Marion Cotillard (“La Vie en Rose,” “Rust and Bone”), of appearing in “Anchorman 2”: “I’m a big fan of America comedies, especially Will Ferrell and all his team. And they have known that I was a fan, so they asked me if I would be a part of it, and of course I said yes right away. But I never question how people could see me.”
Category: people
Philip Roth Quit Writing Last Year; This Year He’s Quitting Reading (To The Public)
“Roth, 81, declared his renunciation on Thursday at a private reception following his sold-out reading at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan.”
Banksy Writes Letter To Boys Club With A Generous Offer
The letter begins: “Dear Dennis, I hope this finds you well. As you know I recently painted on a doorway near the club.” The street artist goes on to say that he does not usually admit to “committing criminal damage” but as “a great admirer of the work done at the club” he would “be chuffed if this can help in some way”.
Switzerland To Open $46M Charlie Chaplin Museum
“After more than 14 years of discussions and stumbling blocks, work to turn screen legend Charlie Chaplin’s Swiss home into a museum has finally begun, with the opening planned in early 2016.”
Daily Mail Pays Damages To J.K. Rowling Over False Story
“Rowling sued the [British tabloid] newspaper for libel in January over the piece which suggested she had told a false ‘sob story’ about being stigmatised by churchgoers” because she was a single mother at the time. The Mail has published an apology and retraction and paid “substantial damages”.
BBC Classical Radio Host Antony Hopkins Dead At 93
While he was also a conductor, composer and accomplished pianist (he often accompanied his guests), he became an institution over 36 years as the host of Radio 3’s Talking About Music.
No One Ever Directs Ellen Burstyn
“Directors tend to kind of let me do what I want to do. As a matter of fact, when I was doing Law & Order: Special Victims Unit … the director came up and he gave me a direction. … But as he walked away, he said, ‘You don’t mind me saying that to you, do you?’ And I said, ‘Mind? It’s the first piece of direction I’ve gotten in ten years! I love it!'”
Author And Environmentalist Farley Mowat, 92
“Mowat, author of dozens of works including Lost in the Barrens and Never Cry Wolf, introduced Canada to readers around the world and shared everything from his time abroad during the Second World War, to his travels in the North and his concern for the deteriorating environment. More than 17 million copies of his books … have been sold worldwide.”
George Christie, Longtime Chief Of Glyndebourne Festival, Dead At 80
“Having assumed responsibility for Glyndebourne while still in his twenties (several years before his father’s death in 1962), Christie transformed it from an exclusive summer pursuit into a year-round business and a force on the international opera scene. And he did so, without a penny of taxpayers’ money for the festival.”
Is This The World’s First Cyborg Artist?
“‘I can have phone calls to my head,’ says Neil Harbisson, sitting across the table from me. Dangling over his forehead is an antenna that curves up and over from the back of his skull. The device, which he calls an ‘eyeborg’, was recently upgraded, meaning his skull is now Bluetooth-enabled.”