Jesse Green about a new member of “Funny Girl” cast: “Tovah Feldshuh, who replaced Jane Lynch as Fanny’s mother, is so gritty and salty that she can turn rocks into mud.” (Jacquelyn Kiszewski, Morris Plains, NJ)
In Wireless Mail, George Pendle registered in Italy, with the rapid shuffling of the functions of prime ministers, and Giorgia Meloni, the first woman elected to that position: “In cheering for Meloni’s success in the traditionally male-dominated field, like cheering for Lizzie Borden’s success in the traditionally male-dominated field of domestic murder. (Shauna Grob, Manhattan)
“We all know what a hurricane looks like,” Vinay Menon Written in The Toronto Star, adding that “watching reporters wade around like sea turtles in a swell wave” and grip palm trees “as their feet beat in the wind is not educational – it is pornography about storm”. Then he added: “By taking a reporter outside transparent a storm, you don’t send the public a dangerous message? I can imagine many viewers in Florida watching the news this week and thinking: ‘The CNN idiot is still out there and alive. Why can’t I just scroll down to 7-Eleven and pick up a six pack of Bud Light? ‘” (Jean Bernard, Strathroy, Ontario)
In the Atlantic Ocean, Ed Yong is worried on turning around too soon because of Covid worries: “Things have certainly improved since the height of the crisis, but calling a pandemic ‘end’ is like calling a war ‘end’. because your opponent is punching you in the side instead of in the face. (Doris McInnes, Greenwood, SC)
In The New Yorker, Anthony Lane description a scene from “Blonde,” a new Marilyn Monroe film written and directed by Andrew Dominik. Her mother, Gladys, drove her towards a bushfire from which everyone else was eager to flee. “This is a city of sand and nothing will survive,” Gladys said. (As far as I can judge Dominik’s script, which was written by the prophet Jeremiah.)” (Anne Melanson, Manhattan)
In the Washington Post, Eugene Robinson observed: “Hubris has taken Trump far in life. However, as the ancient Greeks knew, that is not a very good long-term plan.” (Leonard Davenport, Bridgehampton, NY, and Keith Raffel, Cambridge, Mass.)
And Alexandra Petri had a magical pleasure Treating one’s bread and eating proposition as a legal question, approached differently in different eras and texts. In the New Testament, she writes, “Jesus completely dodged the question by simply multiplying any grain product in front of him.” She later added: “Throughout the Renaissance, the law of bread remained unchanged, although stealing small cakes was considered a form of torture.” (Linda La Paz, Tampa, Fla.)
