this movie have become an iconic stand in for what be great about america . fame be famous for it music and performance . there be several standout actor and singer and and dancer and include irene cara and paul mccrae and anne meara and and the superb gene anthony ray . the plot be not the movie . it follow an interesting format . but and it all really end in a kind of mush . where parker succeed be in push this movie into periodic overdrive with the extremely poignant and sometimes beautiful and outright campy music score and performance . the film climax be a song dance fest of musician and dancer and and score by christopher gore . a wonderment to behold . an interesting note about the magnificent and superbly talented anne meara . sometimes talent must reside in the gene . ms. meara be marry to one jerry stiller and be the mother of ben stiller .