Ah, the lovely Shirley Knight. She was one of the three actors in the show the first time I saw *The Vagina Monologues* (I saw it five times). The other two were Andrea Martin and (improbably) Alanis Morissette. Such a marvelous actor. The first thing I noticed her in was *As Good As It Gets.* This scene shows that sometimes the best acting is actually reacting.
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
The Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for 1998 went to Bill Condon for Gods and Monsters, a quiet and thought-provoking movie about James Whale, who directed Frankenstein. One of the other nominees that y