David Cronenberg, on one ickily Cronenbergian moment in his Maps to the Stars: “That scene definitely freaked out several actresses. With Julie it wasn’t even a discussion.”
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Master Forger (Of Dorothy Parker) Lee Israel, 75
“In the early 1990s, with her career at a standstill, she became a literary forger, composing and selling hundreds of letters that she said had been written by Edna Ferber, Dorothy Parker, Noël Coward, Lillian Hellman and others. That work, which ended with Ms. Israel’s guilty plea in federal court in 1993, was the subject of her fourth and last book, the memoir “Can You Ever Forgive Me?,” published by Simon & Schuster in 2008.”
Meet The Philosopher Who’s Helping Keep Google Out Of Court
Oxford professor Luciano Floridi is helping Google comply with the EU’s right-to-be-forgotten ruling by helping the search engine’s programmers and attorneys change the way they understand and think about the issues involved – including the nature of identity in the Internet age.
U.S. Sends Poland An Extradition Request For Roman Polanski
“Justice ministry spokesman Mateusz Martyniuk said that the Polish statute of limitations (preventing prosecutions in cases where a number of years have lapsed since the crime) ‘does not apply to US requests,’ meaning that Polanski could yet be sent back to the US.”
The Cellist As Performance Artist
“After failing to establish herself as a soloist, and earning a reputation for lateness that she could only partly counter with her Southern graces, Charlotte Moorman fell in with the avant garde. The rigour and delight with which she embraced the work of composers such as Cage, Paik and La Monte Young was matched only by the awe and indulgence with which she was treated – for a time.”
Architect Rafael Viñoly: The View From The Top Of The World
“Architecture is the only media you cannot turn off. You can go to the movies or not go to the movies, and you can read a book or not read a book, but with [buildings] you don’t have a way out.”
Is This Man The Satan Of The Art World?
“In exchange for extraordinary support, Stefan Simchowitz asked not for his artists’ souls but for their art, a deal that many of his protégés lived to regret.”
“Satan” Of Art? Oh Come Now…
“To suggest, as the Times does, that Simchowitz is the author of a form of financial innovation on par with the swashbuckling junk bond market that Michael Milken commanded from LA before his conviction on securities fraud is surely not believable.”
From Babe The Pig To Chuckie The Rugrat – The Many Voices Of (The Late) Christine Cavanaugh
“If you’re a young adult of a certain age, Christine Cavanaugh’s distinct voice probably plays a role in the pop culture memories from your childhood … Cavanaugh died last month at the age of 51, and in tribute to her work we’ve highlighted some of her best turns as both a voice actor and as a character actor.” (video)
He Defied The Communists – With Poetry
“A writer who combined broad learning with sly incisiveness, Mr. Baranczak was widely considered a ‘dissident’ poet for his subtly acerbic political poems and his activism. In the 1970s he was banned from publishing in Poland, though he continued to write for underground outlets, and his work became a samizdat pass-around.”