Sherry Chandler » When I go, I’m going like Elsie
When I go, I’m going like Elsie
Cabaret! I have nothing intelligent to say about Cabaret. All I have is gush. It’s as beguiling and dark in 2008 as it was in 1972, and, more’s 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!
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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1. Rosalie replies at 28th April 2008, 5:00 pm :
We watched another “more’s 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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