Don’t miss Stanley Fish on True Grit in today’s NYT. In 1971, I talked my way into a graduate seminar that Stanley Fish was teaching at the Linguistic Institute, a […]
Archives for December 2010
Olive does NOT like snow
December 27, 2010 by
STEP TWO: OLIVE TO ANN; DO I HAVE TO? See that beseeching look? I mean, it’s cold, it’s wet, there’s salt on the street….. STEP THREE: NO I WILL NOT! […]
Kushner and Kirschner together again….sort of…..
December 23, 2010 by
Letters to Sala by Arlene Hutton will open at Rollins College on February 11, 2011…and Tony Kushner will be there a few months later. OK, so we’re not exactly on […]
Richard Holbrooke, Marty Glickman, and football in Berlin
December 13, 2010 by
I haven’t met that many Ambassadors, which is partly why Richard Holbrooke looms large in my mind. But it was the circumstances of my dinner with him that was so […]
Do you love disaster movies? Real life is scarier at the Metrodome!
December 12, 2010 by
I don’t get it — don’t they know about snow in Minneapolis? I have watched this video about ten times….especially when the snow starts shooting like rockets, just can’t get […]
“LETTERS TO SALA” opens at Rollins College, Feb. 11
December 6, 2010 by
Winter Park, Florida: a nice place to be in February! Especially when you can catch a great production of Arlene Hutton’s LETTERS TO SALA directed by Eric Nightengale. Special guest: […]