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A STEP BEYOND MTV'S "REAL LIFE"
Officials in Tampa, Florida, are taking action against the owner of a
home where 31 cameras run 24 hours a day to capture the everyday lives
of five college coeds. The images air on the Internet at the Voyeur
Dorm
site...which has five-thousand subscribers who each pay 34 dollars a
month to watch.
One of the cameras is located in a bathroom shower...and it's not
unusual for viewers to catch a glimpse of a nude woman engaging in
usually private moments of personal hygiene. That's what has city
officials concerned.
They say home owner and Web site partner Dan Marshlack is operating
an adult business in a residential neighborhood - a violation of zoning
laws.
But Voyeur Dorm says what's going on in the house is not about sex -
it's just female college students going about their lives.
City Attorney James Palermo admits he's in unchartered legal
territory. In his words - "The city code was written long before the
Internet, so we've got to see where this kind of thing fits in."
A hearing is scheduled before Tampa's Variance Review Board in June.
KIDMAN PACKS THEM IN ON BROADWAY
Mayor Rudy Giuliani may have driven strip joints away from 42nd
street, but nudity is thriving - sort of - on Broadway. Nicole Kidman
opened Sunday night in her critically acclaimed performance in "The
Blue Room" at the Cort Theatre. Kidman takes it all off in the show,
and the publicity has been stunning. Scalpers are charging $1,400 for
the hottest ticket in theater. Los Angeles Times critic Linda Winer-
Bernheimer wrote that Kidman is impressive, but the play isn't so hot.
She also finds a bit of irony in that fact that Kidman's male co-star,
Iain Glen, "does a full-frontal nude cartwheel and still can't get the
headlines."
SO YOU GUYS'LL JUST HAVE TO MAKE YOUR MEMORIES LAST: Supermodel Elle
Macpherson says she's going to be "more careful" about how she allows
herself to be photographed, now that she's a mom. Macpherson - who has
appeared nude in Playboy and in movies - tells Self magazine she
doesn't
want other kids to make fun of her son, Flynn, "because they can see
his mother naked."
HOLLYWOOD (UPI)- Would you like to appear before cheering crowds
without speaking a word or doing anything at all?
It happens to scores of enchanted wannabe performers annually at the
Pageant of the Masters/Festival of Arts in Laguna Beach, Calif., a
stone's throw from Hollywood.
Now in its 66th year of sell-out crowds, the pageant's attraction is
a series of "living pictures" provided nightly for eight weeks, June
7-Aug. 28.
Not a few Hollywood stars have sneaked into the show incognito.
Artistic director of the pageant is Diane Challis Davy, "Dee" to
everyone in Laguna Beach, one of California's coastal wonderlands.
"There are 150 people in the cast," Dee said this week. "We can't
have them work every night, so each part is double cast."
The word "part" is unlike a theatrical "role."
All that is required is the ability to sit, stand or lie absolutely
motionless in artistic representation of a painting or sculptue,
lighted
and costumed to appear as flat as a masterpiece.
"We have more than 300 cast volunteers for eight weeks," Dee
continued. "Also volunteer makeup artists, dressers and runners
backstage. We have 450 volunteers all told.
"Most volunteers aren't from Laguna Beach. The majority live in
Orange County and quite a lot come from other areas of Southern
California.
"The beauty of it is there are no speaking roles and no rehearsals
in the sense of a theatrical play. The only talent required is the
ability to hold still for two minutes.
"The living pictures represent 40 different pieces of art this
summer, all tied together with narration, stories and music (provided
by
a 30-piece orchestra) appropriate to each individual piece.
"We offer a wide variety of very famous art. This year it's limited
to 20th Century paintings and sculpture.
"One of them is Picasso's famous 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.' It's
very abstract but we have our way of doing it.
"In the old days the sculpture was done in black and white, but now
we use a lot of bronze-looking sculpture and we're doing terra-cotta
bas
relief. Lots of color."
As pageant director, Dee selects the theme of each festival's living
pictures.
Since its beginning in 1933, the festival has presented a panorama of
the world's great paintings and statuary of the past millennia.
"I've occasionally participated," Dee said. "When I was in school
I volunteered as a substitute. One year I had a part in Mary Cassatt's
'Tea Party' the whole summer.
"When you're part of a living picture, I learned, you can blink and
you can breathe but that's all.
"Some of the roles are nude or semi-nude, but the makeup is so thick
it looks as if they're wearing body-stockings. Some use fig leafs for
modesty.
"Once you're totally made up in bronze or gold and wearing a
headpiece you're very anonymous. It's a neat thing, really."
The festival is a boon to Laguna Beach and its population of 20,000.
In addition to the pageant at Irvine Bowl Park, a five-minute walk
from the Pacific, visitors are encouraged to peruse exhibits of 160
painters, sculptors, ceramists, jewelers, photographers and other
artists selling their work.
There are free art workshop sessions throughout the day for aspiring
artists of all ages and entertainment by musical groups including jazz,
pop and chamber ensembles.
When the summer sun sets over the ocean it's pageant time with
tickets costing $10-$50, including a pass to the festival.
"We're located on five scenic acres overlooking the ocean," Dee
said. "More than 140,000 people attend the pageant every year.
"Our seating capacity is 2,600 with 98.5 percent attendance.
"We work on two or three pieces a week starting in February. We
rehearse at night because our lighting only works after sundown.
"The real trick is the choreography of the stage crew, which
manipulates the sets and quick changes. Sophisticated things go on
backstage, which is the responsibility of our technical director.
"Sometimes we'll do a series of images that tell a story, showing
several pictures at once."
Dee, with almost 20 years experience in producing the pageant, says
the French impressionist of the last century remain crowd favorites.
"Monet is a big favorite, so is Degas, Talouse-Lautrec and we've
done Seurat's 'Sunday Afternoon at Le Grande Jatte.'
"Winslow Homer is a favorite and, of course, Norman Rockwell and
Edward Hopper.
"We have some living pictures we call 'builders,' leaving the
curtain open to show the audience the crew constructing the sets, the
cast members climbing up into the set, all done under work lights.
"At the critical moment the stage lights change and gradually the
scene turns into a flat painting. It's always everyone's favorite."
As is the pageant of living pictures.
UNCOMFORTABLE WITH NUDITY: Calista Flockhart says she was a little
uncomfortable filming a nearly-nude scene in her new movie, "A
Midsummer Night's Dream." During a chat with E! Online, the star of
"Ally McBeal" was asked about the scene where she wakes up naked in a
forest glade with actor Christian Bale. She said she was grateful for
"the hair and flowers" that partially covered her, but she asked the
film crew to "put a little flower here...another flower there...all the
rights spots." Flockhart says she didn't know Bale very well before
that scene, but she knows him "a lot better now."
Mira Sorvino said on the late late show (CBS) that she felt weird doing
a platos retreat scene in "Summer of Sam".
She wore coverups but all the rest of the actors in the scene, except
costar, were nude.. "off with the towels everyone".
PS She is playing .... Joan of Arc in an upcoming movie.
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