Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Gilda, Starring Rita Hayworth, aka Margarita Carmen Cansino


One of the oldest chapters in Tex[t]-Mex, the Rita Hayworth/Electrolysis/Existentialism piece (which began as a conference talk for the Romance Language Conference that used to go down at Purdue University), focuses on the series of events, desires, coincidences and catastrophes that went into the creation of this legendary Hollywood femme fatale. Here, in stunning youTube video, the trailer from Gilda:

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