Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live with it as one of the hazards of his profession.—Moss Hart, Act One

On Saturday, in downtown Los Angeles, Julie Taymor sat down with Roger Copeland for the much-anticipated closing keynote presentation of the Theater Communications Group's annual conference, before an audience of a thousand or so colleagues. Copeland is a big, charming, rambunctious man with about the biggest, bobbingest head you ever saw, wearing very thick glasses and, I think, no socks. He's a professor of theater and dance at Oberlin College, Taymor's alma mater, [...]

BBC Radio 4 will broadcast "a bizarre 14-minute poem about Elvis Presley written by Bono, the U2 frontman." A sample verse: "Elvis the ecstatic/ Elvis the plastic/ Elvis the elastic with a spastic dance that could explain the energy of America." Also he uses The N Word.

As bad Greek debt cripples the flow of capital across the Western world, as the U.S. stock market shudders and heaves through each new day of trading, as trade imbalances balloon and deficits skyrocket, we turn with no small apprehension to the real benchmark question: How is Bono's equity fund doing?

Fun fact: Mayor Bloomberg and Bono are approximately the same height. Also, what a world.