Today’s Birthdays:
Mike Nichols,
director of “Spamalot,”
and Maria Shriver
Mike Nichols,
director of “Spamalot,”
and Maria Shriver
Yesterday evening’s entry, “Grail,” continued:
“To von Eschenbach, the Grail was never really a material cup, but a jewel like the jewel in the lotus, a symbol of enlightenment, of something intangible and always beyond reach.
I must confess that the reason I know this is because I’m a bit of an opera fan. The work of von Eschenbach was a source for Wagner….”
— From the weblog Arcadian Functor, Nov. 6, 2006
West Coast Story:
A musical adaptation of
Romeo and Juliet
Featuring
“A Girl Named Maria”
and
“Bring Us Together”
(Official inaugural ball
theme of Richard M. Nixon)