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Rodgers was always keen on breaking new ground. Many believe Pal Joey (1940), the story of the emcee of a sleazy nightclub, to be a landmark musical. With its unscrupulous leading character and bitingly realistic view of life, the show moved the musical-comedy format into more serious territory. But even as Rodgers and Hart were taking the musical to new levels, their partnership was becoming increasingly strained. Hart was a serious drinker, and by the time of his last collaboration with Rodgers, By Jupiter in 1942, he was virtually an alcoholic. Rodgers was desperate. No one was more forthcoming...
...tempestuous marriage off-screen (Desi was an unrepentant philanderer), the Ricardos' kisses showed the spark of real attraction. In the episode where Lucy finds out she is pregnant, she can't break the news to Ricky because he is too busy. Finally, she takes a table at his nightclub show and passes him an anonymous note asking that he sing a song, We're Having a Baby, to the father-to-be. As Ricky roams the room looking for the happy couple, he spies Lucy and moves on. Then he does a heartrending double take, glides to his knees...
...working guy and his wife were discovering prosperity. Sinatra ushered them into cafe society on their own terms: dinner jacket but no top hats. First class all the way but nothing fancy. Ordinary guys were anxious--and anxious is the word--to show that they understood the bits of nightclub chivalry that Frank knew all about, like how to light a lady's cigarette. All the same, they wanted to cut loose, the way Sinatra wore his tie--undone, a sign of his narrow escape from a workaday world that could still seize them by the throat...
Come to the Cabaret, old chum. This time you'll hardly recognize the place. The Kit Kat Klub, where Sally Bowles tried to sing away the gathering Nazi storm clouds in the 1966 musical Cabaret, is a real cabaret now, a converted nightclub where theatergoers can sip drinks (but can't rustle programs, handed out only after the show) while immersing themselves in Berlin decadence circa 1929. Or is it 1999? The club has a seedy-chic, downtown, S&M look: the dancers have runs in their stockings, and even the orchestra members, in sleeveless black tops, look ready...
...almost a kind of interactive story,? Pletcher testified in his trial. ?It was actually happening as I wrote it.? He added that the letters were to form the basis of a novel inspired by that great Stallone turkey, ?Assassins? -- and that the money would help him open a teetotal nightclub. From now on Pletcher will have to use prison gates, not Bill Gates, for his inspiration...