The other night there was another spotlight stage left on a woman standing in the front row facing the audience, acting out the words with her hands and face, reaching up into the darkness, pinching at make-believe cherries and dropping them into her mouth.
Being out of sight is one problem; being out of the spotlight is another.
Rio's port is another district under the spotlight of speculation for the games, where Donald Trump plans to build a wall of mirror-glass towers, "bringing a Trumpesque flair" to Brazil.
That is because underneath the public discussion about smoking (or gun violence, or sexual promiscuity, or whatever social problem has seized the momentary spotlight) is another, much more confused discourse: about movies and about the ways they mirror and occlude reality.
Amy Adams, recognized this year with the Desert Spotlight Award, is another who is being nominated for her work in an Ensemble cast for Doubt where she plays opposite Meryl Streep, "my generous scene partner," and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Why is this a momentous occasion beyond being another opportunity to spotlight the greatness of the song itself?
It might be different, but that album is going to another spotlight on the long and winding road for one of Paris' finest and most storied exports.
But Sunday was another moment in the spotlight when Mickelson was not at his best.
More than anything else it is about a spotlight and the Champions League is the spotlight.
Twitter Patter is a spotlight on Twitter accounts in New York.
"That investigation was our Spotlight," another Romanian journalist told me.
