“I’m not good at thinking things through. I get excited about something, and that outweighs everything else. I don’t really carry the vision down the line to see the possibilities of how it might turn out. I think that for my work that’s actually been an O.K. trait. For life, not so good.”
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Who Else Could Play Walter White, LBJ, And Jerry Seinfeld’s Dentist?
Bryan Cranston spends 45 minutes with Terry Gross. (audio)
Prospect Is Out With Its Annual List Of The World’s Top Thinkers (and There’s Been A Shakeup)
“Twenty-two of the new list (44%) are women, a considerable advance on the blokeish 2013 squad. How has that been achieved? One factor is a marked increase in the number of philosophers, up this time from four to 14 (28%) to improbably make philosophy the second best-represented subject behind economics, which boasts a spectacular proportion.”
Geoff Dyer Had A Stroke At 55. It Changed How He Sees Himself
So no, nothing had gone permanently wrong in my head, or at least nothing had gone wrong that had not been in the process of going wrong for a while, but I now regarded my head and the brain snuggled warmly inside it in a new and vulnerable way.
The Other Levine Boy (James’s Little Brother)
“Tom Levine’s works are represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the National Gallery of Art in Washington. His paintings sell for between $10,000 and $25,000.”
Philip Roth Really Loves His Retirement From Writing
“Everybody has a hard job. All real work is hard. My work happened also to be undoable. Morning after morning for 50 years, I faced the next page defenceless and unprepared. Writing for me was a feat of self-preservation. If I did not do it, I would die”
How Is Child Star Martha Plimpton Dealing With Her Forties?
“There are just more interesting parts for women in the theater. There’s just more to do. I could play Hedda Gabler on stage, but no one will ever hire me to play Hedda Gabler in a movie. … I don’t have the face of a movie star. I have a face of a character actress.”
Felix Fibich, Dancer And Choreographer Who Brought Jewish Dance Traditions To The U.S., Dies At 96
“As a young actor in Poland’s Yiddish theater troupes, Mr. Fibich observed a wide range of expressive gestures and dances in Jewish communities. After moving to the United States in 1950, he and Judith Berg, his wife and first dance teacher, became known through concerts and workshops as experts in theatricalizing Jewish dance traditions.”
The Lonely Man With $1 Billion Of Nazi-Looted Art
“Is he a villain, or a tragic figure, compelled to shuttle secretly, with wads of cash, returning home to spend his life with inanimate works of art?”
Meet Saudi Arabia’s King of YouTube
“Alaa Wardi’s wiggling eyebrows and bushy hair are as recognizable as the madcap backdrops to his YouTube videos” – which have gathered more than 36 million views. He does a cappella covers of popular songs; the most recent is “a silly version of Pharrell Williams’s ‘Happy’ embellished with puppets, body percussion, and running commentary in the style of the minions from Despicable Me – only in Arabic.” (includes videos)