Cabaret still holds the record for winning the most Academy Awards....(eight)....without winning Best Picture....as The Godfather won that award on March 27, 1973.
Pitt's theater department staged the play a year later. It was a very good production and even encouraged me to take an acting class. One of the student actresses was the instructor....and I think that I was doing well....until it came to....'animal week'....where we had to act like an animal. I had to slither around the floor like a snake. I can't think of a single animal that I would have been good at....except maybe a sloth.
"Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord." Romans 12:11 ESV
The above YouTube of Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey could have fit right in to the Trump rally song list. I remember one rally where Sympathy For The Devil was played. I think that I even posted on it at the time....but somebody must have wised up and I never heard it again.
This song from Cabaret....could be an anthem of sorts for us today....maybe even a praise song in some of the churches. The following post is from May 27, 2021:
This song from Cabaret....could be an anthem of sorts for us today....maybe even a praise song in some of the churches. The following post is from May 27, 2021:
Life Is Not A Cabaret....Old Chum
As of today.....May 27, 2021.....we....not only conservatives....but evangelicals....are totally under their control. 'They'....being those in power.....(which turns out to be a carefully delegated and controlled power....for it is not their own)....who are under the sway.....or spell....(either word fits)....of Donald Trump....who incredibly as of now has been resurrected.
I'm trying to write here as an outside observer. It's possible because Christians should be outside of this new power movement....for what we are seeing occurring in this that still calls itself the Republican Party....is ungodly. It may yet carry a pro-life banner but ultimately everything here is transactional....for we have proven in the coronavirus debate....as we demanded that the cabarets and churches be reopened....that we care little about human life if it does not politically benefit us....or validate our....as more than a few have described....Christless Christianity. What we did not realize concerning the economy is that because of its mind-blowing debt....and because of approaching war....that at best gold and silver will mean little as God's judgments continue....lockdowns or no lockdowns.
We....whatever the size of this remnant that has not fallen for a false prophet....we watch this power grab....blatant as it is....not even caring what it looks like....and we for the most part are vexed....as we watch the news....and see two ungodly forces going at it against each other....in this once at least God-fearing United States of America.
Talk radio will continue to dominate our souls....giving us spoonfuls of truth....mixed in a drink concoction that would have made H. G. Wells and Aldous Huxley sit up and take notice. History....from a hundred years ago....is being repeated....and we conservatives who probably have often quoted George Santayana in...."those who forget history....are doomed to repeat it'....(a slight variance on the original quote)....have....forgotten history....as we are right now repeating it.
I posted this last August under the post title....A Very Natural Temptation...."Martin Niemoller....you may have heard about him....represented those who at first thought that National Socialism was a great thing if kept in its place. Dietrich Bonhoeffer....you certainly have heard of him....saw the horrors of where this extreme nationalism could go. Niemoller spent years in prison and concentration camps before finally seeing the mistakes that he made before the war. Bonhoeffer paid for his discernment with his life....We are getting too close to having an 'American Church' movement'."
I can tell you that over the decades.....particularly in the 80s....we in the church warned that delusion was coming....but I can tell you this also....we had no idea that the evangelical church would fall for that delusion. You see....we were warning others....but not aware that if we were not vigilant....that we ourselves would be vulnerable to a false governmental system.
God may awaken our pulpits....(they're sound asleep)....and He may not....but even if He does it would only be mercy upon many as we go through what is ahead....a mercy that at least would see multitudes brought to salvation....so that we all could sing in unison...."Now to the King eternal....immortal....invisible....the only God....be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen"
I'm trying to write here as an outside observer. It's possible because Christians should be outside of this new power movement....for what we are seeing occurring in this that still calls itself the Republican Party....is ungodly. It may yet carry a pro-life banner but ultimately everything here is transactional....for we have proven in the coronavirus debate....as we demanded that the cabarets and churches be reopened....that we care little about human life if it does not politically benefit us....or validate our....as more than a few have described....Christless Christianity. What we did not realize concerning the economy is that because of its mind-blowing debt....and because of approaching war....that at best gold and silver will mean little as God's judgments continue....lockdowns or no lockdowns.
We....whatever the size of this remnant that has not fallen for a false prophet....we watch this power grab....blatant as it is....not even caring what it looks like....and we for the most part are vexed....as we watch the news....and see two ungodly forces going at it against each other....in this once at least God-fearing United States of America.
Talk radio will continue to dominate our souls....giving us spoonfuls of truth....mixed in a drink concoction that would have made H. G. Wells and Aldous Huxley sit up and take notice. History....from a hundred years ago....is being repeated....and we conservatives who probably have often quoted George Santayana in...."those who forget history....are doomed to repeat it'....(a slight variance on the original quote)....have....forgotten history....as we are right now repeating it.
I posted this last August under the post title....A Very Natural Temptation...."Martin Niemoller....you may have heard about him....represented those who at first thought that National Socialism was a great thing if kept in its place. Dietrich Bonhoeffer....you certainly have heard of him....saw the horrors of where this extreme nationalism could go. Niemoller spent years in prison and concentration camps before finally seeing the mistakes that he made before the war. Bonhoeffer paid for his discernment with his life....We are getting too close to having an 'American Church' movement'."
I can tell you that over the decades.....particularly in the 80s....we in the church warned that delusion was coming....but I can tell you this also....we had no idea that the evangelical church would fall for that delusion. You see....we were warning others....but not aware that if we were not vigilant....that we ourselves would be vulnerable to a false governmental system.
God may awaken our pulpits....(they're sound asleep)....and He may not....but even if He does it would only be mercy upon many as we go through what is ahead....a mercy that at least would see multitudes brought to salvation....so that we all could sing in unison...."Now to the King eternal....immortal....invisible....the only God....be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen"
Note: Verse title....Acts 8:20
