A Hollywood Success Story by Linda Winer
For reasons too convoluted to belabor, I recently found myself in the audience of an international theater panel of senior scholars. For different but comparably unlikely reasons, I also went to Belmont Park Race Track in June to watch the everyman-celebrity horse of the moment, Funny Cide, try to confound the billionaire breeders by winning the Belmont Stakes and, thus, sweeping the Triple Crown.