Divamensch

My mom, my brother Howard, and I went to Germany and the Netherlands in 2008. We spent quite a lot of time with our Dutch cousins. My cousin Sanne was a teenage girl at the time and was crazy for a Dutch pop singer named Wouter Hamel. She burned me a copy of his CD and soon I was crazy for him, too. His song "Breezy" peaked at 40 in the Netherlands (please don't call it "Holland") and 36 in Japan. Leave it to the Japanese to value a cute blond boy singing a breezy pop song. T

The Best Play winner for 1993 was Angels in America: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner. That play is both a diva and a mensch. Diva: the ambition, the wisecracks, the outsize characters Mensch: the depth, the sense of purpose and gravity Oh what a treasure - - this is a "press reel," a collection of clips from the original Broadway production.