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by
Liz Goldwyn
This
interview was originally published
in the October 5, 2000 Velvet Hammer
souvenir programme.
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Zorita
is a true character if I’ve ever met one. We began our correspondence
through letters and phone calls. She is tough and candid, calling her
burlesque colleagues “old tomatoes” and contemporary strippers
“trashy tomatoes.” She alternately calls her pubic region
“the waterfront” and “my knish.” She lives in Florida,
on several acres she bought from the income off General Motors stock
which she requested as gifts from every man she “dated.”
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She is very private and does not allow visitors or gawkers into her
life anymore. She is concerned about me coming to visit her because
she worries that she won’t live up to her former image of herself.
It is a complaint I have heard before--women who made their careers
out of their beauty who feel that age hasn’t served them well.
My aim is not to present days long past as faded glory; the passing
of time and perspective, changes that come, are just as interesting
and important. Zorita sends me a letter a few days before I leave telling
me that she hasn’t ever let anyone into her home before, that she
and her companion live a quiet life and don’t want any complications.
I know she has made a huge leap of faith to allow me to come and am
nervous of her impressions of me.
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