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Article: `Salome': Wilde Abandon
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 28, 1988
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When artists run dry they often turn their disdain outward, and
that is what Ken Russell has done in "Salome's Last Dance." His
disgust pervades everything: his craft, his audience, his
inspiration.
What wonderful fun it must be for Russell to take the work of
respected artists, or better yet, their life stories, and defile
them; to cover his actors in paint or garishly rouge their cheeks
and crust their eyes with mascara and dress them luridly in bed
sheets and loincloths. And what a chuckle he must get at the thought
of dousing movie audiences with his gassy theatrics.
Ken Russell must be having more fun than humans can bear. Or at
least I hope he is. Somebody ought to be.
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