Was Bob Fosse a Womanizer? — Page 2

READ A BOOK.

Philly - you're right. A lot of chastisement and pissiness on these boards. I thought it was a good question to deal with. There's a difference between being a "womanizer" and a criminal. Or maybe there isn't - look at the story line on Smash. Wonder what would have happened if those involved with Fosse had the opportunity to file sexual harassment suits - or threaten them?

Ranger,

In addition, understanding people who create theatre (or anything) is critical to intelligently understanding their work. There are people who exhibited misogyny in their private lives; there are people who were abused as children; there are people who have been raped; there are people who are dishonest; etc etc etc. None of these things are of interest to hagiographers, but they all inform the way the individual told stories, created characters, developed relationships between characters and so on.

Hogan - I absolutely agree with you. We wouldn't have his masterpieces if he wasn't who he was - good, bad, ugly.

Go. Away. Pinto.

I know a former Fosse girl (in both senses of the word) who told me about his alleged "Golden Year," in which Bob had sex with approximately 1000 women, according to his own count. The fact that this would mean an average of three different women a day always made me doubt the story, but if anybody could do it, it's Fosse.

(That said, 1000 per year would make Glen Quagmire squeamish and Barney Stinson uneasy, so I imagine it was an exaggeration.)

I don't know who those people are but that's really not that many. I'm sure not every encounter was full-on sexual intercourse.

It's "a lot" when compared to the lies people tell about their behavior, but if somebody gets into a numbers trip for a year, it's really not that hard to pull off, so to speak. We're not talking dinner, a show, drinks and conversation before spiritually conjoined lovemaking in a heart shaped bed in a luxury hotel 1000 times in a single year. We're talking about getting it on in some quickie fashion or another.

There are people on earth with VERY high sex drives. It's other people who have the problems with it.

"All his choreography is sexy as **** for both men and women. He married 3 times, and aren't there stories about how he was sleeping with girls in the chorus? Discuss!"

I know, I know, I said I would not respond to you but....read all there is out there about Bob Fosse--then discuss.

This thread shows the immature child you are.

All you want is DIRT and to get sleezy stories to w..k over to fill out your fantasies while deciding your sexuality or getting up the courage to actually HAVE sex with either gender.

I am sure that Mr Fosses' sexual appetite influenced his style of dance as other things influence ALL people how they react and respond throughout their life.

Dar....that's an awe-mazing observation!

"The great stage manager Philburn Freedman (who is the stage manager in ALL THAT JAZZ) once told me that each of these great directors had his own way of getting his casts and crews to pay full attention to them. Bennett would speak in a whisper, Robbins would yell until the veins popped out in his neck and "Bobby" would cough blood."

Fosse would cough blood? Um what?