Category Archive: Stage & Screen

Bollywood Bombshell
The singularly fabulous Bollywood sensation, Helen, makes a cameo in Encyclopedia of the Exquisite. And why not? She appeared in over 500 Indian films during the second half of the 20th century, shimmering across the screen in a gyrating, hip-thrusting…

Tale of the Tutu
There was only one ballerina who could make the tutu what it is, and was, in 1832, Marie Taglioni, the era’s superstar, and the dancer whose style defined the Romantic ballet movement. In her leading role as an airy woodlands…

Paris, je t’aime
Today, order because I am missing Paris, find I watched a bit of one of my favorite movies, Cleo 5 à 7, by the only female director of the French nouvelle vague, Agnès Varda. Shot in black-and-white in 1962 on…

Trapeze striptease
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fapVB35E0FQ[/youtube]This short film combines two things I love, the trapeze and frilly, fussy, Edwardian-era lingerie. It stars Sacramento native Charmion, aka Laverie Vallee (why bother with a stage name?), a pioneering strong woman who thrilled audiences in New York and…
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