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TT: But not forgotten

December 13, 2011 by Terry Teachout

Some things you don’t get over. My old friend Nancy LaMott died sixteen years ago today. That’s a long time, yet I still feel a pang of unappeasable sorrow whenever I think of her, and in particular of her painful last days, which she faced with uncommon courage.
Not surprisingly, I prefer to remember the happy days of our brief acquaintance, for it was full of warmth and laughter. Though we only knew one another for the year and a half before she died, I’ve never felt closer to a friend. She was a great artist and a dear person whom I loved with all my heart.
This is something that I wrote about Nancy for The Wall Street Journal in 2005. I still feel the same way, and always will.
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Nancy LaMott sings “Moon River” in 1995, nine days before her death, with Christopher Marlowe at the piano:

TT: Almanac

December 13, 2011 by Terry Teachout

“Grief is the price we pay for love.”
Queen Elizabeth II, message to the mourners at a 9/11 memorial service in New York (Sept. 20, 2001)

Terry Teachout

Terry Teachout, who writes this blog, is the drama critic of The Wall Street Journal and the critic-at-large of Commentary. In addition to his Wall Street Journal drama column and his monthly essays … [Read More...]

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About “About Last Night”

This is a blog about the arts in New York City and the rest of America, written by Terry Teachout. Terry is a critic, biographer, playwright, director, librettist, recovering musician, and inveterate blogger. In addition to theater, he writes here and elsewhere about all of the other arts--books, … [Read More...]

About My Plays and Opera Libretti

Billy and Me, my second play, received its world premiere on December 8, 2017, at Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach, Fla. Satchmo at the Waldorf, my first play, closed off Broadway at the Westside Theatre on June 29, 2014, after 18 previews and 136 performances. That production was directed … [Read More...]

About My Podcast

Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I are the panelists on “Three on the Aisle,” a bimonthly podcast from New York about theater in America. … [Read More...]

About My Books

My latest book is Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington, published in 2013 by Gotham Books in the U.S. and the Robson Press in England and now available in paperback. I have also written biographies of Louis Armstrong, George Balanchine, and H.L. Mencken, as well as a volume of my collected essays called A … [Read More...]

The Long Goodbye

To read all three installments of "The Long Goodbye," a multi-part posting about the experience of watching a parent die, go here. … [Read More...]

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