Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Sydney, Australia; Kansas City, Missouri; Breskens, Holland; Vienna, Austria; Sunnyvale, California (Silicon Valley again); Bangalore, India (S.V's Far East rival); Cascade, Montana; Oakland, California; Amsterdam, Holland, and Ballwin, Missouri.
ROCK against Reaganomics at: Theater X-Net
Starring: Ida Rubinstein Belle Epoch Russian/Parisian beauty.
Ida's Places in Paris -- from my first jet-lagged day by the Seine.
Read more about Ida in Sisters of Salome by Toni Bentley
Visit: Michael's Montana Web Archive
Theater, Art, Flash Gordon, Funky Music and MORE!
NEW --Launching NOW! Outre Space Cinema -- Featuring: 1930's Rocketry, Spitfires of the Spaceways and Cellulose to Celluloid, Flash Gordon in the Saturday Matinees and Sunday Comics.
Many thanks to Jim Keefe (Visit his Website) -- the LAST Flash Gordon illustrator of the 20th Century, and Flash's first illustrator of the 21st, for his recommendations -- HERE!
Charity Alert: Check into Terra Sigilata blog -- donate $$$ to cancer patients just by clicking onto the site. Keep that Resolution to click on The Hunger Site every day.
In The Community: The Hockaday Museum of Art is tearing down its old shows and putting up Rails, Trails, and A Road -- honoring the 75th Anniversary of Going To The Sun Road in Glacier National Park.
Check out Fall for Glacier -- a fundraiser for several programs that make Glacier National Park even better!
Media Watch: NPR was playing Selected Shorts with stories by three of my favorite writers -- Ray Bradbury, Italo Calvino, and Edith Wharton.
Ch-Ch-Changes: One of my favorite dancers passed away after a long, inspirational life -- Cyd Charisse was 86.
From Wikipedia: (She) was born as Tula Ellice Finklea in Amarillo, Texas, the daughter of Lela Norwood and Ernest Enos Finklea, Sr. (She) studied ballet in Los Angeles with Adolph Bolm & Bronislawa Nijinska* and subsequently danced in the Ballet Russes as Celia Siderova and, later, Maria Istromena ...
*Nijinska was the sister of Vaslav Nijinski, chief choreographer of Ida Rubinstein's Ballet, and like her brother, patron, and student, performed with Ballet Russes.
Cyd Charisse in part of a solo dance sequence from an early-50's movie, choreographed by Fred Astaire's pal Hermes Pan. From photos found on the Web HERE.
Cyd Charisse was confidently sexy. Her strong gorgeous body was the result of long hours of discipline and practice. She was passion personified when she danced. The world of Mass Entertainment was never mature enough to fully appreciate this fine lady's talent, but she had a long career anyway -- and a private life. Congratulations to a very successful artist.
(L to R) Over thirty years of Cyd Charisse's extraordinary career in photos -- fresh out of the Ballet to the fleshpots of Hollywood where she danced with both Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, then married crooner Tony Martin and stayed married, took her skillful, frank, and bold dancing to stages around the world after the old star system faded away, and continued to step out of the confining frames of age, sex, and cynical expectations. Undressed, dressed up, or dressed down, she was always beautiful.
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