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...most of them close echoes of Threepenny Opera tunes. Composer Weill (who died in the U.S. in 1950) grew lyrical, sentimental and popular in such musicals as Lady in the Dark and Lost in the Stars. But in this album he is still the unreconstructed composer of gutter nihilisms. In one ditty. Singer Lenya is a bitter, jilted girl who snarls at her indifferent lover: "Take that pipe out of your kisser, you dog!" In the chilling Berlin Requiem she sings the horrifying vision of a drowned girl whose body is decomposing, limb by limb, as "God gradually forgot...
...point: "To abjure money is to abjure life." Man's first duty is to get himself "bound up in the bundle of life," to fit himself for the struggles of "being married, begetting, working, dying." And so, at the eleventh hour, Orwell yanks Gordon out of his sanctimonious gutter, marries him to Rosemary, and gives him a good job writing ad copy. "[The firm] had decided that B.O. and halitosis were worked out [as a] way of scaring the public. Then some bright spark had suggested, 'What about smelling feet?' " And it is as the prophet against...
...grip of the constant, twitching fear that he and his family will fall into the anonymous abyss of "the proles." His wife has to do the cooking! Gleave is offered a job in commerce at five times his Foreign Office pay, but the offer is made by a "gutter imp" whose wife has the wrong diphthongs and clothes...
Even straight-faced Bogart must have realized that Dead Reckoning was not a "gun-gutter-gal" thriller. Although Bogart is periodically covered by guns, blood, and Elizabeth Scott, it is impossible to take the movie seriously. This is not a flaw, since Dead Reckoning is a great if unintentional comedy. Most of the humor comes from double meanings and the ensuing snickers from the audience. The snickers become howls when Bogart gives his deadpan comments on ludicrous situations. (After an all-encompassing embrace with Lizabeth Scott he notes, "I hate every inch of her." And he should know...
...even married another alcoholic (Richard Conte). His proposal: "Let's go on the wagon together." They didn't. He beat her when they got drunk, and one day she ran away. Left alone, she skidded fast and hit bottom hard in a San Francisco gutter. Sent back to mother in Manhattan, she tried to kill herself and couldn't. In the end she walked into a branch office of Alcoholics Anonymous. It was the beginning of a cure and a comeback that has carried Lillian Roth, at 45, into a second career as a nightclub singer...