Friday 19
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“When I first met her I thought she was sleazy; she needed to make a living, she was fucking on camera–I thought she was just another dumb porno slut. But I was wrong . . . ” And so begins another classic love story. Kamikaze Hearts, a 16-millimeter feature-length documentary by young filmmaker Juliet Bashore, follows the relationship of porn stars Tigr Menett and Sharon Mitchell in a real-life world of sex and drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. It plays at Facets Multimedia, 1517 W. Fullerton, tonight through Thursday at 7 and 9. Admission is $5; call 281-4114.
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When we hear the phrase “funny lawyer” we think of “funny” in the sense of “funny money,” but the Public Offenders, the all-barrister comedy troupe, will try to convince you otherwise in a six-night stand at Zanies, 1548 N. Wells, this week and next. The troupe plays tonight through Thursday and next Tuesday through Thursday at 7:00; tix are $7.50. More info? Call 902-5213. (Why do lawyers wear their collars so tight? To keep the foreskin down.)
After the crucial and bloody Battle of Gettysburg, with Lee in retreat, Union general George Meade didn’t have time to pick up the debris.”That debris,” writes noted political scholar Garry Wills,”was mainly a matter of rotting horseflesh and manflesh–thousands of fermenting bodies, with gas-distended bellies, deliquescing in the July heat.” The occasion of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was the dedication of a new cemetery to inter the bodies. In Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America, Wills argues that the dedication gave Lincoln the opportunity to perform an act of “open-air sleight of hand.” In the address, Wills says, Lincoln buttresses a new political concept of freedom by finessing the constitution–which tolerated slavery–and appealing to the Declaration of Independence, which insisted that all men are created equal. Wills gives a free reading from his book Lincoln at Gettysburg tonight at 7:30 at Kroch’s & Brentano’s, 2070 N. Clybourn. Call 525- 2800 for more.
