New York is going gaga over Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990). To celebrate his 90th birthday, concerts, exhibitions, films, lectures and other manifestations of idle idol-worship are cropping up all over this wonderful town. Lenny would have loved it.

A restless maybe-genius, he vacillated between conducting, composing, piano-playing, educating and serving as a cultural hero.  His most grievous fault may have been a short attention span.