The Ritz
Material type: TextPublication details: Burbank, CA Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc 2008Description: 1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:- 1419864416
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Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
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DVD | Stonewall DVD | DVD | 1 | Available | 14198644161 | |||
DVD | Stonewall DVD | DVD (1976) 2014 | 2 | Available | On over flow shelf in librarian office | 3912035132 |
Based on the play by Terence McNally.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1976.
""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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