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Bob Fosse, who rose to fame as choreographer on "Damn Yankees" and film director on Oscar winner Cabaret, is intimately portrayed by Morton Gottfried in All His Jazz. Fosse's hectic life, his dazzling artistic gifts and his tense dealings with associates reveal a man whose obsession with sex and death fueled his creative juices as it worked to destroy him (Bantam, NYC, $24.95).

A Spanish director's ability to function under Franco's fascist dictatorship is explored by Marvin D'Lugo in The Films of Carlos Saura. The director subtly slanted his characters toward a spiritual and emotional response to the social forces that manipulated personal and collective identities, as seen in …