Category: people

“After aiding the transformation of the moribund South Beach area into a glamorous district of pristinely restored Art Deco hotels in the ’80s and ’90s, Craig Robins helped engineer the launch of Art Basel–Miami Beach and co-created the satellite fair Design Miami. Now he’s about to see the fruits of more than a decade of planning and construction as another area revitalized under his care.”

“Honestly, it’s not that people were offended by what I said. They get offended by how much fun I appear to be having while saying it. You could literally take everything I said on Saturday night and say it on Meet the Press, and it would be a general debate, and it would go away.”

“Winston expected to be lionized by Twain but instead had his tail tweaked. … The night’s verbal swordplay between the old American and the young Englishman reflected so many differences between the Crown and its former colony.”

The Bob Baker Marionette Theater was a hit when he opened it in 1962, in the midst of a career performing with and making puppets for everything from studio feature films to burger joint commercials to the children of Hollywood royalty.

“Von Trier explained he felt a daily bottle of vodka helped him enter a ‘parallel world’ necessary for creation and that coming off both alcohol and drugs might mean he could only produce ‘shitty films.'”

“To critics who complained that his poems, with their emphasis on death, despair and dissolution, were too dark, he replied, ‘I find them evenly lit.'”

“‘She was our Picasso, our Salvador Dali,’ El said. ‘She was that.'”

“He reportedly signed an eight-year contract that paid him $225,000 per year, plus 1.5% of gross profits, and presided over the studio during a time in which it released the first two installments of “The Godfather,” “Serpico,” “Paper Moon,” “Chinatown” and “Day of the Locust,” among others.”

“Ms. James was one of those rare authors whose work stood up to the inevitable and usually invidious comparisons with classic authors of the detective genre, like Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Margery Allingham.”

“Former CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi will plead not guilty to charges of sexual assault and choking, his lawyer says. Ghomeshi was released on $100,000 bail after he was arrested and appeared in a downtown courtroom Wednesday. The 47-year-old has been charged with four counts of sexual assault and one count of overcome resistance – choking.”