Today I (and two other instructors) started our first ten day New Hire class. The class used to be nine days but we had to add a day in order to beef up training. This is exciting because this will be the first class to use a brand new module to teach how to run a flight at the gate, when agents work the flight, board the passengers, dispatch the flight, etc.
R.I.P. Charles Kimbrough (1936-2023). (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/05/arts/television/charles-kimbrough-dead.html)
I'm not sure I actually knew that he had married Beth Howland, thirty years after they worked together in the OBC of Company. And I had somehow managed to forget that Howland herself died seven years ago (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/25/arts/television/beth-howland-accident-prone-waitress-from-the-sitcom-alice-dies-at-74.html) at 74.
I hadn't known that Kimbrough's line in uptight character roles represented a distinct, albeit unintentional and sometimes frustrating career turn starting around age 30 (and essentially lasting the rest of his career); or that he'd spent his twenties, by contrast, playing "sweaty, physical guys who bounded all over the stage". I did once know (for some reason) that he'd played Voltaire/Pangloss as a replacement (https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/23/archives/stage-sweet-candide.html) in Hal Prince's 1973 Candide revival; but had forgotten that, too, until the NYT obit reminded me.
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Speaking of deceased New York stage actors from a vanishing era, this new novel (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/602230/up-with-the-sun-by-thomas-mallon/) -- about a less successful real-life contemporary (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Kallman) of Kimbrough's -- looks interesting, if perhaps a bit depressing:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/06/books/review-up-with-the-sun-thomas-mallon.html
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/04/1154473985/thomas-mallon-on-his-new-novel-up-with-the-sun