Category: people

“An East Village bohemian when the neighborhood contained more discarded syringes than million-dollar condos, Ms. Estep became a regular at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, one of the incubators of the slam poetry movement.”

“‘I am here today because I am gay,’ the 26-year-old actress from Halifax said in an emotional speech at the Time to THRIVE conference in Las Vegas. ‘Maybe I can make a difference. To help others have an easier and more hopeful time.'”

“John Henson sometimes performed as Sweetums, a large, hairy Muppet who towered over other puppets and humans.”

“In comments that circulated widely in social media, self-exiled Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero on Thursday posted an open letter on her Facebook page criticizing Dudamel, saying he was ignoring ‘the toxic oasis’ in which she says El Sistema now operates.”

“What I find odd is that biographers apparently feel a need to depict their subjects as especially admirable human beings, something that in the end makes their lives less rather than more interesting and harder rather than easier to relate to their writing.”

He’s best remembered for his Emmy-winning portrayal as Pa Walton, but he continued to work frequently in television through last year and founded a theater company in Los Angeles.

There seems no outer limit to what he might have accomplished; the trajectory he dreamed of was always, only up.

Chu “has a reputation for fundraising prowess and executing major projects in times of fiscal uncertainty.”

“In a career spanning seven decades, the tall, brooding and comically uninhibited Mr. Caesar became one of the greatest live wires of television history.”

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