Harper (1922-2007) is best known for his wildlife images, but don’t expect realism. The works are colorful and stylized geometric representations of animals and nature (via Charley Harper’s Wild Eye | Science and the Arts)
Songwriters: Zancanella, Noel Patrick / Kutzle, Brent / Fisher, Eddie / Tedder, Ryan B
Woke up in London yesterday
Found myself in the city near Piccadilly
Don’t really know how I got here
I got some pictures on my phone
New names and numbers that I don’t know
Address to places like Abbey Road
Day turns to night, night turns to whatever we want
We’re young enough to say
[Chorus]
Oh this has gotta be a good life
This has gotta be a good life
This could really be a good life, good life
Say oh, got this feeling that you can’t fight
Like this city is on fire ‘night
This could really be a good life
A good, good life
[Verse 2]
To my friends in New York, I say hello
My friends in L.A. they don’t know
Where I’ve been for the past few years or so
Paris to China to Col-or-ado
Sometimes there’s airplanes I can’ t jump out
Sometimes there’s bullshit that don’t work now
We are god of stories but please tell me-e-e-e
What there is to complain about
[Bridge 1]
When you’re happy like a fool
Let it take you over
When everything is out
You gotta take it in
[Chorus]
Oh this has gotta be a good life
This has gotta be a good life
This could really be a good life, good life
Say oh, got this feeling that you can’t fight
Like this city is on fire ‘night
This could really be a good life
A good, good life
[Bridge 2]
Hopelessly
I feel like there might be something that I’ll miss
Hopelessly
I feel like the window closes oh so quick
Hopelessly
I’m taking a mental picture of you now
‘Cuz hopelessly, hopelessly
I have so much to feel good about
OneRepublic - Good Life (by OneRepublicVEVO)
Opens April 23, 2010 at the Quad Cinema in New York City
Burlesque acts were America’s most popular form of live entertainment in the first half of the 20th century. After the 1960s, The art of burlesque became vilified and misunderstood, and was largely left out of our cultural history. By telling the intimate and surprising stories from its golden age through the women (and men!) who lived it, Behind the Burly Q reveals the true story of burlesque, even as it experiences a new renaissance.
Although its origins derive from France, Great Britain and Greece, burlesque became a wildly popular American form of art that thrived in the early to mid part of the 20th century. Because of the sexual innuendo and the barely-there costumes it has largely been left out of the history books.
In the 1840s burlesque was applied to a wide range of comedic plays that entertained the lower and middle classes in Great Britain. Coming to America, burlesque evolved into shows performed by scantily-clad beauties. It thrived, appealing to the masses of working class people who weekly stormed the theatres to see troupes like The British Blondes, a bevy of beauties dressed in tights. Burlesque poked fun at the upper classes, at sex, and at what people were willing to do in the pursuit of obtaining sex. By the 1920s the old burlesque circuits closed and strip tease was introduced to offer something vaudeville and film did not.
During the Great Depression, for a dime a man could fall into a big gaudy burlesque show and forget his troubles. From theatres to nightclubs, burlesque was a raucous sexy show filled with gorgeous women, strippers, comedians, acrobats and singers. The tame by todays standards, the shows were considered risqué, and most performers were looked down on as second rate.
Backed by public outrage, in 1937 New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia closed the burlesque houses in his state. The use of the word burlesque was outlawed in advertising. The Minsky brothers, who some say introduced nudity to the burly audiences, were so closely associated with burlesque that La Guardia banned the use of the name Minsky. Once again, burlesque changed, moving across the river to New Jersey to escape censure. Eventually comedians and musicians parts were reduced in the shows and more strippers were brought on. By the 1960s hard-core porn was available and burlesque had died. But what happened to the thousands of performers? Where did they go?
Behind the Burly Q is the behind-the-scenes stories of these men and women as told by the performers themselves. For the first time ever, the performers from the golden age of burlesque relate their heartbreaking, triumphant stories of life on the road performing in the burly circuit. Many were ashamed of their past and had never talked about their experiences. Just as many had never been asked.
Director Leslie Zemeckis and producer Sheri Hellard traveled extensively across the country from the Bayous of post-Katrina Mississippi, to New Jersey, Florida and all points between. The duo tracked down and recorded dozens of interviews with little-known performers to the last of the living legends of burlesque. They spoke with relatives of many deceased stars. The men and women in this documentary opened their scrapbooks as well as their hearts, relating memories they had all but forgotten.
Amongst those interviewed were former musicians, strippers, novelty acts, club owners, funny men and women, authors and historians assembled together for the first time ever to tell you just what really happened in a burlesque show. Sadly, many of the performers have since passed away, making this their last, and often times only interview. We dedicate this film to their memory.
Behind the Burly Q is the definitive history of burlesque during its heyday. Funny, shocking, unbelievable and heartbreaking, their stories will touch your hearts. Hear the performers in their own words. See the performers in action. We invite you to peek behind the curtain at the burly show
Behind the Burly Q - Burlesque History - Trailer (by firstrunfeaturesnyc)
