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...With headliner Nicole Kidman's recent separation from former hubby Tom Cruise, the most interesting buzz surrounding Moulin Rouge has had nothing to do with the production at all. Set in 1890s Paris, Kidman plays the famous burlesque house's star performer, whose charms simultaneously catch the eye of a poor, impetuous poet (Ewan McGregor) and a wealthy, bombastic impresario (Jim Broadbent). With the former promising romance and the latter offering a chance at international stardom, the "hooker with a heart of gold" is torn between the two, and inevitable chaos ensues. Grand musical numbers and sumptuous period costumes give...
...illiterate peasant, left his village in southern China for Sacramento, California, in search of his father, who had disappeared during the building of the transcontinental railroad. At about the same time, Letticie Pruett's family crossed America in a covered wagon and homesteaded in Oregon. By the late 1890s, after years of manual labor, Fong See owned the Curiosity Bizarre, which manufactured underwear for brothels. Letticie had run away from home and ended up in Sacramento. When no one would hire a single, uneducated woman, she drifted into Chinatown and the Curiosity Bizarre, where she begged Fong...
...course, they didn't have to experience 13 bouts in twelve hours back in the 1890s...
...remember that it has also been the fountainhead of economic growth in the U.S. Board member Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International, reached back to the 19th century to make the point. "In the 1880s, the U.S. built 70,000 miles of rail," he said. "In the 1890s, 40,000 miles of that 70,000 miles went bankrupt." Yet that infrastructure powered growth in the early 20th century. Likewise, the beating so many tech stocks took last year is only half the story. The tech revolution is still a fact...
...Carmen Libido raise my arm, inhale and shout "A+!!" that my gaydar blipped. When Shaboom Libido started videotaping and said, "This is Joel, our straight man, whom we are going to convert or at least use before this weekend is over," I realized these guys were gayer than the 1890s...