Divamensch

I've fallen behind on my CDAs, my apologies. Here goes: Anthony Head, died at 72. We first saw him on a series of Nescafe commercials but I fell in love with him on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He also had a juicy recurring role on Ted Lasso. Here's a highlight reel of his work on Buffy. Is it time for me to watch that whole series again...? My brother Howard alerted me to the death of David Hockney, age 88. He was one of the most celebrated painters of the second half of the 20

Today I'm doing one of my song-in-review features only instead of different recordings of the same song I'm giving you a progression of the same song. The song is one of the great jazz standards, "Body and Soul," music by Johnny Green and lyrics by Edward Heyman, Robert Sour and Frank Eyton. I was shocked to go to Wikipedia and see that it was written for English actress Gertrude Lawrence, favorite of Noel Coward and creator of Anna in The King and I. Not who I expected to be