one of the great critics, owen gleiberman — a huge critic in the states — who absolutely slayed moulin rougeu could take the reviews from strictly ballroom and apply them to pretty much to moulin and so on and so forth. but owen gleiberman, i have never seen this happen before, in his book, he rewrote his review for moulin rouge ten years later and there's a bit in his book, and i actually met him and i was really... of course, you're happy that someone finally went like... he decided ten years on that actually he had missed the point? his language was, there was a method to the madness and i could see that, actually, this wasn'tjust kind of camp for the sake of it it was employed in the pursuit of a slightly bigger idea. but i suppose my question would then be, do you ever reflect and think, you know what, many i got a little bit seduced by the fact that hollywood was flinging money at me so that by the time you made the great gatsby, i don't know how much that cost but probably $100 million? yeah, around that. roughly, give or take $10 million. i'm not great with numbers. check with the st

hesitate to bring it up a little bit about a performance artist in paris in the late 1800s in the moulin rouge. and his talent put it frankly was he was a artiste they called him. he was basically very good about inhaling air through his rectum. he would release it back out and he would do and prescience with that. he could do roosters. he could do dogs. he could do human beings. he could sing the french national anthem through his backside. he can blow out candles, play instruments. this man was very, very talented. this story did sort of make me choke on a glass of water first time i read it. i couldn't believe this existed in first place but but i thougt about it more and i thought i've always been kind of curious about what's going on there, but like most people i think, but i did know much about it. so i said i'm going to try to see if i can make this an little bit more scientific, learn a little more about it because we are all curious about it. it turned out to be a real fascinating chapter. like i said i did learn a lot except to learn to laugh a lot about this guy. a few things i lear

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