To kick it off, this week we welcome rock superstar Tony Bennett and his absolutely splendid version of Irving Berlin's classic "White Christmas."

It is a splendid and quite different version of ceviche.

The styles ranged from tasty but essentially flat and low-cost to splendid sparkling versions in wired Champagne bottles.

Out from the runway strutted a tall man in outlandish military getup, followed by four or five more wearing less splendid versions of the same costume.

This finesse comes through in Bennies' splendid version of eggplant salad.

Tonight's Mass, with music by Liszt, Bruckner, Gabrieli and Mozart, as well as chant, will display the Tridentine rite in an unusually splendid version.

Jennifer Holliday's splendid version of "Blues in the Night" is her first recording of a pop standard.

Little Portugal's splendid version is smothered in onions, dotted with clams and black olives and encircled with Portuguese potatoes.

The kitchen also produced a splendid version of what is often described as the national dish, mee krob, deep-fried noodles with shrimp and fish sauce.

There have been dozens of film versions of "Hamlet," but none that I know of have ever topped Laurence Olivier's splendid black-and-white version.