He wrote "The Lady With All the Answers," a play about the advice columnist Ann Landers that had its premiere at the Old Globe theater in San Diego in 2005.
He wrote "The Lady in Question" (1989), ostensibly a takeoff on World War II movies, as a critique of the New Age philosophy of enlightened selfishness.
When Edward Albee wrote "The Lady From Dubuque" in the late 1970s, at the time his most explicit play about mortality, he was coming off his second Pulitzer Prize for drama (for "Seascape") and was deep in the throes of alcoholism.
As they left, Bloemers wrote, "the lady who sold me mom's gift, pulled me aside and said she is adding my dad to her prayer list and hugged me.
And all in the hilarious, harrowing style that is Albee's signature: "Wouldn't it be funny," asks Jo, "if you could measure the pain?" Albee turned 50 in 1978, the year he wrote The Lady from Dubuque.
His next major feature was the underrated Remember the Night (1940), an eccentric mix of screwball and melodrama starring Barbara Stanwyck, whom Sturges liked so much he wrote The Lady Eve for her a year later.
Responding to the first clip, he wrote: "The lady taking papers from one pile to another.
It smacks of self-serving and one-sided debate, and, as the Bard wrote, "the lady doth protest too much, methinks".
I discussed this matter of animal intelligence with a friend of mine, Pat Derby, a former movie animal trainer who wrote The Lady and Her Tiger in the '70s and then retired to the Sierra to run an elephant sanctuary.
