Harry Belafonte died the other day at the age of 96. I read his NY Times obit - - I knew him as a singer and actor but didn't know about his extraordinary involvement in the civil rights movement.
I went to YouTube, as I always do, to find a clip to attach to his CDA. And what was there on the home page, unbeckoned, but this clip of him hosting The Tonight Show, with Bobby Kennedy as the guest.
This was another case of YouTube making a helpful suggestion on their homepage:
Composer David Del Tredici died the other day at the age of 86. He won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1980 for "In Memory of a Summer Day," part one of Child Alice. He wrote many pieces inspired by A
The Best Actress winner for 2000 was Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich. That performance was a beguiling mixture of diva and mensch so instead I'm going to focus on two other Best Acrtess nominees tha