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Baker’s moneymaker still shaking
Josephine Baker and her famous banana skirt are still charming Paris more than eight decades since she first mesmerized the city’s girly show patrons. The production Looking for Josephine has been selling out there ever since opening in November. Though tinged with burlesque, it deals with the complexity of Baker’s life as an artist and activist.
Apparently the “splashy musical revue,” according to