Article: NOTHING WILDE ABOUT THIS `SALOME' STORY DOWNFALL OF PLAY IS DULL DIALOGUE.(Entertainment)(Review)

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 ...

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