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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 including my efforts on his Flash Gordon Resources Page -- along with actual creators like Alex Raymond, Al Williamson, and others!
Charity Alert: Play the FreeRice Game -- improve your vocabulary, and donate food to the United Nations. 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. BTW -- AIDtoCHILDREN.com is a bit simpler than FreeRice Game.
In The Community: The Hockaday Museum of Art's Autumn Salon, with 116 pieces on display. We also have Crown of the Continent and Ace of Diamonds gracing our walls. Looks like the art run to Eastern Montana in December is being revised again.
Media Watch: The Damnation of Faust by Hector Berlioz (1846) -- not as dark and dynamic as Gunod's Faust, but there was some absolutely beautiful choral work by NYC's Metropolitan Opera behind Marguerite (Susan Graham), Faust (Marcello Giordani), and Méphistophélès (John Relyea). The male singers dominated the work, but hapless Marguerite finally went to Heaven after spending the whole Opera stuck between that horny old philosopher and the Devil himself.
Many Meetings: Thanks to the Internet and telephone, I had a long pleasant conversation with my friend Katie Duck -- Modern Dance's equivalent of Keith Jarrett. She will be in the USA for another week, so we'll speak again. I was so excited, I called other friends from my theatrical days. I had a nice long chat with Nina Cheney in Wisconsin, and Katie's right-hand dancer Patsy Droubay in Salt Lake (Bountiful, actually but only Utahns know where that place is located.) Fellow Sagittarius Ruth Arrington called me today to brighten up a gray day of recovery, and I sent out an indirect message to help find my friend Pooja in Bombay. We also talked about Mumbai on another web site, since Leopold's defiantly opened after the terrorist assault was finally defeated. All I could contribute was my enthusiasm about Bollywood movies, but that subject REALLY brightened the conversation, as a way of bringing a tiny bit of Mumbai into people's homes.
Move Over Velveteen Elvis Impersonators -- There's NEW Kitsch In Town!
My friend Nina Cheney (inset) played Sarah Palin for Halloween this year -- she's trained in classical mask techniques, and all she needed was a shiny jacket, a quick hair job, glasses, and a certain uh -- attitude to impersonate Alaska's shamelessly self-absorbed governor. (Lower Left) In the Upper Left, a brave Alaskan demonstrates against the 2008 Republican ticket in Anchorage.
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