(The word "duck" up there links to it.)

You're right. He's Buddy. Buddy the Elf.

Just want to note how weird it is to be in such unlikely perfect alignment with almost all of this, both the staffers and the commenters, right down to the fact that Molly Eichel brought up one of my personal heroes—and just want to add that I recommend “Letters of E.B. White,” maybe (maybe) even more than his books…

You're right. I was unfair to Hammerstein.

You're right. That would fit in perfectly between Tim Curry and Helen Mirren, transitioning between "funny revenge" and "horrifyin' revenge."

Yes, the kids being the ones Sebastian preyed on comes across totally in the play; that movie is such a jumble, I remember watching it first, before the play, and never being sure if I was following it completely—I was relieved to hear screenwriter Gore Vidal in that documentary up there explaining how the ending got…