(C or D)/(S and D): musicals

I just saw All That Jazz, which was wonderful and has me thinking about how brilliant and odd Bob Fosse was. That has to be the most self-indulgent movie of all time. Hello, I'm a drug-addicted workaholic womanizing genius who is going to make a completel over-the-top self-indulgent musical about a drug-addicted workaholic womanizing genius who is clearly me and how it kills him early, and I'm going to do this a few years before I die.

that's a common argument, and it makes absolutely no sense. people don't often band together to save earth from an invading alien attack force, and people don't often narrate their own lives after they've died, and yet no one complains that the whole concept of films or novels is silly.

search, in addition to many of those already mentioned: "damn yankees." insightful, hilarious and often risque songwriting, and damn near every melody is catchy as hell. and the story is about selling one's soul for the sole purpose of beating the new york yankees, which people in the real world should be doing as often as possible.

destroy like bad milk: "rent."

This is the film for which the director (Minnelli) resorted to telling a child actress (Margaret O'Brien) that her dog had been run over and killed, in order to get her to cry properly in the next scene to be shot.

I decided 2011's New Yrz Rez is to watch musicals. One a week is what I am thinking would be a reasonable amount.

I own/watch more musicals than any other film genre. (49 reasons my wife thinks I'm gay...) They're my go-to cinematic comfort food.

Knock yourself out!

http://www.musicals101.com/chronology.htm

the sincerity of this scares me and threw me off what I thought It would be like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEh1EXSlwHY