Phantom of the Opera.

Sometimes I can't help but think you and I are playing a role in this bizarre Anacortes soap opera.

But I never aspired to be a soap opera star. I always wanted to do good dramatic roles on TV and in the movies.

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking

everything from blues to opera!