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: chaos
Mensch: control
The Kandinsky painting doesn't actually exist, it was invented by John Guare. Here's the scene from the movie. Lovely performances by Donald Sutherland and Stockard Channing and what a treat to see Ian McKellen before he got famous and Will Smith before he got cancelled.
And here are the paintings - - chaos:
And control:
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