Everything old is old again — like Putin playing – Latest News
Everything old is old again
Contrary to standard perception, I’ve ideas.
Putin. Playing us within the Ukraine like Stalin performed us in Korea. The USA negotiated that Korean armistice for years — however combating continued. The armistice? Not signed till Stalin died. Putin is playing with Stalin’s handbook.
Now, we communicate of the Great White Way. Broadway is shrinking to slender means.
Current productions shrivel and there’s yesteryear’s reruns like “Cabaret,” “Chicago,” “The Music Man” and “Othello.”
OK, so perhaps a $2 invoice isn’t returning, however white powdery spherical doughnuts have been making their strikes. And younger people are shifting back in with their mother and father.
Cinema? Besides an upjuiced Tom Cruise nonetheless smashing, bashing and trashing, there’s perhaps a 600th “Star Wars” and shortly perhaps Shirley Temple outfitted in some shmatta from a consignment store.
Next up? Garter belts, stockings and boobs INSIDE bras.
Coming subsequent? Sitting in a rumble seat it’ll be Tom Hanks playing a teen and De Niro chasing one. Forget Christmas. We’ll re-see “Miracle on 33rd Street,” a silent “It’s a Wonderful Life” and marketing campaign buttons that say “Vote for Thomas E. Dewey for President.”
Want more? How’s corduroy, plaids, chunky sweaters, vinyl data, recorders, classic cameras, hairpieces. Watch. Before you recognize it we’ll get a cloned Richard Nixon back again.
Don’t overlook convertible vehicles or retro workplace buildings getting reborn into cozy flats.
Year by yr, little by little, daily, what’s NOT going back is the way in which you used to look good in that magnifying mirror. Contrary to standard perception, I’ve ideas.
Giving back to alma mater
WHAT’s going ahead is the highest ladies’s school — Barnard. Graduates embody Greta Gerwig, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Eileen Ford, Twyla Tharp, Sheila Nevins, Erica Jong, Cynthia Nixon, Jeane Kirkpatrick — and philanthropist Francine LeFrak who final week opened the Francine A. LeFrak Center for Well-Being. It gives holistic help throughout key dimensions of health and wellness — bodily, mental, financial.
She beforehand opened the Samuel J. and Ethel LeFrak Theater which seats 2,300. At the opening, Brian Stokes Mitchell sang “The Impossible Dream” to honor the late Ethel who had a large crush on Brian Stokes Mitchell long back — when he had simply two names.
ALSO modified? The medical fraternity. Tell your physician: “Oh, I’m suddenly so grateful to you. I’m just beginning to suddenly feel a bit better. How can I ever repay you for taking care of me?”
Doctor: “By check, cash or money order.”
FOR sure principally in New York, youngsters, principally in New York.
