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MORE New Mime Troupe History 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
Many thanks to Toni -- she sent me an autographed copy of Winter Season; A Dancer's Journal (1982) for making a video of her presentation at Harvard University about Ida!
Visit: Michael's Montana Web Archive
Theater, Art, Flash Gordon, Funky Music and MORE!
MORE UPDATES! Outre Space Cinema -- Featuring: 1930's Rocketry, Spitfires of the Spaceways and especially Cellulose to Celluloid, Even more Flash Gordon comparisons from 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: Mark Ogle's remarkable retrospective is still up at the Hockaday Museum of Art, plus Dan Fagre and Lisa McKeon's show is on the first level -- about the vanishing glaciers of Glacier National Park, it is a true labor of love by scientists from the USGS. Here's another website comparing glacier photos from the early 20th Century and recent decades.
The Hockaday Museum of Art's Face Book Site (There's a link to the conventional website there.)
I was running the tech for guest speaker Joseph Lisle Williams when he presented a lecture at my college about surviving a bear attack in Glacier National Park 50 years ago. Don Dayton, the ranger who shot the bear and saved the young man's life was at the event too. If you want to read more about it, his sister wrote a blog about her brother and the lecture HERE.
The other month, I ran sound for Carol Buchanan's public discussion of her historical novel God's Thunderbolt -- The Vigilantes of Montana at the community college. Here's the link to a live-blog of the event.
A statewide "town meeting" style videoconference about the USA's health care crisis. There were many advocates from different political views, and a few ignoramuses, but the consensus was clear: No more bankruptcies or losing homes because of injury or illness!
Tears and Laughter about our broken health care system HERE
Media Watch: I watched So You Think You Can Dance through most of their 'final twenty.' I'm glad to say that a woman won the competition this season, but she wasn't MY favorite -- I've stated my opinion before that the top five women were better than any of the top five men. My favorites were Kayla and Jeanette, if you must know. This show will debut a new Fall season in about a month. I like this Trash A Go Go Version III well enough, but the contest aspect corrupts it somewhat. It is good seeing choreographers as TV stars, though, and doing such good work most of the time. This is a class of artists who are usually invisible to the public.
Bollywood Movies -- So many good actors, so many crappy sub-plots. Salaam-E-Ishq or Salute To Love was sure hard to get through! Akshaye Khanna played a rich jerk in a comic role, but there was something different about his performance -- Ah HA! He acted like he might have been channeling Robin Williams with his mugging. (I don't really know, of course.) John Abraham played a believable person, but the other stars were dealt very bad cards in the script, and the direction was stultifying. Priyanka Chopra wasn't totally wasted in the role of a shallow movie star whose personality deepened during the film, but her beau Salman Khan hardly seemed to act, and unfortunate Anil Kapoor drew the most dead-assed role in the flick. Career comic actor Govinda made me laugh a little, and he was paired with a blonde European actress named Shannon Esrechowitz. Beautiful Ayesha Takia looked good, despite her humiliating part as a repeatedly jilted bride, and Vidya Balan looked different, but alright, as a modern newscaster.
Speaking of Choreographers:
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