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is to sort of stovepipe into a word cloud and then almost randomly select words and phrases meant to be provocative, then arrange in no particular order, and then just almost blindly take aim, in the hope something they’re saying … Continue reading →

Next month, the Estonian choreographer’s memoir will be published–in Estonian. So I may not be able to read it right away, but I’ll remember the fun I had with her and Tchernichova in St. Petersburg in 1999. Earlier that year, she’d … Continue reading →

As John Dean tweets: “Nunes co-conspirator on the Hill is his staffer Kashyap Patel. They both belong in jail for betraying national security with their scam.” He links to Philip Carter’s indictment of Nunes and Patel at Slate.

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!