“Showtime!”

Since today is Bob Fosse’s birthday, it’s only appropriate that today’s scene that I love comes from his 1979’s masterpiece, All That Jazz!

This sequence captures everything we need to know about Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider).  We see his talent.  We see his self-destructive habits.  And, though we don’t realize it until the end of the film, we also see that death is patiently waiting for him.