Archives for April 18, 2018

Robert Preston sings “I Died for a Living” on An Evening With Carol Burnett, originally telecast by CBS on February 24, 1963. This song, by Burnett’s writers, refers to Preston’s pre-Music Man career in Hollywood as a supporting actor who frequently played villains:

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

“The doctrine of human equality reposes upon this: That there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid. That there is no big man who has not felt small. Some men never feel small; but these are the few men who are.”

G.K. Chesterton, A Miscellany of Men