Arlen kills me. He’s as inventive a composer as there ever was.

A lot of what we do is designed to annoy people to the point where they might just for a second question enough of their environment to do something about it. As long as they don’t feel their environment, they don’t worry about it, they’re not going to do anything to change it. And something’s got to be done before America scarfs up the world and s

the composer! Lionel Bart, who had a serious drug problem, initially wrote the music for La Strada.