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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 jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (James Nicoll) 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.

Obviously you've never been severely depressed. Lucky you.

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D.F. Manno | dfmanno@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"They bury your dreams and dig up the worthless/Goodnight/God bless/And
kiss goodbye to the earth/The other side of summer"