If the Sissi movies are a little too involved and Middle European for your tastes, there are other entertainments that are appropriate to these troubled times. (Indeed, if times were troubled when I wrote the Sissi piece, they’re even more troubled now.) One such entertainment is a frothy trifle from the annals of 1960s television, The Patty Duke Show. The show, all 106 episodes of which are currently available on YouTube (at least at the time of this writing), sprangRead more