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“The hunter and the prey.”

Face It: A Memoir by Debbie Harry

December 18, 2019 by Halbs Leave a Comment

It’s hard to stop looking at Debbie Harry. She is gorgeous, yes, and sexy, and a natural performer. What’s the most interesting thing to me, though, is that she’s largely inscrutable. Her Blondie persona is not her, not quite. As she explains, her Blondie character was sort of androgynous, “an artistic, assertive woman in girl drag” not unlike Marilyn Monroe, one of her big influences. To her, Monroe was “a woman playing a man’s idea of a woman.” If Debbie Harry decidedly isn’t the frontwoman […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: Blondie, Debbie Harry, music

Halbs's CBR11 Review No:45 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: Blondie, Debbie Harry, music ·
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