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DIED. Jason Rhoades, 41, wildly irreverent conceptual and performance artist who rose to fame in the 1990s art scene; of heart failure; in Los Angeles. His most recent installations were a riotous clash of civilizations in which visitors became part of his work, in a gallery transformed "like Ali Baba's cave," said Gary Garrels, senior curator at UCLA's Hammer Museum, "with neon lights, rugs, Mexican tourist souvenirs, American Indian dream catchers, hookah pipes ... Every cultural ideal was up for challenge...
...real revelry happened at the Advocate. “Our parties tended to be pretty riotous. We served nothing but martinis,” Hall says...
...Oscars, where our first film, Salaam Bombay!, was nominated as Best Foreign Language Film. It was 1989, before private media exploded in India, before the government even recognized filmmaking as a legitimate industry. Armed with just good wishes and some telegrams from family and friends, we spent a riotous few days in the luxury of the Beverly Wilshire, being taken to lunch by Billy Wilder, joking with Pedro Almodóvar and his transgendered entourage, gate-crashing Spanish and Danish parties, not really minding that we were neglected by our own country. When it came time for our award, Jacqueline...
...Lil’ Kim worthy lyrics she was required to recite, but “Maude and Harold” was nothing if not a comedy of incongruities. Mitnick’s exceedingly hummable score swelled beneath the show-stopping musical numbers, but never overwhelmed the actors’ riotous vocal performances. Mitnick’s score alluded extensively to the wholesome showtunes of yesteryear’s Rogers and Hammerstein productions—which was all the more ironic considering the songs’ risqué content. Pope had her hands full orchestrating frequent set changes. The stage underwent...
South Park meets Zadie Smith's White Teeth in this offensive, riotous cartoon about a multicultural high school in South London. The trio of main characters includes scheming, crude Keisha (imagine a black female Eric Cartman); Natella, the earnest South Asian class brain; and Latrina, the bigoted white working-class bombshell. Like many good satires, Bromwell is rooted in the idea that shallowness and venality transcend color and creed. The faculty ranges from an assortment of Anglo ignoramuses to Iqbal, the greedy, sleazy Middle Eastern headmaster. And when the immigrant students discuss their favorite foods and cultural activities...