CDA: Eva Marie Saint
My brother Howard alerted me to the death of Eva Marie Saint (age 102). She won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her movie debut in On the Waterfront. Can I be honest and say I've never cared for that movie? Maybe I need to give it another chance. Her acceptance speech is one of the greatest ever - - she's nine months pregnant and utterly adorable! When I think of her I think of North By Northwest, one of my favorite Hitchcock movies. Here's her first scene. If you w
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Diva/Mensch pair for Oct 7, 2026
This week's diva/mensch pair is a bit of a stretch in terms of the overall theme, it has only a glancing relation to the Tony Awards, but it's one of my favorite diva/mensch pairs ever. So please indulge me. One of the Best Play nominees was John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation (the winner that year was Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers). The husband in the play is a Manhattan art dealer and in one scene he shows his guests a two-sided Kandinsky painting, "Chaos/Control." Diva:
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