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I refer to the unsigned rave for the VAI series in the Check it Out section of the new Ballet Review. (We’re working on VAI Montreal Vol.5.) But I did write the Ballet Review interview with Valerie Camille!

Richard is always wonderfully helpful to researchers. He supplied me with a tape of his 1966 interview with Tallulah Bankhead when I was writing my biography. Back in the ’60s, he had a radio show on WBAI, “High Tea With … Continue reading →

Listening to an interview Richard Lamparski conducted with Reginald Owen shortly before Owen died in 1972, reminds me of how difficult it then was to see rare films. Lamparski had long wanted to see the first, 1929 filming of The … Continue reading →

Obama lays out the blueprint for this beleaguered nation  to be further eroded by military engagement in perpetuity. It is the US that is being degraded, not ISIS.

Walking around the West Village near my home, seeing the lavishly-restored brick townhouses, and realizing that all this may well be submerged two decades from now.

No matter how explicitly, and, I suppose, sincerely, they espouse progressive goals for this country, they fold in the clinches, embracing–out of blind loyalty?– the President’s militarism even as they know–should they possess the insight of an ant–that the endless … Continue reading →

The Barre Flies visit Wheeldon’s Alice, and, as always, demonstrate quite individual flight paths. Go to TheBarreFlies.com.

That’s what’s been sprayed on the façade of a low-rise apartment building near me. I hope it stays up for a long time.

15 good ideas–and what do you know? Not a single one involves blowing civilians to smithereens! David Swanson at Worldbeyondwar.org enumerates.

Their mindless rank-closing-around-the-President drivel is even more pathetic than Obama’s channeling of GWB. I mean, are we really hearing this?? The Guardian says they said these things, so I guess they did. Are they animatronics? “He has the legal authority. … Continue reading →