Best Pick

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky. Episode 38: Chicago (2002) Released 3 July 2019 For this episode, we watched Chicago, written by Bill Condon, from the musical play by Bob Fosse and Fred Ebb, and the play by Maurine Dallas Watkins. It was directed and choreographed by Rob Marshall and starred Renée Zellweger (nominated), Catherine Zeta-Jones (won), Richard Gere, John C Reilly (nominated) and Queen Latifah (nominated). It also won for its Art Direction, Costume Design, Editing and Sound. Kander and Ebb’s new song “I Move On” was nominated but lost to "Lose Yourself" from 8 Mile. If The Wizard of Oz was way worse at foreshadowing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rFKJMcXrBk Busby Berkeley – Remember My Forgotten Man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnSZi5MIHMc&t=11s Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth – The Shorty George https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUhhKELUxB0#action=share Gene Kelly – Alter Ego dance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr7-qi7JRtc Next time we will be discussing Th