Boy, I hate having to do two of these in one day…
Playwright-lyricist (and occasional performer) Betty Comden has died at the age of 89. Working together with her partner, the late Adolph Green, she gave us a stunning array of stage musicals and motion pictures. The list includes On the Town, Wonderful Town, Peter Pan, Bells Are Ringing, Applause, Do-Re-Mi, Subways Are For Sleeping, The Will Rogers Follies, On the Twentieth Century, Good News, The Band Wagon and Singin' in the Rain. Any three of those alone would get you into the history books and that's only a partial list. The New York Times has a good, long obit.