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...fake -- in other words, pure show biz. Girlie Show -- at once a movie retrospective, a Ziegfeld revue, a living video and an R-rated takeoff on Cirque du Soleil -- opens with Smokey Robinson's Tears of a Clown and closes with Cole Porter's Be a Clown. Pierrot is your silent host; the calliope music announces that this is a three-ring circus of clowning around. And Madonna, once the Harlow harlot and now a perky harlequin, is the greatest show-off on earth...
...taste and texture are somewhere between beef and fish." MIKU OH, chain manager of Lucky Pierrot, a group of Japanese restaurants that has started selling whale burgers. Japan's attempts to overturn the long-standing ban on commercial whale hunting met with failure at last week's meeting of the International Whaling Commission, but Japanese whalers will continue to harvest whales in the name of scientific research...
...triad of love songs by the lesser-known Austrian composer Joseph Marx. Radiant in a green Gianfranco Ferre gown, Fleming began with a theatrical interpretation of Marx’s “Nocturne,” and concluded the section with a powerful, expressive “Pierrot Dandy.” Thibaduet’s interpretation of Liszt’s “Ballade No. 2 in B Minor,” which came next, showed his suberb control, and raised questions as to whether anyone has had the good sense to record his notes per minute...
...Western artist had made them carry before. He did this through metamorphosis, recomposing the body as the shape of his fantasies of possession and of his sexual terrors. Now the hidden and comparatively decorous puns of Cubism (the sound holes of a mandolin, for instance, becoming the mask of Pierrot) came out of their closet. "To displace," as Picasso described the process, "to put eyes between the legs, or sex organs on the face. To contradict. Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them! My painting is a series of cock-and-bull stories...
...Forever Godard series runs Thursdays at the Brattle Theatre through Oct. 30. Be sure to catch the fabulous Anna Karina in the double bill Pierrot le Fou and A Woman is a Woman...