I was bereft when Randy Kennedy’s Tunnel Vision concluded its three-year run in the Times’s Metro section in 2003. I had found his column devoted to the New York subway endlessly fascinating in a how-things-work, behavioral-science, human-interest kind of way. And, in the wake of September 11, I had also found Kennedy’s take on the […]
Thanks to IMDB.com I learned that Anne Bancroft would have been 74 tomorrow, an appropriate occasion, I think, to post a rather stunning image from a Dover paper doll book. I love this Tom Tierney illustration for the completely incongruous pair that Mrs. Robinson and Annie Sullivan make. They’re my two favorite Bancroft roles, although […]
Cabaret Review. How my heart leaps when I see those two words in the Arts Section of the NY Times. I don’t always clamor for Stephen Holden’s film criticism, but it’s a different story when it comes to his thoughts on the supper-room stylings of Eartha Kitt, Keely Smith, the late Bobby Short, and others. […]
See Joseph’s Similes at Harlequin Knights.
This past April, during a short stay in Philadelphia, I stopped in at the Fleisher Art Memorial. It was meant to be a brief visit, more of quick turn than a real tour of the nation’s oldest tuition-free art school. But then I got to the second gallery of the exhibition and I stood […]