Article: PARIS WHEN IT SIZZLES MUSICAL MELODRAMA `MOULIN ROUGE' IS FULL OF TRUE BELIEVERS IN THE GLORY OF GLITTER.(LIFE & LEISURE)(Movie review)

Byline: ROGER EBERT UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE

Like almost every American college boy who ever took a cut-rate flight to Paris, I went to the Moulin Rouge on my first night in town. I had a cheap standing-room ticket way in the back, and over the heads of the crowd, through a haze of smoke, I could vaguely see the dancing girls. The tragedy of the Moulin Rouge is that by the time you can afford a better seat, you've outgrown the show.

``Moulin Rouge'' the movie (opening today) is more like the Moulin Rouge of my adolescent fantasies than the real Moulin Rouge ever could be. It isn't about tired, decadent people, but about glorious romantics who believe in ...

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