La Cieca is being hassled mightily at her day job at Widdecomb, Gutterman, Applewhite, Bibberman and Black today, so she’s not able to post her review of Nicholas Limansky‘s lovely new biography of a certain stratospheric singer. The review should appear in the next day or so, but, in the meantime, cher public, please entertain yourselves with the following tangentially related content:

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And here’s a less familiar reading, this time of the original Thomas Meehan story from the New Yorker:

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