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Book Review By Susanna Marlowe
All his Jazz : The Life and Death of Bob Fosse by Martin Gottfried

Bob Fosse was the academy award winning director of the movie Cabaret. He also directed the movie All that Jazz, an autobiographical story about a movie director who drinks and womanizes too much, and ends up dying of a heart attack. Gottfried takes the title of his biography of Fosse from this movie because Fosse actually died of a heart attack, eight years after filming All the Jazz.

Fosse choregraphed and directed great Broadway musicals, including Sweet Charity, Pippin, and Chicago. Gottfried's book is a treasure trove of character studies of some of the great Broadway and Hollywood producers, writers and actors, including Dustin Hoffman, Neil Simon and Gwen Verdon.


Plot & Themes
job/profession:
Job/profession/poverty story Yes
Story of entertainer? - Director/Producer
Period of greatest activity? - 1950+

Subject of Biography
Gender - Male
Profession/status:
Ethnicity - White
Nationality - American
Unusual characteristics:

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 5 ()
United States Yes
The US: - Northeast
City? Yes
City: - New York
Century: - 1960's-1970's

Writing Style
Book makes you feel? - in awe
Graphic sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - - orgies
Pictures/Illustrations? - A lot 11-15 B&W
How much dialogue in bio? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life? - 26-50% of book
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