Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
Evelyn Waugh is interviewed by John Freeman on a 1953 episode of Face to Face, originally telecast by the BBC:
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“I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.”
Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall
Sydney Lucas sings “Ring of Keys,” a song from Fun Home, adapted by Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori from Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel, on the 2015 Tony Awards telecast:
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“Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.”
John Updike: Self-Consciousness: A Memoir
“One out of three hundred and twelve Americans is a bore, for instance, and a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience.”
John Updike, “Confessions of a Wild Bore”
The Modern Jazz Quartet appears on an episode of Jazz Casual, hosted by Ralph Gleason and originally telecast by San Francisco’s KQED-TV on May 16, 1962:
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“Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.”
Saul Bellow, Mr. Sammler’s Planet
From 2005:
Read the whole thing here.I recently saw a stage actress I know in an episode of a popular TV series. This was a new experience for me. I’ve watched any number of writer friends hold forth on talk shows, and I’ve even tuned into David Letterman to see a band whose members I know quite well. But all those people were being themselves, more or less, whereas my actress friend was pretending to be someone else….