{"id":5038,"date":"2006-06-23T12:24:04","date_gmt":"2006-06-23T16:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5038"},"modified":"2022-10-10T19:38:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T23:38:19","slug":"happy-birthday-bob-fosse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5038","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Bob Fosse!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found this great link online <\/a>(click on it to make it bigger) – called “A Step-by-Step Tour Through the Moves of Bob Fosse”. It details his slinky anti-gravity counter-intuitive completely recognizable style.<\/p>\n

Check out how the hands go. It’s opposite of what is expected. Same with the way the bodies lean out like a flat board. It’s off kilter. It’s sexy, but in a kind of sick way.<\/p>\n

And here he is directing Liza in the film of Cabaret<\/i>:<\/p>\n

Liza was one of the quintessential Bob Fosse dancers. When you watch her in her prime – doing that choreography – you are witnessing perfection.<\/p>\n

Here he is with Gwen Verdon, his wife. Their insane marriage was immortalized, by Fosse, in All That Jazz<\/i>. I love this picture.<\/p>\n

Verdon had this to say about Fosse: “I was a great dancer when he got hold of me, but he developed me, he created me.”<\/p>\n

So many dancers have similar memories of him.<\/p>\n

Ann Reinking … who was brilliant in his All That Jazz<\/i> … basically holds the legacy to the Fosse style. She was already an incredible dancer when he got hold of her … but he transformed her, morphed her, twisted her – Phenomenal to watch.<\/p>\n

He was a brilliant film director as well. All That Jazz<\/i> comes pretty close to greatness in my opinion. Star 80<\/i> is fantastic, with some great acting by Eric Roberts – but it’s a bit too unrelentingly dark for my taste. Cabaret<\/i> is amazing – but, to me – All That Jazz<\/i> is one of the most audaciously personal films ever made. He films his own death. He fantasizes about it. He enacts it. But … the film isn’t self-indulgent at all. Or … it is so blatantly self-indulgent that we verge on genius here. Genius as in: indulging in his own fantasies to such a degree that most people never allow. He just GOES there. It’s brutal. He imagines his own death as an opera, with a cast of thousands. There’s a beautiful woman in white (Jessica Lange) beckoning him on. This was his daily life, the siren song of death always in his ears.<\/p>\n

Not a happy man. But he had work to do – and he did it.<\/p>\n

More information about him here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Quite a legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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