• Placido Domingo's eyes watered and his voice quavered. After portraying dozens of characters over a half-century on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, he got emotional being himself. "For us, the opera singers, it is just like Frank Sinatra said: New York, New York, if you made it, you made it everywhere," the 77-year-old singer from Spain said Friday night when he was honored onstage for his 50 years of work at the Met. Domingo's career with the Met started Sept. 28, 1968. His performance Friday in the title role of Gianni Schicchi marked his 52nd role and 695th appearance at the Met as a singer and conductor. During a ceremony, Met General Manager Peter Gelb gave Domingo a pair of gifts. "Since you have owned this stage for your entire career, we thought we'd give you a piece of it. So this was removed from the stage earlier this week," Gelb said before bestowing a chunk of flooring. Then he presented to Domingo his leather jacket from a 1990s performance of Giuseppe Verdi's Otello, which had been dipped in gold to mark the golden anniversary.
• A Friday night show on Fox News used its closing segment to praise and poke fun at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but on Twitter, the representative-elect laughed last. Ed Henry hosted The Story on Friday night, when he and three panelists discussed how a pair of Ocasio-Cortez's shoes are set to go on display at Cornell University in its "Women Empowered: Fashions from the Frontline" exhibit. A Twitter user pointed out to the New York Democrat that a discussion about her shoes was taking place on television. "No, no es amor/Lo que tu sientes, se llama obsesion," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. The lyrics to "Obsesion," by Aventura, translate to, "No, it's not love, what you feel is called obsession." After another user asked whether she was going to make Fox News hire a translator to read the tweet, Ocasio-Cortez took her shot: "Don't worry, Fox News has made it clear that they are far superior to + more intelligent than me, who they've called a 'little, simple person,'" she wrote. "So I'm sure catching up to me in spoken languages shouldn't be a problem for them." The discussion on The Story began with Henry's acknowledgment that "we talk about [Ocasio-Cortez] a lot on Fox & Friends Weekend." And while panelists Rachel Campos-Duffy, Susan Li and Wendy Osefo poked fun at Ocasio-Cortez's election victory -- "I disagree with everything she's trying to do to our country, and economically, but for the shoes, she deserves it," Campos-Duffy said -- they also praised her achievement. At 29, Ocasio-Cortez is poised to become the youngest member of Congress. "Whatever your political ideology is, she worked for it," Osefo said.
A Section on 11/26/2018