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Will the country ever shed its Puritan origins?
Chicago is still the most theatrically corrupt city, Abbott says.
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What motivated the social and political reformers in early 20th-century Chicago?
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Abbott's book started with a lost great-great aunt, and ended with an exploration of the Everleigh sisters and the politics of sex in turn-of-the-century Chicago.
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Abbott was always drawn to people's darker impulses.
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A Catholic school graduate writing about strippers and prostitutes. The nuns, Abbott says, would be proud.
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Readers don’t turn to "Star" for political coverage, Fuller says
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Bonnie Fuller on surviving in a hostile work environment.
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"Star," Fuller says, gives readers a more complete picture than a blog.
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Celebrities come in all different shapes and sizes.
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Will gossip become more international?
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The relationship is completely symbiotic, Fuller says.
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Fuller talks about turning "Star" Magazine around.