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involved.
Although the show is now gaining popularity in the main
stream. it is also popular with the Modern Primitives, an under
ground movement Of people who use the pain from piercings and
other forms of fcxidy alteration to achieve a spiritual state But Rose
said his troupe is unconnected with this movement
"There's not much pain involved for us anymore We paid our
dues years ago in our basements when nobody knew about us."
Rose said "I've lx*sn manipulating my laxly for years, but 1 come
from the sideshow tradition and my sole purpose is to provide
entertainment."
It all began for Rose when he "worked the ball loss and dunk
tank" as a boy at the carnival near his home in Ph(x*rux. Ariz This
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gave him the opportunity to go backstage at the sideshows, or
"freak shows." he said His interest piqued. Rose said he later
went on to apprentice with street performers in Spain and
Amsterdam, where sideshows are more common than in the
United States
Currently. The Jim Rose
Sideshow is the only one
in this country. Rose said
the show is keeping alive
an art form that dates hack
to Medieval times. In the
United States, sideshows
were a standard at circus
es for almost a century,
dating from the 1840s to
the 1950s. Then, with the
rise of the disability rights
movement, it was no
longer a socially accept
able form of enteitaiii
menl However, in those
days the "freaks" were
mostly people born with
‘It's like an all-star
That’s Incredible
TV show, only It’s
live, real, raw and
dangerous. It’s for
people whe are sick
of things that are
slick, contrived and
choreographed.’
Jim Rose,
of the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow
disabilities, according to
Syracuse University professor Robert Bogdan’s book. Freak Show:
Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit.
Previously a solo act. Rose used to alternate his performance
with belly dancers at a "tacky Middle Eastern restaurant in the hip
part of Seattle" in the winter months, he said. During the summer
he could be found doing his act on the boardwalk at Venice
Beach. Calif.
Then he began performing at the Crocodile Cafe, a Seattle club
where the now famous bands Nirvana and Mudhoney started out.
Wort! spread, and his act began to include others. One addition is
the Amazing Mr Lifto, previously a car insurance salesman who
can lift heavy objects such as steam irons and cinder blocks from
pierced holes in his tongue, nipples and other body parts.
Another troupe member is Matt "The TuIm?” Crowley, a former
pharmacist whose act includes creating a bulimic cocktail that
members of Ministry, Pearl lam, Soundgarden and The Red Hot
Chili Peppers drank as a rite-of-passage at Lollapalooza. Via a
seven-fool-long tube inserted through his nose to his stomach. The
Tube is fed a concoction of beer, chocolate syrup, live slugs and
other available ingredients, all of which Find their way back up.
The show has "a bizarre theater humor that only works when
atrocities happen," Rose explained.
.See it to believe it at their Sunday night show at the Eugene
Hilton.
DRACULA
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his performance is reminiscent
of Kevin Costner's in Robin
Hood Prince of Thieves
Ryder, in her role as the
object of both men’s desire,
Mina, is similarly disappoint
ing. She reacts rather than acts
and it translates into an over
wrought performance. The
whole film is that way, with
everyone playing each scene as
if it were their last.
There is no sturdy base on
which to place this film No
character is that important to us
and no situation i» made easy
enough tu fully grasp. Much
like films such as Prospero s
Hooks and Woody Allen's
Shadows and Fog. nothing lies
beneath the thick veneer of
visual tricks.
This has been touted, by the
filmmakers, as one of the most
loyal translations of the Dracula
legend. But very little of this
film has any literary quality
There’s smoke, monsters and
some incredible ornate sets But
nothing that will strike anyone
as tokens of great literature.
One of the main problems, in
fact, is that you can't help
notice that it’s all a movie.
Perhaps it was intended to feel
like a nightmare, but it’s not
menacing or frightening by any
means
There’s a lot to like about
Dracula for those who think of
film as a primarily visual medi
um It’s a triumph of form and
technical magic One might be
able to be wrapped up in the
false world Coppola creates. If
only he had characters and a
point of having them there, the
film would have had potential
for being groat.
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