European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 19, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse California czech to r dream men strut their stuff one Man s Art is another s Strim ease is photos by Anita Gosch dream Man Sergio Carbajal far Katf does t take it All off but Dennis Paris above certainty does. Not All the crowd below was in a frenzy. By Anita coach staff writer it s get two things straight. The California dream men Are not All from California. And yes Virginia some of them really do take it All off. Dennis Paris is from Czechoslovakia and he s one of the dream men who sashay on stage in the Buff during the troupe s German tour. He s 29, Blond Speaks with a killer slavic accent and has a Chest carved of Granite. His Bio describe him As the wild one who sometimes is too much Man for one woman. Before a recent interview he quipped let me just get dressed for a on stage Dennis plays a Macho biker and a gentleman officer. He s been dancing for seven years but he ays he never stripped in Public before touring Germany with the los Angeles based girls probably expect More Here he says. Germany is More open it s More Liberal. You do that in the states and you go to Dennis says he does t like to take it All off but on the other Side i Don t mind so it works out pretty Good huh dream Man Ronnie Willis minds. The Washington d.c., native insists he s a dancer not a stripper whose contract states just How much hell take off. And that s Down to no less than what people Wear on the Beach he says. As a dancer we Don t go past shorts. If we go Down to a strings then we re classified As strippers. And then the Money goes Ronnie says he s a professional dancer whose experience includes Rock videos and stints with the Alvin Alley dance company. He joined the California dream men because the Money was Good. He makes $1,300 a week for at least five shows he says. Hotels gym time tanning Salon time and other expenses except meals Are paid for. Ronnie says there s Only a Small difference Between dancing for a classical dance company and performing with the California troupe. Here i Start out with a full set of clothes i take off my clothes and i have shorts on. I Don t see anything really perverted about his Fiancee who s accompanying him on the tour does t quite see it that Way. She s japanese and this is very shocking for her because they re really a shy race of people Ronnie says. But she knows that i m just doing this to get a Start on our he says she gets jealous sometimes especially when women hang around the backstage door asking for y autographs. It can get to a person after a while. It gets to me after a while he said. In Germany the California dream men s show is largely limited to the stage. The men initially dressed in various sorts of costumes perform skits in which they dance and act out women s fantasies to the melodies of pop and Rock songs. All the while they take off their clothes. The Cost of watching the dream men act out fantasies is about $30-$40 in Germany. Promoters say the tour May include stops in England in the summer and in Italy and Spain in the fall. Occasionally the men venture into the audience to Pluck an All too willing female from the thousands of screaming women and bring her on stage for some hands on action. You Don t have to kiss and tip says Dennis referring to the stateside custom of sticking Dollar Bills into the dancers a strings. Stars and stripes starter sue Eggen contributed to Tyis report pop singles 1.1 will always love you Whitney Houston 2. A Whilt new world Perabo Bryson and Regina Belle 3. Ordinary world Duran Dura 4. I m every woman Whitney Houston 5. Saving forever Tor you Shanice 6. Or. Wendal arrested development 7. 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Dorn in East Germany fluent in Rock and hip hop not to mention English and a ceaseless crusader against German Neo fascism j. That s ail the name he uses was the subject of numerous articles and interviews even before his album we Are the majority 31451 7710was released in the United states. And though that sort of pro release publicity is usually death on would be pop stars How can anyone live up to that sort of hype. A s album generally does deliver the , his raps Are better at capturing the cadences of american hip hop than they Are at mimicking the rhyme schemes and the Way his attention shifts from political analysis to sexual abandon can be jarring. But at its Best we Are the majority makes the listener want to think move and act and How Many other albums can make that claim . Considine the Baltimore Sun wandering spirit Mick Jogger Atlantic of can t always get Brown sugar but you can come close to that stones Touchstone a Mew and others on Jagger s third Solo album. Jagger who casts himself As a spiritual drifter in the title song wanders musically from one Patch of signature rolling stones turf to another menacing Funk chopped chord Rocker harpsichord and strings Ballad Anth Emic country hymn. It s a Good Deal for Jagger who gets the Keith licks without having to work with Keith and enjoys the hip imprimatur of a Rick Rubin production Job. His inspiration seems to fluctuate and the results Are pretty mixed ranging from Mere posturing on a never ending remake with Tenny Kravitz of Bill Withers use me to an Ingrati tingly spirited commitment to Rock s values of humor and heart. Jagger s voice sounds tight and strained when it s pushed by driving Rock arrangements but when Given room it s Loose Lively and full. Jagger even Breaks the stylistic Mold a couple of times with a heavy dose of gospel on wandering spirit and with a Pogue Slike version of the traditional sea Chantey handsome Molly. These Steps into new areas Aren t artistically astonishing but they give the album enough risk and freshness to keep it looking Forward instead of Back. Richard Cromelin los Angeles times Blue Funk heavy d. & the Boyz Uptown Mca he heaster is All Over the place on this one bouncing from boasting to Romance a. To social commentary to silly humor. His rapping fluctuates wildly too from glib Speed rap to gibberish. Musically it s diverse and ambitious but with one exception the sleek Funk jazz of Silky All this does t add up to much. Dennis Hunt los Angeles times Core Stone Temple pilots Atlantic ans of Alice in chains and sound Garden s sonic guitar assaults ought to enjoy this. San Diego group s debut. With the distortion Box turned to 10 and a thundering rhythm Section the pilots have delivered an album that sounds better the louder it s played. But unlike the band s Seattle based Brothers there s nothing terribly innovative Here. J. 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