Stephen Sondheim's blasts at the likes of Gilbert and Sullivan are refreshing, but elsewhere he wilfully misses the pointThere's nothing like a set-to between legends to lift the spirits: the late John Updike's tasteful demolition of Don DeLillo ("a concept-driven writer, whose characters spout smart, swift essays at one another"), Lily Allen's thoughts on Courtney Love ("a paranoid, drug-addled lunatic"), and now, i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AM on November 25, 2010