Category: people

Hillel Nahmad’s lawyers, Benjamin Brafman and Paul L. Shechtman, are asking that their client, a first-time offender, be permitted to avoid prison and instead operate a program that would bring young people living in a Bronx homeless shelter to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

“Actress Valerie Harper has been hit with a $2 million lawsuit by Broadway bigshot Matthew Lombardo, who charges she didn’t tell him she had cancer until after she signed on to star in his play.”

“It is believed Miguel de Cervantes, whose best known work is Don Quixote, was buried in the convent the day after his death in 1616. However the exact location of his remains is a mystery and there is no tombstone marking the spot where his remains lie.”

“[The] pioneering British cultural historian … was most widely known outside academia as the star witness for Lady Chatterley’s Lover in a 1960 trial that ended British censorship of that novel.”

He “announced today that he has been forced to stop playing due to a herniated disc in his neck which has reduced the power in his right arm.”

Penelope Curtis “has already done more to change Tate Britain for the better than any director since the great Sir Nicholas Serota himself.”

“Márquez told [Harvey] Weinstein that if he, and director Giuseppe Tornatore, wanted the rights to One Hundred Years of Solitude they were the men for the job. But there was one catch: ‘We must film the entire book, but only release one chapter – two minutes long – each year, for 100 years,’ Weinstein said.”

“It was entirely in character that Mr. Hollein made his worldwide reputation in the 1960s designing a shop, barely 12 feet wide, devoted to candles.”

“I am used to turning things over in the silence and privacy of my mind for hours and hours. In the theatre it is not like that. When you are in rehearsal and asked a question the answer has to come back immediately. I have made a profession of doubting myself, so it is something very new to be instinctive.”

“I see myself now the same way I have since I walked into the Metropolitan Opera competition in New York in 1988. There were Renée Fleming and Susan Graham, both looking gorgeous. Everyone expected them to win. And all of a sudden, this lumpy guy from Toronto walks in.”