Tuesday, September 3, 2019
“The author of a well-received novel never knows whether his book, even if it sells, is also read. Nor does he know where his reader yawns, at what page he may have decided that he wants n…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMonday, September 2, 2019
Jimmy Durante sings Gordon Jenkins’ “This Is All I Ask” on Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters Hour. This episode was originally telecast by ABC on October 31, 1969: (This is th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“What strikes me as I look back is that I have known few contented people. I have known very busy ones, rich ones, triumphant ones, but few who have been contented.” S.N. Behrman, Peopl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMFriday, August 30, 2019
Titus Techera, who hosts a podcast for the American Cinema Foundation on which he and his guests discuss important films of the past and present, invited me back last week for the latest in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:02PMImogene Coca performs her “Modest Stripper” routine on Admiral Broadway Revue. This episode was originally telecast simultaneously by NBC and DuMont on March 11, 1949: (This is the late…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“There is no more painful human illusion than that you can catch up on lost reading in old age. Old age is the busiest of them all. Things you used to do effortlessly take you forever, pro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThursday, August 29, 2019
“To be brought up in a poverty-stricken household, to know nothing but poverty in childhood and adolescence, is not so bad while you are enduring it; it is quite tolerable in fact, at leas…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMWednesday, August 28, 2019
Ethel Merman sings Irving Berlin’s “There’s No Business Like Show Business” (from Annie Get Your Gun) on Shower of Stars. She is introduced by Red Skelton. This episode was origina…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AMFriday, May 3, 2019
In today’s Wall Street Journal drama column, I review the Irish Repertory Theatre’s off-Broadway revival of The Plough and the Stars. Here’s an excerpt. * * * The most important …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMAnthony Blunt, the English art scholar who was exposed as a former Soviet spy in 1979 and stripped of his knighthood, discusses his crimes in an excerpt from a TV interview, the only one he …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“All children like to irritate and disappoint their parents. It’s a way of growing up, of sharpening their teeth.” Louis Auchlncloss, The House of the Prophet
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThursday, May 2, 2019
“Children have no mercy on adults. It does not occur to them that adults may need it.” Louis Auchlncloss, The House of the Prophet
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMWednesday, May 1, 2019
William F. Buckley, Jr., interviews Louis Auchincloss and Helen MacInnes on “The Plight of the American Novelist” on Firing Line. This episode was taped on January 6, 1969: (This is the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“Nothing is more shocking about old age than the speed with which even the most famous persons are isolated and forgotten.” Louis Auchlncloss, The House of the Prophet
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMTuesday, April 30, 2019
As I grow older, I find that my personal definition of what it means to be beautiful is becoming far more encompassing. To be sure, I can’t remember ever having had a perfectly clear-cut �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMFrom 2009: When I told Paul Moravec three years ago that I’d love to collaborate with him on an opera, it didn’t occur to me that The Letter would open in the same year that Pops: A L…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“Facing it—always facing it—that’s the way to get through.” Joseph Conrad, Typhoon
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMMonday, April 29, 2019
Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten perform Britten’s arrangement of the English folk song “O Waly, Waly” (The water is wide) on the BBC in 1964: (This is the latest in a series of arts- …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“That a pattering of sounds on the ear should have such moment is a fact calculated to give pause to those philosophers who attempt to explain consciousness by its utility, or who wish to …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMFriday, April 26, 2019
In today’s Wall Street Journal I review the Broadway transfer of Ink. Here’s an excerpt. * * * The newspaper movie used to be an established genre in Hollywood, and a consistently …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:04AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal I review the new Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons” is back on Broadway,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03AMThe thirtieth episode of Three on the Aisle, the twice-monthly podcast in which Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I talk about theater in America, is now available on line for listeni…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMAlfred Deller sings Purcell’s “From rosy bow’rs” in an undated film clip: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, W…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“The things of men will break—whether weapons, machines or bodies. When that time comes, know what you believe. It will be the only thing that keeps you going.” John R. Allen (quoted i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThursday, April 25, 2019
I’ve been so horrifically busy throughout the past couple of weeks that I forgot to mention that the twenty-ninth episode of Three on the Aisle, the twice-monthly podcast in which Peter M…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:38AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal I review the Broadway premiere of Tootsie. Here’s an excerpt. * * * It was inevitable that “Tootsie,” Sydney Pollack’s much-loved 1982 romcom a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AM“Among the calamities of war, may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.” Samuel Johnson, The Idler…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMWednesday, April 24, 2019
John Lennon and Chuck Berry perform “Memphis, Tennessee” and “Johnny B. Goode” and are interviewed on a 1972 episode of The Mike Douglas Show: (This is the latest in a series of art…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.” Alfred Korzybski, Manhood of Humanity
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMTuesday, April 23, 2019
Charity Tillemann-Dick, a coloratura soprano who suffered from pulmonary hypertension (the same rare disease that afflicts Mrs. T) and who resumed her singing career after undergoing a doubl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PMFrom 2009: One of my closest friends, a writer whom I admire greatly, has dedicated his latest book to me. I was one of the first people to suggest that he write it, and he claims to have pr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM 
