And thinking about Conan give me the chance to wonder how his lady friend, the wonderful actress Annette Helde, who played the best Portia I ever saw in a cast including Stanley Tucci as Lorenzo, is doing these days. Annette was Glenda Jackson's standby in the production of MACBETH that Jackson and Christopher Plummer took to Broadway years ago. She and Conan met on the production, started dating, and wrote a funny play about the production, which had many directors, a long tour, and a short run. The two of them played every role except themselves. It was brilliant. Annette does a great Glenda Jackson impersonation.