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Turns out that when my Grandmother Sallie Schwartz’s parents arrived here in New York in September 1886, they had been living in Ungvar, Hungary, which is now Uzhhorod , Ukraine.

Our military budget remains higher than the combined total of the entire rest of the world and we are asked to take seriously Obama crying poor about military expenditure? Sarah Lazare at Common Dreams reports the reaction of some of … Continue reading →

Tebaldi’s signature wave to the peanut gallery, as she and Del Monaco drink it in, opening night at the Met, 56 years ago this month. (Not a Tosca  it was possible to doze through: the Scarpia was London and the … Continue reading →

Great web designer–he found the perfect Nile green I wanted for this blog.  And he’s always ready to troubleshoot when asked to.  Thank you Bill!

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 →