Category: people

“His death is a tragically sudden end to a storied career that more than once redefined comedy: He was best known as the creator and star of the surreal 1986 sitcom It’s Garry Shandling’s Show, which ran for four seasons on Showtime, and the landmark HBO series The Larry Sanders Show, a spoof of late-night talk shows that pioneered an age of darker, more adult humor on television and inspired a new generation of comedians.”

The former host of the popular CBC Radio program Q “has been acquitted on four counts of sexual assault and one count of choking by an Ontario Court judge who says the ‘deceptive and manipulative’ evidence of the complainants raised a reasonable doubt [about his] guilt.”

Researchers used ground-penetrating radar to explore the playwright’s tomb in Stratford-upon-Avon’s Holy Trinity Church. Staffordshire University archaeologist Kevin Colls, who led the study, said they found “an odd disturbance at the head end,” with evidence of repairs some time after the original burial.

“A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday ruled that a federal judge was justified in increasing the prison sentence of money manager and arts patron Alberto Vilar to 10 years in prison from nine for securities fraud. But the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York vacated the $10 million in fines imposed on Vilar and Gary Tanaka, his business partner at the now-defunct Amerindo Investment Advisers Inc.”

Why did the “consummate over-sharer” tell almost no one about the illness that ultimately killed her? The key, suggests her son, may lie in one of her favorite quips: “When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. But when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it’s your laugh.”

A gifted teacher and charismatic presence, Kaufman led a faculty and student revolt at the music conservatory in 1979 that saved it from a merger with the much larger Manhattan School of Music.

“[The artist] says the story may sound pretentious and stupid, but she recalls finding a small box and in it was a ring with an ant on it. ‘I put it on my finger and suddenly realised it’s superstitious to put a wedding ring on your finger unless you are getting married, otherwise you have to throw the ring away,’ she said. But because she liked the ring so much, she decided instead she needed to marry someone – and why not the rock?”

Based on further details of the crime released by the police, Sofya Tsygankova – the estranged wife of pianist Vadym Kholodenko – will presumably use an insanity defense.

Tony Conrad: “It appeared as if Schoenberg had destroyed music. Then it appeared as if Cage had destroyed Schoenberg. Our project was to destroy Cage. … Yeah! Of course we were high on drugs! But honestly, drug experiences are very private, and cultural experiences are very social. I think the social is better.”

“Authorities believe Sofya Tsygankova, 31, killed her daughters and stabbed herself before her husband” – 2013 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition winner Vadym Kholodenko – “was scheduled to pick up his children for a regular visit.”