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I said it then, when I saw it live at Skate Canada, and I’ll say it now: It was the height of tastelessness to co-opt another country’s national tragedy and skate around in a sparkly skating dress to those voiceovers. That sealed the deal for my intense dislike of Medvedeva.

Finally, a few dance outings: Last week: Paul Taylor at The Joyce. The highlight for me was Cloven Kingdom. Last night: the first of the two Giselles I’m seeing. Act 1 was stolen by the sensational Peasant Pas of Lea Fleytoux and Jake Roxander and Act 2 was stolen by the Myrta of Ingrid Thoms...

Well, this Boomer had crushes, but it wasn’t for singers. I was into all those actors who played in the endless rounds of TV westerns. Will Hutchins as Sugarfoot springs to mind. I was busy cutting pictures out of movie and tv magazines, not reading Tiger Beat.

Also to be the center of attention and gossip so that the folks actually running the country (Parliament et al) can get on with their jobs while public focus is directed elsewhere.

Well, you could be in luck if whatever Kelce it is gets eliminated early.

I read an interview recently (don’t remember where) by someone involved in the creation of I, Jack Wight. Apparently it was conceived as a 3 season series with a definitive end. Whether we get the next series depends on BritBox and whether they greenlight 2 and 3.

Jonathan and Ana can win providing she divorces his ass and takes all the money. Otherwise, someone else win, please.

I loathed it when I had to read it in High School. I re-read it 30 years later out of curiosity. I disliked it even more.

My favorite opera is Handel’s Giulio Cesare, so of course I went to Carnegie Hall yesterday to see The English Concert’s staging. It was a terrific afternoon; my favorite singer of the day was Beth Taylor, who sang Cornelia. The opera was staged to highlight the comic aspects of the piece; I’ve...

The first skating competition I went to was 1981 Worlds in Hartford, Ct. Thierbach and his partner were silver medalists there. Russians were first, West Germans were third, and the Carruthers finished off the podium in fifth. RIP

Ah, my childhood favorite was Crusader Rabbit, with Rags the Tiger. In one episode Rags lost his stripes so he went off to India in search of India Ink to repaint his stripes.

I’m in luck, I think; I’ve been streaming episodes of NCIS Sydney.

Tombstone will always be defined for me by Val Kilmer’s Doc Holliday.

I streamed it on Peacock also and my reaction was ‘boy am I glad I didn’t spend $$$ to see this in a movie theater and boy am I glad that I didn’t spend even bigger $$$ to see this on Broadway.’ There’s a good story there that is trapped in something so artificial looking; I found it painful to...

My local independent movie theater opened Black Bag today, so I snuck off to see it. I loved it in spite of a few minor quibbles, so thumbs up!