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The interviewer asks Holmes if the producers of a Jackie Kennedy Onassis miniseries simply asked her to direct one episode. Holmes, who also just directed a feature film: “Well no, I told them I wanted to. I said, ‘You’ve got to give me one episode.’ We gotta speak up … and get what we want, because no one’s going to give it to us.”

The actor, known for “Firefly,” discusses how he did research to play the rooster in “Moana” and the robot in the new Star Wars film. “It’s amazing to me that they’ve got four hours’ worth of me making chicken sounds. It’s very thorough. How do you choose from Take One to Take Six, which ‘pee-cawwwwww’ really sells it?”

“Here, four people who crossed paths with this famously irascible writer [who died in September] recall him as a friend, a mentor and an inspiration.”

“Argerich’s is a story about someone with superhuman gifts trying to find a way to live a normal life. Many musicians live a life of monkish order, focusing on the discipline of music. Argerich, by contrast, has seemed to go out of her way to be disorganized. She’s so given to canceling performances, sometimes at the last minute, that she long ago stopped signing contracts: Presenters who want her have to take the risk. And her personal life has been turbulent. The three daughters by three men are one illustration of a life filled with relationships; over and over, she has established veritable communes of young musicians and non-musicians who have wandered into her large, chaotic houses.”

Tonja Carter – who found Lee’s earliest draft of To Kill a Mockingbird and turned it into a bestselling but controversial “sequel,” sued the local museum for selling things like a Mockingbird cookbook and got its director fired, and muscled the local community out of the annual Mockingbird play – is creating a “Harper Lee Trail” to attract tourists to Monroeville, Alabama. (No word if she’s planning to charge admission.)

The man in that immortal Alka-Seltzer commercial was, in fact, a stand-up comic and MC who specialized in one-liners and Candid Camera-style fool-the-audience gags.

He worked for decades as a physical therapist, giving him such a thorough knowledge of anatomy that he famously worked without models. He once said, “I could be blindfolded and still make a human body from head to toe.”

“Didier Marouani, a disco star who first toured the Soviet Union in 1983, and his lawyer, Igor Trunov, were detained Tuesday evening in a bank where they said they planned to sign an out-of-court settlement with Filipp Kirkorov, Russia’s biggest pop star. Marouani, 63, claims one of Kirkorov’s songs, “Cruel Love,” contains music he wrote years before.”

“The small photographs for which he became renowned evoke a vanishing world populated almost solely by dilapidated buildings, rusting automobiles, advertising signs, graves and vegetation growing out of control.” As historian and former NEH chair William Ferris put it, “What Faulkner has done in his fiction, Christenberry has done in his photography.”

“[Her] evocative, plotless works on nature themes found a special place amid opposing trends in experimental dance after the 1960s … Unlike [other modern dance choreographers [of the time], who initially rejected dance technique, Ms. Meehan insisted that highly trained dancers execute her own nonballetic idiom with refined precision.”