A New True Crime Podcast Undresses Chippendales
When historian and podcaster Natalia Petrzela started researching Chippendales, the classic, campy male revue, she found there was a lot more to it than bachelorette parties and bowties. “The more I looked at Chippendales the more I realized that this is not just a story about the commodification of women’s liberation,” Petrzela says. “It’s also a story about an immigrant with a big American dream. It’s about capitalism and pop culture in the 1980s. It’s about crime, greed and ambition gone awry.” That immigrant was Indian Somen “Steve” Banerjee, who opened Chippendales on...
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