Yes, it's b-a-a-c-k!-- from today's WaPo Monday "Opinions" e-mailby KenOkay, it's an ancient joke, the one I've recycled above. But tell me it doesn't apply exactly to former CT Sen. "Holy Joe" Lieberman, aka "The Holiest Joe of Them All."Is it a moon phase or what?
GILBERT and SULLIVAN: The Mikado: Act II: Song, Yum-Yum, "The sun whose rays are all ablaze"In the film Topsy-Turvy (of which I might say I'm not a big fan), Shirley Henderson fake-rehearses, then fake-sings, Yum-Yum's Act II spoken dialogue and song, "The sun whose rays."
GILBERT and SULLIVAN: The Mikado (1885): OvertureGILBERT and SULLIVAN: The Yeomen of the Guard (1888): OvertureAcademy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner, cond. Philips, recorded February 1992by KenIf you haven't been around Sunday Classics much, you may not be aware that I take my Gilbert and Sullivan right seriously.
