On Mickey Rooney

You can’t complain about a run of 93 years. It ended Sunday. Mickey Rooney could always summon the sprite in a performance, a rare talent as the years go by. Here he is performing with exuberant Ann Miller the highlight of their improbable 1979 Broadway smash, Sugar Babies.

Rooney had recently completed shooting a film. He had greasepaint in his veins.