A whole lotta “huh?”

This has been a headscratching week for me, due to some of the following tidbits sent my some of my fellow sources and fans of Our Lady of the Magnificent Kulo.

Breakout Entertainment announced some news this week in the following press release on Yahoo Biz.

Press Release

Source: Eileen Koch & Company

Bringing Burlesque Back
Tuesday July 10, 6:19 pm ET
Breakout Entertainment’s “L’Originale Burlesque” Takes Center Stage

HOLLYWOOD, CA–(MARKET WIRE)–Jul 10, 2007 — Breakout Worldwide Entertainment (www.breakoutent.com), already establishing itself as an arresting and stylish new production company in a seemingly narrow scope of obvious and stale alternatives, have done it again! What CEO Sherri Strain and a team of highly talented and devoted creatives have smartly concocted is a new bent on an old tradition that is making a major resurgence BIGTIME — and for big reasons.

With sights seriously set on a series, the pilot for “L’Originale Burlesque” is in the works and is fixed on bringing back the glitz and glamour of the 1940s burlesque world, both celebrating and ritualizing the beauty and grace of the female form. Boasting elaborate, ostentatious costumes, intricate and period-specific dance techniques, as well as the art of the striptease itself, Breakout’s provocative new series promises to entice and indulge.

Director Shawn Foster (The Sun and Sugarcult music videos) is at the helm of this extraordinary little jewel starring the lovely and fiercely exotic Chicago burlesque queen Michelle L’Amour, who has been recently featured on “America’s Got Talent.” L’Amour has also been seen on Showtime’s “Sexual Healing,” as well as being featured in Women’s Health, NY Post and Time out Chicago.

“L’Originale Burlesque” is being penned by wordsmith Andrew Shafer, with music and lyrics by Sherri Strain and Edward Kramer. Breakout Entertainment will be auditioning dancers by request only. Reels must be accepted no later than Friday, July 20 at 1438 N Gower St, Box 70, Hollywood CA 90028. Attn: Christina Rosenberg.

A classic sensual tradition set against the backdrop of the modern age. Some pastimes are simply too good not to rediscover — and in this case, reinvent… Making “L’Originale Burlesque” a true original!

Someone, anyone, please explain this screen grab:

It’s from some sort of infomercial, I think.

And, apparently, this is ages old, but cool nonetheless:

Which of course, got me poking around the old ML’.com site and I remembered these fondly…oh the good ol’ days.

Giving new meaning to the word’s “Moving Pictures”

In this video montage from the UK’s “Ministry of Burlesque” we can see a couple of snippets of Michelle’s fan dance performance. She performed on Legend’s Night curing the “50th Annual Striptease Reunion” where most of the performers were in their 70s or later. You don’t get much of her act here, but you get a tease, and that’s usually okay with me. Besides, it’s the first I’ve seen any of these images in their “moving” form.

A Fly on a Very Sexy Wall

Grabbed these off of the Dr Sketchy’s Chicago Flickr account.

Michelle’s Best Week Ever

For those Canadians in the house, check out the W Network where Michelle is featured in an hour long documentary called “What a Booty”. If anyone can tape it for me, let me know…

Here’s a (Michelle free) promo for it.

Los Angeles residents got to glimpse the treasure at Lucha VaVoom this week.

It was her “Best Week Ever” as she mingled with the Sklar Brothers, hosts of VH1’s “Best Week Ever”

Michelle and a Super Fan at the end of the show

Photographers are always present at Lucha VaVoom, backstage

My girlfriend actually showed me this: (July issue)

Michelle wowed an all-star attendance at the Art Gallery book release of The Book on Vegas.

Michelle with Roman Alonso, the book’s creator

Michelle with special guests Gina Gershon and Bishop Don “Magic” Juan

Michelle with Susan Bernard (whose father, Bernard’s of Hollywood, has several pictures featured in the book)

And more Exotic World luvin’. This time from Ed Barnas.