All that jazz...
Me vino a la mente la escena final de All That Jazz de Bob Fosse. Escuché la banda sonora por primera vez a eso de los 6 años. Mucho tiempo después vi la película. Me quedó grabada la escena de la muerte de Joe Gideon (el alter ego de Bob Fosse) y sobre todo el monólogo de su presentador introduciendo 'su última aparición en el gran escenario de la vida' (acaso no decía Shakespeare 'life is a stage'?). Monólogo que tengo ganas de reproducir en mi blog:
Folks, what can I tell you about my next guest?
This cat allowed himself to be adored, but not loved. And his success in show business was matched by failure in his personal-relationship bag.
Now that's where he really bombed. And he came to believe that work, show business, love, his whole life, even himself, and all thatjazz, was bullshit.
He became numero uno game player, to the point where he didn't know where the games ended and reality began. Like, to this cat, the only reality... is death, man.
Ladies and gentlemen, let me lay on you a so-so entertainer,
not much of a humanitarian, and this cat was never nobody's friend.
In his final appearance on the great stage of life
- you can applaud if you wanna -
Mr Joe Gideon.
Me consta que cuando posteo esta clase de cosas la gente piensa que soy un limado. Y probablemente tienen razón. Pero las 24 horas del día (y las de la noche como creía Herminio Iglesias) de política pueden ser 'too much' (como diría nuestra futura presidente) así que pensar en música, películas, mujeres, libros no viene mal.
PD: si no la vieron, vean All That Jazz.
This cat allowed himself to be adored, but not loved. And his success in show business was matched by failure in his personal-relationship bag.
Now that's where he really bombed. And he came to believe that work, show business, love, his whole life, even himself, and all thatjazz, was bullshit.
He became numero uno game player, to the point where he didn't know where the games ended and reality began.
Ladies and gentlemen, let me lay on you a so-so entertainer,
not much of a humanitarian, and this cat was never nobody's friend.
In his final appearance on the great stage
- you can applaud if you wanna -
Mr Joe Gideon.
Me consta que cuando posteo esta clase de cosas la gente piensa que soy un limado. Y probablemente tienen razón. Pero las 24 horas del día (y las de la noche como creía Herminio Iglesias) de política pueden ser 'too much' (como diría nuestra futura presidente) así que pensar en música, películas, mujeres, libros no viene mal.
PD: si no la vieron, vean All That Jazz.
1 Comments:
Me encanta esa película! Yo también escuché la música por primera vez a los 5 ó 6 años y no podía dejar de escucharla.
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