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Little Richard, Plus Why We Stop Listening to New Music As We Age

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The Struggles of Richard Nixon

Lisa Ling: I always wondered, how could this person be so out and so flamboyant and so overtly sexual on stage in a way that the other performers he's compared to could only dream about? How does he do this? And obviously it wasn't easy. But your movie makes the point, interesting, is that he sort of tempered the reaction to him by being more feminine, more gay, as opposed to the testosterone filled, you know, black man stereotype. It seemed like there was a conscious decision on his part, right?

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