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Gypsy - June Havoc
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by YankeeJim | March 29, 2010 at 01:42 pm
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I am truly enthralled by Gypsies as I feel my nomadic life and heritage make me a part of the throng. I want to be.
The word Gypsy derives from Egyptian, similarly to the Spanish Gitano or the French Gitan. It emerged in Europe in the 15th century.[2] They received the name "Gypsy" from the local people either because they supposedly came from a land named "Little Egypt", or because some of them fit the European image of dark-skinned Egyptians skilled in witchcraft. On arrival at numerous places in Europe they claimed to be from Egypt, and were required to travel for seven years as penance for apostasy. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the name was written in various ways: Egipcian, Egypcian, 'gypcian.[3] As the time elapsed, the notion of Gypsy evolved including other stereotypes, like nomadism, exoticism.[4] John Matthews in The World Atlas of Divination refer to gypsies as "Wise Women."[5]
My favorite dessert is called braccio del Gitano, “arm of the gypsy.” It is a chocolate cake shaped like a jelly roll, though instead of jelly it contains rum flavored whipped cream.”
“June Havoc, immortalized in 'Gypsy,' dies at 97
March 29, 2010, 11:46 AM EST
Actress and writer June Havoc, whose childhood in vaudeville as Baby June was immortalized in the musical "Gypsy," has died in Connecticut at age 97, her publicist said Monday.
Havoc, the younger sister of famed stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, died Sunday of natural causes at her home in Stamford. Her death was confirmed by Shirley Herz, her publicist and friend.
While she never reached the fame of her sister, Havoc had a varied, successful theater career that stretched from 1918 into the next century.
With music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by Arthur Laurents, "Gypsy" is considered one of the best musicals ever written. The original 1959 production starred Ethel Merman, and it has been revived several times since. It also became a 1962 movie starring Rosalind Russell , with Natalie Wood as the grown-up Gypsy.
It focuses on the archetypal stage mother, Mama Rose, who ferociously pushes her daughter "Baby June" into vaudeville stardom at age 6 while her older sister struggles to compete.
The play was based on a memoir of the older daughter, Louise, who grew up to be Gypsy Rose Lee. Havoc made no effort to obstruct the show, though she detested it.
"It meant so much to (Gypsy), her precious illusion; it made her into an ingenue at last," Havoc remarked bitterly in 1998. "And I loved my sister, but I loathed her life."
She defended Mama Rose: "Mother was very prim, and she was tiny and lovely with big blue eyes. ... She was endearing and alluring beyond belief. If she had drive and ambition, what's wrong with that?"”
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YankeeJim
Arlington, Virginia, United States
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at 14:20 on March 29th, 2010
In death, there is happiness and diet, not to worry.