The time stamp suggests you didn’t get to it in time, unfortunately. It’s one of the best casts for it I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen a lot of different productions.
You know how there are travel bucket lists? Porgy & Bess should be on everyone’s life bucket list.
Maybe will rent if
This is always such a joyful celebration anyway, but the fact that they can do it this year is both incredible and maddening (for those of us living in less-responsible nations):
As a side note, William Windom (Commodore Decker on STTOS and the sheriff on M,SW) dated Margaret Hamilton. And as it turned out…she’d been his KINDERGARTEN teacher way back when!
Oh yeah, he also played the PA in “To Kill a Mockingbird”.
PS: The whole episode was great.
How weird…
It reminds me of Jason Momoa saying that he had a crush on Lisa Bonet when he was a kid and now they are married with two kids… what a gorgeous family, tho…
I’m so old I remember seeing it. Maybe I saw it as a rerun.
I don’t recall anything about the episode, but having her on the show was very exciting.
20 minutes, Oscar winner:
There’s an amazing story on the Twitters tonight. To make it easier to read, I grabbed the image files to post here:
(Sorry the thumbnails didn’t post at the same dimensions; I can’t figure out how to override the Discourse proportions. But clicking makes the images more readable. 
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I found this book - which I thought’d been lost - in the basement in the bookcase my dad made me for my 10th birthday (I think it was that, maybe it was 12?), a few weeks ago. The book was given to my brother in 1962 from our Gram. G.
The clover on the right has five leaves; the fifth leaf on the right is folded. The other’s a four leaf. I have no idea how old that rose is. No stains, either, on the facing pages.
As the mother of a Fiona, that’s on point.
This story is wild… 
These folks. I wasn’t raised in the 'hood they reside it, but it’s only three miles from where I live now, AND my brother lived in a part of it back in the late 1970s-early 1980s.
“I went to so many hospitals in North Korea because we thought that I had some sort of physical problem.”
It never occurred to Jang, or his family, that there could be another reason for his lack of interest.
“There is no concept of homosexuality in North Korea,” he says. If someone is seen running to greet another same sex friend, it’s assumed that’s just because they have such a close friendship. In fact adults of the same sex often hold hands in the street, he says. “North Korea is a totalitarian society - we have lots of communal life so it’s normal for us.”
Another Weird Poem by Yours Truly
I sit, and I think
what am I and why
do I wonder because
I am me?
What is it
that pushes me to
ponder the facets of my
inner splinters of a
flawed gemstone that has
all the darkest
colors of light?
Yet facing them
is the only
way I can truly
not fear them,
not fear me.
The beauty, it
humbles me
with the knowing
of all within
me.
