Word: cabaret
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent deposition, the President seems not to have believed them himself--but the public apparently forgave him. An implicit bargain was struck, and it's hard to imagine a national convulsion erupting from disclosures that, say, he had stashed away somewhere in the Old Executive Office Building a cabaret singer roughly...
...would be unfair to suggest that this adaptation of Bent is a total failure--its ambitiousness and intrinsically powerful subject matter aside, there are a number of marvelous moments in the film. The opening sequence, which captures the sensual decadence of a gay Berlin cabaret of the 1930s, is almost worth the admission price by itself. Titillating and visually gorgeous, it's heightened by an unexpected cameo: Mick Jagger, startlingly in his element as nightclub owner Greta (a.k.a. George), performs a throaty torch song in full drag whilst suspended on a platform from the ceiling, in a menacingly campy turn...
...Filmmaker Mira Nair presents two of her films, "India Cabaret" from 1986 and "So Far From India," from 1983. Harvard Film Archive...
...Tuesday, I guess it was the 24th, I got bored, and ended up singing "Memory" in drag in Beach Bums cabaret in Miami. That gig lasted a few days, until my voice broke and my stockings...
...from showcasing a new generation of downtown talents, like Rent's Jonathan Larson or Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk's Savion Glover, this season could pass for a Friars Club reunion of old Broadway tunesmiths, with Cy Coleman (Sweet Charity), John Kander and Fred Ebb (Cabaret), Maury Yeston (Nine) and Leslie Bricusse (Stop the World--I Want to Get Off) all back on the boards...