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...ultimate instance of American mixed feelings. Our popular culture? Spiffy, spectacular: Billie Holiday songs, Krazy Kat, Preston Sturges movies, Ernie Kovacs, the Four Tops, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Bob Dylan, E.T., even blue jeans, Whoppers and soda pop. But ask again, on a dull, gray, Spenglerian day, and the view is altogether different. Alarming, appalling, totally awesome. The critic Dwight Macdonald called pop culture a spreading ooze back in the 1950s, when Sylvester Stallone was still just a boy. Today America's righteous pop thug is huge, ubiquitous, swaggering from one medium into the next and the next...
...Chad Hummel), a young American author in search of a subject, is the show's male protagonist. Paris and Venice fail to inspire him so he makes his way to Berlin, a city rich with parties and nightlife. There, he is naively introduced to the subculture of the Kit Kat Klub by a pleasant-seeming young German smuggler, Ernst Ludwig (David Kirach). Calmly watching the stageshow. Cliff is masterfully seduced by its star-performer Sally Bowles (Belle Linda Halpern). And while the first act only hints at the rising Nazi power, focusing on Cliff and Sally's ensuing love affair...
ALTHOUGH FISH-NET STOCKINGED Kit Kat Klub Girls flirtatiously slink into the audience early on the Cabot House Production of Cabaret never completely ensnares us. The play offers views of both a presumably typical Berlin music-hall in the early 1930s and the particular strains on relationships at the time, but occasional unevenness and sluggishness in performances and direction too often dispel strong promises for both lasciviousness and poignancy. Unfortunately, even several strong performances and specific scenes cannot carry this tale of decadent. Nazi-ascendent Berlin...
...Satan-like figure, and he is suitably disconcerting as he belts out a mighty anthem to "The Fatherland." His two bizarre, but rather lightweight, numbers. "Two Ladies" and "If They Could See What I See" are enacted with commendable energy. His "Money, Money", done with one of the Kit Kat Klub Girls, is strong, but lacks the vitality of Joel Grey's exquisite film rendition...
...Jackson says, "Oh, not now. I don't like interviews. Well, what do you want to ask me?" I tell her and she says, "All right, let's go." The three of us go into the living room. Katherine Jackson sits poised and serene. Michael calls her Kat. She is a devout Jehovah's Witness and is very proud, very protective of her family. She says, "Ever since Michael was very young, he seemed different to me from the rest of the children. I don't believe in reincarnation, but you know how babies move uncoordinated...