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Cabaretplaced # 5 on AFI""s25 Greatest Movie Musicalslist, and the title song "Cabaret" was # 18 on AFI""s100 Top Movie Songs of All Time.At the final moment before the bomb was defused with about two minutes left, the school was entirely evacuated (except for one classroom where four children had snuck in to play cards), and a tense rescue attempt was made to save them - although the bomb was a fake.THE BABYLONIAN STORY (539 B.C.):(Gray-Green Tint)peace-loving Prince Belshazzar""s Babylon at he time of its Siege and Fall by King Cyrus the Persian, due o the treacherous High Priests - and the Mountain Girl""s vain efforts to avert the tragedy.Do me a favor, will ya? Get out of here and buy it somewhere else...I don""t like you much.What""s the idea of pullin"" her [Gloria""s] leg? You know you""re not going to take her out...You""re drunk and you""re just makin"" with the mouth...I know the dame, the lady, I mean.I don""t like what you""re doin"" to her, either...You should have seen her come in here last night looking for ya.Her eyes all rainy, and her mascara all washed away...That""s an awful high-class young lady...How the heck did she ever get mixed up with a guy who sops it up like you do?To justify his drinking and maintain his self-esteem, Birnam asserts, with a euphoric, overblown fantasy, that his imbibing will be the subject of his upcoming, semi-biographical novel entitledThe Bottle.