Kahn's "Defending democracy is a partisan act," and his paper's willingness to see it destroyed, somehow reminds me a line in The Cell Block Tango in the musical Chicago. One of the women in jail for having killed her partner says something like, "We had a difference of opinion. He saw himself as alive. I saw him as dead."
Kahn's "Defending democracy is a partisan act," and his paper's willingness to see it destroyed, somehow reminds me a line in The Cell Block Tango in the musical Chicago. One of the women in jail for having killed her partner says something like, "We had a difference of opinion. He saw himself as alive. I saw him as dead."
Such a great show -- and your comment made me smile. Thanks for that.
I've been told that a then-angry Bob Fosse was inspired to write it in response (or at least partly in response) to all that Nixon was doing and getting away with. (It's based on a Maurine Dallas Watkins play from the 1920s, but Fosse + Kander + Ebb put their own spin on it.)
Yes, I saw that! (When I was composing my post, I checked YT for a particular clip from that movie -- initially l wanted to share the clip, but it has some of the casual-but-horrible racism of the time, so I didn't. If anyone reading this is tempted to watch the movie, b prepared: All classic big-studio HW movies disparage Black people and women, though Black people are depicted far more insultingly).
Kahn's "Defending democracy is a partisan act," and his paper's willingness to see it destroyed, somehow reminds me a line in The Cell Block Tango in the musical Chicago. One of the women in jail for having killed her partner says something like, "We had a difference of opinion. He saw himself as alive. I saw him as dead."
Such a great show -- and your comment made me smile. Thanks for that.
I've been told that a then-angry Bob Fosse was inspired to write it in response (or at least partly in response) to all that Nixon was doing and getting away with. (It's based on a Maurine Dallas Watkins play from the 1920s, but Fosse + Kander + Ebb put their own spin on it.)
I thought the movie was brilliant in every way.
The film Cabaret is a favorite of mine but Chicago is my second fave.
Wonderful original Roxie Hart (1942) is on YouTube
Yes, I saw that! (When I was composing my post, I checked YT for a particular clip from that movie -- initially l wanted to share the clip, but it has some of the casual-but-horrible racism of the time, so I didn't. If anyone reading this is tempted to watch the movie, b prepared: All classic big-studio HW movies disparage Black people and women, though Black people are depicted far more insultingly).
Thanks, and best wishes.
Great line. Dark.
😂😂
That and "he ran into my knife, ten times"