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The Telegraph UK
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Burlesque is sweeping Britain again
Burlesque is riding high as Christina Aguilera's new film is released
Burlesque is big, ******* business again but when exotic dancing reaches deepest suburbia - as it did with Epsom Playhouse's An Evening of Burlesque in July 2010 - you know it's past the point of being a hot new thing.
In reality, Burlesque started its popular comeback more than a decade ago but the makers of Christina Aguilera's film about exotic dancing will find a ready market for a big screen version.
The revival was kickstarted by Dixie Evans’s pageant for Miss Exotic World but what was initially an underground cult has become mainstream. There are nearly 20 burlesque shows a week in London and nearly 50 throughout Britain.
There are clubs, documentaries, comic books - including a Star Wars one entitled The Fempire Strikes Back - academic debates, dance events, festivals, how-to handbooks and hen-night specials.
Modern technology has benefited Burlesque, as grassroot scenes around the world have been connected by online communities like the Ministry of Burlesque. Many experimental acts are perfect for youtube, being brief and saucy but not necessarily explicit.
There is even a burgeoning market in Burlesque schools, who often stress its value as an 'art form'. One of Britain's biggest has an Academy Burlesque, which can instruct women from level one (Art of the Tease) right up to level four (Burly Graduation).
Many of the 'star' performers acknowledge that they are recreating the tradition of satirical Burlesque but with modern-day twists. Immodesty Blaize (real name Kelly Fletcher) was voted the top Burlesque dancer in the world in 2007. She has appeared on Britain's Next Top Model and at the literary Hay Festival.
She said: "What I do on stage is to reinforce the notion of feminine allure and the glorification of women's sexuality and femininity. I find a greater liberation in holding on to our power by not giving everything away; keeping a little mystique and that applies beyond sex itself."
Immodesty Blaize made a documentary film called Burlesque Undressed earlier this year, which told the story of the rise of Burlesque in 1800s London, where it was a classic form of sexy comedy and innuendo. In Victorian times, it spread to every music hall across the country and then into places such as the Moulin Rouge in Paris and on to Broadway in New York, where its humour, stylish dance and glamorous tassled women wearing ornate and easily removable costumes were all the rage.
Of course it's the easily removable costumes that causes titillation and ignites a debate about whether Burlesque empowers or exploits women - a debate which didn't trouble American film star Mae West back in the 1920s. "It is better to be looked over than overlooked," she said.
Kirsty Allan (who, as Kittie Klaw, founded Ministry of Burlesque) said: "There have been a lot of people who have tried to jump on the bandwagon and see it as a way of making money. A pole dancing chain have rebranded themselves as Burlesque just by adding a feather boa. But our audience is about 70 per cent women, and most of the men there are with partners, wives or female friends.
"We don't get groups of guys or stag nights. We had the odd stag come in during the early years but they were bewildered as it's not the kind of thing they were looking for. I'm still amazed at how popular it has become recently - we have 25,000 people on our website every day."
Not only does it provide wonderful costumes, Burlesque offers an amazing opportunity for good - and bad - puns . . . from company names (Together WeCanCan) to performers (Candy Sprinkles, Fanny Brown) and nipple tassles and costumes with names unsuitable for a Women's Institute fundraiser.
Yet wordplay in Burlesque is nothing new.
Men - well, some men - needn't feel totally left out if they want to be performers. If you like camp, there is now 'Boylesque' with groups such as 'More or Lesque', drawing on dance training to deliver homoerotic pastiches of films such as Brokeback Mountain.
For now, though, it's the female Burlesque bandwagon on a roll. Tina Warren, co-founder of Scottish institution Club Noir, which holds the Guinness World Record for the biggest Burlesque club in the world, believes it will continue to grow in popularity. She said: "Things will get even bigger, especially thanks to the new Christina Aguilera film coming out, that will make a real difference."
Burlesque is kicking up a storm everywhere.
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Burlesque OST rising worldwide on Itunes! Just the beginning!
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Five Lessons From the Golden Globe Nominations
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3. Burlesque Is Not Showgirls: Did you laugh off Burlesque's three Globe noms? Did you notice two of them were for Best Song? Did you see three Burlesque songs were declared eligible this week for Oscar's Original Song category? Do you realize Burlesque really, truly could become known as the Oscar-nominated Burlesque? Take that, Nomi Malone.
