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Film/Video
A TRIBUTE TO BOB FOSSE
ALL THAT JAZZ
DIRECTED BY BOB FOSSE
WEDNESDAY,
AUGUST 28, 2002,
8 PM
$7 ($5 WALKER MEMBERS)
AUDITORIUM
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After surviving open-heart surgery,
and eight years before dying of a heart attack, Fosse made this fictionalized
version of his life story, complete with a death scene--the body bag is
zipped up to Ethel Merman's "There's No Business Like Show Business." As
decadently fascinating as it is self-indulgent, All That Jazz portrays
the director-choreographer through the character Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider),
a pill-popping, chain-smoking, promiscuous artist who ignores the warnings
of his doctor as he exhaustively begins work on his new Broadway show while
still editing his latest film. A flashy movie, complete with quick cutting
and show-stopping dance sequences, its excesses reveal as much as the narrative.
With Ann Reinking, Leland Palmer, and Jessica Lange as the glamorous angel
of death. All That Jazz won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
1979, U.S., color, 35mm, 123 minutes.
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