• Those Q-Anon supporters are getting more and more confused. Right now, a band of them is camped outside a screening of the "Airport" movies awaiting the promised resurrection of George Kennedy Jr.

This is the group known as Six 13 again, this time bringing our eight days to a close with a familiar Bohemian tune…

The New York Times has a long article on Nathaniel Woods, a 43-year-old black man who was executed on March 5, 2020 for his role in a 2004 police raid on a crack house in Birmingham, Alabama. Three police officers were killed in that raid and the man who shot them is still very much alive, albeit on Death Row, whereas Woods — who never touched a gun at the time, was put to death. The piece by Dan Barry and Abby Ellin may put you through a roller coaster of feeling that Woods was or was not wronged or that justice was or was not served. I don't even know where I come down on it.

The Three Stooges — with Joe DeRita as the third Stooge — appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show on May 14, 1961. They did the "Stand-In" sketch, an oldie that was older than they were. It's a sketch that Milton Berle worked to death on his show but, hey, some routines just hold up to repeated viewing…and stooging…

I haven't started watching the big Beatles documentary because I have other things to do in the next year or two. But if/when I do, I'll be disappointed that they didn't include the footage that comedian Bill Scheft describes.

Here's just what you need: A history of paintings of dogs playing poker.

The one song for this holiday I knew as a kid — and I think I learned it during my disastrous period in Hebrew School which you can read about here — was "I Have a Little Dreidel." I don't think I ever had a dreidel and if I did, I sure didn't make it out of clay. I didn't even know how the game was played. But here are the Maccabeats with a modern twist on that tune…

Now playing on Broadway, just in time to mourn its composer/lyricist, is a new production of Company which makes two major changes, both with Mr. Sondheim's blessing. One, which Sondheim said in many interviews would be a big mistake, is to move it from being set in 1970 to being set in Today. The other is to engage in some gender-reversal, making the hero (Bobby) into the heroine (Bobbi) and flipping sexes elsewhere as applicable.

Does it work? Don't ask me. I haven't seen it and it may be a long time before I'm back in Manhattan. But also don't ask me because, as I wrote here, I don't really like Company as a whole. I like (love, really) a lot of its scenes and songs but after seeing umpteen productions, I decided I don't like it much as a whole.

A tiny part of that may be personal. Bobby (male) is/was a 35-year-old who has never been married. The first time I saw this show, I was probably around 35 and I'd never been married. Nothing that Bobby says, does, experiences or sings relates in the slightest to anything in my life. I don't know if I understand his reasons or issues but I'm pretty sure they in no way approximate mine…and now as I am close to twice that age and still don't want to marry, that's still true. But apart from that, I still don't think the tales of Bobby coalesce into the changes he undergoes leading up to "Being Alive." The character just doesn't make sense to me and neither do a lot of the explanations friends have tried to lay on me. I think they're fabricating something that is not there.

When I first heard about the gender-flip, it struck me as — and this is true of a lot of new approaches to old plays — a stunt or gimmick. But after reading some of Sondheim's comments — such as in this interview of him and the new version's director — I'm curious if this version would come together for me more than the original. And that's what I may never find out.

• Chris Cuomo provides another reason I'm glad I'm an only child.

As I explained back here, I've never been a big fan of Little Orphan Annie in her long-running newspaper strip…or most of the other places she's appeared. The Broadway musical and the umpteen movies based on the Broadway musical are okay by me…just okay.

So I guess it's high praise from me that I enjoyed NBC's live telecast the other night of that musical. But what I liked was not the musical itself but a lot of the performances and the clever way it was staged and shot for television.  The kid playing Annie (Celina Smith) was great.  The lady playing Miss Hannigan (Taraji P. Henson) was great. I saw someone online wonder why the show didn't have more scenery and I suspect that was because Ms. Henson devoured it all during rehearsals.

