Re: Bye Bye, Life/Goodbye, Happiness/Hello Loneliness/I Think I'm Gonna Die

In article <foq6jt$b1i$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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James Nicoll <jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>	This is from the other Roy Scheider movie people are likely to
>have seen, ALL THAT JAZZ. ATJ was Bob Fosse's tribute to his favourite
>artist, Bob Fosse [1]. In it, we see episodes from the life of
protagonist
>Joe Gideon as he literally flirts with Death (played by Jessica Lange). 	
>
>	I'm torn between using this to talk about Death as a seductive
>or at least sympathetic creature or self-destructive artists. Ah, the
>artists can wait and if they can't wait, they should know better than
>to mix booze and pills with amateur bomb-disarming: that's a bit of 
>Jackson Pollock art you only get to make once per lifetime.
>
>	I don't really understand where the idea of death as seductive
>comes from. I've never seen a dead body that looked happy, even the ones
>that did it to themselves. Nevertheless, Neil Gaiman's perky gothchick
>Death is popular amongst readers and so is Pratchett's more traditional
>Death. 

Fredric March, "Death Takes a Holiday," Paramount, 1934.

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