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  • When I go, I’m going like Elsie

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    Posted on April 28th, 2008sherry100 Word Posts, General, Netflix adventures

    Cabaret! I have nothing intelligent to say about Cabaret. All I have is gush. Its as beguiling and dark in 2008 as it was in 1972, and, mores the pity, still timely. No ingenue is as gamine as Liza Minnelli, no emcee as impish as Joel Grey, no idealistic young Englishman as beautiful as Michael York, no ending as tear-jerking and no daughter as evocative of a fated mother as Liza singing

    Start by admitting
    From cradle to tomb
    Isn’t that long a stay.
    Life is a Cabaret, old chum,
    Only a Cabaret, old chum,
    And I love a Cabaret!

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One Response to “When I go, I’m going like Elsie”

  1. We watched another “mores the pity, still timely” film over the weekend: Network (1976). Terrie had never seen it, and we both found it astonishingly relevant to current events, 2008, even prophetic at times. — Ro

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