(Carmen) Miranda Warning: a Friday Night Video
30 January 2009
Latin American literature is often considered “magical realism”. I don’t know what’s uniquely Latin about the style, except maybe as a way of comparing it to Hollywood’s “magical surrealism”. What other description is there for Busby Berkley number that mix Sigmund (“sometimes a banana is just a banana”) Freud, drag queen anthems (“Some people say/I dress too gay,/but when I’m gay/I dress this way…”) and choreographed monkeys? Latin America produces a fine assortment of organic hallucinogens, which might possibly explain the way Hollywood dealt with Latin Americans — Carmen Miranda — “The Lady in the Tutti-Frutti Hat” from the 1943 musical, “The Gangs All Here” :
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“100 anos Carmen Miranda, vamos tambores rufar!”
Carmen Miranda’s musics are forever and definitely make a stand in a very important part of the World’s history – the second World War
This great diva will always remain in our hearts; she’ll always be remembered as “a Pequena Notável” with her beautiful and lovely smile.
Here in Portugal we also have a Carmen Miranda Museum that is very worthwhile to visit: it has some interesting items!
As a Painter and Plastic Artist I could not standby upon her 100th birthday celebration, even more, because she was born in a town near mine. So I decided to pay her a tribute by doing an exhibition.
You can check my blog for more information regarding my tribute to Carmen Miranda. I hope you enjoy it!
http://gabrielamarquescosta.wordpress.com
Gabriela Marques da Costa