Franklin A poet-novelist who knew the Queen of Soul as a teenager looks back at the forces and influences that shaped one of the world's greatest singers. He pierces everything from tongues to nipples to, well, everything, but it's most fun when it's done with meaning. I didn't want hype. I think hype's dangerous. If Chris Rock is to be believed, it's a wonder there aren't more plus-size lingerie shops in Hollywood.
People always stare.
In some ways that's good, because a girl with big tits can go anywhere and people always want to do whatever they can for her. The comic with the biting tongue and the fighter with the biting teeth both decided that, in fact, their lovely wives couldn't possibly love them for who they were. The Watergate source was, he said, W. Mark Felt, the former associate director of the FBI whose name has long been among those considered likely to have tipped off the Washington Post's Bernstein and Bob Woodward about Nixon's scandalous White House shenanigans. Felt, now 86, denies the report. He reiterated that the once dynamic duo would identify Deep Throat only upon the source's death.