Fabulous Friday: "More Than Words"
Today's Great Song, Wrong Title is "More Than Words" by Extreme. It should be called "I'd Already Know." I heard this song back in the day but wasn't at all familiar with the band. I read up on them and it turns out they're a "funk metal band" (that's what Wikipedia calls them, anyway) and this song became a problem for them. It was a huge hit (all the way to number one) and the people who loved this lovely, tender ballad were not into their metal stuff. And their metal fans
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Diva/Mensch pair for Sept 23, 2026
The winner for Best Revival in 1989 was the ultimate mensch of a play, Our Town. I saw that production on TV, it was so beautiful - - Spalding Gray at the stage manager, Penelope Ann Miller as Emily, Eric Stoltz as George, and James Rebhorn and Frances Conroy as Mr. and Mrs. Gibbs. Revelatory, imaginative, and profoundly moving. The diva in that category was Ain't Misbehavin'. It started in the Manhattan Theatre Club's cabaret space in 1978, moved to Broadway that same year,
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