Word: cabaret
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nightclubs are coming back. Couples are holding hands under candlelit tables and listening to songs they can hum along with. One good reason is fast-footed Singer-Dancer Joel Grey, 40, veteran of Cabaret, from both the stage version and the movie, for which he is up for an Oscar. Now he is back I in the kind of cabaret he says he likes ; best. Lugging a trunk studded with I stickers from his past Broadway hits I around the stage at the Waldorf, Joel clowns with the audience about his 30 years in show business: "I wasn...
...bins, but in a laundry hamper and a G.E. refrigerator carton. Their crippled son Hamm (Gerry Bamman) treats the universe as a sorry joke, his servant Clov (Larry Pine) as a straight man, and his fate as a glorious chance to play M.C. in death's cabaret...
Director Myerson, who has worked with the San Francisco improvisational cabaret group, The Committee, has not made a movie before, a fact that becomes obvious in the first few minutes of Steelyard Blues. Technically the film is a shambles. The narrative only occasionally lapses into coherence. That may, in fact, be a blessing. The fairytale atmosphere that decorates the film like an icing makes the political palaver seem all the more frivolous...
Before the performance begins, Señor Don Pepe Hernandez, a third-rate impresario who bills himself as "el compere extraordinario" has advertised in the local press of Trujillo, Honduras, that he has assembled a nightclub act of internationally famous cabaret stars. They include Señor Blind Joe Jackson (el blues cantante de Jackson, Mississippi), Giuseppe y Giovanni (el duo dinamico de Milano, Italia), and Las Dos La-La-Las (dos chiquitas frivolantes de Barcelona, Espa...
Though she was dressed in a simple black pantsuit and her nails were not painted green, Minnelli thrilled her audience with a spirited rendition of "Cabaret...