The other night in my hometown of Stamford, Connecticut, I had the fortune to be in the audience for a marvelous local production of 1776; a show which, in its original incarnation on Broadway in 1969, won a Tony Award…
Many of you may be familiar with the haunting American pop standard, “September Song.” It was written by Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson as a vehicle for the limited vocal range of Walter Huston in the 1938 Broadway production of…
The other night, I happened to flip on Turner Classic Movies and came upon a film called The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg. This was a silent version of a novel that became an operetta by Sigmund Romberg and was…
Most people live on a lonely island, Lost in the middle of a foggy sea. Most people long for another island, One where they know they will like to be. So begins the haunting tune from Rogers and Hammerstein’s South…
It’s really not a great time to be a Democrat. The economy remains, for the most part, as depressed as the millions of Americans who cannot find work, while scandal has engulfed the Party, with key, ranking members under indictment….
As the winds of prevailing opinion blow, I would seem to be a pretty vile individual. I am a faithful Catholic which, in the eyes of most liberals, makes me a bitter homophobe. I am a woman who celebrates the…
It seems like only yesterday that old Ross Perot was waving bye-bye and making a beeline into his private bunker to avoid the certain doom that surely awaited us all at the dawning of the third millennium. Turn back the…
If you’re like me, you’re not at all surprised by the holiday gifts doled out by Harry Reid and friends in order to give the ultimate legacy-saving present to President Obama. After all, pork has been the favorite dish of…
The latest allegations by numerous women involved in the Tiger Woods flap took many folks by surprise, including me. I bought into his external show of gentlemanliness and thought that he might be one of the few celebrities of his…
When we talk, as we are forced to do every year, about the “war on Christmas,” we generally focus on the efforts of the ACLU and their ilk to continue their assaults on the symbols of the holiday. From coast…
