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fortune on fortune--like the Atlantic whale...
CABARET. Onto the sleazy canvas of a 1930 Berlin nightspot, the Kit Kat Klub, this musical squeezes the borrowed pigments of bloatedly satiric George Grosz cartoons, Brecht-Weillschmerz, and the black-gartered cinemantics of the Dietrich of The Blue Angel. A whale of a production but a minnow of a show...
CABARET. Onto the sleazy canvas of a 1930 Berlin nightspot, the Kit Kat Klub, this musical squeezes the borrowed pigments of bloatedly satiric George Grosz cartoons, Brecht-Weillschmerz, and the black-gartered cinemantics of the Dietrich of The Blue Angel. The atmospherics make for a whale of a production but a minnow of a show...
Cabaret is a whale of a production and a minnow of a show. It is a musical built on the oozing decadence of 1930 Berlin, and is itself a form of decadence, a victory of surface over substance...
...Bible. Lured by ballyhoo or simple piety into the vast, glittering void of this enterprise-an experience roughly equivalent to being swallowed by a whale-a bored viewer will nonetheless feel twinges of gratitude. After all, it might have been worse. Producer Dino De Laurentiis originally intended to tackle the entire Old Testament, hiring every writer, actor and director in creation for a series of films running Lord knows how long. He has settled for 22 chapters of Genesis, compressed by Director John Huston into three hours of empty illustrations from Scripture...