My sister and I lost our Mother today, and with that our final link to the wheat fields of Kansas.
Patricia Irene (née Riely) Lapham. Mom’s obituary from The Council Grove Republican: Patricia Lapham, a life-long resident of Kansas died …
Memories
“We need to change the world one 5-year-old at a time,” Marlo Thomas on Free to Be…You and Me.
In the spring of 1974, LaRae Petrovich and I ran into each other in the office break room. She asked …
Look in your drawers. There may be something small, yet really valuable in them.
Reading a story in Christie’s Magazine last week, I was reminded of a time, a decade or so ago, when …
The Stonewall Inn, the first national gay historic landmark in the U.S. is in a bind. Can you help?
I don’t typically share information about fund-raising campaigns, but these aren’t typical times and The Stonewall Inn isn’t a typical …
Jennifer Aniston & Lisa Kudrow have a virtual reunion on Variety’s Actors on Actors@Home. Enjoy!
Jennifer Aniston and Lisa Kudrow have two of the best smiles and most infectious laughs in the business and they …
David Oyelowo is powerful as Martin Luther King Jr—you can watch the movie, SELMA at no charge.
Selma, director Ava DuVernay’s biopic about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is free to watch and rent on streaming services …
#ChorusLine40 The cast of Hamilton honors A Chorus Line in the theatre where both shows opened.
Last week, in a post about A Chorus Line in Quarantine, I shared a joyous virtual reunion of the 2006 …
5, 6, 7, 8! A Chorus Line cast reunites (virtually) to recreate I Hope I Get It, the Quarantine edition.
This video will make you want to jump out of your chair, take a pivot step, and walk, walk, walk. …
I saw a nice video today. It made me feel warm all over. Here’s actress Linda Gray from… “well, you know.”
The last time that Linda Gray and I chatted and laughed was at a reunion of the talented folks who …
Elaine Stritch delivers on Stephen Sondheim’s anthem to living through tough times.
Sure—it’s a creepy and uncertain time, but we’re still here. And with some thoughtfulness for others, some introspection and common …
Typewriters are wonderful machines. Two are coming to auction, and they’re more wonderful than most.
I started earnestly writing when I was 15 years old. I wrote with a Parker 75 fountain pen filled with Sheaffer’s …
Theatre people: A 70s Christmas in New York, a dinner in Philadelphia, and a petrified Christmas tree.
It was Christmastime in 1971. I’d just returned to New York after having been on the road in the cast …
Happy 40th birthday to NPR’s Morning Edition. We came close to never hearing the show.
Above, original staff member, Jay Kernis edits tape for Morning Edition in the late 1970s. George Geesey/NPR When I received an …
Nibs, barrels, grips, and feeds. Today is National Fountain Pen Day. Here’s a write-on memory.
My broad-nib Montblanc Meisterstück 149 died a few years ago. On a cross-country trip, it was frozen in my luggage …
And then there was the time that I played a Secret Service Man—in a Ford commercial.
Baltimore. June 1988. Sandy Mislang produced the spot for W. B. Doner Advertising on behalf of their client, Baltimore–Washington Ford …
The Emmy Awards are this weekend. I share a memory of the Emmys and your printable ballot.
I was invited to join the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 1974 at age 24 when I was …
Sadly, the Paris Theatre has closed for business. I fell head-over-heels in love with Maggie Smith there.
I clicked on Gothamist this morning and was first startled and then saddened to learn that after 71 years, New …
Asked the forbidden question, Janis stared at me with dagger eyes, rose, and projectile vomited on me.
Less than a year after I met Janis Joplin, she was dead. Fifty years ago, I was an ambitious, plucky …
I think that I shall never see a form as lovely as is thee. My favorite tree in all of New York City.
With apologies and all due respect to the poet, Joyce Kilmer, all trees are not equally created. In the southwest …
