She at once respects an image and points out its surface artifice, which is why the audience laughs with Everyday Business-it is laughing at itself. With such devices as uneven unison of action ,repetition of language in theme and variation motifs, cloning of characters, and sometimes outright vaudevillian routines, Lubar architecturally edits her view of New York private and public life. Because sound and action are out of sync, the imaginary wall disappears. When someone doesn't quite make it to the right spot in order to deliver a taped line, the theatrical illusion is broken. But what does develop is a cinematic sound quality in a proscenium use of space, interesting for the juxtaposition of live reaction time and canned voice. For this reason, when the actors occasionally speak live, the definition iS blurred, creating an awkward effect. To time performance action to a pre-recorded tape is difficult, and occasionally the dubbing becomes clumsy. Likewise, Lubar works at a distancing of voice and action from emotion by prerecording most of the dialogue. Instead, they play distanced versions of themselves. However, tone is not one of individual personalities presented raw. (Lubar includes a program note explaining that much of the dialogue resulted from set improvisations. The actors have characters to play, roles obviously shaped by their real traits. You may read here my latest article about the Divine Miss M, published in the Golden Globes website.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: I saw Midler perform live at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas in 2009 in The Showgirl Must Go On, and in 2013 at the Geffen Playhouse in the play I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers, but missed her in the musical Hello Dolly! since the Broadway production did not travel to Los Angeles. I liked the fact that he was not afraid to be different, that he was an outsider like I am, that he was not complacent, that he stood aside from the mainstream.” Martin has continued to express himself artistically as a filmmaker, a photographer and a painter. In 1988 she said to me: “I knew immediately that Martin was outrageous when I first met him. I have been a fan of Bette Midler since her first film The Rose in 1979, and met her several times in one-on-ones, roundtable and HFPA interviews, often asking her, among other things, about Martin and their daughter Sophie, born in 1986. Here’s a link to a 2013 MOCAtv interview with Martin, where he explains how the Kipper Kids’ stylized shows were inspired by the Japanese tea ceremonies, followed by their performance at NYC the Kitchen in 1988.
Another video clip here when they staged a performance for the 1982 variety special hosted by Bette Midler, Mondo Beyondo. Click here for a scene where Marie Elfman watches the Kipper Kids in a boxing ring.
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I was friends with Danny and Rick Elfman of the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo ( click here for my 1976 photo session),when Rick started filming his experimental movie Forbidden Zone.
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For the complete files click on this series in the Elisa Leonelli Photojournalist Collection at Claremont Colleges Digital Library. A shortened version of my article was published in the L.A. I had been the Los Angeles correspondent for the Italian newsweekly L’Europeo since 1976, so I proposed to write and photograph a story about the Kipper Kids, and invited Martin, Brian and Anne for a photo session in my studio. I was even more impressed when I saw their artist friend Anne Bean (born in Zambia in 1950) join them for a few performances in 1979, matching them in outrageousness and daring. But there was a method to their madness and a ritualistic rhythm to their act. It was then that I first saw the Kipper Kids perform and felt the palpable excitement and even fear in the shocked audience, considering that these half-naked guys were throwing soup, beer, flour and paint at each other, while grunting, farting and burping. Kipper Kids at Vanguard Gallery © Elisa Leonelliīrian returned to Europe and came back to LA in 1977. When they moved to Los Angeles in late 1974 at the invitation of the Long Beach Museum of Art, I heard about them because my friend, Venice video artist Nina Sobell (who had posed for my Black and White photo series “ Ladies in Ladies Rooms”), married Brian. They performed at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich and all over Europe.
Martin (born in Argentina of German parents in 1949) and Brian Routh (born in England in 1948 and passed away in 2018) started the performance art duo in 1971 in the UK, both taking on the name of Harry Kipper.
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While speaking with Bette Midler about the TV series The Politician, I was reminded of my experience of photographing the Kipper Kids, because she has been married to Martin von Haselberg for decades.
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