Category: people

“Convinced that most cultural output was dross, Gibson was on a mission to battle mediocrity. ‘She used to say, “We’re on the front lines,”‘ the playwright recalled. ‘But she put terror in almost everyone who met her.'”

“I want people to be interested in the courage of his life choices.”

“The cello and baseball were my two loves. I was a catcher,” said L.A. Phil principal cellist Robert deMaine. But when he was a teen, he “quit the cello for a number of months, preferring ‘to grow my hair long and play in a band.'”

Norman Cornish “spent 33 years working in mines before forging a career as an artist at 47. In an interview with the BBC in 2011, he said painting was like an ‘itch that you have to scratch’ and that he still painted every day.”

The letter, which belongs to the Zurich James Joyce Foundation, shows how reporters went to great lengths to discover details of the ceremony Joyce had tried to keep a secret. The author told his son that anyone who thinks he married as “a publicity stunt he must be a congenital imbecile”.

“Developers for the space, known as El Barrio’s Artspace PS 109 and located between Second and Third avenues, fielded 51,313 online applications via a city website by the July 14 deadline, officials said. That’s on top of more than 2,000 paper applications filed.”

“Abramović raised over $660,000 for her institute on Kickstarter in June and recently “collaborated” with Adidas. Yet somehow she cannot afford to pay people to work for MAI.”

“As the grandmaster of special-effects makeup, Dick Smith broke ground in the movies in the early 1970s when he transformed Dustin Hoffman into a 120-year-old for Little Big Man and an adolescent Linda Blair into a diabolical demon [sic] in The Exorcist. When he received an Academy Award in 1985 for aging F. Murray Abraham into an elderly composer in the film Amadeus, many industry observers wondered: What took so long?”

“[He] altered both journalism and filmmaking when he helped develop the hand-held camera and a synchronized sound recorder and put the new equipment to use making documentaries in the put-the-audience-in-the-room style.”

“A Catholic publishing house” – Loyola Press, naturally – “is encouraging the people of the Internet to ‘find your inner Iggy’ and explore Ignatius’s vision of spirituality. In doing so, it appears that they have created the first-ever twee saint.”