Michael Dirda
Back in the 1950s and '60s, J. M. Barrie's 'Peter Pan' — starring Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard — was regularly aired on network television during the Christmas season. I must have seen it four or five times and remember, in particular, Ritchard's gloriously camp interpretation of Captain Hook.
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What a blessing that God allows a life to come through...Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them...Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus...I am not in the least eloquent or fluent with languages...I am satisfied that our Party and youth league officials...I still think I am the greatest...
