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Paul LoJ
Supreme Potentate
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 Posted - 08/03/2006 : 02:03:29 AM
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With Regis to boot!
Really, this astonished me. I still don't know what to say, except that I had bet someone $17 million that this exact thing would never be seen on television (updated link, easier viewing now on YouTube thanks to Neville for the suggestion): [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCuwhTHdo7k"]Burlesque for Hasselhoff[/url]
"...You know perfectly well what is the matter with you. You have known it for years, though you have fought against the knowledge. You are mentally deranged." |
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
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Posted - 08/04/2006 : 05:05:27 AM
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OMG! That was just memorable. Thank you very much, Paul. Looks like Kitt's been fine all these years, after all. Why there's no YouTube link yet is beyond me.
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Paul LoJ
Supreme Potentate
USA
420 Posts |
Posted - 08/04/2006 : 2:26:58 PM
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Good idea, and done...
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCuwhTHdo7k"]Burlesque for Hasselhoff[/url]
(took me a bit to figure out how to get the size < 100mb.)
"...You know perfectly well what is the matter with you. You have known it for years, though you have fought against the knowledge. You are mentally deranged." |
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
1590 Posts |
Posted - 08/04/2006 : 3:10:57 PM
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| Thanks, I'll pass it around. |
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
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Atomic Glee
Archdeacon of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 08/05/2006 : 10:12:22 PM
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I have to say that was incredibly entertaining, and that lady was very good (and no, I'm not just saying that because she took off her clothes). Brandy is an idiot, I'm sorry - that's not talent? Please! Real burlesque does take talent. Brandy was such an arse. I guess she's too "enlightened" to accept that some women genuinely enjoy doing that. I hope that dancer has a long and fruitful time in burlesque, just to in some small way rub it in the faces of the "liberated" women who only accept other women when they're "liberated" in the same way they are.
(Sorry, but we - my girlfriend and I - have friends and acquaintances who are modern-day burlesque dancers and pinup girls, and it just ticks me off that these smart and wonderful women are spat upon by the so-called "liberated" ones.)
Kevin Buchanan
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Juniper
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 08/05/2006 : 11:32:58 PM
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Believe it or not Burlesque was the darling of the young femminst crowd, which has since relocated it's affection to Roller Derby. It was viewed as a way of owning your sexuality, and no I am not kidding. Whatever it is it's fun, and still gets tons of positive coverage in Bust, the not your mother's femminst magazine.
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Juniper
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Paul LoJ
Supreme Potentate
USA
420 Posts |
Posted - 08/06/2006 : 02:34:46 AM
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I agree that burlesque is a bona fide art form, but I don't agree that this particular performance qualifies. I'm probably unqualified to judge though, as I'm of the opinion that it's not quite possible to reproduce the true essence of burlesque in this generation.
Comcast has "Something Weird" OnDemand (amazing, huh?), replete with oodles of period shorts from the genre. At that level, I really get a sense that burlesque's character depended on a measure of cultural innocence beyond what exists today. Not a ton, but a little.
I don't mean to be overly graphic, but we live in an age where one's ass tattoos and hood piercings are deemed suitable material for mixed-company water-cooler conversation. Any fetish one might have, from foot fixation to creepy obsessions about siamese twin hermaphrodite midgets (my own guilty pleasure of course), most likely has a local chapter of fellow enthusiasts right in your zip code.
Forget about this woman's act with the fog effects & Kitt & the vibrating ass thing; leaving all that aside, could the titillation of a burlesque show *really* even mean what it once did in a culture like ours?
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Juniper
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 08/06/2006 : 04:00:41 AM
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Excellent point but I think that explains why Burlesque enjoyed a revival. You've aptly noted that this is a nipple piercings are accetable dinner table talk culture so the idea of a woman wowing a crowd by taking off most but not quite all of her clothes is charming throwback to a simpler era. I think most who enjoy new Burlesque watching or performing it do so with a tongue in cheek acknowledgement that we've come so far that a woman prancing around in garters and pasties is viewed as quaint. And what she said in the clip that it's all about tease is true too. You can be exhausted by explicitness so it's refreshing sometimes to have something left to the imagination.
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