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Burlesque OST #12 in ITunes Japan.
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i hope burlesque will smash in japan and uk!
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Spain Box Office predicts about 750,000K for Burlesque this weekend which looks to be a really good, and solid entry with 8 new movies that came out this week too.
The top 5 prediction -
Tron: Legacy 3,5M€
Balada triste de trompeta 1,2-1,5M€
Narnia 1,17M€
3MSC 1M€
Burlesque 600.000€
- http://www.boxoffice.es/forecasts_sp...alada-de-tron/
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I love how he tries to sit on the chair when he snaps.
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Interesting yall completely ignored the GG nom are a sham story and thread 
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http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...t-2164322.html
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'Bribed' Golden Globe judges nominate flops after Vegas junket
'The Tourist' and 'Burlesque' are among poorly reviewed films up for awards
Wafting over the red carpets this awards season, amid the expensive cologne and forced smiles: a dubious whiff of scandal. The Golden Globes, supposedly Hollywood's second most prestigious awards event after the Oscars, is finding its often-criticised voting process at the centre of unwelcome controversy.
At issue is a decision by members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), organisers of the annual exercise in back-patting, to shortlist two recently released but highly derided studio films – The Tourist and Burlesque – in the "Best Motion Picture (musical or comedy)" category for next month's event.
The move initially surprised pundits, since both films received unsympathetic reviews and hit cinemas to public apathy. Burlesque, which, according to the aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, got positive write-ups from only 38 per cent of critics, opened fourth in the box office charts and made back just $34m (£22m) of its $55m budget. The Tourist, panned by 79 per cent of reviewers, returned a mere $22m of its $100m budget. Disbelief later turned to mild outrage, however, after it emerged that Sony, the studio behind the clunker Burlesque, recently flew Golden Globes judges to Las Vegas for an all-expenses-paid trip which included luxury hotel accommodation, free meals and a private concert performed by the film's star, Cher.
It's always difficult to say where lobbying ends and flat-out bribery begins. But the junket can hardly have failed to help to persuade members of the HFPA to nominate the film, which was dubbed "achingly dull" by The New York Times, and described by Variety as "over-wrought" and "underwritten", as the best comedy or musical they had seen in the previous year.
The allegation is nothing new: throughout its history, the HFPA has been regarded as an organisation whose members are easily swayed by luxury goods and other treats. In 1999, Sharon Stone presented each member with a gold watch days before they received voting forms. She was duly nominated for the Best Actress award.
In 1981, most famously of all, the unknown Pia Zadora won a Best Newcomer award for her role in Butterfly, a film which had been universally derided. It later emerged that the movie's producer, who was also her husband, had flown the entire HFPA to Las Vegas for a weekend holiday immediately before they voted.
Part of the reason for criticism may be that, as a private organisation with only 81 members, the HFPA is beholden to no one and considered relatively easy to influence. To win a Globe, you need to charm only a few dozen voters. To win an Oscar, by contrast, you must lobby roughly 6,000 members of the Academy.
The other explanation for bizarre voting patterns at the Golden Globes – where the Best Drama has gone on to win Best Picture at the Oscars only once in the past six years – lies with its status as a made-for-TV event. It makes roughly $6m a year for the HFPA, and about $27m in advertising revenue for its broadcaster, NBC.
Those figures are dependent on viewers bothering to watch, though. And many believe Globes judges deliberately nominate major A-listers so that they can guarantee the celebrity quota at their event.
Robert Licuria, editor at the awards tracking website Gold Derby, told reporters last week that the nominations were "hideous", adding that it was "the best example of how [the Golden Globes] tend to be in awe of the big celebrities, and are sometimes perceived to be driven by who they can invite to the party". In a move that lays bare the fact that not even recipients take the event too seriously, Angelina Jolie revealed that she had reacted to her nomination for The Tourist as a joke. "We were laughing because it's the first time that I've been in the comedic category so it's new for me."
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Interesting yall completely ignored the GG nom are a sham story and thread
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I just saw it, i always post everything.
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Like the new thread title?  Thanks DMF
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LOVE IT <3333 Loved the interview too. This bitch is just legendary 
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