Word: cabaret
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...Isherwood, 81, British-born author whose fiction and nonfiction blended his real experiences with imagined ones, most notably in Goodbye to Berlin, his 1939 short-story collection about expatriates in decadent pre-Nazi Germany, which was adapted as I Am a Camera, a 1951 play and 1955 movie, and Cabaret, a 1966 Broadway musical and 1972 movie; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. Always a rebel, he went to Berlin in 1929 to sample its illicit pleasures, as well as to visit his lifelong friend and sometime lover, W. H. Auden. An immigrant to the U.S. in 1939, Isherwood became...
...says. "And now I'm doing something that I didn't know I was capable of." On the track Tin Pan Valley - an electrifying mix of synth pulses, slide guitar and some good old heavy-metal thunder - he rails against musicians who "live on former glory," "flirt with cabaret" and "fake the rebel yell." A shot across the bow at Rod Stewart and Mick Jagger? Plant will only hint that Tin Pan Valley is about "where I might have gone if I picked up too many gongs." Now the craggy-faced star just has to convince a cynical public that...
...records the behavior of some Japanese friends in a Tokyo cabaret, how they "sat down with the hostesses they had been assigned and almost at once reached out for their breasts as nonchalantly as they helped themselves to fruit on the table." He observes the clownish scenes that take place each night at subway stations as impeccable railway attendants try to steer hordes of drunks toward their trains. He hears sad stories that would never have escaped without the lubricant of booze. At one bar, a fellow drinker confides that his wife is pregnant and his salary insufficient to support...
...foremost present-day mounter of book musicals, has said that he plans to take an informal sabbatical to ponder ways of coping with the pitfalls now facing the form. The first, simple step is one that he ought to remember from the days when he staged such shows as Cabaret and Sweeney Todd: have something worth saying and tell it in the most direct and honest way. --By William A. Henry...
...quite a few thought it was about process and progress. Once the off-Broadway types got into porn, they relied on the actor's invaluable gift for self-hypnosis to convince themselves it was somehow legit. Spelvin, who says she appeared on Broadway in The Pajama Game and Cabaret, recalls, of Devil in Miss Jones, "I took the role very seriously. I was doing Hedda Gabler here! The fact that there was hard-core sex involved was incidental as far as I was concerned. I was totally deluded. I had made myself believe that I was an actress...