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305 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1959
“I walk along the street of sorrow
The boulevard of broken dreams
Where gigolo and gigalette
Can take a kiss without regret
So they forget their broken dreams
You laugh tonight and cry tomorrow
When you behold your shattered dreams
And gigolo and gigalette
Awake to find their eyes are wet
With tears that tell of broken dreams
Here is where you'll always find me
Always walking up and down
But I left my soul behind me
In an old cathedral town
The joy that you find here you borrow
You cannot keep it long it seems
But gigolo and gigalette
Still sing a song and dance along
Boulevard of broken dreams”
- Segment excised from the 1934 musical Moulin Rouge by order of Jack Warner as “Too depressing!”
“Spicy! Shocking!! Downright Scandalous!!!”Adorably lurid and sensationalistic. Like, adorably.