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Feb

10

Roy Scheider, RIP, age 75


“It’s showtime!” I remember using that phrase a million times during college when I was waking up after little sleep every morning for four years (at least, that’s how I remember it).

But I got that phrase from Roy Scheider‘s character, Joe Gideon, in the fictional take on choreographer Bob Fosse‘s life, All That Jazz.

See – if you were a girl of a certain age back then – in the 70s, perhaps especially if you lived on the East Coast and went into New York on a regular basis, and you liked theater and took dance lessons, Bob Fosse was big, really big.  His style, his persona.  I stopped dancing around age 16 or 17, formally anyway, and although my daughter danced for a few years, it’s been at least four or five years since she’s been into it.  So I don’t know if there are similarly epic figures anymore.

But Scheider in the movie and Fosse in real life left an impression, indelible.

Thanks to Andy Carvin’s tweet for the sad news. RIP and best to Scheider’s family.

Here’s the New York Times obit.

PS I’ve never seen Jaws, the movie for which Scheider might be best known, but I do remember the pictures from the film that were all over the posters but

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:56 pm February 10th, 2008 in Culture, RIP 

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