Celebrating Doris Day’s Long Stay in the Spotlight

Maybe the nicest thing I can say about her is that she was every bit as sweet, funny, charming, caring, and adorable as you would expect Doris Day to be.

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Actress-singer Doris Day in 1962. AP

‘Sentimental Journey: A Tribute to Doris Day’
Hosted by Rex Reed
Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center
October 18

Unless I missed it, the most famous and infamous quip of a notorious quipster, Oscar Levant — “I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin” — was somehow not included in the recent and excellent Broadway play about his life, “Good Night Oscar.” Perhaps the playwright reasoned everybody in the audience had already heard it. 

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