Divamensch

Joan Allen won the Best Actress in a Play Tony in 1988 for what I'm sure was a marvelous performance in Burn This. But I'm more interested in two other nominees in that category: Diva: Blythe Danner as Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire Mensch: Frances McDormand as Stella in Streetcar I'm fascinated that the Tonys saw them both as leading performances! I see Stella as a supporting role but I can see how McDormand would turn her into Blanche's equal.

My brother Howard alerted to me the death of movie producer Jeremy Thomas, age 77. He has an impressive and adventurous list of credits - - he produced Sexy Beast, the debut film of Jonathan Glazer, who went on to direct three "feel bad movies," Birth, Under the Skin, and The Zone of Interest (thanks to John Waters for the term "feel bad movie"). He produced a movie that I love more every time I think about it, Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive, the sweetest, tenderest va