All That Jazz

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Ben Vereen and Roy Scheider perform with dancers in body suits painted with red veins in a dramatic scene from the film All That Jazz, directed by Bob Fosse.

All That Jazz

film by Fosse [1979]

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Bob Fosse
Later work
Following open-heart surgery, Fosse directed All That Jazz (1979), a self-indulgent though hardly self-serving autobiographical film. In a career-defining performance, Roy Scheider starred as the driven, womanizing, self-destructive director-choreographer. The musical featured notable dance numbers and a strong script, but Fosse frequently interrupted the fast-paced story for hallucinations about death…
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Following open-heart surgery, Fosse directed All That Jazz (1979), a self-indulgent though hardly self-serving autobiographical film. In a career-defining performance, Roy Scheider starred as the driven, womanizing, self-destructive director-choreographer. The musical featured notable dance numbers and a strong script, but Fosse frequently interrupted the fast-paced story for hallucinations about death…
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John Lithgow
The World According to Garp, Terms of Endearment, and Footloose
…choreographer in Bob Fosse’s autobiographical All That Jazz (1979) and as a sadistic assassin in Blow Out (1981). Lithgow’s breakthrough, however, was his turn as a transsexual former football star in The World According to Garp (1982), for which he earned an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor. The…
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…choreographer in Bob Fosse’s autobiographical All That Jazz (1979) and as a sadistic assassin in Blow Out (1981). Lithgow’s breakthrough, however, was his turn as a transsexual former football star in The World According to Garp (1982), for which he earned an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor. The…
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