Who Does That Bitch Think She Is? by Craig Seligman

Author:Craig Seligman [Seligman, Craig]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2023-02-27T00:00:00+00:00

“Yes, I’m really 32!” Doris chirped to his father in September 1984, in a letter written, like much of his correspondence by then, on a series of West Graphics cards. His work for the card company was not only persisting but paying more—to his surprise, since he had never expected much out of it. Early that year they’d all (Doris, Tippi, X, and now sometimes Sandelle) gotten a 50 percent raise, plus the promise of continuing work. In one packed weekend, Doris had taken in $700. He would remain West Graphics’ star model for the rest of his working life. It was the best and, in a way, the most challenging job he ever had: from “just changing wigs, more or less,” he explained to me, he discovered that he was carrying around “this bevy of different characters that I wasn’t aware of”—and, moreover, that he was marketable. He started to think that he really could have a movie career.

He was especially flattered when, in May, the company sent him (“all expenses paid,” he bragged to his sister Marianne) to New York for the National Stationery Show. They printed up doris fish world tour T-shirts to distribute to buyers. He made personal appearances at card shops and got “tons of credibility” out of it. “A lot of people who were running stores would come up to me and say, ‘If it weren’t for your cards I wouldn’t have made my rent this month!’” he told me. In August they sent him on the road again, this time to Denver and Salt Lake City. “I signed hundreds of cards and posed for dozens of photos and impressed a handful of people who are both anxious for my return!” he wrote Ace. “Seriously, it was quite successful and I really enjoyed the limo, the penthouse reception and being treated like a fucking goddess which is just how I behaved.”

That fall he got another shot of credibility: a guest role on a network TV series. Partners in Crime starred the blonde Loni Anderson and the brunette Lynda Carter in a comedy-mystery about glamour girls who run a San Francisco detective agency. In the seventh episode (it lasted just half a season before NBC canceled it), “Is She or Isn’t He?,” which aired on November 3, 1984, they somehow wind up backstage at an audition for a drag show, and Anderson sideswipes Doris, who whirls around and snaps at her in a nasty male voice:

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