but there was one Mrs. Dennis always kept on the table, and that was an old issue of Life that had Miss Dorothy Dandridge on the cover. Miss Dorothy had on her Carmen Jones outfit, the black and the red, with bare shoulders and a rose tucked into her curls and a look at the camera like… whew. Brow cocked up just so, and a flash in the eyes. I really liked her attitude. Her style. Maybe that was the first time I ever noticed anybody’s style, that the way you looked could make you into a different person, a character. So Dorothy was my favorite.
