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... out loud enough to lure a journalist
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or music industry professional.
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A MOULIN STAR can eas'ly build a list
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of useful names not picked up at ècole.
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That team that cranks out "Britney-hits" stops in
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from time to time, and promise, for her smile,
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to write a "Loulou-hit." Quite useful men
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to have already programmed for speed-dial.
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MADONNA was too short to get the job
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that Loulou's legs wrapped up so easily --
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but limitations can provide a knob
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to unseen doors of opportunity.
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INSIDE HER HEAD she hums the Dixie Chicks
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who somewhere bluegrass channels STEVIE NICKS ...
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... repeating in the present, verses found
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a QUARTER CENT'RY BACK when love was trapped
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in ASPEN SNOW... Her love had run aground.
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Her father's Greyhound-Bus pass useless, sapped ...
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... of power by untimely workers' strike.
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BAD BOYFRIEND took the car and left HER there
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to stew alone ... or maybe take a hike
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into an avalanche ... for all he'd care.
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INSTEAD, Ms. Nicks sat down and wrote a song
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that's vague enough to fit the way you feel,
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no matter who you are -- done right, or wrong.
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And so each REPETITION has appeal ...
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... to ev'ry generation with a heart.
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The Dixie Chicks RE-SING it 'cause they're smart. ...
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Their version rolls around in Loulou's head
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encoded in a twang not very French.
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"That Dixie Chick's too short and too well fed,"
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thinks Loulou -- who's a tall and slender wench, ...
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... or was, before she SWITCHED to play Sagesse.
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THE NEW LOULOU has NOT BEEN CAST as yet,
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but she'll be just as tall -- well, more or less.
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That BLACK-HAIRED GIRL on "Birds of Prey".... Let's get ...
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... her in to read for this, if that show fails.
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(And if it doesn't, clone her... Let's REPEAT
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that D.N.A. again ... for all the males
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who want a girl like Elvis -- not too sweet ...
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... but leather-clad ... and wears a pretty sneer
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that's cool-ly welcoming, more than sincere.)
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"WELL, I'VE BEEN, 'FRAID OF, CHANGIN' ..." goes the tune
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that's rolling 'round the head of WHO GETS CAST.
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Of Ashley Scott ... or clone -- OR some CARTOON
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Perhaps it might be best to choose the last, ...
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... considering the "costume" that's required.
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Contractual agreement might be hard.
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Would actresses agree to be attired
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in nothing more than lipstick -- their petard ...
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... displayed in all its glory? ... FOR ONE WEEK
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OF PUDDING STARDOM ... 'till they are REPLACED?
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Negotiating challenge -- cheek by cheek,
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persuading ev'ry star of our good taste ...
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... in what will be revealed in ev'ry shot --
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without a push-up bra they'll still look hot.
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A FLASH OF LIGHTNING and WILL SHAKESPEARE POPS
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INTO THIS SCENE from HEAVEN ... where he's been
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observing this.... Throws up his hands... He stops
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THE WRITER with one PUNCH.... His deep chagrin ...
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... is evident: "What's wrong with you, 'my son'?
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Why foist upon the world such pointless verse?
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If you would waste some lines ... at least have fun.
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Just stop right now, before you make it worse."
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THE WRITER nods OK, but does not smile --
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though hearing Shakespeare's voice (again) should please
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him very much, ... it would take much more guile
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than he can muster ... (Pure) Hypocrisies ...
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... would have to flow to justify more speech.
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The LESSONS learned this week ... aren't ripe to teach.
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(END OF ACT II)
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