For her latest engagement at the Café Carlyle, Love Is Good For Anything That Ails You, the masterful Barbara Cook delivered an evening of love songs with charm, beauty, and an endearing sense of humor. The sense of fun also carries over into her patter. Her best story was really a digression about her first husband (whom she married in 1952). Because he was Jewish, they had both a rabbi and a priest marry them -- and she has had a Jewish name ever since: "Brucha." It means "blessing" and that is oh so fitting because we have been blessed to have her in our midst lo these many years.

The show takes its name from the light and breezy title song of a 1936 movie that Cook sings with[...]