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Diva/Mensch pair for June 8, 2022
The third EGOT winner is Rita Moreno, who's the oldest surviving EGOT winner. I'm going to focus on her two appearances in *West Side...
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Jun 3, 20221 min read
Fabulous Friday: Mystery Guests, Rodgers and Hammerstein
Here are Rodgers and Hammerstein as the mystery guests. They appear at 17:37. And I meant to include Rodgers's EGOT details the other day...
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Jun 1, 20222 min read
Diva/Mensch pair for June 1, 2022
The Tony Awards are coming up in a couple weeks, so in their honor I'm going to do an extended tribute to the EGOT. These are people who...
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May 28, 20221 min read
CDA: Andy Fletcher and Ray Liotta
My brother Howard alerted me to the death of Andy Fletcher, keyboardist for Depeche Mode. He was 60. Here's the video from the song I...
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May 27, 20221 min read
Fabulous Friday: whisking egg whites by hand
This young woman is adorable!
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May 26, 20222 min read
*Akhnaten,* May 22, 2022
Sue, Llu, Alan, and I saw *Akhnaten* at the Met on May 22, 2022. I saw it in 2019 but was not able to stay awake. I was frustrated...
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May 25, 20221 min read
Diva / Mensch pair for May 25, 2022
I'm closing out our egg theme with a pair of soufflés: Diva: chocolate soufflé Mensch: cheese soufflé
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May 24, 20222 min read
*Macbeth,* May 20, 2022
Richard and I saw *Macbeth* on Broadway on May 20, 2022. I was intrigued because the leads were played by Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga,...
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May 22, 20223 min read
Music Man
John, David, Richard and I saw *The Music Man* on Broadway on May 18, 2022. I'm not sure I have the specifics right on this, but I seem...
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May 21, 20224 min read
Voices of Ascension, *Orbits*: May 17. 2022
I heard Voices of Ascension and ShoutHouse in concert on May 17, 2022. The performance was at a venue in Brooklyn called Roulette. The...
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May 20, 20221 min read
Fabulous Friday: *Cool Hand Luke*
Here's one of the great uses of the egg in a Hollywood movie. The Paul Newman character makes a bet that he can eat 50 hard boiled eggs...
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May 19, 20221 min read
CDA: Berganza, Birney, and Ward
The mezzo soprano Teresa Berganza died at the age of 89. Here she is singing the show-stopping final aria from Rossini's Cinderella...
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May 18, 20221 min read
Diva / Mensch pair for May 18, 2022
Continuing with our egg theme: Diva: bacon and broccoli quiche Mensch: onion and Swiss quiche
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May 14, 20222 min read
Hannah Gadsby, *Body of Work,* May 12, 2022
I saw Hannah Gadsby in *Body of Work* at BAM on May 12, 2022. She's an Australian comic, best known for her Netflix comedy special...
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May 13, 20221 min read
Fabulous Friday: a visit from the Egg Man
John Waters's first movie was *Pink Flamingos,* made in 1972. It's a notorious movie, most famous for the last moments where the star...
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May 11, 20221 min read
Diva / Mensch pair for May 11, 2022
Gertrude Stein's cook Hélène was a real diva, it seems. Here's an excerpt from *The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas* about how she...
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May 7, 20223 min read
*Funny Girl,* May 3, 2022
Richard and I saw *Funny Girl* on Broadway on May 3, 2022. It’s a musical from 1964 about the comic, singer, and trailblazing Ziegfeld...
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May 6, 20221 min read
Fabulous Friday: *What's My Line?,* egg farmer
I'm going off brand a bit and not having a celebrity mystery guest. Since we're having an egg theme, I found this guest who was a "lady...
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May 4, 20221 min read
Diva / Mensch pair for May 4, 2022
I enjoyed the baking/cooking theme last month, I hope you did, too. I'm doing a pseudo extension and devoting this month to eggs. Diva:...
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May 1, 20221 min read
CDA: Naomi Judd
Richard alerted me to the death of Naomi Judd, who died yesterday at the age of 76. Here's a CNN tribute to her.
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Fabulous Friday: Suzanne Charny
Last week I sent out the big dance sequence from the movie of Sweet Charity. The lead female dancer was Suzanne Charny. She was damn...
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*Ainadamar,* Nov 6, 2024
Karen, Stephanie, and I saw *Ainadamar* at the Met on Nov 6, 2024. It's an opera by composer Osvaldo Golijov and librettist David Henry...
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