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 | | His parents, Bernard and Diana Francis Milstead, were generous and indulgent, perhaps because Harris was picked on at school for being plump and effeminate. |
 | | Waters, who became a neighborhood friend in Baltimore, was responsible both for creating Milstead's stage name, supposedly a religious reference, and for crafting a host of outrageous roles for him. |
 | | However, in a sad twist of fate, Milstead, because of an enlarged heart, died in his sleep on March 7, 1988, soon after the film's opening. |
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