Irreverent, sensual without being crass, author Joyce
Cavalcante has focused her writer’s eye on the resigned lives of women
bred for generations to pray, marry and die. She has woven these elements
into all her books, while living in Rio de Janeiro, where she learned about
life in the big city, as well as in New York City, Washington D.C., and
São Paulo, where she currently lives and works.
By Brazzil Magazine
Gilberto Gil
Criar meu web site
Fazer minha home-page
Com quantos gigabytes
Se faz uma jangada
Um barco que veleje
Que veleje nesse infomar
Que aproveite a vazante da infomaré
Que leve um oriki do meu velho orixá
Ao porto de um disquete de um micro em Taipé
Um barco que veleje nesse infomar
Que aproveite a vazante da infomaré
Que leve meu e-mail até Calcutá
Depois de um hot-link
Num site de Helsinque
Para abastecer
Eu quero entrar na rede
Promover um debate
Juntar via Internet
Um grupo de tietes de Connecticut
De Connecticut acessar
O chefe da Macmilícia de Milão
Um hacker mafioso acaba de soltar
Um vírus pra atacar programas no Japão
Eu quero entrar na rede pra contactar
Os lares do Nepal, os bares do Gabão
Que o chefe da polícia carioca avisa pelo celular
Que lá na praça Onze tem um videopôquer para se
jogar
On the Internet
To create my Web site
To make my homepage
With as many gigabytes
As you need to make a raft
A boat that will sail
That will sail in this infosea
That will go out on infotide tide
That will take my invocation of my old Orisa
To the port of a diskette of a micro in Taipei
A boat that will sail in this infosea
That will go out on infotide tide
That will take my E-mail to Calcutta
After a hot link
In a site of Helsinki
To refuel
I want to get in the Net
To start up a debate
To link via Internet
A group of Connecticut’s fans
From Connecticut to access
Milan’s Macmilitia’s chief
A Mafioso hacker has just released
A virus to attack programs in Japan
I want to get in the Net to contact
Homes in Nepal
Bars in Gabon
That the Carioca (from Rio) police chief tells me on
the cellular
that there’s a videopoker to be played at the Eleven
square
TV
Punished nudity
Brazilian
novelas (soap operas) have become a super show and a daily
guessing game in which the quiz is always the same: who is the
next actress to take her clothes off on camera? Xica da Silva,
Manchete TV network’s prime-time novela, is a
perfect illustration of that. After four months in the air, the
soap about a black slave who gets the affection of her master
during the very prude empire period, has already disrobed seven
of its characters. The strip-tease of Xica herself, played by
Taís Araújo, was surrounded by months of hoopla.
Even before the novela started everyone in Brazil knew
Taís would show it all. The problem was her age: she was a
minor. The July 1990 Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente (Child
and Adolescent Code) forbids anyone who isn’t 18 from appearing
naked on the media. Exactly three days after her much ballyhooed
birthday celebration, Taís appeared in all her glorious
nakedness and took a waterfall shower. The scene lasted 2 minutes
and 20 seconds, an eternity on TV.
Ratings-wise
the show with the strip-tease was a flop. Unwisely, Manchete
scheduled the showing for the same day and same time TV Globo was
broadcasting Palmeiras x Portuguesa, the national soccer
championship final game. Xica da Silva got 8 points in the
Ibope (the Brazilian Nielsen) compared to the 9 to 12 points it
was getting previously.
A picture published in the press one day after Taís birthday,
was the proof judge Siro Darlan from Rio’s Child and Adolescence
First Court needed to rule that the filming of the bare-it-all
scenes had been made before Taís was of age. Darlan punished
Manchete with an exemplary slap on the wrist: a fine that might
be as little as $300, and never to exceed $2,000.
