Friday, March 1, 2019
Ray Bolger and Ann Miller perform Irving Berlin’s “Puttin’ on the Ritz” on “Music of the Movies,” a 1966 episode of The Bell Telephone Hour originally telecast by NBC on March 1…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“Journalists follow authority as sharks do a liner, hoping to feed off the waste it discharges, with perhaps someone occasionally falling overboard to make a meal, and once in a way the wh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThursday, February 28, 2019
“It is always easy to talk to someone with whom one is going to become intimate; the future casts its shadow backwards, and there is no explaining to be sone, even though there is everythi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:00AMWednesday, February 27, 2019
In today’s Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column, I discuss Nan Goldin’s protests at museums that accept charitable contributions from the Sackler family. Here’s an excerpt. * �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMJohnny Mercer is interviewed by Ralph Price in 1962 on WSAV-TV of Savannah, Georgia, his home town: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this sp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“I have never been able to relate my feelings about people as individuals to my relations to their public attitudes and behaviour, whether approving or disapproving—something that has of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMTuesday, February 26, 2019
From 2009: Eric Gibson, my editor at The Wall Street Journal, called to tell me of the death of John Updike. “What city are you in?” he asked. I went blank. “Wait a minute,” I said,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“It is terrifying how suddenly fate becomes invincible and how unsuspectingly we accept it.” Salka Viertel, The Kindness of Strangers
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMonday, February 25, 2019
Wes Montgomery plays Thelonious Monk’s “Round Midnight” on Belgian TV in 1958. He is accompanied by Harold Mabern on piano, Arthur Harper on bass, and Jimmy Lovelace on drums: (This i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.” Honoré de Balzac, The Social Catechism
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMFriday, February 22, 2019
In today’s Wall Street Journal drama column, I review an important off-Broadway revival of Seán O’Casey’s The Shadow of a Gunman. Here’s an excerpt. * * * In Ireland, Seán O�…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03AMTuesday, February 19, 2019
From 2009: Of all the countless newspaper and magazine pieces that I’ve written over the years, one of the most immediately consequential was “Too Cool to Cash In, Favorite of the Few,�…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“Commentators on the political scene tend in retrospect to regard the figures who emerge into prominence as totally derisory. Understandably so. It is extremely difficult, as I know from p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMonday, February 18, 2019
I wrote a Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column in 2015 about Edward G. Robinson’s art collection. It’s no longer widely remembered, but Robinson, the greatest of all big-screen gan…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMSalvador Dalí is interviewed by Malcolm Muggeridge on Panorama. This program was originally telecast by the BBC on May 4, 1955: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-rel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“I also learnt at an early age the great truth that the twentieth century is an age of almost inconceivable credulity, in which critical faculties are stifled by a plethora of public persu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMFriday, February 15, 2019
In today’s Wall Street Journal drama column, I review Classic Stage Company’s off-Broadway repertory productions of two plays by August Strindberg. Here’s an excerpt. * *…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03AMThe John Wilson Orchestra plays a medley of cues composed by Scott Bradley for MGM’s Tom and Jerry cartoons, performed live at the 2013 BBC Proms in London’s Royal Albert Hall. The cart…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“Atheism is, I suppose, the supreme example of a simple faith.” G.K. Chesterton, Where All Roads Lead
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThursday, February 14, 2019
In today’s Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column, I look at an important new tendency in charitable giving. Here’s an excerpt. * * * New York’s Museum o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AM“Meg had spent the time in working as well as waiting, growing womanly in character, wise in housewifery arts, and prettier than ever; for love is a great beautifier.” Louisa May Alcott,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMWednesday, February 13, 2019
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen appears as the mystery guest on What’s My Line? John Daly is the host and the panelists are Bennett Cerf, Arlene Francis, Dorothy Kilgallen, David Niven. This episod…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“For the majority of English people there are only two religions, Roman Catholic, which is wrong, and the rest, which don’t matter.” Duff Cooper, Old Men Forget
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMTuesday, February 12, 2019
From 2009: Many years ago I worked as a teller in a downtown Kansas City bank, a job that allowed me to pay the rent while simultaneously playing jazz and writing concert reviews for the Ka…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“It requires moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.” Søren Kierkegaard, journal entry, July 19, 1840
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMonday, February 11, 2019
I went to see a play in Rhode Island last Monday. I’d planned to bring Mrs. T with me, but she was under the weather when the time came to hit the road, so I ended up going by myself, leav…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMSir Thomas Beecham is interviewed by Peter Brook on the BBC. This interview was filmed in London on October 30, 1958: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related video…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“A great actor is a conscious humorist. A show-off. He must have a taste for the bizarre, the unusual. He must savor the abnormal, else how can he portray the normal?” Michael Powell,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMFriday, February 8, 2019
In today’s Wall Street Journal drama column, I review a Rhode Island production of Macbeth. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Even in our present age of proud cultural …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMGeorge Stevens and Claudette Colbert appear as the mystery guests on What’s My Line? John Daly is the host and the panelists are Bennett Cerf, Dorothy Kilgallen, Arlene Francis, and J…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind, as by degrees will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you.” Joseph Addi…
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