By Rex Reed 4:31pm

Surrender to Jack Donahue—He Will Haunt You

Musical question: Where are the next torchbearers for jazz, cabaret and theater classics from the Great American Songbook coming from? Easy to ask, difficult to answer. I look around and wince when I see or hear overpraised, overbooked and overexposed frauds like Michael Buble, Diana Krall, Harry Connick Jr., Stacey Kent, Maude Maggart and the Read More

By Rex Reed 11/01/99 12:00am

Fiddler in the ‘Hood … What Happened to Elisabeth Shue

Fiddler in the ‘Hood

New York’s public schools have come a long way since Blackboard Jungle . Teachers still confiscate the occasional switchblade from a second grader, and I’m sure they all have their own personal horror stories, but there are new alternatives to boredom and violence in the public school system. In the war Read More