We emphasize "LOOSELY based": Rachel Goofyname didn't exist; the real-life character she was based on was Quaker, not 60's-metaphoric Amish, and was already touring on the burlesque circuit as "Mlle. Fifi". And striptease wasn't invented as a counterculture-metaphoric "rebellion", but, some experts believe, just a reaction to dancers who absent-mindedly started to change their costumes before being completely offstage.
Nice that he mentioned the songs, but Charles Strouse didn't create the song "Take Ten Terrific Girls (But Only Nine Costumes)" on his own. Strouse created "La da da la la la" whereas his long-time collaborator and partner and friend LEE ADAMS wrote the Title AND all the lyrics, including the SUPER sum up: "Then serve it piping hot, and what have you got? A BURLESQUE SHOW" Great song, but let's remember BOTH creators!
As a director of strong and dark stories, Friedkin don't seem to have made a correct comedy in his careerThe Brink's job where he was hired hand is so tedious, like Frankenheimer and Aldrich the little they tried
Gen Z certainly don't deserve Rudy Vallee. They wouldn't know what to do with The Vagabond Lover!
We emphasize "LOOSELY based": Rachel Goofyname didn't exist; the real-life character she was based on was Quaker, not 60's-metaphoric Amish, and was already touring on the burlesque circuit as "Mlle. Fifi".
And striptease wasn't invented as a counterculture-metaphoric "rebellion", but, some experts believe, just a reaction to dancers who absent-mindedly started to change their costumes before being completely offstage.
Terrific film. I love the recreated burlesque scenes.
Nice that he mentioned the songs, but Charles Strouse didn't create the song "Take Ten Terrific Girls (But Only Nine Costumes)" on his own.
Strouse created "La da da la la la" whereas his long-time collaborator and partner and friend LEE ADAMS wrote the Title AND all the lyrics,
including the SUPER sum up:
"Then serve it piping hot, and what have you got? A BURLESQUE SHOW"
Great song, but let's remember BOTH creators!
I have the book in my library (somewhere)
Very underrated movie!
To do an authentic Rudy Vallee, you have to sing through a megaphone.
I heard that Friedkin has stopped criticizing this film. Like at all.
As a director of strong and dark stories, Friedkin don't seem to have made a correct comedy in his careerThe Brink's job where he was hired hand is so tedious, like Frankenheimer and Aldrich the little they tried