Eugene David<br>...The One-Minute Pundit

Posted 7:48 PM by Gene

HERR DOKTOR SONDHEIM cannot get it into his super-refined head that some people wrote better songs than he, even if they occasionally sported corny lyrics.

Which isn't to say the guy is, well, we'll say it, amusing, despite his death-worship, even when being interviewed by the KEITH O (or rather the left-wing NO-SPIN-SPIN-SPIN) of PRINT:

"Hofstra College once played Merrily backwards. We didn't find out until it was over or else we would have been there with the sheriff and shotguns."

"Then there was a production of Company where Bobby shot himself at the end." (Rich's response: "He shot himself after 'Being Alive'?")....

On why South Pacific isn't to his taste: "It's the happiest war I've ever seen."

And a strange admission from a site for super Branson-East fanatics:

At the end of the evening, after the two men had taken their bows, Rich walked off stage for Sondheim to take in his standing ovation from the large, cheering crowd. As he gave a few bows back to us, I began to wonder if he would keep on bowing after the applause had died down, only to be interrupted by Frank Rich's clapping hands.

Chances are the specter of HERR DOKTOR will keep on bowing after people stop listening to his tunes, which we suspect will be some time before the fourteenth successful revival of Oklahoma!

Who wants to bet The One makes a big White House thing of HERR's eightieth birthday?