Category: people

The president and CEO of the Raleigh-based North Carolina Symphony has been arrested for driving drunk. David Worters was pulled over on a Raleigh street for going 15mph over the speed limit, and then blew a 0.11 on a breathalyzer test. (The legal limit is 0.08)

“He might only have lived and worked here for a handful of his adult years, but Chicago lays claim to Mamet with an uncommonly intense passion that it hopes is reciprocated but is never quite certain if that’s the case.”

Louise McBain has been on a tear, building an empire of art publications and inserting herself into New York society. “I am ambidextrous and dyslexic, with a lively creative spirit. As a child, I didn’t know which hand to use, or which side of my brain to use. It took me a long time to develop confidence in my creativity. I realized that thinking out of the box didn’t make me out of my mind.”

Known as the grand old man of Scottish Art, he first came to Scotland as a child to attend boarding school, but his education was interrupted by the Second World War and he was evacuated to Orkney. After the war, he worked as a shepherd, studied philosophy and began to write stories and plays, many of which were broadcast on the BBC.”

Actors Paul Newman, Christopher Plummer and Charles Grodin say they’re worried that “technology has made it possible to access their films, images and voices, and to use that material to produce another product they know nothing about. ‘We are suddenly cloned into something we’re not. We are robbed of our individuality, and our life’s work is tarnished’.”

“Art critics have long dismissed his work as a kitsch crime against aesthetics. But now the world has grown even more “unsympathetic and complex” for the artist, who describes himself as a devout Christian and has trademarked his ‘Painter of Light’ soubriquet. In court documents and other testimony, he has been accused of sexual harassment, fraudulent business practices and bizarre incidents of drunkenness including a habit of “ritual territory marking” that involves urinating in public places.”

“Whether he’s inspiring his staff or negotiating with captains of industry, Jobs has outsize abilities to persuade, motivate, inflame the imagination and enrage. How did he get this way? Like the Wizard of Oz, Jobs tries his best to hide behind a curtain, keeping a tight rein on media access and dealing harshly with friends who say too much to biographers.”

She was the founding director of the Opera Company of Boston and the first woman to conduct at the Metropolitan Opera. In its glory years Ms. Caldwell’s company was a model of bold, imaginative programming, offering musically insightful productions with distinguished casts.”

The Da Vinci Code writer filed a brief with the court hearing plagiarism charges against him. “At first glance, the document bears the giddy signatures of a Dan Brown novel. It’s chopped into staccato chapters; the language is awkward (“I quite literally woke up one morning and decided to write a thriller that delved into NSA”); and its hero is a simple man who is being pursued by evil forces he doesn’t quite understand. Educated at Amherst and Phillips Exeter Academy, Brown had an unusual literary awakening.”

“Leyva shot to international fame late in life along with his Buena Vista bandmates after recording an album in 1996 with blues legend Ry Cooder in Cuba. The Grammy-winning 1997 Buena Vista Social Club CD introduced the world to traditional Cuban “son” music.”