Nov 24
…Betty Comden, of the great Broadway team Comden and Green, has died.
Mark Steyn reprints an interview he did with her just a few years ago.
UPDATE: And here’s Terry Teachout’s tribute to her, which includes a link to an (archived, and it’ll-cost-ya) profile of Comden and Green he wrote in 1999 for The New York Times.
Permanent link to this article: https://edwardwillett.com/2006/11/the-partys-over/
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