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Article: NOTHING WILDE ABOUT THIS `SALOME' STORY DOWNFALL OF PLAY IS DULL DIALOGUE.(Entertainment)(Review)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- August 27, 1997
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Anyone who has heard of Robert Mapplethorpe, raise your hand. See that? Nearly everyone's hand went up. And why is that?
Yes, Mapplethorpe was a fine photographer and a shrewd self-promoter. But the reason why I and, confess it, many of you, too, recognize his name is because a few years ago Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., and a band of congressional conservatives took noisy umbrage over Mapplethorpe. They railed against any tax dollars (more like tax pennies) going to support Mapplethorpe's artistic endeavors.
Helms & Co. felt that some of Mapplethorpe's work was obscene.
This subject comes up because I just saw a production of ``Salome,'' an 1892 ...