by RuPaul
Your soul is
made of stars.
We are
all stars.
Become Your Own GuRu
RUPAUL’S CURATED LIST OF MUST WATCH, READ, AND LISTEN-TOS
MUST-SEE FILMS
The Wizard of Oz
Grease
Mommie Dearest
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
Paris Is Burning
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Auntie Mame
The Matrix
Mahogany
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Death Becomes Her
Network
Inception
Airplane!
What’s Up, Doc?
Young Frankenstein
Two Can Play That Game
Sunset Boulevard
The Exorcist
Arthur
Funny Face
A Star Is Born (starring Judy Garland)
Sullivan’s Travels
MUST-READ BOOKS
A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson
Toxic Parents by Dr. Susan Forward
The Velvet Rage by Alan Downs
A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
My Life So Far by Jane Fonda
Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
MUST-HEAR ALBUMS
Stephanie Mills, For the First Time (written and produced by Burt Bacharach and Hal David)
Alexandra Burke, Heartbreak on Hold
Tina Turner, Foreign Affair
Carly Simon, No Secrets
Pointer Sisters, Break Out
Grace Jones, Slave to the Rhythm
David Bowie, Station to Station
David Bowie, Low
Britney Spears, Femme Fatale
Britney Spears, Glory
Natalie Cole, Unforgettable: With Love
Whitney Houston, My Love Is Your Love
Blondie, Eat to the Beat
Giorgio Moroder, American Gigolo soundtrack
Donna Summer, Another Place and Time
Donna Summer, Bad Girls
Kylie Minogue, Aphrodite
Stevie Wonder, Fulfillingness’ First Finale
Bryan Ferry, Bête Noire
Michael McDonald, If That’s What It Takes
Liza Minnelli (with Pet Shop Boys), Results
Diana Ross, Everything Is Everything
Diana Ross, The Boss
Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach, Painted from Memory
Kiesza, Sound of a Woman
Taylor Dayne, Satisfied
Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band
Corona, The Rhythm of the Night
Amber, This Is My Night
Stevie Wonder, Hotter Than July
Bonnie Raitt, Nick of Time
Dusty Springfield, A Brand New Me
Steely Dan, Aja
Cher, It’s a Man’s World
Booty Luv, Boogie 2Nite
Regina Belle, Reachin’ Back
Nancy Wilson, With My Lover Beside Me (produced by Barry Manilow)
Kenny Rogers, Eyes That See in the Dark (written and produced by the Bee Gees)
Dionne Warwick, Heartbreaker (written and produced by the Bee Gees)
Barbra Streisand, Guilty (written and produced by the Bee Gees)
Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
Anita O’Day, In a Mellow Tone
Acknowledgments
It takes a village to get ready for the stage, and creating a book is a similar process. So, to my book glam squad, Thank You! First of all, to my editor, Carrie Thornton—I loved our conversations and how you “got” this book and what I wanted it to be. To Suet Chong, interior designer—you are so creative and talented! What a good eye you have. Ploy Siripant, thank you for this arresting cover. I know it is going to get people’s attention. To the rest of the Dey Street Team, including Lynn Grady, Ben Steinberg, Heidi Richter, Julie Paulauski, Jessica Lyons, Andrea Molitor, and Sean Newcott.
Thank you to my right arm, Joelle Hawkes, Mathu Andersen, Zaldy, Randy Barbato, Thairin Smothers, Cait Hoyt, and all those on team RuPaul who keep the balls up in the air (and there are a lot of balls, henny!).
And always, love and thanks to the love of my life, Georges LeBar.
About the Author
RUPAUL produces and hosts the reality competition series RuPaul’s Drag Race, for which he received two Primetime Emmy Awards in 2016 and 2017. He also hosts the podcast RuPaul: What’s the Tee? with Michelle Visage.
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Copyright
GURU. Copyright © 2018 by RuCo, Inc. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
FIRST EDITION
Cover design by Ploy Siripant
Cover photograph © World of Wonder
Hand-lettering by Joel Holland
Digital Edition OCTOBER 2018 ISBN: 978-0-06-286300-3
Version 10032018
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-286299-0
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