Oh my – the Giants pulled it off; they’re going to the Super Bowl!!!
A NY Times look at the Cambodian immigrants of NYC.
Apparently, you can’t use the cold as your excuse to avoid outdoor exercise. Oh well. Guess old-fashioned laziness will do just fine.
This NY Times article about these guys selling books to the Strand — well, it reminds me: Got to get around to selling some of these unwanted (to me, anyway) books in the house…
In the Theater section of the NY Times: this sounds like a great review on the works of some major British actors doing Shakespeare: Zoe Wanamaker, Simon Russell Beale, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Ewan McGregor; so cool!
Hmm, so now the NY Times has gotten its say on the Austen stuff on PBS. Considering that I’ve never read “Northanger Abbey” or “Mansfield Park,” the movie adaptations of these two might prove interesting. For Americans, take note: “Mansfield Park” stars Billie Piper, the ex-Rose of the current incarnation of “Doctor Who.”
The passing of actor Allan Melvin, character actor known as “Sam the Butcher,” the love interest of Alice on “The Brady Bunch,” plus his roles on “All in the Family” and so forth.
The passing of actress Suzanne Pleshette; nice tribute by Time critic Richard Corliss.