Best of Burlesque
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Actor: Best of BurlesqueDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 420 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-03-16
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Image Entertainment
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Movie Review: Roxy's Lament
Summary: 5 Stars
According to my degree, I am a historian, so perhaps I will be believed when I say I watched The Best of Burlesque out of pure historical curiosity. Perhaps. Some people will believe anything.
I think I need to start this review in March of 1975 in New Orleans. It was my first visit to the city and I was enjoying the music, the food, the river, the architecture, and the ambience. I also enjoyed the dancing girls in the smattering of clubs of that nature along Bourbon Street, including Chez-something-or-other -- it is a different name now. Due to an extremely appealing young woman on stage named Karen, I was there long enough that the bartender, one of the many women named "Roxy" in that industry, became quite chatty. Roxy, a veteran of the club scene, lamented to me at length how the whole business had changed in the past ten or twenty years and had become thoroughly lame.
"It was much better in the old days," she said. "There were real shows and real acts, not just prancing around."
I nodded but dismissed the remarks. Veterans of anything always think the old days were better and that modern times are lame. I was content to watch Karen prance around.
In 2008, I picked up The Best of Burlesque. It contains 7 hours of material filmed mostly between 1950 and 1955. My apologies, Roxy. You were right.
To any contemporary ecdysiast who may read this, please take no offense. I do not suggest you are any less capable than those of yore. Rather, it is the business itself that has changed. In the 1950s the classic burlesque houses still reigned as they had for half a century. Within a decade they were all but gone except as virtual museum pieces here and there, replaced by the go-go bar.
One of the DVD features is called Too Hot to Handle. It is a record of an entire burlesque show, with the live band, the songs, and the comic acts - some atrocious, some genuinely funny - as well as the dancers with their elaborate sets and routines. In addition there are lots of shorts with headliners of the day and with relative unknowns. Tempest Storm's act is very traditional and simple but amazing. Corky Marshall does a funny dance/monologue routine in which she portrays a nervous stripper on her first gig.
If you are seeking straightforward graphic sexual content of the sort found in modern adult videos, this collection is not for you; it is quirkier than that. The 1950s were the bad old days in any number of ways. Most of the social changes since then have been in the right direction. Yet something was lost along the way, too, even if the loss was a price worth paying. Perhaps we can spare some nostalgia for a time when even the sleaze had more style.
Summary of Best of Burlesque
The Most Strip-tacular DVD Ever Made! Join Lili St. Cyr, Tempest Storm, Dixie Evans, and Over 100 Bump-and-Grind Beauties in a Peek Back at the Good Ol' Days of Big-Time Burlesque when Stripping was an Art Form and Baggy Pants Comics told the World's Corniest Jokes! It's the Greatest Collection of Torrid Torso Twisters ever assembled -- including 2 Full-Length Features, 32 Novelty Shorts, 6 Shorts in Stereoscopic 3D, and Over 40 Minutes of Theatrical Trailers -- over 7 hours of the very Best of Burlesque!Comedy DVD Video
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