I didn’t think it was possible for an EGOT winner to be an underdog. Mike Nichols had a Grammy when he was 31, a Tony when he was 33, and an Oscar when he was 36. The Emmy didn’t come until he was 70, but to make up for lost time he snatched up two in one year and, shortly thereafter, another two. Contemporary improvisational comedy (i.e., comedy) would not be the same without him, nor would Broadway theater, and he directed at least one film people will still be talking about maybe celebrating, maybe scorning, but certainly talking about in half a century.
Letter:Darien s League of Women Voters reminds all next week is a special election
Feb. 24, 2021
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To the Editor:
On March 2, there will be a special election for the state senate District 27 to replace Carlo Leone who resigned in January. The 27th district includes Darien RTM District II and most of RTM District IV. Precinct 4-1, encompassing Anthony Lane, Brookside Drive, Hillside Avenue, Hillside Court , and Victory Drive is in State Senate District 25 and does not vote in this Special Election.
For additional information on voting districts, call the Darien Registrars of Voters, 203-656-7316.
Voting for this special election will take place at Darien Town Hall, 2 Renshaw Road. Polls will be open from 6 a.m. until 8 p.m. Absentee ballot applications will not be mailed automatically but may be requested from the Town Clerk at 203-656-7307. Governor Lamont ‘s Executive Order #10 allows voters in this Special Election to use COVID-19 as an excuse for using
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As far as Oscar preferences went, 2018 was a tough year. What would your pick have been for Best Picture? Phantom Thread was intriguing, but Dunkirk was no less so. Darkest Hour was as revisionist as Dunkirk, and Lady Bird seemed a trifle too sentimental. The second half of The Post gushed up as late Spielberg invariably does – clichéd, self-indulgent – though the second half of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri seemed no different. That left Call Me By Your Name, which I liked, but 2017 seemed the wrong year for it.
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The award-winning documentary ‘Honeyland’ sets out to offer a timeless environmental parable, but in the process it also explores misconceptions about the region’s culture and history.
Though the documentary
Honeyland purports to be an eighty-nine-minute celebration of its central character’s spirit and apicultural philosophy, we don’t learn much about the character’s actual life. Hatidze Muratova is middle-aged, speaks Turkish, and likes to sing. She lives in an abandoned village in Macedonia with her half-blind and bed-ridden mother, Nazife, alone but for her scrawny dog Jackie, some stray cats, and millions of bees. Some of her hives are archaic wicker cones lined up in the village’s deserted yards; others she keeps hidden throughout the rocky valley inside stone fences, tree trunks, and cliff-top crevices. She travels by foot and by train to a town where she sells her honey, buys bananas, and chats with m