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All That Jazz is a 1979 American musical film directed by Bob Fosse. The screenplay by Robert Alan Aurthur and Fosse is a semi-autobiographical fantasy based on aspects of Fosse's life and career as dancer, choreographer and director. The film was inspired by Bob Fosse's manic effort to edit his film Lenny while simultaneously staging the 1975 Broadway musical Chicago. It borrows its title from the Kander and Ebb tune All That Jazz in that production. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.
Joe Gideon is a theater director and choreographer trying to balance work on his latest Broadway musical with editing a Hollywood film he has directed. He is a workaholic who chain-smokes cigarettes, and without a daily dose of Vivaldi, Visine, Alka-Seltzer, Dexedrine, and sex, he wouldn't have the energy to keep up the biggest "show" of all — his life. His girlfriend Katie Jagger, his ex-wife Audrey Paris, and daughter Michelle try to pull him back from the brink, but it is too late for his exhausted body and stress-ravaged heart. In his imagination, he flirts with an angel of death named Angelique.
come on babe why don't we paint the town
and all that jazz
I'm gonna rouge my knees and roll my stockings down.
and all that jazz.
start the car, I know a whoopee spot,
where the gin is cold but the piano is hot.
It's just a noisy hall, where there's a nightly brawl
And all that jazz.
Slick you hair and wear you buckle shoes
and all that jazz.
I hear that father dipp is gonna blow the blues.
and all that jazz.
Hold on hun were gonna bunny hug,
I bought some asprin, down at united drug
In case you shake apart, and want a brand new start,
to do that jazz.
and all that jazz.
and all that jazz.
It's just a noisy hall, where there's a nightly brawl
And all that jazz.
Listen your husband isn't home is he.
No her husband is not at home.
Find a glass were playing fast and loose
And all that jazz.
Right up here is where I store the juice.
And all that jazz.
Come on babe were gonna brush the sky,
I betcha lucky lindy
Never flew so high
'cause in the stratosphere
How could he lend an ear
To all that jazz?
Company.
Oh, you're gonna see you sheba
Shimmy shake
Velma.
And all that jazz
Company.
Oh, she's gonna shimmy till her garters
break
Velma.
And all that jazz
Company.
Show her where to park her girdle
Oh, her mother's blood'd curdle
If she'd hear
Her baby's queer
For all that jazz!
velma.
C'mon babe
Why don't we paint the town?
And all that jazz
I'm gonna rouge my knees
And roll my stockings down
And all that jazz
Start the car
I know a whopee spot
Where the gin is cold
But the piano's hot
It's just a noisy hall
Where there's a nightly brawl
And all that jazz!
company.
Oh, you're gonna see you sheba
Shimmy shake
And all that jazz
Oh, shey's gonna shimmy till her garters
break
And all that jazz
Show her where to park her girdle
Oh, her mother's blood'd curdle
If she'd hear
Her baby's queer
For all that jazz!
velma.
no, I'm no one's wife
But, oh I love my life
And all that jazz!
Company.