From a friend in the nabe: “Derb—Just went to the Christmas Spectacular

yesterday. I led 15 members of my immediate and extended families. Third

row seats, which I procured in March. Not only do they still call it the

’Christmas’ Spectacular, but the finale is a Living Nativity, complete with

readings from scripture. I was so absorbed (even after seeing the same show

four out of the past 5 years) that I did not even notice all of the

’Christmas’ talk until the lights went up and I was brought back to reality.

The Dolans (of Cablevision infamy) deserve credit. There are perennial

rumors that the Nativity bit has been cut, I attribute that to people’s

hatred of Cablevision.”