Category: people

Novelist Murakami says of conductor Ozawa: “We both maintain the same ‘hungry heart’ we possessed in our youth, that persistent feeling that ‘this is not good enough,’ that we must dig deeper, forge farther ahead. This is the major motif of our work and our lives.”

Amy Adams might have gotten paid peanuts to her male co-stars’ big bucks in “American Hustle,” but she’s on fire in Hollywood right now: “She is a 42-year-old woman whose name can get a movie made – and pretty much any kind of movie. … In terms of sheer variety, to find her equal you’d have to look towards Meryl Streep.”

The director says he’ll fulfill a long-ago pledge to direct 10 films and then move on to other creative endeavors. In his own words: “Drop the mic. Boom. Tell everybody, ‘Match that shit.'”

“Anyone who worked with David will tell you he was an incredibly positive man. He was very, very funny and had no ego. So although last summer I knew David was going for treatment, there was so much going on that it really didn’t loom large – however crazy it seems to say that now.”

The man who wrote the now-classic “Ways of Seeing” (and hosted the TV series of the same name) has turned 90. Filmmaker Sally Potter says the book changed her life – and Tilda Swinton’s as well.

“Ms. Spencer is African-American, female, in her 40s and not twig-shaped – Venn-diagram those traits atop the circle marked ‘Available Parts,’ and the overlapping area shrinks to pea-size.” Yet she’s carved out a career, earned an Oscar, and now branched into producing.

“[Her] hits, for better or perhaps mostly for worse, defined her in the public mind as an empress of schlock pop, an impression that overshadowed a vast amount of high-quality, less commercial work that was widely revered among reviewers and her musical peers.”

And no, it’s not for the libretto of Einstein on the Beach. (“1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, …”) It’s for an actual book: his memoir from last year.

“Americans may know the basics of how Martin Luther was said to have nailed his 95 theses to a church door … but they probably don’t realize how Luther strategically used the media of his time: books, paintings, prints and music.”

The most common explanation has been that Vincent had a psychotic episode after a fight with Paul Gauguin, but a scholar has found evidence that points to Theo, Vincent brother and lifeline.