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...know it sounds frivolous compared to what's going on," says Bates, "but it's a needed diversion. Otherwise, I'd just sit here with the news on, thinking about him every minute of every day." Her diversion takes the form of the Mardi Gras Follies '91. It is a charity fund raiser, staged annually by the Awa Lau Wahine, a Hawaiian term meaning Ladies of the Harbor. The group is an officers' wives club composed of Navy, Coast Guard and Marine women on the island of Oahu...
...gala dates back to 1955, when the women staged a Mardi Gras costume ball, presided over by a king and queen. By the mid-'60s, it had evolved into an annual one-night minstrel show. Each successive year has brought more talent and bigger audiences. But it wasn't until Cione took over as director in 1988 that the event was catapulted from an in-house variety show to a professional-quality production...
...minute musical revue that will run for five weeks starting Feb. 7. It boasts snappy show tunes, precision tap lines, and leggy ladies in dazzling costumes dripping with sequins and feathers. All this is sandwiched between an opening carnival act that nightly crowns the king and queen of Mardi Gras, and a red, white and blue finale guaranteed to strain the tear ducts of even the most hard-nosed patriots. Though the cast consists entirely of active-duty and retired military personnel and dependents, it turns in a performance that rivals anything you'll see on the stages...
...what happens in Henry & June? The main characters make urgent love, man to woman, woman to woman. They visit a whorehouse and watch prostitutes mime sex. They attend a dada Mardi Gras where nude women wear blue paint. But Henry & June is not a blue movie. Kaufman is a fastidious director; he bathes every love bout in soft focus, or covers it in lace, or reflects it in a goldfish bowl. It's not just that his intent is artistic, it's that his content is mild. Lesbian love, for example, was shown more graphically in Personal Best, Desert Hearts...
These are busy times for Rio's thieves, at whose hands the lusty Brazilian city is suffering a public relations disaster. As the tourism season reaches its peak with the pre-Lenten Mardi Gras festival, the number of crimes committed against foreigners has risen so high that officials have predicted the most lawless Carnival in 25 years. Many tour operators are dropping Rio from their itineraries, and group sales from the U.S. could be down as much as 60% compared with 1988. Hotels that used to be 90% occupied at Carnival time are now only half full...