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...ballet opens with Cleopatra, danced by Adriana Suarez, preparing for the new day in her lush bed chamber. Suarez seems to grow in her role as she acquires the successive accoutrements of royalty-golden bustier, jeweled headpiece and a robe that literally descends from the rafters. Suarez's majesty is partially due to her elevated status, as she spends a large part of the ballet literally above the other dancers on a variety of elaborately constructed thrones. But despite the outward trappings of royalty and Suarez's apparent effort, her performance lacks the conviction necessary to make one believe that...
...hoping the Spice Girls are history. Well, alas, they are. The bustier-busting sloganeering they purveyed is the touchstone for much of what passes for commercial feminism nowadays, especially the kind marketed to the demographic group the Spices are proudly empowering: preteen and teenage girls. Or "grrrls," as that tiresome battle growl goes. Is this the future of feminism...
MARRIED. LUCY LAWLESS, 30, New Zealand-born, leather bustier-wearing star of Xena: Warrior Princess; and ROB TAPERT, 43, the show's executive producer; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...Tina Turner mannequin still needed a hair tease, and Madonna's gold bustier had yet to be mounted. But James Henke, the chief curator of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, had a more pressing problem one day last week. Showing a journalist around the museum, he was stopped by a group of workers who were about to install a Jimi Hendrix guitar on the wall. Hendrix, who was left-handed, played right-handed guitars with the strings on upside down. But the guitar they were about to hang was a right-handed...
...Romeo and Juliet, Prokofiev's great ballet. Designed by the Belgrade-born underground-comic-book illustrator Enki Bilal and choreographed by Angelin Preljocaj, this Romeo takes place in a Mad Max universe where the Capulets and the Montagues are fascist thugs and street ragamuffins, and Juliet sports a bustier whose exaggerated nipples fairly scream "radical Eurotrash reinterpretation." Yet thanks to Bilal's dark vision, Preljocaj's audaciously violent, erotic choreography and Nagano's incendiary way with the score, the piece worked brilliantly...