Today is March 8. It’s Gary’s birthday. Ross’s birthday gift is a tie covered with sharks. Sharks are Gary’s only phobia. As he says, "I guarantee. There’s at least one shark waiting for a meal in Lake Michigan.”

Grant Park Music Festival season highlights: Fancy Free, the Sondheim concert, and our friend, Kurt Elling singing with a big band and the orchestra. www.grantparkmusicfestival.com

Ross at Davenports: An Evening with Stephen Sondheim with the sensational Beckie Menzie at the piano. Read some quotes about her and Tom Michael: http://tommichael.net/menzie-and-michael

Discussion of radio:

Including WFMT   wfmt.com

Kiss of Death:

-- Leonard Nimoy   NYT obit

-- Harve Bennett Star Trek producer

-- Alice Mathias Hammerstein  Oscar Hammerstein's daughter

Nobody Ever Lets RoscoeTalk:

Baby Peggy

Warren Beatty

Nikita Khrushchev