Glodie & Liza - All That Jazz

[madbrian]

Stumbled upon this on youtube and thought I'd share. This is from their 1980 TV special.


Goldie & Liza

[best12bars]

I just love Glodie Hwan.

[best12bars]

That was great to see. The movie cast that never was.

I agree with the comments that Liza steals it from Goldie. The difference is something that Liza said when she appeared on Inside the Actors Studio ...

When you're dancing, every single step, and every single gesture should have a thought or emotion behind it. It's something her dance teacher Luigi taught her. You don't just put your leg out or extend your arms because the choreography says you should do it.

Then she demonstrated how that looked vs. how the same step looked if it came with an emotional response or attitude behind it. It could be ambivalence, joy, anger, bliss, etc. It was anything you wanted ... except for just the step.

When you watch these two, side by side, Liza is doing that while Goldie is doing just the steps (for the most part).

[PalJoey]

I think the Goldie is trying all she can just to remember the steps.

[MrMidwest]

A classic clip of Goldie & Dean Martin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIA1VS2bDa4


Goldie - Nobody Does it Like Me

[BrodyFosse123]

Special note has to be mentioned that this pairing was at the time Bob Fosse was prepping to have them star in HIS film adaptation of CHICAGO. Goldie was set for Roxie and Liza for Velma. This film project was put on hold then greenlit again after his 1986 Broadway flop BIG DEAL along with his revival of SWEET CHARITY.

Sadly, Bob Fosse was to begin pre-production on his film adaptation of CHICAGO literally a few weeks after his untimely death in September 1987. This was to be his 6th film and after numerous meetings, he cast a still-up-and-coming Madonna as Roxie. She was part of the pre-production meetings which had already been scheduled before Bob Fosse's death. In respect to Bob Fosse, she remained attached to CHICAGO for over a decade. She was to have played Velma opposite Goldie's Roxie when Nicholas Hytner was set to direct the film adaptation around 1998.

There rest, as they say in Nebraska... is history.

[PalJoey]

Well, perhaps I underestimate her.

[MrMidwest]

Meryl, Bette, Cher, Olivia Newton John & Goldie sing What a Wonderful World:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X7uznGSeJY

[dramamama611]

I know it was just a typo...but, truly, "Glodie" might be among the worst possible of nicknames.

[Idiot]

I'm left wondering what they accidentally said in sign language.

[dramamama611]

I was skeptical to open the thread...for all the fawning over Liza. However, ya'll weren't exaggerating. Not one bit.

Liza was incredible. The male dancer was also stunning.

[EricMontreal22]

The TV special is one of my favorites (of the few similar tv specials I've seen). It's a lot of fun, at times in a WTF camp way (like the dramatic monologue the two do that seems to be about lesbianism but turns out to just be about feuding roomies). And of course the two disco solo numbers:

Goldie goes to the YMCA with her towel-clad dancers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75pWTpekpSo

And, fitting for this week, Liza goes Donna Summer with Bad Girls (they later covered Does He Love You? together)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RAclctSdsk

[CarlosAlberto]

You people do realize that Goldie Hawn was first a dancer before she was ever a comedienne and Oscar winning actress, right?

[MrMidwest]

So was Teri Garr! :P

[best12bars]

You people do realize that Goldie Hawn was first a dancer before she was ever a comedienne and Oscar winning actress, right?

I can't speak for everybody, but I definitely knew it. She was also a chorus dancer. Nothing wrong with that, but nothing "outstanding" about it either. She was never a solo or star dancer, and while she can handle the steps with ease, I don't see anything really personalized about her dancing.

It seems odd to even say that, considering what a wonderful and unique personality she has on the screen.

I think with a little coaching (perhaps from Luigi himself, back then), she could have matched Liza. But in the clips here, she really doesn't.

She is capable, but not memorable in the dance department.

Dance 3, Looks 10.

It's a good thing she moved quickly into acting.

[CarlosAlberto]

Is it wrong that in all the VIVA LAS VEGAS clips I just couldn't take my eyes off Ann-Margret? Teri, who?

And in the "Do The Clam" number from GIRL HAPPY, the chick who leads the dance in the red mid-drift top is choreographer Toni Basil who had a hit with the song "Mickey" in the '80s.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

I remember reading about this performance in one of the Fosse books in connection to the proposed CHICAGO film that never happened. The Rob Marshall film is one of my favorite things ever but one can only imagine what Fosse could have done with CHICAGO on film, just looking at the outstanding (if a bit indulgent) work he did on ALL THAT JAZZ makes me wish he had made this movie happen. And Hawn and Minnelli would've been wonderful as Roxie and Velma. Oh well.
The clip is great to watch, Goldie Hawn has so much personality, but it is interesting to see how brilliant of a dancer Liza Minnelli was that she just kinda mops the floor with Hawn. It's sad that people of my generation have come to associate Liza with camp, when you look at something like this you realize that she's probably one of the most unique, talented and phenomenal screen presences in the history of cinema (and no, I don't think that's an overstatement).

[Bettyboy72]

Liza embodies that song in her performance. Goldie does a nice job but its clear shes trying to keep up.

Ah, remember when people used to have to have talent to be on TV. Those were the days.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Bettyboy, are you trying to suggest that having a sex tape is not talent? Because, that's like, outrageous, like :-P

[Bettyboy72]

Ray-that made me smile. Yes having a sex tape and being materialistic is all you need to get on TV

[MrMidwest]

She's no Nomi Malone!