Masked Men In Japanese Noh Theatre And William Shakespeare`s Men Dressed As Women   Japanese Noh theatre is a traditional 13th century form of drama featuring music and dance, which takes an entire day to perform and is divided into five parts. Just as the day for Moslems in the religious observances of Islam, begins with Fajr, at dawn (5. 00 a.m.), before the second prayer, Dhuhr  (12. 00 a.m.), at lunchtime. The day is divided into three further parts; Asr at around 4. 00...

  Kids, War And Adult TV   Children`s movies are noteworthy for the ways in which adults behave in them and the absence of what are euphemistically described as `adult` themes relating to sexuality. The absence of sexual themes is usually attributed to the aim of presenting material suitable for youngsters, whereas the greater truth is that the dearth of sexual activity in supposedly kids` shows is because they`re for adults. No longer interested in sex per se adults construct films...

Hercules And The Cannibal Horses   The concept of the devouring horse, that is, the Greek or Trojan horse as a camouflaged threat, is familiar from Greek mythology where the city of Troy is captured after the Greeks leave a huge hollow wooden horse as a `friendship gift`. The Trojans take the horse into the city where the Greeks, who institutionalized homosexuality as a means of spreading war through pederasty, emerged to sack the city of Troy and enslave the host wombs of the Trojan women...

The Perfume Affair   The Profumo Affair was a `sex scandal` in the United Kingdom. The democratically elected Conservative Party`s government had appointed as Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, who was discovered in March 1963 to have had a relationship with nude model, Christine Keeler, who was allegedly also having a relationship with Captain Yevgeny Ivanov, a Russian naval attaché, so compromising Britain`s security with regard to the Soviet Union during the `Cold War` between...

Break A Leg   In the period of drama known as Elizabethan because of the reign of the English queen, Elizabeth I, William Shakespeare`s (1564-1616) plays were performed at the Globe Theatre in London by all male casts, which is something most critics ignore when discussing the work of the dramatist. Many traditions of the English `live` theatre derive from Shakespeare, the most famous being `the Scottish play` as a means of avoiding saying, `Macbeth`, because it`s deemed unlucky to mention...

Cowards Won`t Be Eaten By The Gods, So They`re Not Brave Boys   Boxing is often held up as the sport that boys should be taught because it teaches them self-defence, whereas in fact the stories of boxers, like three times world heavyweight champion, Muhammad Ali (1964, 1974 and 1978), reveals it turns them into brain damaged victims of the crowd in a socio-historical throwback to the ancient Romans` amphitheatre, depicted in Hollywood movies like Gladiator (2000), starring Russell Crowe,...

Counting To More Than Two   Political correctness is the new communism, encouraged by the United States of America, where freedom has long been enshrined as the mother of all truth, symbolized by the statue of `Liberty` in New York harbor. In the United Kingdom it`s politically correct to support the United States as an ally, while spurning Europe because it speaks a different language. The UK was conquered by the United States a generation ago when it accepted US television, because it...

`Attacob!`   J. R. R. Tolkien`s famous trilogy, The Lord Of The Rings (1954-5), was made into the Hollywood movies, The Fellowship Of The Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002) and The Return Of The King (2003), while The Hobbit (1937), Tolkien`s story for children, was filmed as a trilogy, An Unexpected Journey (2012), The Desolation Of Smaug (2013) and There And Back Again (2014) about Bilbo, one of the `halfling` heroes, who live in holes with round doors in their town of Hobbiton. The...

Escape From The Planet By The Humans   Usually animal is defined as what isn`t human while mankind is, but animals don`t generally kill their own young, whereas men do. Theirs is a history of wars fought between their boys or sons upon the planet Earth for some supposedly legitimate reason, which often defies explanation to the disinterested observer. The constant factor is of older men who stay at home and younger boys or sons who do their fighting for them. World War I (1914-8) was the...

  I Want To Look Like A Woman And Get All The Chicks   One of the more famous `pop` bands of the period known as `glam rock` in music were Britain`s Sweet (1968-), who made no bones about their image, which was to wear lip-gloss and make-up and look like women to appeal to boys` sexuality and girls sexually. The appeal to young men was based on the raison d`etre of much glamour photography of the 1970s, which concealed the photographer but revealed the model`s nudity. Although Bailey...