The Cotton Club (film) The Cotton Club (film) The Cotton Club is a 1984 American crime-drama film centered on a Harlem jazz club of the 1930s, the Cotton Club. The film was co-written (with William Kennedy) and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, choreographed by Henry LeTang, and starred Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, and Lonette McKee. The supporting cast included Bob Hoskins, James Remar, Nicolas Cage, Allen Garfield, Laurence Fishburne, Gwen Verdon and Fred Gwynne. The film was noted for its over-budget production costs, and took a total of five years to make. Critical reception was mostly positive and "The Cotton Club" was
The Fantastic Ordinary World of Lutz Rathenow: Poems, Plays & Stories if you do, this is what results: reduced capacity, distorted thought, fragmented language, inverted feelings, a sense of unreality, a drabness unto death. "The Fantastic Ordinary World of Lutz Rathenow" draws this lesson and thus the pleasure out of the painful republic. ~ From the Introduction by Karl Kvitko The Fantastic Ordinary World of Lutz Rathenow: Poems, Plays & Stories The Fantastic Ordinary World of Lutz Rathenow: Poems, Plays & Stories, by Lutz Rathenow, is a book of poems, plays and stories written originally in German. A bilingual edition of satires, skits and grotesqueries conveying the maddening humdrumness of the