Divamensch

Once again we're at Best Play. The 1983 Tony went to Torch Song Trilogy, a Diva of a play written by and starring Harvey Fierstein. It wasn't the first time a drag queen was seen on Broadway but it was the first time she won Best Play! And Best Actor. One of the other nominees was Marsha Norman's searing two-person play 'night Mother. About a woman saying goodbye to her mother so she can commit suicide at the end of the night. Mensch with a capital M. I couldn't find any foot

I'm a total amateur when it comes to The Beatles. I know maybe only about half of their songs...? And this is a dangerous thing to say when so many of my friends are highfalutin intellectual types but I greatly prefer the early Beatles to the later Beatles. Am I being banished from the Cool Kids Table? I had the song "Boys" stuck in my head for a while. It doesn't get much earlier than this, it's from their first album, Please Please Me. I listened to the whole album last nig