Divamensch

Ann Blyth (age 98) was a major Hollywood star in the 40s. She's best known and was nominated for an Oscar for playing Joan Crawford's horrible daughter in Mildred Pierce. Here she is in my favorite scene from that movie: James Burrows (age 85) was a major figure in television. I read two mind-boggling statistics in his New York Times obit: he directed 75 pilot episodes that became series. And he directed 240 of the 275 episodes of Cheers. Other shows that he created: Taxi, Fr

Donna and I saw *Onegin* at American Ballet Theatre on June 23, 2026. I was curious to see it because it's an adaptation of the Pushkin novel *Eugene Onegin* with a score by Tchaikovsky - - I know the Tchaikovsky opera of *Onegin* very well and had just seen it at the Met in April so I was curious to see what the ballet would be like. The surprise is that the score is an assembly of Tchaikovsky (arranged and orchestrated by Kurt-Heinz Stolze) but doesn't appear to feature any