Word: stardusted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...point during "Showgirls," one of the Stardust Club's head honchos tells his entertainment director Zack Carey (Kyle MacLachlan) "This is bullshit. This is about your dick." He might as well be describing director Paul Verhoeven's latest no-brainer...
Enter the Night, at the Stardust, has a harder edge--the men sing like Michael Bolton and dress like Fabio--but behind the crass is class: Cindy Landry and Burt Lancon, who were pairs silver medalists in the 1994 U.S. Open figure-skating championships, reimagine the Cavarettas' routine on a tiny ice rink. The best variety package is still Jubilee!, now in its 14th year at Bally's. Its huge, handsome sets and gargantuan production numbers (Samson and Delilah, the Sinking of the Titanic, a World War I dogfight)--with a few bites of chaste cheesecake--would make Flo Ziegfeld...
Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "The Marriage of Maria Braun" at5:30 p.m. "Stardust Memories" at 7:30 p.m." Northby Norhwest" at 9:30 p.m. " L.627...
...intellectuals were taking seriously the city's no-holds- barred urban style. It was 25 years ago that a little-known architect and professor, Robert Venturi, returned to Yale with his two dozen student acolytes after a remarkable 10-day expedition to Las Vegas, where they stayed at the Stardust. His influential 1972 book, Learning from Las Vegas, immediately made Venturi famous as a heretical high-culture proponent for the ad hoc, populist design of the Strip -- the giant neon signs, the kitschy architectural allusions to ancient Rome and the Old West, any zany kind of skin-deep picturesqueness...
Across the Borderline is, indeed, like a more contemporary and personalized version of Nelson's smash album of pop standards, Stardust -- a songbook that Nelson transforms into something as intimate as a diary. Stardust pointed the way to some dire aesthetic directions: if only its duet with Julio Iglesias could be expunged from the collective pop consciousness without doing damage to Nelson's beleaguered bank account. But with a little luck, Across the Borderline will fix him for good right where he belongs, among the best of American music. If still really is still moving to him, then...