The Talented Mr. Frid

January 22, 2020

With online streaming has come the opportunity to rewatch beloved television shows from our formative years, and to reassess those …

Clowning Glory

March 30, 2017

On view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art at the moment is an exhibition entitled “Seurat’s Circus Sideshow,” a collection …

March 9, 2017

It is possible, in a single week, to see both the sublime and the ridiculous in almost anything. Exhibit #1: …

February 24, 2016

Many years ago as a student in Strasbourg, France, I had many great conversations with Mme. Farès, the middle-aged cleaning …

February 3, 2016

We are in the silly season of Presidential elective politics again, in which I am in equal parts exasperated and …

January 20, 2016

In the newest revival of the beloved musical “Fiddler on the Roof”, currently running on Broadway, Tevye is played with …

May 15, 2015

The portrayals of religious figures in the movies are usually patently contrived: the noble suffering, the shining conviction, the heroic …

March 4, 2015

Leonard Nimoy passed away this week and I was gratified that he was given a front page obituary in the …