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...I’m talking about chords with flat nines and 13s; I’m talkin’ half-diminished with dominant sevens. I’m talking chords....
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...“With Joan Crawford it’s the eyebrows, the shoulders, the hair. It’s all so exaggerated and extreme and that just makes it really campy and fabulous....
...It’s a technique I learned from Joan Scheckel, a producer and directing teacher; this kind of movement is fundamental to her approach....
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