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Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Arco

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The above image of an 18 Sept. post commemorates a Sept. 18 death.

Related material:  Kiss of the Spider Woman and Dramarama.

Thursday, July 14, 2016

For Spider Woman

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Film Director Hector Babenco Dies in Brazil

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JULY 14, 2016, 10:39 A.M. E.D.T.

SAO PAULO — The Argentine-born Brazilian director
nominated for an Oscar for his 1985 film "Kiss of the
Spider Woman" has died. Hector Babenco was 70.

Denise Winther of Babenco's HB Films says the director
died Wednesday night of a heart attack at Sao Paulo's
Sirio-Libanes Hospital.

See also "Only Connect" and "Tombstones in Her Eyes."

Kiss of the Spider Woman — Bono and Taymor at 'Spider-Man'

Click image for a related post.

Friday, March 18, 2016

Weimar, Baby!*

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Happy birthday to composer John Kander, who turns 89 today.

NPR MUSIC INTERVIEWS

Broadway Composer John Kander Reflects On
A Career Of 'Hidden Treasures'

TERRY GROSS, HOST:

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. My guest, composer John Kander, along with his longtime lyricist, the late Fred Ebb, wrote the songs for the Broadway shows "Cabaret," "Chicago," "Flora The Red Menace," "Kiss Of The Spider Woman" and "The Scottsboro Boys," as well as the songs for Martin Scorsese's 1977 film "New York, New York." The title song was a big hit for Frank Sinatra.

GROSS: …. John Kander, what impact did writing the songs for "Cabaret" have on you as a secular Jew because it's— you know, it's set in Germany as the Nazis are coming to power.

KANDER: I don't think I ever thought about that. I think I thought about it [as] a piece of theater. So…

* See Noonan Weimar in this journal.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Damnation Morning (continued)

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:24 am

Background— Why Me? and the Fritz Leiber story "Damnation Morning."

The story, about the afterlife of a dead drunk, contains an intriguing dark lady.

Related material — Search for the Spider Woman.

See also Julie Taymor in an interview published last Dec. 12 —

“I’ve got two Broadway shows, a feature film, and Mozart,’’ she said.
“It’s a very interesting place to be and to be able to move back and forth,
but at a certain point you have to be able to step outside and see,’’
and here she dropped her voice to a tranquil whisper, “it’s just theater.
It’s all theater. It’s all theater. The whole thing is theater.’’

— and search for Taymor + Spider in this journal.

Happy Shakespeare's Birthday.

Friday, September 10, 2010

Only Connect

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:01 pm

For Julie Taymor on Fashion's Night Out…

This morning's post had a link to a video meditation from the director of
the 1985 film "Kiss of the Spider Woman"—

Image-- Plane flying into sun, from 'At Play in the Fields of the Lord'

This film clip is echoed by lyrics, broadcast this morning, from Taymor's new Spider-Man musical—

You can fly too high and get too close to the sun.
See how the boy falls from the sky.

This morning's post and the "At Play" film it linked to featured class conflict and Brazilian natives.

For a more down-to-earth approach to these topics, see Fox Broadcasting's new series "Running Wilde."

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