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    Image of Baroness 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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    Image of BookishLookish 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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    Image of Baroness 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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    Image of BookishLookish 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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    Image of Btwbfdimho 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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    Image of Baroness 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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    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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    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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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    07/24/09

    In reply to Have the Rockettes Kicked Their Last Can-Can?
    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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    Image of PandoraSpocks 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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    Image of SarahHeartburn 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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    Image of PandoraSpocks PandoraSpocks
    07/24/09

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

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

    In reply to Have the Rockettes Kicked Their Last Can-Can?
    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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    Image of Nice Beaver 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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    Image of Richard Lawson 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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    Image of Nice Beaver 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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    Image of depardoo depardoo
    07/24/09

    @Richard Lawson:

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

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

    In reply to Have the Rockettes Kicked Their Last Can-Can?
    You can't fool television viewers with dancing girls and flashing lights.
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    Image of resipsaloquacious resipsaloquacious
    07/24/09

    In reply to Have the Rockettes Kicked Their Last Can-Can?
    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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    Image of DennyCrane 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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    Image of Better to Eat You With Better to Eat You With
    07/24/09

    In reply to Have the Rockettes Kicked Their Last Can-Can?
    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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    Image of depardoo depardoo
    07/24/09

    @Better to Eat You With:

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

    In reply to Have the Rockettes Kicked Their Last Can-Can?
    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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    Image of DahlELama 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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    Image of PICKLES_IN_MY_TUNA PICKLES_IN_MY_TUNA
    07/24/09

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

    In reply to Have the Rockettes Kicked Their Last Can-Can?
    "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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    Image of Richard Lawson 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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    Image of iamrulalenska 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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    Image of BookishLookish 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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    Image of SeaBassTian 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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    Image of DahlELama 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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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle 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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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC 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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