, coming out with a new one. So I'm going to hang in there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144398/file/266873#t=346.78,372.51"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144398/file/266873/transcript/77091/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e Blaise doesn't perform that much anymore, but her lifelong dream will be coming true this fall when she'll be performing in Las Vegas. Stay with us. 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