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The sinuous, snaky, seriously sexy moves of Bob Fosse have got to be the most recognizable choreography in the world, endlessly quoted and imitated to the show of cliche. In 2013, Sam Wasson wrote a mesmerizing, tell-all biography of him, seemingly disappearing out no cigarette, drug, or nubile chorine the complex, hard-living genius ever touched. It exhaustively covered his kaleidoscopic life, and now we have the best book ever written about Fosse’s work itself: “Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical,” by Kevin Winkler.

It must be said the Bob Fosse has been particularly lucky in this scribe, as well, for Winkler, a former dancer himself, knows the art form inside and out and has the lucidity and clean, detailed, yet unfussy approach of a authentic writer to aptly delineate Fosse’s unending contribution to it.

Once executive director of the Modern York Public Library for the Carrying out Arts at Lincoln Center, Winkler worked on the manual for about six years and, happily in this challenging time for publishing in general, never had to arduously shop his plan round.

“I did a presentation about Fosse at a conference in Wa

This weekend brings the annual Queer Pride festivities to West Hollywood, which is arguably the gayest city in the country if not the world. As one of relatively few straight men in WeHo, my preference for women may not be clear as I walk through "Boys Town" on my way to the public pool. Thus I find myself identifying with Dana Carvey's old SNL character Lyle the Effeminate Heterosexual. And so might these nine notable men.

  1. Baz Luhrmann. First, a disclaimer: who knows what any of these guys got up to in their private lives? Certainly, many gay celebrities of the past got married and had children while keeping their same-sex lovers a covert. Anyway, you might assume that only a homosexual could make lavish, over-the-top films like Moulin Rouge! and Strictly Ballroom, yet the dapper Australian director has been married to his costume/production creator Catherine Martin since 1997. They have two kids.
  2. LeVar Burton. Considering his soft-spoken personality, his drama geek background, his childhood desire to become a priest, and his involvement in AIDS and gay rights causes, you might be forgiven for thinking the Roots/Star Trek/Reading Rainbow star was homosexual. But Bu

    Cabaret: How the X-rated musical became a hit

    A sign of the times was that Cabaret was also burdened with the dreaded X rating by the British Board of Film Classification, which meant nobody under 17 was allowed to see the film in the UK. When re-rating the film as a 15, 40 years later, the BBFC said it contained "strong sex references, violence and drug references". As a result of the initial rating, it was not a commercial smack in Britain but was adored by Bafta, where it picked up seven awards from 11 nominations. A burgeoning moral outcry in Britain about sex and violence in cinema perhaps optimal explains the severity of the rating. Compare the level of explicitness in Cabaret to another X-rated film of 1972 – Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy – which features graphic nudity and violent violence – and it's very hard to understand how and why they came to this rating. Conversely, in the US, which re-elected arch conservative Richard Nixon in 1972, the clip was granted a PG rating by the MPAA. As a result, Cabaret ended up creature the sixth-highest grossing film of the year and won eight Academy Awards (it was thrashed to the foremost picture gong by a little-known motion picture

    Bob Fosse

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    b. Robert Louis Fosse, Chicago, Illinois, June 23, 1927
    d. September 23, 1987, Washington, D.C.

    Although Bob Fosse died at the relatively young age of 60, he had a career in show business extending for almost five decades. Fosse started development as a dancer at the age of eight at The Chicago Academy of Theatre Arts under the management of Frederic Weaver. Weaver was an eccentric devotee of vaudeville who sported a waxed mustache and always wore formal dress. Young Bobby Fosse learned his first dance steps at the Academy under the tutelage of Marguerite Comerford. When Fosse’s family could not pay tuition, Frederic Weaver offered to keep Bob as a student on scholarship. In exchange, Bob’s father Cy Fosse agreed to sign over 15% of Bob’s earnings over to Weaver until Bob reached the age of 21. Soon Weaver twin Fosse with fellow scholar Charles Grass and they became the dance sensation “The Riff Brothers”, named after the great gyrate team The Nicholas Brothers. 

    Starting at a young age, Fosse would develop a personal style which was somewhat grounded in his defects as a dancer. “He was always told to keep his fingers together and his hands down, b