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In July, it is the major focus of the great West Indian Festival of Caribana, celebrating those other islands’ extravagant costumes and music, featuring steel band, calypso, and reggae.
Local clubs and stage shows reflect such Bermudian and Caribbean traditions as steelband music, calypso, goombay, reggae, and limbo dancing, among others.
The very next year, Wallace Deen disbanded the nation; rescinded most of his father's teachings; became an observant Sunni Muslim; and set up a new organization, which he still leads, the World Community of al-Islam . Soon after, Farrakhan , a Nation of Islam stalwart and former calypso singer, re-established the nation in line with its original tenets.
With a $43 million budget, it is, minute for minute, the most expensive TV show ever, and also features a shocking amount of sex--as Odysseus, Armand Assante sleeps with Penelope (Greta Scacchi), Circe (Bernadette Peters), and Calypso (Vanessa Williams).
Rosemary Clooney, revisiting "Mambo Italiano" for a recent autobiographical album, explains in the liner notes how much she loathes all her early hits--"Come On-a My House" (Armenian novelty song), "Who Don Mon Man" (calypso novelty song), "Botch-a Me" (botched novelty song).