Category: people

“Given where American movies currently are, with few good parts for women, let alone black women, it’s doubtful that Ms. King would have found something as good and as juicy as what she’s got on television.”

“James Baldwin realized that while he ‘loved’ his country, he ‘could not respect it.’ He wrote that he ‘could not, upon my soul, be reconciled to my country as it was.’ To survive he would have to find an exit.”

“‘I was never going to be a part of any minimalist trend,’ he told the Baltimore Sun in 2010. ‘My own overripe, pretentious prose style has been with me since the beginning. That is my personality. I cannot change these things.'”

“The Burmese poet Maung Saungkha does not have a tattoo of Myanmar’s President on his penis. At least, that is what he has told everyone who has asked him recently. He may soon have to prove it in court.”

Using a technique called “geographic profiling” which was pioneered by criminologists, “researchers [studied] a list of Banksy artwork locations in London and Bristol, [and] they said that the resulting ‘geoprofile’ was a good match for an obvious candidate.”

“There have long been rumors that Bob Dylan had stashed away an extensive archive, but even die-hard Dylanologists couldn’t have dreamed up anything like the 6,000-piece private trove of his work recently acquired by a group of institutions in Oklahoma.”

“[His] 1972 film, The Leopard, based on a novel by the Syrian author Haydar Haydar, was the first feature film released by the state-run National Film Organization and won first prize at the Locarno Film Festival that year. It tells the story of a lone rebel who defends his village against corrupt local authorities.”

“Parent’s theory was called Oblique Architecture, and championed a move from horizontal and vertical architecture into spaces defined by slopes and ramps. His primary concern was unbalanced spaces.”

“In a career spanning more than 175 films and television credits, Mr. Kennedy was among the most dependable and versatile performers in Hollywood. Whether malevolent, earnest or serving as comic relief, he held his corner of the screen opposite charismatic movie stars including Cary Grant, Paul Newman, John Wayne and James Stewart.”

“There has been speculation about a possible family vault under the stones – and questions about whether such a ground-penetrating scan would show other items buried with Shakespeare.”