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Ellis Weiner's avatar

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."

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Dee Whitman's avatar

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.)

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Ellis Weiner's avatar

I thought the movie was brilliant in every way.

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arne link's avatar

The film Cabaret is a favorite of mine but Chicago is my second fave.

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Richard Von Busack's avatar

Wonderful original Roxie Hart (1942) is on YouTube

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Dee Whitman's avatar

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.

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Patris's avatar

Great line. Dark.

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Charles Austin's avatar

😂😂

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

That and "he ran into my knife, ten times"

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