“They always hook ya in the end, them broads .... A whole trouble account of a dame reads a book.”

With that, slightly shady “junkman” Harry Brock (David Cochran Heath) sums up the premise of the classic 1946 Garson Kanin comedy “Born Yesterday,” now getting a delightful production at Vista’s Avo Playhouse.

Jason Heil directs the piece, now remembered mostly for the 1950 film that starred Judy Holliday as the “dame” in question.

I never knew music had a sexual preference. I don't sing about love or sex but they say my music is 'gay.' It's not exactly a taunt, not quite the slur hurled at me as a child but like then, it misses the mark. More than gay I'm different, independent, a complexity summarized simply as 'gay.' This has become both a genre and a limitation in a culture that often divides and diminishes its artists and audience.

Audio emerged Wednesday of folk singer Michelle Shocked’s performance at a San Francisco club on Sunday night, in which her anti-gay remarks have led to a firestorm of criticism among the LGBT community and its allies, and led to an abrupt end to her U.S. tour.

Guilt can stop you in your tracks as surely as the Grim Reaper can put you underground.

David (Stephen Schmitz), a 37-year-old widower, hasn’t yet gotten over his wife Gillian’s untimely death in a fall from the mast of a sailboat. That was two years ago, and he seems to have spent those years lost in a fog of regret, guilt and reminiscence at their beach house off the coast of New England.

The problem is that he doesn’t even seem to notice that 16-year-old daughter Rachel (Janelle Urie) needs him now more than ever.