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The red-state Democratic Senators up for re-election have to stop pressuring Sen. Schumer to capitulate to Trump. It is destroying the Democratic electoral advantage. Voters respect strength. Nobody wants to vote for wimps. Incredibly, the Dems seem to be, once … Continue reading →

“She would be in that script,” a friend of Diana Sands recalled, “always looking for the beat: What did I miss? She never stopped studying her script, even when the show was running. Am I doing service to the author? … Continue reading →

There are no more rules. The GOP is completely lawless. We must hear the Democrats’ rebuttal of the Trump-Nunes nth-degree fabrication.

Do we really want to become the Soviet Union? I mean, when face crime gets embedded in the national consciousness, it can produce genuine perturbation. My divine late friend, ex-Kirov Evgeni Shcherbakov, recalled the day when he was twelve that … Continue reading →

Liked her dress last night.

Stage star Jeanne Eagels was one of the most magical performers ever captured on film. The original Sadie Thompson in Rain on Broadway, btw. 1916’s The World and the Woman starring Eagels in a rather Sadie Thompson-ish role, has just … Continue reading →

which received dedicated funding to record its production of The Cradle Will Rock!

Minority Leader Pelosi didn’t smile enough during the SOTU–or in general–ex-Ozark Mountain Daredevil Sarah Huckabee Sanders claims in her denunciation.

At a 1956 Met Rosenkavaliar, Musical America’s Raymond Ericson pondered the way that Marschallin Lisa Della Casa’s “youth and beauty really posed a problem for Octavian, torn between her and the equally ravishing Hilde Güden in the role of Sophie.” … Continue reading →

Bette Midler responds to the SOTU, tweeting her rejoinder to Trump’s boast that “America filled the world with art and music….” “and then ended,” Midler reminds us, “nearly every art and music program in public schools in the USA.”