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Baroness
07/24/09

In reply to Have the Rockettes Kicked Their Last Can-Can?
True story: the original appeal of the Rockettes, in the days before Brazilians and waxing, was for married men to get their kicks (pun intended) by catching the merest glimpse of bush. It's why they're an institution! 50 plus years of married men gawking for what young hussies today are so eager to get rid of. Contained desire, in a family entertainment. But they knew who in the family was paying for the tickets!

I love the Rockettes. And I completely made that up. But it has a ring of truth.
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BookishLookish
07/24/09

@Baroness: Those girls get their bikini lines checked by the bush mistress before every show. She gets right in there and if there is one stray hair, she whips out her giant tweezers. The shame is worse than the actual pain.

I, too, love the Rockettes, 'Ness. And I, too, completely made that up. But it has a ring of truth.
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Baroness
07/24/09

@BookishLookish: Ouch with the tweezers!
Confesh, Booky: when I wrote about repressed family men secretly getting their thrills, I was thinking of Don Draper.
But really it'd be more like Don Rickles sorts.
"Bush Mistress" (!) That's showbiz!
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BookishLookish
07/24/09

@Baroness: I'm thinking Thelma Ritter in "All About Eve" for the bush mistress. Or maybe Vivian Vance!
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Btwbfdimho
07/24/09

@Baroness:

Dear Baroness, desolé mais je vais te difficulter la facilité: the Brazilian Wax ("virilha completa") is much older than the Rocketeers.
According to Wikipedia:
"The origin of the concept Brazilian hairless privates date back to a letter written by Pêro Vaz de Caminha documenting Pedro Álvares Cabral's voyage to Brazil in 1550 AD, which says: "...suas vergonhas tão altas e tão çarradinhas e tão limpas das cabeleiras que de as nós muito bem olharmos não tínhamos nenhuma vergonha" (English translation: "their private parts were so exposed, so healthy and so hairless, that looking upon them we felt no shame").
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Baroness
07/24/09

@BookishLookish: Oh! I can see either, going about it with an eyeroll and a zinger of a line.

"I've seen more pussies than the ASPCA!"

The "ring of truth" when it came to "Bush Mistress might have been a different part of the anatomy- the true test for a trouper like Thelma, or Viv. "Turn over dear- oh brother! What a job!"

(Huge applause).
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Baroness
07/24/09

@Btwbfdimho: Oh, don't be so desolè. Thanks for the interesting , perverted facts though! Even in the 16th century men were freaks.

"Oh, we felt no shame since these ladies removed all hair, because what could be more innocent than an European explorer examining native women's vaginas and finding them delightfully giving the illusion of prebubescence? In other words, First!!1! Of course my crew found they were lying , as we all came down with St. Gonnhorea's sign that we were doing God's work.."
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tbuhl
07/24/09

In reply to Have the Rockettes Kicked Their Last Can-Can?
If Dolan and his Madison Square Garden entertainment press team would answer questions about how sales are going this year or showed us what the revenue was on past Christmas Spectacular shows - I could have shown Cityfile readers that their denial had any substance. But their refusal to have an open coversation made us question "what are they hiding".

Teri Buhl
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BookishLookish
07/24/09

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No, this will not do. We need the Rockettes. That's a sweet gig for a dancer and it's a totally jaded sucky day in America when a long-legged dame cannot seek her fortune in New York.
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PandoraSpocks
07/24/09

@BookishLookish: Totally. The winds of change may pass over The NYT, but not Radio City for Christ's sake.
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SarahHeartburn
07/24/09

@PandoraSpocks: Add me to the list of old farts, but this is an abomination. Rockettes, Brooklyn Bridge, and Grand Central Station. The rocks upon which we base our church of New York.
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PandoraSpocks
07/24/09

@SarahHeartburn: Hi Sweetie. Sending you an email.
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BxgrlJeri
07/25/09

@SarahHeartburn: SO TRUE. And it is Grand Central Station, NOT Grand Central Terminal.
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Spirit Fingers
07/24/09

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The Radio City thingy came on PBS or some such a couple years ago, and for the life of me I didn't get the appeal.

