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Article: The Land of Baz: From filling gas tanks to making 'Moulin Rouge,' Aussie showman Baz Luhrmann has always been over the top.(Arts and Entertainment)
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- Newsweek
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- May 28, 2001
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Inside the house of Iona, Baz Luhrmann's magnificent estate on a Sydney hill, the Australian director paces in a huge room as night falls, sorting out a dance routine as the '70s anthem "Children of the Revolution" blares from a boom box. A family Christmas party is about to start downstairs, yet Luhrmann keeps working. "She could shimmy this way," says Luhrmann as choreographer John O'Connell looks on. As Luhrmann plots this sequence--a dance that will be performed by a tiny, animated fairy in his spectacular new film "Moulin Rouge"--he clutches a glass of shiraz and sings along with the T. Rex song. Luhrmann shakes his hips, does a small leap, and exclaims, "And then ...
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