There must be something in the English character that enables the better artists among them to depict situations of unassuming, steady bravery with superior deftness, which is probably why their World War II pictures are better than ours. One of them, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (20th Century Fox…

So, Michael Levine, you tell me your chum Marin Alsop says “There’s finally a movie about a female conductor and she’s a sociopathic narcissist”? So freakin what? Tell her to tighten up her Adagietto. This real-life conductor is mentioned in 'Tár.' And she's not a fan of the film Marin Alsop, a world-renowned conductor name-checked in "Tár," is speaking out against the 2022 film and its…www.latimes.com

The man who proudly displayed this T-shirt on his Facebook profile also wrote this response to his unwelcome comments on a personal Facebook timeline (not mine) partially dedicated, at the moment, to grieving over a friend lost to violence: Barbara Gustern, Beloved Vocal Coach, Remembered for Her 'Wild and Precious Life' at Memorials Scattered pennies glistened along the pathway and steps leading into the Church of the Holy Apostles, an episcopal…www.rollingstone.com

On the streets of Paris I sold the coolest American newspaper ever published in Europe [EXCLUSIVE TO MEDIUM] Like Jean Seberg in Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, I spent some time in my early 20s sauntering up and down the Champs-Élysées in a sexy logo T-shirt hawking an English-language publication. …

You didn't mention the origin of his stage name: a running gag on Jack Benny! What I'd like to know is, did he get Benny's "permission" to use it or did he just let that flag fly?

One more vid: Here's Liza singing it 6 July 1986, at the former Giants Stadium at the Meadowlands in celebration of the Statue of Liberty's 100th anniversary. The crowd went WILD. bit.ly/newyorknewyorkliza1986

As long as we're on the subject, THIS became our defiant anthem after the towers were hit. Here are the cast of 40 Broadway shows in chorus singing it in the heart of NY, Times Square: bit.ly/newyorknewyork2001

And you never even mentioned Sinatra annually singing in the New Year at Times Square! Here he is a couple of months ago, starting at 1:30: bit.ly/newyorknewyorkts

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