12 girls all in a line doing that same high-kick in Santa suits, Nutcracker suits, on a trolley, in a cab...it was like some Demerol induced, pseudo 1930's, menagerie of egg-sucking weirdness. You know, what your high school thought "Broadway" was supposed to be, all Liza Minellied jazz hands and Twyla Tharp/Groucho Marx movement? Yeah, that. So I’m not sure that in ending, if it would truly be missed, or even more disconcerting, what would take its place.

I hear people really like that cat circus
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Nice Beaver
07/24/09

In reply to Have the Rockettes Kicked Their Last Can-Can?
French-Canadian homosexuals gyrating to emo New Age synth music

Ladies and gentlemen, the 2008-2009 New York Islanders!!!
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Richard Lawson
07/24/09

@Nice Beaver: I don't follow hockey in the slightest, but I still very much enjoy this.
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Nice Beaver
07/24/09

@Richard Lawson: I actually don't either, but I read somewhere that they were the worst team in the league last year. And what's so "sad" about that?
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depardoo
07/24/09

@Richard Lawson:

It's sort of Blades of Glory, but with bad teeth.
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TriedandTrue
07/24/09

@Nice Beaver: Yeah - they stunk it up last season.
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PICKLES_IN_MY_TUNA
07/24/09

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You can't fool television viewers with dancing girls and flashing lights.
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resipsaloquacious
07/24/09

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Jimmy Dolan -- what a fucking joke of ne'er do well. I hope he falls off the wagon; maybe that way he can stop fucking up NYC institutions. (Yes, I am primarily talking about the Knicks.)
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DennyCrane
07/24/09

@resipsaloquacious: I hope he falls off a wagon and gets crushed under its wheels.
(1994! clap-clap-clapclapclap! 1994!-clap-clap-clapclapclap!)
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Better to Eat You With
07/24/09

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I had a boyfriend in college whose parents met while she was a Rockette and he was in the orchestra. I can't decide whether that story gets better or sadder if they close down the show.
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depardoo
07/24/09

@Better to Eat You With:

Orchestra members must have quite a view!
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bens
07/24/09

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Aww. The real victim in all of this is Dina Lohan. Which semi-famous entertainment group can she (falsely) claim to be a part of now?
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DahlELama
07/24/09

@bens09: Perhaps she'll take this opportunity to create something new. I'm thinking Pussycat Dolls meets The Golden Girls with a touch of Real Housewives thrown in.
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PICKLES_IN_MY_TUNA
07/24/09

@DahlELama: Golden Pussy Hosewives? Nah. Not Dina.
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PICKLES_IN_MY_TUNA
07/24/09

@PICKLES_IN_MY_TUNA: HOSEwives BWAHAHAHA. It really was a typo. But damn if it doesn't fit the bill.
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depardoo
07/24/09

In reply to Have the Rockettes Kicked Their Last Can-Can?
The MSG spokesman confirmed, however, that Mr. Giuliani will not be appearing this year as a chorus member.
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CaptainFantastic
07/24/09

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"Cablevision runs Radio City Music Hall"

Sad happens in NYC too. [Not trying to insinuate, Richard, that you said it didn't.]
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Richard Lawson
07/24/09

@CaptainFantastic: Everyone misunderstood that sad comment. ( I know you didn't.) I meant sad in a good way, kinda.
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iamrulalenska
07/24/09

@Richard Lawson: Misunderstood is a kind way of putting it, which you are apt to do. It was a shitshow. I knew exactly what you meant.
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BookishLookish
07/24/09

@iamrulalenska: And that is why Richard is on his way to the next stage of his career, hopefully for much worthier and better readers, present company excluded of course (rula, where you been!?!).
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SeaBassTian
07/14/09

In reply to Who Will Rent Marc Ecko's Ridiculous Office Space?
Oh, look what I did to my Id - Id!
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DahlELama
07/14/09

In reply to Who Will Rent Marc Ecko's Ridiculous Office Space?
I just want it for the king-sized velvet-covered waterbed you know he has.
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
07/14/09

In reply to Who Will Rent Marc Ecko's Ridiculous Office Space?
curious; is he broke cuz the brand stopped selling or cuz he spent all his money or both?
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Botswana Meat Commission FC
07/14/09

In reply to Who Will Rent Marc Ecko's Ridiculous Office Space?
It's a good thing this office has a basketball court. That shouldnt' be too distracting!
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