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...while briskly patrolling the outer edges of modernity in the early 1960s that Sontag became suddenly, improbably famous, for her essay "Notes on 'Camp,' " a meticulous exertion of reason applied to an apparently weightless topic: the enthusiasm for silly extravagance, for the likes of Busby Berkeley and Mae West. "Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style," she wrote. But more than that, "It incarnates a victory of 'style' over 'content,' 'aesthetics' over 'morality,' of irony over tragedy...
...three Eastern Airlines unions, which are organizing today's rally, invited Jackson to speak and rented a plane to fly him to Boston. The former presidential candidate cancelled a speech at Memphis State University to attend the rally, according to his special assistant Mae Louie, who arrived at Logan late last night to prepare for Jackson's appearance...
...scenes of Bonnie and Clyde or Abbott and Costello or any of a hundred other images. AMMI's apex is Tut's Fever, an Egyptian-style movie palace conceived by Artists Red Grooms and Lysiane Luong. Grooms' impish sculptures staff the theater: Theda Bara sits in the box office; Mae West sells you candy; Mickey Rooney is the usher; a sarcophagus creaks open to reveal the late James Dean. In the theater auditorium, its walls a splurge of film-trivia graffiti, you can watch a silent-movie serial or just gawk at the delirious decor...
...created with elaborate props: a looming female robot from Fritz Lang's Metropolis, a railway car stocked with projector and films to recall the propaganda push of early Soviet cinema, a Salvador Dali collage with the probing eyes he designed for Hitchcock's Spellbound, and a couch inspired by Mae West's lips. Elsewhere, actors stroll about in character to fill in the historical blanks. In a room labeled "Cinema Goes to War," for example, "soldiers" roll about in trenches. Nearby is a majestic staircase canopied by MOMI's own high-camp Erecthyon: six sculpted muses of the silent cinema...
Celebrate the anniversary of Mae Arnette, one of Boston's premiere singers, in the Taurus Club at 888 Street in Boston. Drummer Alan Dawson and pianist Sabby Lewis will perform in a jam session afterwards, at 8. Buffet dinner from 6-8 p.m., entertainment until 11, and dancing from 11 p.m. to 2 p.m. Tickets are $25 in advance, and $35 at the door. Telephone 442-2622, 266-1002, or 427-0200. Film...