Category: people

“Early on Wednesday, a number of Russian media outlets” – led by Komsomolskaya Pravda, the modern-day descendant of the Soviet youth paper – “disseminated reports of the singer’s alleged death, without sourcing this information to anyone.” Hvorostovsky was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2015.

“Our deepest sense of this most famous artist remains subject to change. The systematic publication of the notebooks, beginning in the late nineteenth century, tipped our understanding of his goals from art toward science, and opened questions about how to square the legendary peacefulness of his nature with his designs for ingeniously murderous war machines.”

Ironic? The company had called on Wall Street companies to put more women in leadership roles when it erected the sculpture. After complaints about underpaying women, the company will pay $5 million to more than 300 women, following a U.S. Department of Labor audit that uncovered the alleged discrepancies, according to a settlement agreement.

“With light skin, blue eyes and blond hair, which later turned bright white, Mr. Alter was an incongruous figure in Bollywood. But he spoke Hindi and Urdu fluently” – the child and grandchild of Presbyterian missionaries from Ohio, he was born and raised in India – “making him a natural fit for roles like slick diplomats, British colonials, priests and police officers.” He appeared in more than 300 films in Hindi, Urdu, and other languages, and had a notable career as a stage and television actor as well.

“Ms. Wiazemsky, a granddaughter of the Nobel literature laureate François Mauriac, was a leading lady in Godard films as well as [Jean-Luc] Godard’s wife, a sometime muse and later a chronicler of his pioneering role in the New Wave, which swept France in the 1960s … She became an instant star in 1966 when she was barely 18 … [in Robert Bresson’s film] Au Hasard Balthazar.”

“As executive director of the Bronx Museum, Block significantly altered the museum’s presence in the New York art world over the course of her decade-long tenure there, including a decision in 2012 to stop charging admission fees. Between 2012 and 2016, as a result of the change in admissions policy, the museum quadrupled its attendance.”

Jill Bilcock, and Luhrmann, call it frame fucking. Bilcock: “When you talk about frame fucking, it’s actually about music. Everything is about rhythm. … Baz and I have a very low attention span. We tend to think everybody can see everything in a few frames. It’s a tapestry: the sum of the whole equals the end result.”

She’s too girly, she publishes on Instagram, her followers are all young women … well, literary establishment, perhaps you need to take a nicer photo of your objections, or design them better? “Milk and Honey( has sold 2.5 million copies worldwide and has been translated into 25 languages. Over the last two years, it has spent 77 weeks on The New York Times Trade Paperback Best-Seller List. Her second book, *The Sun and Her Flowers, was released this week and is No. 2 on Amazon’s best-seller list.”

Lauren Raicovich runs the museum in, the most diverse borough of New York, where 165 different languages are spoken. She “seems to be charting her own community-focused path, with an emphasis on making the museum a safe haven for the borough’s large immigrant population. ‘I take my leadership very seriously — not just in a physical and managerial sense,’ Ms. Raicovich said in a recent interview at her museum office. ‘Care and equity has to be part of what I bring to my position.'”

“An investigation by The New York Times found previously undisclosed allegations against Mr. Weinstein stretching over nearly three decades, documented through interviews with current and former employees and film industry workers, as well as legal records, emails and internal documents from the businesses he has run, Miramax and the Weinstein Company.”