razzle-dazzle

Coppola has an eye for Vegas’ seedy glamour, particularly in the frenetic sequences depicting the showgirls backstage during costume changes, where we see the panic that fuels the razzle-dazzle.

“I think it is a mistake to think about it as proximity to razzle-dazzle,” said Roth.

Yet those factors both feel secondary to the old-fashioned razzle-dazzle Roan dispenses onstage: the eye rolls, the kiss-blowing, the finger guns, the hair-whipping.

Film has been dancing around fashion for decades, ever since Kay Thompson declared “Think pink!” in “Funny Face” in 1957, drawn to the subject because of the razzle-dazzle it seems to promise.

Even at a challenging time for a pandemic-weakened industry, they found razzle-dazzle.