“Director Sam Mendes, with his wife, Kate Winslet, standing nearby, told a crowd of about 150 at the opening-night party for ‘The Cherry Orchard’ that he was astonished his new British-American theater venture got off the ground ‘in this climate.’ … [T]he Bridge Project, a three-year collaboration between Mendes, actor Kevin Spacey and BAM, is getting $2.8 million from its main sponsor, Bank of America.” That is, the, uh, troubled Bank of America.