Category: people

“To her Philippines-born parents, dismayed that she had participated in a public protest, Haru said, ‘How else can we let people know that here’s discrimination in the theater?’ she wrote in “Iron Lotus” her 2012 autobiography. ‘You’ll see, someday I’ll make a living acting.'”

“The books I look at again and again are: my collection on Camille Corot. He can make a sketch that just makes you gasp. What he would do is go out to the site with a piece of cardboard—something stiff, not canvas—and paint a little oil sketch on it, and then take it back to the studio and create a larger painting based off that. He would, as I always say, correct the landscape.”

“If you’ve read a literary novel, listened to conservative radio, or jacked off to your mom’s favorite erotica in the past 30 years, you’ve probably consumed media that’s passed through the hands of publishing legend Judith Regan.:

“Peña played everything from love interest to comedic sidekick in movies and on television for 35 years.”

The Native American performer, known for her roles in the films Frozen River, August: Osage County, and Django Unchained, had gone missing earlier this month.

“[The] gifted Italian soprano … rose to instant fame in 1958 when she was called on to substitute for the mythic and sometimes mystifying Maria Callas in one of opera’s most dramatic episodes, and three years later surprised people again by ending her own career.”

“In Beijing, police detained about 11 artists, poets, and journalists from Songzhuang Artist Village who were planning a pro-democracy poetry reading that would also showcase posters expressing sympathy for the Hong Kong demonstrators.”

“Devising the lie detector was the high point of [his] rather erratic pre-comics career. He seems to have lost every job he held. His venture into business ended in an indictment for fraud; his brief stint as a lawyer saw the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals reject lie-detector tests as evidence.” Yet he ended up as creator of the first great comics superheroine – even as he kept his wife and mistress (and their children) all in the same house and his passion for women’s rights “somehow got all mixed up with bondage and spanking.”

“You asked why I chose you,” Snowden wrote to her. “I didn’t. You chose yourself.” George Packer profiles documentarian Laura Poitras.

“I have only got five or six years left and I will be gone – I won’t have to worry about ISIS or Ebola. I am looking forward to it. … Most of the best people are dead – I will be in excellent company having a wonderful time.”