All That Jazz (film) "an essentially funny movie that seeks to operate on too many levels at the same time... some of it makes you wince, but a lot of it is great fun... A key to the success of the production is the performance of Roy Scheider as Joe Gideon... With an actor of less weight and intensity, "All That Jazz" might have evaporated as we watched it. Mr. Scheider's is a presence to reckon with." "Variety" described it as "a self-important, egomaniacal, wonderfully choreographed, often compelling film" and added, "Roy Scheider gives a superb performance as Gideon, creating a character filled with
Bob Fosse Long Island, where Fosse had been living with his girlfriend of four years, and scattered his ashes in the Atlantic Ocean as he had requested. At the 1973 Academy Awards, Fosse won the Academy Award for Best Director for "Cabaret". In the same year he won Tony Awards for directing and choreographing "Pippin" and Primetime Emmy Awards for producing, choreographing and directing Liza Minnelli's television special "Liza with a Z". He was the first and so far only person to win all three major industry awards in the same year. Fosse was inducted into the National Museum of Dance in