TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lester,Richard,1932-
AU  - McNally,Terrence
AU  - Weston,Jack,1924-1996
AU  - Moreno,Rita
AU  - Stiller,Jerry
AU  - Ballard,Kaye
AU  - Abraham,F.Murray
AU  - Williams,Treat
TI  - The Ritz
SN  - 1419864416
AV  - DVD 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Burbank, CA
PB  - Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
N1  - Based on the play by Terence McNally; Originally produced as a motion picture in 1976
N2  - ""With The Ritz, Terrence McNally's hit Broadway play of the same name is cinematized by director Richard Lester. Jack Weston plays Gaetano Proclo, a minor mob flunky who's been targeted for elimination by his brother-in-law, Carmine Vespucci (Jerry Stiller). Gaetano takes refuge in what he thinks is a Turkish bath. Actually, it's The Pits. That's the name, ""The Pits"" - a gay bathhouse (this is the pre-AIDS era), where the exquisitely awful Googie Gomez (Rita Moreno) entertains the homosexual patrons with her ear-splitting renditions of such show tunes as ""Everything's Coming Up Roses."" Hoping to save his neck by pretending to be gay, Gaetano effusively praises Googie. Assuming that he is a big-time Broadway producer, she plays up to him. Everything would be hunky-dory, except that the bathhouse is owned by the very mob that has put a contract on Gaetano. What follows is an old-fashioned door-slamming farce, except that there are no doors to slam
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