The Prize
“The secret to life, and
to love, is getting started,
keeping going, and then
getting started again.”
Nobel Laureate
Seamus Heaney
at Sanders Theatre,
Harvard College,
September 30, 2008
On Elke Sommer:
“…Young Elke… studied
in the prestigious
Gymnasium School
in Erlangen….”
Erlangen Prize Lecture:
Variations on a Theme of
Plato, Goethe, and Klein
(Background:
Christmas Knot, Sept. 26,
and Hard Core, July 17-18.)
On the day this was posted, I watched a DVD of a Jack Benny Show featuring Elke Sommer. One of the skits featured her as a governess/au pair with an entrance via umbrella a la Mary Poppins. She sang the supercalifragilistic song but substituted cheeses mozzarella provolone etc. Next night, SNL did another variation of the same Mary Poppins song. An entertaining coincidence.
Comment by stephenhoy — Tuesday, October 7, 2008 @ 11:09 am