Divamensch

Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street won the 1979 Tony for Best Musical. A big operatic Sondheim musical about a serial murderer and his accomplice who bakes his victims into meat pies. Cut the throat of that Diva and put it on a plate! One of the other nominees was Ballroom, a warm-hearted musical about a middle-aged widow finding her way back into the world through ballroom dancing. A Mensch for sure.

Stephanie just informed me of the death of Sam Neill, age 78. He's best known for Jurassic Park but since I'm not a fan of those movies I looked through his imdb list for something else. I didn't find much of interest, frankly! I liked The Piano at the time but I feel like that movie might not hold up because of the drippy score by Michael Nyman and the now-problematic casting of Harvey Keitel as a Maori dude (with all those fake tattoos). So I'll give you the preview to Jura