Category: people

One of them has even agreed to be identified publicly. All of them have given plenty of unsavory detail.

He produced, directed, and acted; he co-authored, among other projects, Paris, Texas; and “played a key role in launching the careers of fellow Texans Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson.”

That’s how Edward Limonov described himself. He was “at once a rebel and a totalitarian, a salacious writer of semifictionalized memoirs who, after years in the West” – as a drugged-out thug in New York and a celebrated author in France – “stood with the Serbs in the Bosnian war and then returned to Russia to become an ultranationalist political agitator.”

“Her character worked for Underwood from the time he was a member of the House of Representatives from South Carolina through his recent career upturns.”

She still learns new music, too, and she rides the New York subway, and she carries her own luggage. “I walk around with my 60-year-old friends and they tell me to slow down.” Meet Ruth Slenczynska.

“Suffice to say the scam includes one racist Southerner, three persuasive actors, a tract of land, and $50,000 in cash.” (video)

“I did not particularly enjoy ‘Kotter,'” she said in a 1991 interview with the Calgary Herald. “I spent much of the four years being frustrated. I didn’t have much to do on the show. I was just there when Kotter came home at the end of the day.”

“In the morning, CBC announced it had fired him under unexplained circumstances. Then Ghomeshi announced he was planning to sue. Then he unleashed a bizarre and rambling confession on Facebook, in which he laid bare what he characterized as ‘strange’ sexual habits that included ‘rough sex’ and ‘forms’ of bondage and role-playing. And then, late [that] night, the bomb dropped in a Toronto Star investigation that said three unnamed women had accused him of ‘attacking’ them without consent.” And that was just Sunday …

“The three women interviewed by the Star allege that Ghomeshi physically attacked them on dates without consent. They allege he struck them with a closed fist or open hand; bit them; choked them until they almost passed out; covered their nose and mouth so that they had difficulty breathing; and that they were verbally abused during and after sex.”

“On the American literary scene, she is singular, and blessed, for the absence of angst in her creative life and her equable delight in what she does.”