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DIED. BUDDY EBSEN, 95, gangly dancer turned TV star; in Torrance, Calif. Ebsen danced with his sister Vilma on Broadway and later on his own in MGM musicals like Captain January, with Shirley Temple. He was originally cast as the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz before his allergy to the metallic makeup forced him to give up the role to Jack Haley. From 1962 to 1971 he played Jed Clampett, the nouveau riche patriarch of a trans-planted mountain clan, in the popular sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies. He followed that up with yet another long-running TV role...
...Until Azaleas Bloom (1996) By: Shin Young Hee, a dancer who performed at Kim's parties Dirt: Kim stages drinking contests, sometimes involving beer spiked with urine. Winners sometimes receive a car or a piano...
Ironically, it was a belly dancing show that made me first realize Cairo was not the ethereal city of my “Arabian Nights” dreams. I sat in intense anticipation for the belly dancer, who in my mind would be buxom, with stomach flowing in rolls and waves, and with enough glitter on her costume to make me flinch. What emerged instead, after two hours of an Egyptian cover band, was a very thin woman. Belly dancers are not supposed to be very thin. Here was a woman with fake breasts, no waist to speak...
These are taboos for real belly dancers. Real belly dancers cultivate and nurture their belly, feeding it and keeping it flexible. This belly dancer made her chest the star of the show, and that was just too slick, too packaged and too American for my sensibilities...
...while these heady issues of international affairs are certainly central to my cultural exchange this summer, there are, of course, other pressing matters that need attention—I need to go find a real belly dancer...