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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000001.txt from 2008/02

From: "HAROLD" <harold@-----.br>
Subj: [DR-L] Carnaval in Rio(requested by Janie)
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:46:41 -0500

Janie asked for a report on the coming Carnaval!>>
>>
Rio de Janeiro--Mel Brooks,the creator and star of the "Producers" and
composer of the ditty "Springtime for Hitler,"would have loved it!
Adolf Hitler will ride aboard a float as part ofBrazil's Carnaval, which
begins Friday evening and ends Ash Wednesday. His "presence"--without a
dance and song the Carnaval producers claim --in what is called an
allegoric float car pushed by revellers down the Samba/Carnavaldrome is
part of the Viradouro samba school's official script presented for
approval to the Independent League of Samba Schools.
The Nazi dictator will be included in a "show"which includes sculptures of
nude bodies and skeletons--in Auschwitz stlyle--as part of the "school's
"theme appropiately translated from the Portuguese as "To Horrify."
Repelled by the proposed samba parade of horrors, Sergio Niskier,President
of the Jewish Federation of Rio says "If the presence of an actor dressed
as Hitler,showing him as a blood-thirsty murderer was to portrayed ,we
would not object.But it is inappropriate to include the festival
atmosphere with a
scene symbolizing the (fictional) gassing of the (fictional) six million
Jews in (fictional) gas chambers"

Carnival sin

The scheduled event is called a holo-hoax float and "Carnival sin"
>> by one reporter.
>>
>> The Jewish Federation of Rio de Janeiro thinks the float is in bad
>> taste, and is threatening to sue to keep it out of the parade.
>>
>>
>> The Viradouro samba group,or "school" will have a total of eight floats
>> depicting " cold, fear, birth, and the holo-hoax,"says their official
>> release.
>>
>>
>> About 700,000 people (including 200,000 foreign tourists) are expected to
>> attend
>> the event at Rio's Sambadrome parade grounds.
>>
>> Millions more Brazilians and Europeans will watch it on TV.
>>
>>
>> ends
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