The ensemble of dancers and bit players, young and old, were all great. Even the dog was great. Harry Connick Jr…

Aw, I felt a little sorry for Harry Connick Jr. He's a great performer but I thought he lacked the underlying "wealthy asshole" quality that Daddy Warbucks needs to have. Part of the storyline is that the almighty, all-wealthy Warbucks doesn't "get" what it's like to be poor at first and slowly learns a different side of humanity by having Annie on the premises. Connick seemed so nice from the moment he stepped into his first scene that he didn't seem to need to learn that.

And every review I've seen has mentioned the unconvincing bald cap they had on him. I think it looked phonier because of the glaring microphone they had on him. Its lines made it look like the bottom edges of the bald cap were peeling up. But he sure sang well, especially in the "N.Y.C." song.

All the songs sounded good and some of the choreography was amazing. Dance numbers on Broadway these days always seem to be infused with acrobatics and awesome physical prowess. In the recent revival of My Fair Lady, they more or less turned "Get Me To The Church On Time" imto a Cirque du Soleil finale. I just hadn't expected to see little girls turning hands-free cartwheels. Arguably, there was a little too much of that too early…and I guess what I was thinking was, "What do all those orphans have to turn backflips over?"

But I have to admit I enjoyed watching it all. That was about as good a job as anyone could do with the source material…which can't be said of most of these stage-to-one-night-TV-event musicals. I'd still like to see someone tackle A Funny Thing On The Way To The Forum, maybe with Nathan Lane and James Corden as Pseudolus and Hysterium — and either one could play either part. Wouldn't it have been nice if they'd had any Sondheim musical ready to air this week?

This is a group called Kippalive…

Rand Paul — who, let's remember, is Dr. Rand Paul — has been going around saying that masks don't work. A fact-checker at the Washington Post says Paul is basing his assertion on one study and ignoring many others that say the opposite — and even the one he cites doesn't say what he says it says. What mainly interests me about the fact-check article is its explanation of how masks work.

2022 is almost upon us and I'm looking at three comic conventions in Southern California next year. This is assuming we are past the stage where comic conventions get canceled for medical reasons.

WonderCon is in Anaheim from April 1 through April 3. The San Diego Comic Fest is in you-know-where from April 21 to April 24. And Comic-Con International is in the same city from July 21 to 24 with a Preview Night on July 20.

WonderCon is a big convention that covers comics, animation, gaming, anime, TV, movies and a whole lotta things. The San Diego Comic Fest is a small (by comparison) and intimate gathering that focuses mostly on comics, especially older ones. And Comic-Con International is a huge mother of a blow-out about everything that's fun and imaginative. If you go to one of these events and don't have a great time, it may be because you picked the wrong size one.

Me, I'm hoping to be at all of them but I have made this policy that has (so far) served me well throughout The Pandemic. I don't assume I can predict how things will be in the future. I don't think anyone can and while I have a lot more faith in the Dr. Faucis of the world than I do in myself, I don't gamble my health on anyone's predictions. I especially don't listen to the vast number of Internet Experts who have never attended five minutes of Medical School but are sure they know all about viruses.

And yes, I felt this way even before the news that…

A man who flew from Minnesota to Manhattan to attend an anime convention last month at the Jacob K. Javits Center tested positive for the new omicron variant of the coronavirus, Minnesota Health Officials announced Thursday. The man, who was fully vaccinated, was in attendance at Anime NYC 2021, a convention of all things related to Japanese animation, from Nov. 19-21.

I also don't believe in drawing any conclusions or worries from a report like this. It's a reason for caution, not panic. A few weeks ago, none of us had heard the word "Omicron" and a lot of us still don't know how to pronounce it, let alone how dangerous it is. We know how dangerous it might be but that's not the same thing. I have some real good doctors in my orbit and I'm going to wait until they tell me where between caution and panic this one falls. And where the next one falls and the next one falls…

It's a holiday dance spectacular with Elliot Dvorin and the Key Tov Orchestra…

I didn't think anything could lower my opinion of the man any more than its current subterranean level…but the list of places he went and people he probably infected after he knew he had COVID has done it.