I am ridiculously behind the Battlestar Galactica bandwagon (I tried, I really did, to get on it; but my access to SciFi channel’s ridiculously hampered and I have yet to get the dvds, if they’re out there already). The last episodes begins, and even the Times is writing up on it; any word on who the last Cylon is? …
The passing of American painter Andrew Wyeth. I find it fascinating that he was both admired and doubted, as the art writer Richard Lacayo of Time notes as does Larry Rohter in the NY Times.
The passing of John Mortimer, British barrister and writer of “Rumpole of the Bailey.” An appreciation of Mortimer by NY Times’ Charles McGrath.