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| | Moulin Rouge |
 | | The Moulin Rouge is in Pigalle (pronounced "pee-gahl," and not "pig alley," no matter what your great-grandfather claims to remember from the Great War), a neighborhood that has built a reputation for itself as a center of naughty nightlife (which might well displease Pigalle himself, the sculptor after whom the district is named). |
 | | When the Moulin Rouge was rebuilt in 1906, the elephant was gone. |
 | | Those most readily available include: "Moulin Rouge," the 1953 John Huston film with Jose Ferrer, which recounts the story of Toulouse-Latrec, and "Can-Can," the 1960 film with Shirley MacLaine, Frank Sinatra, Maurice Chevalier, Juliet Prowse, and Louis Jourdan, each of which are available on video and most recently in the superb movie by Baz Luhrmann. |
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