Tempest back in the day and today

Tempest Storm is quite the broad. She is the expensive, well-aged Scotch of burlesque. At 80, she’s performing in Vegas, getting down to her g-string and bra, and to a crowd of serious fans. She insists on having a full seven minutes to get her clothes off:

It takes four numbers, she says adamantly, four numbers to get it all off. To do it classy.

“Do it classy.” I think that will be my motto from here on out. Not that I haven’t been doing it classy - I mean, come on - but putting it that way just sounds so good. Like evening wear.