Today, we went to see "Quartet"....really enjoyed it but we have a weakness for Maggie Smith for lots of reasons, not least that we saw her live in Edinburgh in Albee's "A Delicate Balance". Those were the days when so many of the famous still did live theatre...in 1972 we saw Laurence Olivier in Long Day's Journey into Night for 30p (about 75 cents) at the Old Vic (our very first play in London...what a way to start!), Alan Bates in The Caretaker, for around a pound, Glenda Jackson in White Devil for around the same...and others I can't remember now.
Wow...fog rolling in like the old days when folks were burning coal in Vancouver. Guess it's the smog since there hasn't been almost no wind in the last week. Feels very nostalgic...now listening to the Big Broadcast on WFUV...Fordham University, NYC...the old jazz greats....we just love it.!
