Re: salome (Re: Either or, neither nor...)

["Peter T. Chattaway" <petert at interchange_ubc.ca>]

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, rhys daily wrote:
> ---- Salomé's dance was very beautiful, but because of what she did with
> her beauty and power of dance, most writers and movie producers gave it
> a more evil overtone.

Except for that 1953 Hollywood movie starring Rita Hayworth -- there, she
performs the dance to *distract* Herod while her lover (a Roman soldier,
IIRC) tries to *rescue* John the Baptist ... but their plans fail, of
course, so they leave the palace and become followers of Jesus.

http://us.imdb.com/Details?0046269

> ---- Oscar Wilde's play "Salomé" was banned in England and later
> re-produced in Paris by Sarah Bernhardt in 1894, then later a
> performance of Salomé was in 1896 in Paris at the de l'ceuvre theater.

This was then transformed into an opera, which was recently adapted for
the stage by _Exotica_ and _Sweet Hereafter_ director Atom Egoyan; I think
he refers to this opera in his film _Felicia's Journey_, too.  There was a
rather noisy tiff between Egoyan and The National Post's theatre critic
the last time this opera was produced; see the URLs below.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/onfilm/message/4590
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/onfilm/message/4594

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