He said so himself, in notes he made on a Simpsons script to which he (yes!) contributed: “Sorry, guys. Homer’s my role model and I refuse to speak ill of him.” (includes image of script)
Category: people
The House Of “Maus”: Excavating Art Spiegelman
Or more accurately, as Alisa Solomon explains, watching Spiegelman’s career-long excavation of himself.
The Remarkable Failures Of Tennessee Williams
He died “with the astonishing record of having had his career conclude with 17 poorly received flops in a row. It is far from unusual for a creative artist to lose his way in middle age. But Williams’s disintegration was so spectacular that it is hard not to wonder exactly what went wrong with a writer whose initial success had been no less spectacular.”
Lars Von Trier Breaks His Press Silence While Technically Keeping His Vow Not To Talk To The Press
After he got himself banned from Cannes in 2011 for making a thoroughly unfortunate joke, the Danish filmmaker announced that he would “refrain from all public statements and interviews” so as to keep himself out of trouble. But he really wanted to discuss the uncut 5½-hour version of Nymphomaniac with the press at this year’s Venice Film Festival. So they found an ingenious (and entertaining) solution.
Tattoo Artists Starting To Assert Their Copyrights With Famous Clients
These days, tattoo artists for athletes have started to pay more attention to their rights. And those worries aren’t necessarily frivolous, says Tim Bradley, an intellectual property attorney. He says copyright law is actually very friendly to the artist, and that protections kick in once you’ve shown a “modicum of creativity” in your design and you’ve put it on a “tangible medium.”
Paris Is Forgetting Ernest Hemingway
“American writer Ernest Hemingway had close links with Paris. He first lived there in 1920 and played a marginal, much-mythologised, role in the 1944 liberation of the city. But now, 70 years on, memories of the author are starting to fade.”
When Author Ralph Ellison Met The Love Of His Life (For A While)
“She had barely hit city limits when he telegrammed, YOUR SILENCE PREVENTING WORK. WIRE ME EVEN IF MIND CHANGED. Fanny replied, NOTHING HAS CHANGED. I AM THE SAME AND LOVE YOU.”
William Greaves, 87, Pioneering African-American Documentarian
“Greaves made hundreds of movies, and in the 1960s, he served as co-host and executive producer of Black Journal, among the first TV news programs designed for a black audience.”
Sandy Wilson, Composer Of “The Boy Friend”, Dead At 90
The “winsome, nostalgic and tuneful” 1953 musical, which made stars of Julie Andrews (on stage) and Twiggy (on screen), subsequently became a perennial favorite of school and comunity theaters all over the English-speaking world. “He would say that The Boy Friend always held a place in his heart because it gave him the economic means never to work again.”
How A Drag Queen Became A Major Star Of Mexican Wrestling
“Being gay is a gift from God,” says Saúl Armendáriz, though that was hardly his experience as an abused and bullied youngster in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez.But he was quick and athletic and hardworking and had a sense of showmanship. Today, he’s Cassandro, one of lucha libre‘s biggest stars, kicking macho ass from Mexico City to L.A. to Tokyo.