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...Henry and June” by Anais Nin...
...film version of this collection of Anais Nin’s diaries was the first movie to receive a NC-17 rating. But that was the sex without the pathos and the writing. In 1931, Nin meets exuberant masculinist writer Henry Miller (“Tropic of Cancer”) and his bisexual spitfire of a wife June, and Nin immediately falls for her beauty and his writing. June soon leaves, allowing the married Nin to begin an affair with Henry, which leads to her complete sexual awakening. It is an emotional and captivating true narrative matched perfectly by Nin?...
Early into the first big number of Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate, “Another Op’nin, Another Show,” comes this classic expression of thespian dread: “Four weeks you rehearse and rehearse / Three weeks, and it couldn’t be worse / One week, will it ever be right...
...couldn't have felt as simpatico with more recent "hardware" musicals - all those flying chandeliers and whirring helicopters. (He pointedly left the chopper out of his "Miss Saigon" drawing.) But Hirschfeld was no Luddite; he was ever open to the Next Thing. As Anais Nin apostrophized to a lover in "Henry and June": "There will never be darkness because in both of us there's always movement, renewal, surprises. I have never known stagnation." Hirschfeld was anti-stagnation too. Like his thin pen-lines, he was lithe, blithe and on the move...
...Good mo'nin', judge, and your jury too I've got a few things I'd like to say to you: I'm gonna murder my baby Yes, I'm gonna murder my baby Yes, I'm gonna murder my baby (yeah, I'm tellin' the truth now) 'Cause she don't do nothin' but cheat and lie. -recorded by Pat Hare...