Engaged in wordplay, he discovered that The Listener, the BBC’s journal of arts and ideas, had the toughest crossword. ‘The Listener was published Wednesday and would reach the US on Thursday,’ he recalls. ‘I’d grab a copy on my way to work on West Side Story, and I got Leonard Bernstein hooked. Thursday afternoons no work got done on West Side Story. We were doing the puzzle.’

A Funny Thing Happened to Stephen Sondheim (via fuckyeahsondheim)

Could this be the thing that explains the lyrics to “I Feel Pretty”? Too busy doing cross-word puzzles, just run with that “I can hardly believe I am real” madness.