Divamensch

My brother Howard introduced me to Marianne Faithfull when she had a career resurgence in the 80s. I think he gave me a tape (remember tapes?) of her album Strange Weather. That album opens with "Boulevard of Broken Dreams." Here she is singing it live: A perfect union of the singer and the song - - her voice actually SOUNDS LIKE the boulevard of broken dreams. A battered old concrete road that has seen a lot of traffic over the years yet still gets you where you need to go.

The winner for Best Actress in a Play for 1959 was Gertrude Berg in A Majority of One. I never heard of her but wow, the other four nominees were major divas, major mensches! Diva: Claudette Colbert, Lynn Fontanne Mensch: Kim Stanley, Maureen Stapleton