The image above was screengrabbed from a short french film called
Ah, les belles bacchantes, dating from 1954. It depicts what we would now describe as a burlesque show, though without the dirty comedians. The lady is one of a succession of lightly dressed girls whose costumes represent such themes as the elements, the heavenly bodies and the animal kingdom. Not that it matters, but I have been using this film, downloaded from the internet, to test an application which converts .flv format to mp4 format (it works, but it takes forever). What puzzles me is how this dated form of titillation can have mutated - in modern Britain - into a dreary form of entertainment in which gay men and fat ladies (like the one below) are encouraged to make utter plonkers of themselves?
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