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Another week, another agent list. Because the last one…was…kind of insane. Like, y’all really like agents. Which is great to know, because I’m just getting started trying to demystify this whole process. My first thing to figure out is, where the heck did the idea of a literary agent even originate? There’s an academic article about it, circa 2010, called “The Rise of the Literary Agent”. If I’m ever rich enough to spend $40 on an academic article about literary agents, I might actually read it and get some cool (or obscure) answers.

WATERLOO — Carol Burnett turned 91 today. Those of us of a certain age grew up with her, first on the Garry Moore show in the early '60s, then her own long-running variety show, with its comedic host of players, that still shows up on reruns today. I also remember her reprising her breakout stage role in "Once Upon a Mattress" for a CBS TV special in the '60s. Her Tarzan yell made me laugh as a little kid and it still makes me smile now.

This review by longtime Charlotte arts critic Lawrence Toppman was published by The Charlotte Ledger on October 18, 2023. You can find out more about The Charlotte Ledger’s commitment to smart local news and information and sign up for our newsletter for free here. Katerina McCrimmon stars as Fanny Brice in the national tour of “Funny Girl,” which opens the Broadway Lights series and runs through Sunday at the Belk Theater. (Photo by Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade) by Lawrence Toppman

There have been many a song sung about Utah—the wide variety reflecting the fact that the state is or encompasses (among many other things, and to different people) a Zion, a high desert, a chain of mountains, an idea, an increasingly suburbanized landscape, an outdoors destination, a culture, a livestock range, or an indigenous homeland. In this list of songs about Utah, some are written from a home-grown perspective, while others describe an outsider’s encounter (brief or otherwise) with the place and its people.

When the trailer for the newest season of Real Housewives of Salt Lake City dropped, I couldn’t click on it fast enough. I’d just gotten back from a trip, where I’d watched a lot of Bravo programming in the hotel (because Bravo programming is perfectly designed for watching in the sheets of a king sized bed in an ice cold hotel room) so I was already pr… ncG1vNJzZmivlaOxur7Om6Cnq5%2Bje7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZpplpKeurrzOpaCnnV2strW0jJ6wnqtdlrulec6tn56q

When Cowboy Carter dropped, I needed a good week to digest it. I had about five days, because we reviewed the album on Keep It: But since then, I’ve been able to digest Beyoncé’s sprawling, sometimes messy, more often sublime Americana project. All of the “is this country?” conversation has been done to death (I’m sure it will resurface when the Grammy nominations drop), so I won’t be wading back into it.

I’ve woken early to fry an egg and slide it onto toast for the littlest before setting a timer and writing for 25 minutes. I keep my fingers moving till the alarm goes off. The dog sits on the floor next to me, the washing machine signals the end of a cycle, I can smell freshly ground coffee beans. I keep writing. ncG1vNJzZmioopawtbXSoqWgq5miva21wqKrsmajqq%2B0wMCcomebn6J8sXvAZmlupZmjerW1zJ6pZpuYlruoscNmpLJlnJ6zpg%3D%3D

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The Golden Globes returned Sunday night, for its show under its new ownership structure, and for the first time on CBS.  There were two key takeaways from the night: The show itself was an absolute disaster, plagued by the wrong choice of host, horrible material, unwatchable bits, and generally awful production values.  But on the other hand, the choices of winners were mostly right.  The show was hosted by Jo Koy, an actor, and comedian with a not particularly high profile; if not for a comedy movie of his a couple of years ago, Easter Sunday, I probably would have never heard of him.