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Voices of Ascension, *Orbits*: May 17. 2022
I heard Voices of Ascension and ShoutHouse in concert on May 17, 2022. The performance was at a venue in Brooklyn called Roulette. The...
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May 21, 20224 min read
Fabulous Friday: *Cool Hand Luke*
Here's one of the great uses of the egg in a Hollywood movie. The Paul Newman character makes a bet that he can eat 50 hard boiled eggs...
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May 20, 20221 min read
CDA: Berganza, Birney, and Ward
The mezzo soprano Teresa Berganza died at the age of 89. Here she is singing the show-stopping final aria from Rossini's Cinderella...
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May 19, 20221 min read
Diva / Mensch pair for May 18, 2022
Continuing with our egg theme: Diva: bacon and broccoli quiche Mensch: onion and Swiss quiche
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May 18, 20221 min read
Hannah Gadsby, *Body of Work,* May 12, 2022
I saw Hannah Gadsby in *Body of Work* at BAM on May 12, 2022. She's an Australian comic, best known for her Netflix comedy special...
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May 14, 20222 min read
Fabulous Friday: a visit from the Egg Man
John Waters's first movie was *Pink Flamingos,* made in 1972. It's a notorious movie, most famous for the last moments where the star...
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May 13, 20221 min read
Diva / Mensch pair for May 11, 2022
Gertrude Stein's cook Hélène was a real diva, it seems. Here's an excerpt from *The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas* about how she...
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May 11, 20221 min read
*Funny Girl,* May 3, 2022
Richard and I saw *Funny Girl* on Broadway on May 3, 2022. It’s a musical from 1964 about the comic, singer, and trailblazing Ziegfeld...
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May 7, 20223 min read
Fabulous Friday: *What's My Line?,* egg farmer
I'm going off brand a bit and not having a celebrity mystery guest. Since we're having an egg theme, I found this guest who was a "lady...
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May 6, 20221 min read
Diva / Mensch pair for May 4, 2022
I enjoyed the baking/cooking theme last month, I hope you did, too. I'm doing a pseudo extension and devoting this month to eggs. Diva:...
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May 4, 20221 min read
CDA: Naomi Judd
Richard alerted me to the death of Naomi Judd, who died yesterday at the age of 76. Here's a CNN tribute to her.
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May 1, 20221 min read
Fabulous Friday: Dan A as Julia C
Of course I have to cap off our Julia Child tribute with this hilarious sketch from Saturday Night Live in 1978.
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Apr 29, 20221 min read
Diva / Mensch pair for April 27, 2022
I was always into baking and cooking but when the pandemic started I went totally nutso on both. One of the things I got into was making...
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Apr 27, 20221 min read
Ukrainian benefit, *Songs of Hope*: Apr 23, 2022
Richard and I went to a benefit to raise funds for the people of Ukraine. It was called *Songs of Hope* and it was produced, directed,...
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Apr 24, 20224 min read
CDA: Robert Morse
Richard alerted me to the death of the wonderful and adorable Robert Morse, who died the other day at the age of 90. He first hit the...
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Apr 23, 20221 min read
Fabulous Friday: Julia Child on Letterman
Wow, an hour and a half of Julia Child on Letterman!
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Apr 22, 20221 min read
CDA: Kathryn Hays
Kathryn Hays was one of the resident divas on *As the World Turns,* a soap my mother watched for many, many years (so of course I watched...
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Apr 21, 20221 min read
Diva / Mensch pair for Apr 20, 2022
Continuing with our baking theme: Diva: baking powder Mensch: baking soda I thought of this because baking powder has such a smooth,...
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Apr 20, 20221 min read
CDA: Gilbert Gottfried
Richard alerted me to the death of Gilbert Gottfried, who died the other day at the age of 67. He was priceless! Richard's friend...
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Apr 16, 20221 min read
Fabulous Friday: Julia and Martha
Here's Julia Child with a shockingly young Martha Stewart, making a three-tiered wedding cake.
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Apr 15, 20221 min read
CDA x 4: Barrie and Stewart
I never like reporting on FOUR celebrity deaths! My brother Howard alerted me to three of them and my friend Jessica on the fourth: Barbara Barrie (95), Donnie Iris (83), and Patrick Stewart (86) from Howard and Elke Sommer (85) from Jessica. I first encountered Barbara Barrie playing Dennis Christopher's mom in Breaking Away. She was nominated for an Oscar for that movie. I later knew her from the original cast recording of Stephen Sondheim's Company, in which she and her hu
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43 minutes ago3 min read
Fabulous Friday: "Then Came You"
I was on the stairmaster at Planet Fitness yesterday morning - - it wasn't an actual Stairmaster, it was a LifeFitness brand knockoff, but it's the easiest way to explain the thing I was using. Don't you say Kleenex rather than "facial tissue?" Anyway, I was on the stairmaster looking for something inspiring to listen to on my iPod. I needed a break from my usual picks (Boston, Earth Wind and Fire, Shirley Bassey) and somehow landed on this song. Which I ADORE. The four minut
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21 hours ago1 min read
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