Archives for September 26, 2016

Oscar Levant appears as the mystery guest on What’s My Line? (Levant’s segment starts 21:52 into the video.) This episode was originally telecast by CBS on October 17, 1965. The panelists are Milton Berle, Bennett Cerf, Arlene Francis, and Dorothy Kilgallen. John Charles Daly is the host:

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

“Snobs are always insufferable, even when they’re right, though holding strong opinions is not the same as snobbery. Some ideas and tastes are worthy only of contempt.”

Patrick Kurp, “‘Sanding Off Such Pretense or Exploding It’” (Anecdotal Evidence, September 10, 2016)