Sleeping Muse and Falling Rocket

Armstrong signs a French punk's head, long before punk happened.  (late 50s-early 60s)

  Armando Iannuci and Dev Patel triumph in this beautiful adaptation. Copperfield/Dicken's passion for words, for paper, for pen and ink... Dora's heartbreak... Micawber's illness... The moment the mature Copperfield assures his younger self that he will survive the workhouse to write, write, and use it all... And the cast! Patel, Capaldi, Swinton, Wishaw, Laurie, 

 Wake up in the middle of the night to discover that The Belly of an Architect is on!

In Poltergeist 2 (1986), the character of Kane was played by Julian Beck. In The Addams Family (1991), Grandmama was played by Judith Malina. Married in real life, Malina and Beck together founded the groundbreaking, experimental Living Theatre in 1947.

  "The Historical Event" in How I Got That Story

  "All murderers are punished eventually,  unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." -River

 The Martian + Ice Station Zebra = The Midnight Sky

  Why did Iris Murdoch never win a Nobel Prize in Literature? Portrait by Tom Phillips in the National Portrait Gallery.

 "You're incomplete. The human parts of you are missing."                                                  - Richard to Eleanor

  The TD Ameritrade guy (Jim Conroy)  was the voice of Ruff Ruffman!

  Christy, in Playboy of the Western World Jim, in The Glass Menagerie Paul, in Hot L Baltimore Pale, in Burn This

  Vladimir Nabokov wrote his essay "Portrait of My Uncle" while staying in the Columbine Lodge in Estes Park, Colorado.

Truman Capote's partner, Jack Dunphy, was previously married to  Joan McCracken, who was later married to Bob Fosse.

It breaks my heart that Ann Reinking has passed at a time when Broadway is dark.  Hard to imagine anyone more deserving of the tribute of the dimming of those marquee lights.

 I always confuse St. John the Divine and St. John of the Cross

Wait a minute! Sylvia Young is Frances Ruffelle's mother?? Wait a minute! Frances Ruffelle was married to John Caird?? Wait a minute! John Caird and Frances Ruffele are pop singer Eliza Doolittle's parents?? Wait a minute! Frances Ruffelle and John Caird named their daughter Eliza Doolittle??

 I think it heartbreaking that Philip Seymour Hoffman and Mark Rylance never worked together. Matthew Warchus directed them both and certainly thought of them as artists with a deep kinship.

  "It was not that he lied;  it was that he had no truth to tell." - The Snows of Kilimanjaro Ernest Hemingway

Communards keyboard player Richard Coles is now vicar of Finedon in Northamptonshire.

Remembering Art, a co-worker at the American Booksellers Association in Tarrytown. Art was retired and worked a few hours each week to pass the time. Our talks turned to his long held passion for art glass, a subject I knew very little about. Before long, we'd arranged to meet the next Saturday at the Met in Central Park where Art gave me personal tour of the glass collection.  Art and Art. And lunch in the roof garden!

  And she will shut his wild letters in a quiet drawer and lie down to sleep beside the water in the wall and she will know the reasons for weeping and for holding back and he has decided on tenderness.