New York Times – Out of Focus

Miscellaneous Miscellany: Don’t call it a comeback; but here’s an abstract – Part 1

I’m still hedging my bets. This habit stuff is hard. (That’s been my motto all year: THSIH. It rolls off the tongue.) As I mentioned yesterday, barely a day passes that I don’t encounter at least one thing prompting my internal voices to say, “I’m going to write about that.” In fact, I generally keepContinue reading “Miscellaneous Miscellany: Don’t call it a comeback; but here’s an abstract – Part 1”

NOTES ON THE TIMES: ROUNDING THE BASES OF THEATER, FILM AND TV

There were several items in today’s New York Times that gave me pause. First up, a mention in “Arts, Briefly” claiming that a stage version of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner is coming to Broadway in the Fall 2008. This great 1967 film starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn and Sidney Poitier was simultaneously ahead ofContinue reading “NOTES ON THE TIMES: ROUNDING THE BASES OF THEATER, FILM AND TV”