Archives for February 27, 2012

My trip to Florida is now history, and I have a hell of a rough week ahead of me. In addition to seeing two shows, writing two pieces for The Wall Street Journal and one for Commentary, and helping to edit a Festschrift in honor of an esteemed colleague, I’ve got a Satchmo at the Waldorf script conference coming up on Tuesday. On Sunday I fly to Texas to do a three-day dog-and-pony show for the students of Baylor University, where I’ll be talking about Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong and various other things.
For all these reasons, I don’t expect to be blogging this week or next (except for the usual almanac entries, videos, and theater-related postings, which will continue like clockwork).
Till soon.

David Frye impersonates Gregory Peck, James Mason, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, William F. Buckley, Jr., Richard Nixon, Bobby Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in 1967:

(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday and Wednesday.)

“No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.”
Willa Cather, Alexander’s Bridge