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Fabulous Friday - - "Pihi neito"

I just got back from a trip to San Francisco, visiting my brother Howard and Paul Stoller and Annie Tennant and their sons, who were in...

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Jul 20, 20181 min read

Diva / Mensch pair for 7/18/18

Diva: Land of the free Mensch: Home of the brave Laurie Anderson, love her to death! An American original, to be sure. Here she is...

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Jul 18, 20181 min read

Fabulous Friday - - "Buttons and Bows"

I love Dinah Shore, I think she has one of the most beautiful voices ever recorded, what some call a "phonogenic" voice. And I love...

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Jul 13, 20181 min read

Diva / Mensch pair for 7/11/18

Diva: Oh Mensch: Say I did a youtube search for "national anthem opera singer." I bypassed America's Soprano Renée Fleming, because even...

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Jul 11, 20181 min read

Celebrity Death Watch: Tab Hunter

I was so sad to get up this morning and see the news that Tab Hunter had died. What a dreamboat! His memoir, *Tab Hunter Confidential,*...

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Jul 10, 20181 min read

Fabulous Friday - - Mystery Guest, Doris Day

Hard to imagine, but this was Doris Day's very first appearance on television. And she is so CUTE! Her appearance is at 15:12.

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Jul 6, 20181 min read

Diva / Mensch pair for 7/4/18

Of course with Independence Day falling on a Wednesday, I have to give this month a national anthem theme. First: Diva: Stars. Mensch:...

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Jul 4, 20181 min read

My Fair Lady, 6/26/18

Richard and I saw *My Fair Lady* on Broadway on 6/26/18. This was the first Broadway show album I bought with my own money, I've loved...

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Jun 30, 20183 min read

Fabulous Friday - - "Something Stupid"

I love this song, it's so cute and catchy. I read online that this song was known to some as "The Incest Song" because it originally...

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Jun 29, 20181 min read

Diva / Mensch pair for 6/27/18

We're closing out the food theme with a classic: Diva: Chocolate Mensch: Vanilla

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Jun 27, 20181 min read

Log Cabin, 6/22/18

Richard and I saw *Log Cabin* at Playwright’s Horizons on 6/22/18. We had two celebrity sightings in the lobby before the show, Tony...

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Jun 24, 20182 min read

Forever Linked, 6/9/18

Richard and I saw *Forever Linked: The Early History of Precision Dance Troupes* at Pace University on 6/9/18. I read about it in the...

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Jun 23, 20183 min read

Fabulous Friday - - Cecilia Sisson

You know how I love Carol Channing. This is one of her most hilarious creations. The dignity of the lady, it just kills me.

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Jun 22, 20181 min read

Symphonie Fantastique, 6/15/18

Francesca, Brian, and I saw Basil Twist's *Symphonie Fantastique* on 6/15/18. *SF* is a landmark piece by Hector Berlioz and puppet...

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Jun 21, 20181 min read

Diva / Mensch pair for 6/20/18

Diva: Chicken Mensch: Waffles

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Jun 20, 20181 min read

Travesties, 6/14/18

Jere, Dale, and I saw *Travesties* on 6/14/18. It's a play from 1975 by Tom Stoppard, this is the first time it's been revived on...

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Jun 16, 20183 min read

Fabulous Friday - - "Lady Marmalade"

Picture it: Madison, Wisconsin, sometime in the late 90s. My friend Paul Stoller was having a party in the summer, he was calling it a...

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Jun 15, 20182 min read

Diva / Mensch pair for 6/13/18

Diva: Chips Mensch: Dip Or would it be the other way around? Hard to say.

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Jun 13, 20181 min read

Everyone’s Fine With Virginia Woolf, 6/8/18

Richard, Karen, and I saw *Everyone’s Fine With Virginia Woolf* on 6/8/18. It’s a new play by Kate Scelsa, a riff on Albee’s masterpiece...

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Jun 10, 20183 min read

Love and Intrigue, 6/7/18

I saw *Love and Intrigue* at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on 6/7/18. This was my last show of the season at my beloved BAM - - I've...

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Jun 9, 20182 min read

Sybarite5 and Curtis Stewart, Nov 3 2025

I heard Sybarite5 at Music Mondays on Nov 3, 2025. They're a string quintet - - two violins, viola, cello, and bass. I heard them in an online concert during lockdown n 2020. I just read that review and I appeared to enjoy the 2020 concert more than this latest one. Maybe I was more eager for a satisfying cultural experience? Or maybe it was just better. They opened with "Movement and Locations" by The Punch Brothers. It had a great energy but the cello solo at the beginning

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Fabulous Friday: Aretha Franklin

I had a tribute to Wanda Jackson a few weeks ago. My brother Howard has a signed picture of her in his locker at work! I told him, "That's not Wanda Jackson, that's Lynn Redgrave in a bad wig." Bless her heart. Or in this case, rest her soul! OK now for this week's fierce rock and roll woman: the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, an American treasure. One of a kind, the world would not be the same without her. Can we all agree that this was one of the greatest moments in televi

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Fabulous Friday - - "Pihi neito"

Diva / Mensch pair for 7/18/18

Fabulous Friday - - "Buttons and Bows"

Diva / Mensch pair for 7/11/18

Celebrity Death Watch: Tab Hunter

Fabulous Friday - - Mystery Guest, Doris Day

Diva / Mensch pair for 7/4/18

*My Fair Lady,* 6/26/18

Fabulous Friday - - "Something Stupid"

Diva / Mensch pair for 6/27/18

*Log Cabin,* 6/22/18

*Forever Linked,* 6/9/18

Fabulous Friday - - Cecilia Sisson

*Symphonie Fantastique,* 6/15/18

Diva / Mensch pair for 6/20/18

*Travesties,* 6/14/18

Fabulous Friday - - "Lady Marmalade"

Diva / Mensch pair for 6/13/18

*Everyone’s Fine With Virginia Woolf,* 6/8/18

*Love and Intrigue,* 6/7/18

Sybarite5 and Curtis Stewart, Nov 3 2025

Fabulous Friday: Aretha Franklin

My Fair Lady, 6/26/18

Log Cabin, 6/22/18

Forever Linked, 6/9/18

Symphonie Fantastique, 6/15/18

Travesties, 6/14/18

Everyone’s Fine With Virginia Woolf, 6/8/18

Love and Intrigue, 6/7/18