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Everything old is old again — like Putin playing with Stalin's handbook

Everything old is old again — like Putin playing with Stalin's handbook

New York Post4 hours ago

Everything old is old again
Contrary to popular belief, I have thoughts.
Putin. Playing us in the Ukraine like Stalin played us in Korea. The USA negotiated that Korean armistice for years — but fighting continued. The armistice? Not signed until Stalin died. Putin is playing with Stalin's handbook.
Now, we speak of the Great White Way. Broadway is shrinking to narrow way.
Current productions shrivel and there's yesteryear's reruns like 'Cabaret,' 'Chicago,' 'The Music Man' and 'Othello.'
OK, so maybe a $2 bill isn't returning, but white powdery round doughnuts have been making their moves. And young people are moving back in with their parents.
Cinema? Besides an upjuiced Tom Cruise still smashing, bashing and trashing, there's maybe a 600th 'Star Wars' and soon maybe Shirley Temple outfitted in some shmatta from a consignment shop.
Next up? Garter belts, stockings and boobs INSIDE bras.
Coming next? Sitting in a rumble seat it'll be Tom Hanks playing a teen and De Niro chasing one. Forget Christmas. We'll re-see 'Miracle on 33rd Street,' a silent 'It's a Wonderful Life' and campaign buttons that say 'Vote for Thomas E. Dewey for President.'
Want more? How's corduroy, plaids, chunky sweaters, vinyl records, recorders, vintage cameras, hairpieces. Watch. Before you know it we'll get a cloned Richard Nixon back again.
Don't forget convertible cars or retro office buildings getting reborn into cozy apartments.
Year by year, bit by bit, day by day, what's NOT going back is the way you used to look good in that magnifying mirror. Contrary to popular belief, I have thoughts.
Giving back to alma mater
WHAT's going forward is the top women's college — Barnard. Graduates include Greta Gerwig, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Eileen Ford, Twyla Tharp, Sheila Nevins, Erica Jong, Cynthia Nixon, Jeane Kirkpatrick — and philanthropist Francine LeFrak who last week opened the Francine A. LeFrak Center for Well-Being. It provides holistic support across key dimensions of health and wellness — physical, mental, financial.
She previously opened the Samuel J. and Ethel LeFrak Theater which seats 2,300. At the opening, Brian Stokes Mitchell sang 'The Impossible Dream' to honor the late Ethel who had a big crush on Brian Stokes Mitchell long back — when he had just two names.
ALSO changed? The medical fraternity. Tell your doctor: 'Oh, I'm suddenly so grateful to you. I'm just beginning to suddenly feel a bit better. How can I ever repay you for taking care of me?'
Doctor: 'By check, cash or money order.'
FOR sure mostly in New York, kids, mostly in New York.

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