A TALL ACHIEVEMENT Seeing Tommy Tune on CBS reminded me of one of my Broadway obsessions. I saw GRAND HOTEL 4x in New York and to this day I regard it as the greatest directorial achievement I have witnessed among several hundred Broadway productions. This Wright & Forrest score,…

COME BLOW YOUR HORN! You know the nursery rhyme… Little Boy Blue BY MOTHER GOOSE Little boy blue, Come blow your horn, The sheep’s in the meadow, The cow’s in the corn. But where is the boy Who looks after the sheep? He’s under a haystack, Fast asleep. I…

Exasperating!  NOOOOOOOOO! There are some words that are so hackneyed and trite that, when said, they’re not even communicating anymore. I’m convinced that MY TORTURE explains the only possible reason they exist these days. Think  bamboo shoots under the fingernails or a brand spankin’ new piece of chalk…