Les Meowsérables

As a New Yorker living blocks from Times Square for 8 years, I used to turn a cold, glazed eye at those long-running musicals that had inhabited their respective theatres so long that their sets were growing lichen.  The prime example is that still twitching tourist trap, The Show With The Chandelier, which after 25 years is just a foundered old warhorse whose time is come to be put in a piano box and buried as far away from Secretariat as possible.

Lord of the Ringworm

Excuse my absence from this blog of late.  Where did the time go?  I spent most of it in a movie theater watching the two longest films in the history of cinema since The English Patient.  The latest magnum opi are Lincoln, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, and The Hobbit, starring some techno-nerdist locked away in an animation studio, eating a ham sandwich and producing CGI effects.