The six well-attended presentations on Saturday were introduced through informal and often witty video interviews with the composers and librettists.
This overachieving volume features drink recipes, a faux flip book, location shots and witty, star-struck interviews with actors major (Julianne Moore, who played Maude Lebowski) and minor (Robin Jones, who was the gum-chewing checkout girl).
Scarily competitive, humanly complicated, yet in interviews witty, warm and surprisingly shy, I'm sure she'd play tennis with no one watching, just for the sheer, blistering joy of it.
Among the 50 passionate and witty people he interviewed, two echo uncannily: "Every time you think about Martin Luther King Jr., every time you think about Malcolm X, then you ought to be ashamed of yourself to squander your right to vote," says the late Bishop Preston Washington of the Memorial Baptist Church in Harlem.
I linked to a couple of my articles (god forbid my friends live another day without reading my witty yet incisive interviews or commentary).
"I want GSK to be a very successful company, but not by leaving the population of Africa behind," Mr. Witty said in an interview.
"Comparative effectiveness is a useful tool in the tool kit, but it's not the answer to anything," Mr. Witty said in an interview.
Seemingly able to pluck mercurial melodies from the air, he tethers them to workmanlike, pedestrian arrangements; a sharp and witty quote machine in interviews, he nevertheless dispenses lyrics that rarely rise above the cliched and prosaic.
Though his moody tunes suggest otherwise, Smith appears to be having a lot of fun these days, coming across as more witty and candid in interviews than ever before.
The weekend had audiences waxing wistful about the good old days of television talk shows when you could catch a witty hour-and-a-half interview with a listen-worthy celebrity.
