Divamensch

"Be My Baby" is clearly one of the great pop songs of all time. I read Ronnie Spector's memoir, Be My Baby: How I Survived Mascara, Miniskirts, and Madness, Or, My Life as a Fabulous Ronette, back in the early 90s. I was saddened to hear how brutal her marriage to Phil Spector was and impressed that she would publish such a frank book while Spector was still alive (and bat sh-t crazy). Ronnie's singing in this song makes it something more than bubble gum pop. Hard to believ

I was saddened to see online yesterday that actor James Van Der Beek had died of colon cancer at the way too young age of 48. I was never into Dawson's Creek but know him from playing a pseudo villain on Pose. Here's a recent Today Show interview about his cancer journey: