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All That Jazz is a 1979 American musical drama film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Roy Scheider.The screenplay, by Robert Alan Aurthur and Fosse, is a semi-autobiographical fantasy based on aspects of Fosse's life and career as a dancer, choreographer and director.
"All That Jazz" is a song from the 1975 musical Chicago.It has music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, and is the opening song of the musical.The title of the 1979 film, starring Roy Scheider as a character strongly resembling choreographer/stage and film director Bob Fosse, is derived from the song.
The phrase and all that jazz means "and other such things", "and all that sort of thing". It is recorded in print in this sense as early as 1959, and was associated with the city of Chicago in Frank Sinatra's 1964 rendition of "My Kind of Town", where the lyric "Chicago is my kind of razzmatazz, and it has all that jazz" is sung.
Fosse's distinctive style of choreography included turned-in knees and "jazz hands". He is the only person ever to have won Oscar , Emmy , and Tony awards in the same year (1973). He was nominated for four Academy Awards , winning Best Director for Cabaret (1972) and won the Palme D'Or in 1980 for All That Jazz.
All That Jazz was the final studio album by vocalist Ella Fitzgerald, released in 1990. [1] Fitzgerald's performance on this album won her the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female , at the 33rd Grammy Awards .
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Anthony Holland (March 3, 1928 – July 9, 1988) was an American actor, best known for his comic performances in theatre, film and television.. Holland graduated from the University of Chicago and studied acting with Lee Strasberg during the 1960s.
Heim was born in the Bronx, New York.. He has more than thirty feature-film credits to his name, and has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors (ACE). Heim has also served as President of the ACE organization and as President of the Motion Picture Editors Guild (MPEG), the IATSE union that represents film editors, sound mixers and post-production craftspeople.