The chief Raoni cries when he learns that Brazilian president Dilma released the beginning of construction of the hydroelectric plant of Belo Monte, even after tens of thousands of letters and emails addressed to her and which were ignored as the more than 600 000 signatures. That is, the death sentence of the peoples of Great Bend of the Xingu river is enacted. Belo Monte will inundate at least 400,000 hectares of forest, an area bigger than the Panama Canal, thus expelling 40,000 indigenous and local populations and destroying habitat valuable for many species - all to produce electricity at a high social, economic and environmental cost, which could easily be generated with greater investments in energy efficiency. We do not need to destroy our world, and our fellow people on this earth to live richly.
A judge has ordered an immediate halt to construction of the controversial Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in Brazil’s Amazon region.
Federal Judge Carlos Eduardo Castro Martins prohibited main contractor Consorcio Norte Energia S.A. from carrying out any work that would interfere with the flow of the Xingu River, the state-run Agencia Brasil news agency reported.
… The judge said, however, that another project to build temporary living facilities for workers may proceed.
Seo Brasil ganha, eles vão devolver Pedro Álvares Cabral; se Portugal ganha, Lula tem que dirigir um filme sobre sua vida como um menino em Lisboa. #péssimaidéia
José Vasconcelos - Eu Sou O Espetaculo (I Am The Show.)
”[José] started in radio, and became famous by doing imitations of the voices of other speakers and artists such as imitation Ari Barroso presented a program for freshmen.
He became very famous for his jokes stuttering, and the sketch “The Talker Football Gago” one of his greatest successes.His unparalleled ability to mimic provided unparalleled performance imitating stuttering, making these imitations in their particular brand.
Produced and starred in the first sitcom of television in Brazil, “The Plays of Joe”, aired by TV Tupi in São Paulo in 1952 .
In 1960 he recorded an album for Odeon, “I am the Show”, probably the first comedian to sell over 100,000 copies of an LP of the genre, and that disk had a duration of 55 minutes, the longest LP humor that went into the country.His success paved the way for record companies to invest in the segment, but Vasconcelos himself could not repeat the success of his first recording.”
In a bar, a comedian takes the stage and, alone in front of the microphone, make hilarious observations on daily life. For nearly two years, this type of humor, called stand-up comedy, has been gaining strength in large cities. Unlike the comedy that has always been successful here, based on jokes formal and histrionic characters, the stand-up comedy explores the public’s familiarity with the themes and improvisation.
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In Rio de Janeiro, the Standing Comedy Club has packed two theaters since January, when it debuted.Earlier this month, four members of the club - the actors Fernando Caruso, Fabio Porchat, Paulo Carvalho and writer Claudio Torres Gonzaga - came to occupy, on Saturdays and Sundays, prime time in one of the rooms in the ICU shopping New York City Center, also in Barra.Instead of American film, stand-up comedy in Brazil. The idea, unprecedented in Brazil, repeated the experiment done by the company in London and Buenos Aires.
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Gonzaga is editor in chief of Zorra Total, TV Globo, a program whose type of humor is the opposite of comedy stand. He created rules for their group in order to bring it closer to the root of the stand-up: the comedian has to present himself alone, and must be the author of the text itself, can not play a character or use a different outfit from the clothes of the day- to-day, can not tell stories or jokes known and finally, it is forbidden to make use of set design, soundtrack or sound effects. Difficult? “The strength is in the text. Often the audience applauds the most intelligent observation, with which he identifies, that’s funny,” says Gonzaga.
If, in Rio, the stand-up theater and cinema occupies in Sao Paulo two groups provoke laughter in bars. Two years ago, the Comedy Club Stand-Up shows out several houses in São Paulo. Six comedians share the stage.Each has a duration of five to 15 minutes.The other troupe of São Paulo is the Comedy Live. It also works in the scheme of the club, with a fixed set of four actors who take turns on stage.In addition to organizing in “clubs” and rules very similar, the groups are exchanged. Some are invited in the presentations of others.Another common point is to do the same shows. Each presentation has new texts, which helps ensure a full house. “But sometimes, some texts are so successful that the audience asks to repeat the jokes and end up getting fixed,” says Fabio Rabin, 25, of Live Comedy.
