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Celebrating the Naughty Child
Having chosen to write about sin yesterday, it would seem appropriate to follow up with a few words about Maurice Ravel’s one-act opera project with Colette exploring the world of a child who would definitely be in the “naughty” category...‘Where’s the Reform?’
Where is Clara Peller now that we need her? For those who do not remember this icon of political history, Clara was the actress who played the little old lady in a Wendy’s commercial that looked an oversized hamburger bun and snapped back, “Where’s...“Hurry Up Please It’s Time!”
I found it interesting that yesterday’s report of the study of brain regions that are active when actors perform described an experiment based on excerpts from T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. Having heard the poem read aloud several times...San Francisco Remembers Elisabeth Söderström
San Francisco Remembers Elisabeth Söderström Today’s New York Times ran Anthony Tommasini’s obituary for the Swedish soprano Elisabeth Söderström, who died on Friday in Stockholm at the age of 82. Tommasini cited the Marschallin in...
DreamWorks Studios Acquires Rights to Book Series “Wicked”
DreamWorks Studios has acquired the rights to the young adult book series “Wicked.” Aaron and Matthew Benay have signed on to write the adaptation based on their own pitch. The Gotham Group will produce.Missing the Headline Writer
If yesterday I went on a rant about editors being “pushed out of the loop” in our brave new world of Internet speed, I realized this morning that headline writers are still in that loop and can be just as confounding to readers as ever....Putting an Archive to Good Use
People in the information technology business have long sustained the joke that compares their stock-in-trade to that of the world’s oldest profession: No matter how many times to sell it, you still have it to sell again. Perhaps if the well...Today’s Mess
Continuing the theme of oracles, Joe Nocera seems to have done a fairly good job of prediction in his Talking Business column for Saturday’s New York Times: Next week, perhaps as early as Monday, the American International Group is going to...
