Finley has expressed delight at the fact that she appeared in '' Playboy '' ( in July 1999 ) and received a '' Ms. '' magazine Woman of the Year award within months of each other . She was also featured in '' Time '' during this period , though she felt that the magazine misrepresented her by " eroticizing " works ( such as one that addressed rape ) based on her nudity alone ; in other words , that they could n't absorb any information beyond her naked body . After the attacks of 9/11 , Finley found it difficult to appear as herself on stage . It was almost as if " Karen Finley " got in the way of the material , and Finley had already found herself at the center of a firestorm that made her persona a controversial national reference to nudity in art , in a public conversation that extended from Oprah to David Mamet to Seinfeld to Rush Limbaugh to David Letterman to Dennis Miller ( she was famously edited out of a Miller show at mid-show ) to Sean Hannity to Bill Maher to '' Rent '' , the Broadway musical , where the character of Maureen is often described as an homage to Finley . In her performances , Finley 's voice now became the voice of other women that she embodied ; Liza Minnelli , Terry Schaivo , Laura Bush , Silda Spitzer , and Jackie Kennedy Onassis . Finley also wrote a play , '' George and Martha '' , depicting an affair between Martha Stewart and George Bush ; the play has its roots in other versions of '' George and Martha '' , notably that of Edward Albee
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